Lean Agile Scotland 2026
About this Event
📅 Thursday 29 – Friday 30 October 2026
📍 John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh
🎟️ Tickets from £280 + VAT (price increases 17 July)
About this event
Learn. Connect. Leave with ideas you'll actually use.
Now in its 13th year, Lean Agile Scotland is Europe's longest-running practitioner-led conference for lean, agile, product and engineering practice. No vendor pitches, no sales theatre, just practitioners teaching practitioners, across two days of keynotes, workshops, case studies and lean coffees, all set against Edinburgh's Arthur's Seat.
Around 250 software engineers, engineering managers, product managers, delivery leads, agile coaches and change practitioners come together every year to dig into what's actually changing in the industry, and what to do about it. This year's theme, The Age of Disruption, explores AI, automation, and the shifting ways teams and organisations work.
By the numbers: 32 speakers · 17 talks · 6 workshops · 3 keynotes · 2 lean coffees
🎤 Keynote speakers
- Dave Farley – Continuous Delivery Ltd - co-author of Continuous Delivery, author of Modern Software Engineering
- Cat Swetel – Senior Director of Engineering, Nubank - engineering leadership, flow and organisational systems
- Daniel Vacanti – ProKanban.org - leading authority on flow metrics, Kanban and probabilistic forecasting
Why participate
- Design your own experience - 30+ sessions across multiple tracks, mix and match across both days
- Practical, not theoretical - talks and workshops built around real work, not slideware
- Small enough to matter - genuine conversations with speakers, not just a seat in a crowd
- Wellbeing built in - chair massage, barista cafe, a quiet room with Lego and colouring, an outdoor terrace, and a social evening of food, drinks and entertainment
- CPD credits included with every ticket
- Edinburgh in October - stick around for the Samhuinn Fire Festival on 31 October
Who it's for
Scrum Masters & Delivery Managers · Engineering Managers & Heads of · Developers & Engineers · Product Managers & Owners · Agile & Lean Coaches · Consultants & Freelancers · Programme & Project Managers · Organisational Change Practitioners
What people said last year
"Lean Agile Scotland has definitely taken and prioritised the wellbeing of the attendees... the views were amazing, spacious location." - Vinnie Gill, 2025
"Talks and workshops on resilience engineering, feedback, Nonviolent Communication, and complexity modelling all sparked new ideas." - Jitesh Gosai, 2025
"Always thought-provoking, inclusive and a joy to be a part of." - Joanna Masraff, 2023
Stay updated
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About Lean Agile Scotland
Lean Agile Scotland is organised by Software Acumen, who specialise in running great events, not big ones. We're focused on improving the participant experience. With a strong track record of creating practical, community-centred events, we aim to raise the bar in the tech events sector, even in a virtual environment.
We can’t wait to see you.
Day 1
🕑: 08:45 AM - 09:30 AM
Lean Coffee
Host: Julia Wester, 55 Degrees
🕑: 09:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Software engineering in an AI world
Host: Dave Farley
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Thoughtfully leading an AI transformation
Host: Stephen Janaway, Bloom & Wild
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
RIP certainty theatre: fixing the language of commitment
Host: Julia Wester, 55 Degrees
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
10 questions to help your strategy survive disruption
Host: Karl Scotland, Karl Scotland Ltd
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Planning under uncertainty: thinking in probabilities
Host: Agnieszka Reginek
🕑: 12:15 PM - 01:00 PM
GreenOps for incident management: better recovery, lower carbon
Host: Sarah Hsu, Author of O'Reilly's Building Green Software
🕑: 12:15 PM - 01:00 PM
Survival of the curious: continuous learning in the age of AI
Host: Dave Westgarth, Unifeye
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Seams & signals: the quiet infrastructure of cohesion
Host: Tiani Jones Founder, Proper Science, Ltd
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Building agile capabilities beyond frameworks: an agile agnostic, competency‑d
Host: Patrick Niebergall, Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar GmbH
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Who wrote this system? Exploring the social system runtime
Host: Xin Yao, Ypma Consulting
🕑: 02:00 PM
When good enough beats perfect: a game for teams under pressure
Host: Marianne Rady, mariannerady.com
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
"The smoothest reorg I've ever seen": lessons in collaborative org design
Host: Joakim Sundén, Better Product Work
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Neurodivergent agility 101
Host: Sophia Ashley, Scott Logic
🕑: 04:45 PM - 05:15 PM
Lightning talks
Host: Could it be you?
Day 2
🕑: 08:45 AM - 09:30 AM
Lean coffee
Host: Julia Wester, 55 Degrees
🕑: 09:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Cat's keynote title coming soon...
Host: Cat Swetel, Senior Director of Engineering, Nubank
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Architecture for flow: scaling decisions without centralising control at DHL e
Host: Kenny Schwegler, DHL eCommerce BeNeLux, Weave IT
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Duncan's session details coming soon...
Host: Duncan Brown, CTO Digital Prevention Services, NHSE
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Cut through complexity - the OOPSI Framework
Host: Jenny Martin, Collaborate Solutions
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Disrupted from within: how a platform team broke the project factory
Host: Francesca Salvati, Just Eat Takeaway
🕑: 12:15 PM - 01:00 PM
Beyond burnups: the different ways to forecast delivery (and when to use them)
Host: Nicolas Brown, Thrivve Partners
🕑: 12:15 PM - 01:00 PM
Now what? If the robots can do my job, what do I do?
Host: Vernon Richards, Phrase / NewRedo
🕑: 12:15 PM - 01:00 PM
From budget tension to strategic alignment: the power of participatory budgeti
Host: Cécile Auret, France Travail
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
What we (should have) learned from Lord of The Rings
Host: Aino Vonge Corry, Instigator of fun, Metadeveloper
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
The actual cost of change
Host: Jabe Bloom
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Where do you first notice? Finding early signals in delivery
Host: Cameron Leask, Calba
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Alastair's session coming soon...
Host: Alastair Somerville, Acuity Design
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Daniel's Endnote title coming soon...
Host: Daniel Vacanti, ProKanban.org
Where is it happening?
GBP 361.81 to GBP 666.98
