Most organizations face he same dilemma: they want to stay responsive and agile in the face of change, while also maintaining clear direction across teams. They also struggle with giving teams autonomy without losing organizational coherence. Govern Agility proposes five stanchions — conductive leadership, sensible transparency, patterns of work, data-driven reasoning, and humanity as a cornerstone — to help organizations design governance that supports both adaptability and clarity. In this session, I’ll show how each stanchion works as a practical design lens for shaping governance — not as abstract values, and certainly not as a framework. Through stories of transformations in banks, insurers, and scale-ups, you’ll see both the benefits and the traps of each stanchion.

You’ll also get a preview of a free governance maturity assessment — a tool designed to help teams reflect on their current practices and identify areas for improvement across all five stanchions.

Allegro is Poland’s largest e-commerce platform, serving millions of users with a vast, ever-evolving product. In this talk, I will pull back the curtain on how we manage this complexity without drowning in bureaucracy, or worse doing organized project management. We’ll dive into our organizational structure, where autonomous product teams own both discovery and delivery. I will demonstrate how this model works in empowering teams, and by this, delivering value. Finally, I will share the key pillars I believe are essential to maintaining this type of agile culture at scale.

In this case study presentation, we will share G2A’s transformative journey from multiple team-centric backlogs to a single, outcome-focused Product Backlog using LeSS principles.
The talk explores how we shifted from a fragmented approach that encouraged local optimization and task-driven development to a unified system that enables business agility. We’ll demonstrate how our implementation of LeSS and a single Product Backlog fundamentally changed the way we prioritize work, make decisions, and measure success at G2A.

Because not every story has a happy ending… but some have.

Behind every OKR there’s a story. Some spark focus, alignment, and growth. Others quietly drift into chaos, bureaucracy, or wishful thinking. In this talk, we’ll open that black box — exploring how the same framework can turn into rocket fuel… or a cautionary tale

Agile transformations often focus on team-level practices like Scrum and Kanban. But even high-performing teams cannot overcome systemic barriers to faster, more predictable delivery. In this talk, I challenge the assumption that team “best practices” alone drive enterprise agility. Drawing on systems thinking, I’ll illustrate how organizational structures, upstream and downstream dependencies, and management behaviors often undermine team effectiveness.

Through real-world examples from my 25+ years in the field, I’ll share practical strategies for hacking the system, optimizing how teams work within constraints, addressing sources of delay and volatility, and nudging organizational behavior toward more predictable outcomes. Attendees will leave with actionable ideas for influencing change beyond the team level, even when they do not have executive authority, for better or worse.

Discover how AI is redefining the future of product strategy in large organizations. This session reveals how rapid, AI-driven experimentation can unlock faster insights, sharper customer alignment, and bold new opportunities — while tackling the critical challenge of balancing speed with governance and long-term sustainability. Join us to explore how to turn AI into a true strategic advantage.