Agile and Automation Conclave 2018

OVERVIEW

On May 31, SolutionsIQ (an Accenture company) organized the Agile and Automation Conclave 2018 at ITC Gardenia, Bengaluru, a conference that addresses world-leading concepts and practices of the Agile mindset and Intelligent Automation for better innovation and leadership. The day began with an excellent turnout of 406 participants from key clients and Accenture Delivery Leadership. The conference shared valuable insights and stories on how cutting-edge technologies enable businesses to become agile and outperform competition.

WHO ATTENDED

CXO level, Digital and Technology leaders
Transformation Program Directors
Agile & DevOps Coaches

Product Innovators
Product Architects
Design Thinkers

THEMES EXPLORED

AI & AUTOMATION

AI and Automation represent a profound change in the way businesses function. We learnt how the world is unlocking business potential.

AGILE TECHNICAL PRACTICES

We explored the practices that build high performing teams and how we can begin and excel in the journey to DevOps transformation.

EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

One of the most well-received theme, aimed at leaders, covered experiences of other leaders, tools, and techniques to build and lead self-organizing teams.

AGILE TRANSFORMATION

We heard about how some of world’s largest industries have been faring in their journey of Agile and DevOps adoption.

PRODUCT INNOVATION

This theme catered to product leaders, tech intrapreneurs and UX advocates who aim at building great products, product development practices that adopt user-centered, value-based approach.

WHAT OUR ATTENDEES SAID

“Good initiative.
Display booths were well organized.
Relevant content.”

“Well organized
and managed.
Wonderful experience altogether.”

“Great presentations & content. Really useful to face future technologies as we are advancing!”

GALLERY

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ASSETS

DevOps Adoption Prism by Vijeth Hegde

The input to the prism i.e. a single consolidated light beam represents the goals and commitment of an organization for DevOps adoption. This is converted to a rainbow representing the set of measurable and identifiable areas/practices that are required to be implemented across 4 layers of DevOps adoptions.

Monolith to Microservice Transformation by Md. Shuaib

A detailed account of employing modern engineering techniques to transform the Legacy Monoliths in an incremental and iterative approach (Agile).

Deploying a Continuous Delivery Platform by Vincent Fuchs & Amir Jaballah

Understand the steps that have been taken over the years to build an internal platform used by 7000+ users. The demo shows the different components of the platform and how it enables teams to deploy new services in the CI pipeline in 5 minutes.

AI at Scale by Arati Deo

How an enterprise can scale up their use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies to build sustainable solutions that maximize the benefits obtained. Take a look at how an organization’s AI journey may be started and how it can evolve to enable increased automation and sophistication.

Innovation at Amazon by Madhusudan Shekar

At Amazon web services we delivered over 1700 innovations and new launches in 2017 alone. Look at the construct of how we innovate through the eyes of a change request and the life it takes through our systems and processes to go live.

Reflective Design by Ranjith Tharayil

“Inspect and adapt” is a core principle mastered by mature Agile teams. In context with respect to software architecture, this is a principle that most Agile teams have forgotten to put into practice. “Reflective design” is a simple, but effective practice to achieve software design agility.

Future of AI Enterprise by Janardan Misra

This session gives insights into the future of AI enterprise, the challenges and opportunities.

The Story of An Automation CoE by Vivek Sharma

This session gives an insight into Robotic Process Automation, its capabilities and key benefits along with a client case study.

Welcome Your New Digital Team Member, Scrum Masters, Be Aware! by Jeffson Dsouza

An introduction to Accenture’s virtual Scrum Master that resides in our intelligent automation platform, Accenture myWizard®; the virtual Scrum Master uses set of AI technologies to collaborate with their human co-workers to help address above mentioned challenges.

Automation Opportunities Everywhere by Lakshmi Narasimhan

Automation is not about tools. Processes, tools and technology has to work seamlessly to make automation successful. Look into the Accenture Structured Approach towards automation to help the client identify their business priorities and map to IT priorities and then drive automation with a roadmap with Business Value.

Software Craftsmanship in A Financial Services Organization by Barath Krishnan

An insight into software craftsmanship in a financial services organization

Applied Design Patterns: A Compiler Case Study by Ganesh Samarthyam

Most developers are aware of design patterns. The difficulty is not in understanding them but in getting an intuitive understanding of when and how to apply them. Go through a case study of how a compiler codebase may implement different design patterns.

Building Efficient CI/DC Pipeline by Vinay Krishna

CI / CD pipeline is not merely a tool implementation. Take a look at the basic concept of CI / CD along with how can we build an efficient pipeline.

Zero-dollar BDD by Vivek Ganesan & Pradeep Nadig

Have you heard about Behavior Driven Development(BDD) or do you want to learn what it is? Do you feel that cost is a constraint to you reaping the fruits of BDD? This interactive demo showcases how to get benefits of BDD with (almost) zero-dollar investment.

AI in Agile by Raghu Meharwade & Anubhav Gupta

Familiarize with industry standard AI maturity levels and popular Machine Learning methods and how to apply them to Agile delivery processes with real-world solutions. Solutions include automating routine tasks through to providing concrete, data-driven insights to improve team performance or to identify areas which call for Agile coach’s attention.

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