The Building Business Capability 2016 conference was held in Las Vegas 31 October until 4 November. The event attracted approximately 1400 people from 20+ countries. It is the flagship conference of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), held in North America every year.
The Agile Open Jam has been a feature of the conference for the last 3 years, sponsored by the Agile Alliance and under the initiative initially raised by Kent McDonald and more recently by Ellen Gottesdiener. The organizers of the event contacted the Agile Alliance (via Shane Hastie) and asked us to run the Agile Open Jam at the conference.
As part of the Agile Extension initiative Shane Hastie, James King and Kent McDonald were already scheduled to be at the conference so it was seen as a natural add on to that initiative for us to conduct the Open Jam.