Emily is an experienced public speaker who has spoken at various agile, product and technology conferences around the world.
She speaks on the topics of agile, lean, digital, people, growing capability, organisations and communities of practice. Below are upcoming and previous public speaking engagements.
Please get in touch if you want to invite me to speak at your conference or event.
For her speaker bio, please head over here
“Amazing keynote, extremely good slides, lots of humour made it entertaining, and important message! One of my favourite talks this year.”
Upcoming public appearances
September / October Agile Cambridge Communities of practice: still here, more relevant than ever.
October Fast Flow Conference, London book signing
November NatterCon, Manchester Communities of practice: still here, more relevant than ever.
Get in touch if you’d like me to speak at your conference.
Previous appearances
2026
Agile Manchester (conference), Manchester, UK. Icebreakers for meetings and workshops that don’t suck (no really) | blog post
2025
Ripples Bristol (conference) Bristol UK, Endnote Building Communities of Practice that Amplify the Flow of Learning Across Organisations blog post
FastFlowConf (conference) London UK, Building Communities of Practice that Amplify the Flow of Learning Across Organisations | video, blog post
Agile Cambridge (conference) Cambridge UK Icebreakers for meetings and workshops that don’t suck (no really) | blog post
Agile Örebro (conference) Örebro, Sweden. Team memory, sharing and serendipity in hybrid workplaces | blog post
Agile Manchester, (conference) Manchester UK. Building team connections and empathy quickly.
2024
Agile Cambridge (conference) Cambridge UK. Building team connections and empathy quickly.
Agile Manchester (conference) Manchester, UK. Keynote Team Memory, sharing and Serendipity in Hybrid Workplaces | blog post
2023
Seacon (conference) London, UK Why can’t we all just get along? | video
Lean Agile Scotland (conference) Scotland, UK Why can’t we all just get along?
QCon New York (conference) New York, USA Why can’t we all just get along? InfoQ article | video
Craft Conf (conference) Budapest, HU Why can’t we all just get along? | video
Agile Manchester (conference) Manchester UK Why can’t we all just get along? blogpost write up
2022
Lean Agile Brighton (conference) Brighton UK Why can’t we all just get along? | blogpost write up
MapCamp (conference) online. Panel discussion
Agile Cambridge (conference) Cambridge UK The Team Onion – a model to keep teams small and break down silos
CTO Craft Bytes (fireside chat) online The Team Onion | video
QCon London (conference) London, UK Optimising for Speed and Flow panel member
2021
Beat Camp (conference) Italy / online. Building Successful Communities of Practice
O’Reilly Infrastructure & Ops Hour (podcast) online Building Successful Engineering Communities
Turing Fest (conference) Edinburgh, UK. The Magic of Human Connections
Lean Agile Exchange (conference) UK / online. Keynote The magic of Human Connections
P3X — People Product Process eXchange (conference) UK / online. The magic of Human Connections
Made Tech Making Tech better (podcast) Communities of Practice
SEACOM (conference) UK / online. The value of Communities of practice
Romanian Testing Conference (conference) Romania / online. Keynote: The magic of human connections
2020
SEACON (conference) UK / online. Networks, Serendipity and the flow of ideas | blog post | video
Agile Tour London (conference) UK / online. Consequence Scanning workshop
Mind the Product The product experience (podcast) Building Communities that work
Agile India (conference) Bengaluru India / online. Communities of practice, the missing piece of your agile organisation | video
New Stack Makers (podcast) Inclusion at Remote Scale
2019
Map Camp London (conference) London, UK, Capability Profile Mapping | video
Agile Testing Days (conference) Potsdam, Germany. Why Not Become a Speaker at ATD?
2018
Agile Testing Days (conference) Potsdam, Germany. Whole-team responsibility
Mind the Product London (conference) London, UK. Communities of Practice | video
Lean Agile Scotland (conference) Edinburgh, UK. Whole-team responsibility: why really working as a team leads to great delivery
TODO conference (conference) London, UK. People and (agile) teams
TestBash Brighton (conference) Brighton, UK. Communities of Practice, the missing piece of your Agile Organisation
2017
Agile Testing Days (conference) Potsdam, Germany. Keynote: People, principles and pragmatism | video
ASAS (conference) Arhnem, The Netherlands. Communities of Practice, the missing piece of your Agile Organisation
TODO (meetup) London, UK. The Value Of Communities Of Practice
Offgrid Sessions (conference) Essex, UK. How Big Change Comes in Small Packages
Agile on the Bench (meetup) London, UK. What learning to knit reminded me about learning
Google Firestarters (meetup) London, UK. Scaling learning through communities in digital transformations
CukeUp! London (conference) London, UK. Keynote: The Power of the Community of Practice
New Crafts (conference) Paris, France. Communities of Practice, the missing piece of your Agile Organisation
Agile Manchester (conference) Manchester, UK. Keynote: People, Principles and Pragmatism
Craft (conference) Budapest, Hungary. Communities of Practice, the missing piece of your Agile Organisation
UX Budapest (meetup) Budapest, Hungary. Three ways to break down silos in your agile organisation | video
Agile in the city Birmingham (conference) Birmingham, UK. Workshop: Are Your Standups and Retrospectives Really Working?
Agile on the Bench (meetup) London, UK. Avoiding groupthink and echo chambers: diversity and the multidisciplinary team (with Lakshan Saldin)
The Agile Revolution (podcast) Communities of Practice, Onions, Bus Stops and Shopfronts
2016
YOW! Conference (conference) Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, Australia. Communities of Practice, the Missing Piece of your Agile Organisation video
Agile in the City Bristol (conference) Bristol, UK. Workshop: Are Your Standups and Retrospectives Really Working?
Lean Agile Scotland (conference) Edinburgh, UK. Communities of Practice, the Missing Piece of your Agile Organisation | video
GOTO Copenhagen (conference) Copenhagen, Denmark. Communities of Practice, the Missing Piece of your Agile Organisation | video
Agile Cambridge (conference) Cambridge, UK. Workshop: Agile is not just for software: creating an agile workflow
Turing Festival (conference) Edinburgh, UK. Embracing Change or Bracing for Change: Fostering a Culture of Continuous Improvement in Product Teams | video and slides
Agile Cymru (conference) Cardiff, UK. Building successful communities of practice
Spark the Change (conference) London, UK. Connected organisations: why we need communities of practice and how to help them succeed
Cucumber Podcast (podcast) Communities of Practice
Agile in the City London (conference) London, UK. Workshop: Agile is not just for software: creating an agile workflow
Agile on the Bench (meetup) London, UK. The Agile team onion, or how many pizzas does it take to feed your team?
Agile Manchester (conference) Manchester, UK. Building Successful Communities of Practice
Pre Agile Manchester (meetup) Manchester, UK. The Agile team onion or how many pizzas does it take to feed your team?
2015
London Continuous Delivery London (meetup) London, UK. Continuous Learning Through Communities of Practice | video
Agile Cambridge (conference) Cambridge, UK. The Minimum Viable Book (with Amy Wagner) | video
Agile on the Beach (conference) Falmouth, UK. Agile in the real world (with Amy Wagner) | video
Agile in the City London (conference) London, UK. Connected organisations: why we need communities of practice and how to help them succeed
Agile Manchester (conference) Manchester, UK. Gaming Agile: A Guide to Cheating at Agile & Lean (or how to spot the anti-patterns)
Agile in Leeds (meetup) Leeds, UK. Connected organisations: why we need communities of practice
Kanban Coaching Exchange (meetup) London, UK. Continuous learning through communities of practice
2014
Agile 25×20 (meetup) London, UK. What learning how to ride motorbikes taught me about being agile
Agile Cambridge (conference) Cambridge, UK, Building a Delivery Community
2013 / 2012
Agile Practitioners (meetup) London, UK 2013. Scaling agile practices (with GDS as an example)
Boring Conference (conference) London, UK 2012. London Shop Fronts