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Agile2025 Keynotes

Our complete list of speakers and workshop leaders, and the full conference agenda will be available soon!

Meet the Agile2025 Keynote Speakers

Jay Kiew

“Navigate: Leading Teams through Digital Disruption”

Tricia Broderick

Tricia Broderick

“Building Resilience”

Jurgen Appelo Agile2025

“Human Robot Agent: Redesigning Work in the Age of AI”

MONDAY OPENING KEYNOTE

Navigate: Leading Teams through Digital Disruption

Navigating this era of digital disruption can often feel like we’re journeying into uncharted territory, where change rockets ahead at supersonic speed. While we strive to drive meaningful and innovative transformations, we grapple with overcoming change fatigue, fueling team engagement, and supercharging our skillsets.

As Agilists and leaders, the challenge we now face is figuring out how to lead our teams confidently through the turbulence of disruption. In this 60-minute keynote, innovation strategist Jay Kiew will share research-backed case studies of trailblazing organizations and individuals that have successfully navigated the Agentic AI era. He will unpack Change Fluency, a framework to equip you with the tools and strategies needed to skillfully navigate the future of work.

Jay Kiew is a change navigation strategist and world-renowned keynote speaker with more than 15 years of strategy and human capital experience. He has created more than $2B of impact for 400+ executives by designing, developing, and delivering organizational transformation, but his story extends far beyond the professional arena.

Kiew is a half-blind cancer survivor, whose life is a testament to resilience in the face of adversity. His remarkable blend of professional expertise and personal resilience equips leaders to hack through the thick of change and disruption.

Jay spent his corporate career working at Deloitte, TELUS, and ADP, where he led mission-critical strategic transformations. This included a $150-million primary care health policy reform, $13-million tech transformations, doubling app users from 1 to 2 million, and scaling 15 product lines to $35 million in 12 months.

At the age of 19, Jay became the world’s youngest Distinguished Toastmaster. He has since been featured in the Financial Times, Globe and Mail, Financial Post, Ivey Business Journal, Change Leadership, and more. In 2024, the Project Management Institute inducted Jay as a Future50 honoree for his work on enabling organizations with AI Fluency.

Jay holds an MBA from the Ivey Business School and lives in Vancouver with his wife, two daughters, and a stubborn Shiba Inu named Brooklyn.

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Tricia Broderick

Tricia Broderick

TUESDAY MORNING KEYNOTE

Building Resilience

In today’s fast-paced world, resilience is crucial for success. Tricia Broderick, co-author of “Lead Without Blame” and a leadership advisor, defines workplace resilience as the human ability to meet and recover from adversity and setbacks. Resilience is vital for navigating uncertainty, yet many people overlook the importance of intentionally building it. Join Tricia to explore four key aspects that will help you tackle unexpected and challenging tasks that lie ahead. Discover what inhibits your learning journey and a few techniques to maintain momentum. Leave with renewed hope for what’s possible.

Tricia Broderick, co-author of Lead without Blame, is a highly respected leadership and organizational advisor with over twenty-five years of experience. She excels in igniting potential and helping individuals and teams thrive in an often chaotic world. Tricia prioritizes building genuine partnerships and creating resilient learning environments to achieve impactful outcomes. Her authenticity and passion uniquely position her to inspire engagement and action. Known for her people-first approach, Tricia is a sought-after leader, advisor, trainer, facilitator, and motivational keynote speaker. In 2020, she founded Ignite Insight + Innovation to further her mission of “Igniting What’s Possible.”

When not traveling to experience the world, Tricia lives in Denver with her family.

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WEDNESDAY CLOSING KEYNOTE

Human Robot Agent: Redesigning Work in the Age of AI

Embrace the transformative power of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its sweeping impact on the workplace, leadership, and organizational design. This session unpacks highlights from the new book Human Robot Agent, exploring practical strategies to embrace innovation, navigate complexity, and harness AI to thrive in a socio-technological and wicked world.

Jurgen Appelo is a radical synthesist, resolute unfixer, and unabashed rule-breaker. He not only brings together diverse perspectives in organization design and development—he tears them apart and rebuilds them for the Age of AI, without permission.

As an author, speaker, and entrepreneur, Jurgen helps leaders stop managing like it’s 2001 and start rewiring their organizations for AI-driven leadership, autonomous digital agents, and algorithmic management. Through stories, games, tools, and practices, he shatters conventional thinking and gets his audience to experiment with human-AI teamwork, anti-fragile structures, and the unpredictable nature of customer and employee experience.

Inc.com recognized him as a Top 50 Leadership Expert and Top 100 Leadership Speaker, but he’s most interested in redrawing the boundaries between opposing worldviews: human ingenuity and artificial intelligence, inspiring leadership versus strong governance, organizational stability with relentless innovation, and individual growth fueling collective success.

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