Flowtopia

Join us in Las Vegas for our first in-person event!

Welcome to Flowtopia! The Value Stream Management Consortium’s inaugural, flagship, in-person event is happening on 17th October 2022. We have packed the agenda with experienced practitioners who are sharing stories about their VSM journeys and a bunch of networking and thought provoking lean coffees and huddles. If you want to know why VSM is changing the way organizations think and work, come and join us in Las Vegas.

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9:00	Welcome to Flowtopia with Helen Beal, Chair of the Value Stream Management Consortium
9:10	The Reality of VSM Steve Pereira, The Value Stream Guy, Founder of Visible, Board Advisor to the Value Stream Management Consortium
9:35	Why Leaders Need to VSM and How Sejal Amin, CTO, Shutterstock Board Member at the Value Stream Management Consortium
10:00	How to Misuse and Abuse Metrics Bryan Finster, Value Stream Architect, Defense Unicorns Board Advisor to the Value Stream Management Consortium
10:30	BREAK
10:45	Value Centered Business Transformations Gary Rupp, Command Results Board Advisor to the Value Stream Management Consortium, Author of ‘Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management’
11:15	How to Overcome Enterprise Disconnect with Value Stream and Flow Metrics BMK Lakshminarayanan, Value Stream Architect Board Advisor to the Value Stream Management Consortium
11:45	Crossing the Chasm: A Panel Discussion with VSMC board members Anand Ahire, Bob Davis, John-Mason Shackleford, Jeff Keyes, Marla Schimke, Ted Sapountzis and Al Wagner, led by Helen Beal
12:30	LUNCH
13:30	Let It Flow Ewa Koprowska, Agile Coach, Bupa Global
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14:00	Lean Coffee: The Nature of Value Hosts: Helen Beal & Rupert Field VSMC VS Leads	Consulting Huddle Led by Steve Pereira, VSMC VS Lead
	Coffee and cookies arrive
14:45	Lean Coffee: Measuring Journeys Host: Ray Padron, ICF Next	Value Stream Management Platforms and Integrations Work Group Led by Helen Beal, VSMC VS Lead
15:30	BREAK
15:45	Open Space Hosts: David Hurwitz, Micro Focus, VSMC Leader Member, Helen Beal & Steve Pereira	Learning About Value Stream Management Led by Rupert Field, VSMC VS Lead
16:30	Key Takeaways with All VSMC Members Discussion led by Helen Beal, with support from the VSMC board
17:00	Flowtopia Happy Hour(s!) with Flow Games (optional!) facilitated by Christina Ambers and Chris Gallivan
18:00	Close

Join us in Las Vegas for our first in-person event!

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Bally's Las Vegas

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