Friday
March 25th, 2022
Central Virginia’s Premier One-Day VIRTUAL Agile Event
PULLING OUT ALL THE STOPS!
Last year was great, but this one goes to ELEVEN!
When we put together miniVAte 2021 last year, we knew we were onto something special – an opportunity to rethink how we connect with and serve our two communities. This year, when we realized we needed to be virtual again, we thought to ourselves:
“How do we build on what we did last year, and provide even more to our communities?”
The result: InnoVAte 2022
KEYNOTES
THREE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
We’re thrilled to bring three dynamic speakers to the InnoVAte 2022 main stage, for three keynote talks!
Melissa Boggs
Melissa Boggs is a keynote speaker, leadership coach, and employee experience designer. She is host of the “Wild Hearts at Work” podcast, redefining our relationship with work through stories and conversations with those challenging the status quo of today’s workplace.
Melissa is a former executive with a background in leadership, business, and product development. She is a former nonprofit board member, having served on the Board of Directors for both Scrum Alliance and Agile Denver. She was privileged to present at the 2020 World Business and Executive Coach Summit and at the 2021 WomenTech Summit, and has been featured in Business Coaching, Business Agility Emergence and Authority magazines.
Betsy Kauffman
Betsy Kauffman is a globally recognized Organizational Agility Coach with more than 20 years of experience working in Fortune 500 companies. Her company, Cross Impact Coaching, is an Organizational Design Firm focused on working with companies to help them solve the big problems impeding them from achieving agility, collaboration, alignment, and innovation. She is a published author providing thought leadership to the agile and project management communities and speaks internationally on leadership, corporate culture, and organizational agility. She just completed her first TED Talk: “4 Tips to Kickstart Honest Conversations at Work'' in conjunction with the TED@PMI partnership and was selected by the TED editors to have her talk brought to the main stage. Check it out at TED.com!
Michael Spayd
Michael Spayd has been a pioneer in the Agile world for 20 years, bringing in thinking and methods from professional coaching, leadership development (LD), organization development (OD), Integral and systemic methods that are relevant to the transformation of self, culture, and leadership in service of organizational agility. Michael is known as a transformational teacher and leader, with a deep ability to facilitate both compelling and transformational learning environments.
Michael is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute, Trans4mation, and most recently, The Collective Edge. He has taught, coached and mentored several thousand Agile coaches, managers and leaders in his 20+ years. He is the originator and co-author of a highly anticipated book on Agile Transformations, bringing the Integral approach to the Agile world.
SESSIONS
THIRTY-THREE MORE SPEAKERS
We were overwhelmed with the number and quality of submissions for InnoVAte 2022! We can’t thank everyone who submitted a session enough – you made the job of narrowing down the field incredibly difficult.
How difficult? We wanted to have five different, emergent tracks of content for this year’s conference, and after reviewing all the submissions, we realized that five tracks just wasn’t enough!
This year, we’re bringing our community six different tracks, with four sessions each – that’s twenty-four hours of presentations, workshops, and learning – and that still wasn’t enough!
For the first time, we’re also dedicating a session to our Lightning Talk submissions – six quick topics from six different speakers!
In all, we’ve got a lineup of THIRTY-THREE great speakers who are excited to share their presentations, workshops, and lightning talks with you!
NETWORKING
DISCUSSIONS
PRIZES
ACCESS
EVEN MORE TO LOVE
One of the things we miss from seeing everyone face-to-face is the opportunity to just connect with our peers – meet new people, connect with old friends, and have those “hallway moments” between sessions. This year, we’re bringing that in-person experience online with InnoVAte Speed Networking: an hour-long opportunity to quickly connect with other attendees online.
That doesn’t sound appealing? No worries! We’re also adding in online discussions during the conference – not just with session attendees, but with each other. We’ve got communities you can join to virtually connect with peers in our communities, with potential employers looking for new team members, or with like-minded practitioners to share the last two years’ experience together.
Can we make those options more appealing? On top of connecting with peers and meeting new people, everyone who participates in our virtual community-building activities is also entered into our drawings for some great raffle prizes, supporting our local Richmond-area businesses.
You may be thinking, “With so much to do, how can I pick from all these options?!” We’ve thought of that, too!
This year, we’re repeating the lessons from miniVAte and offering an All-Access Ticket to InnoVAte 2022 – one price to get all the conference connections and content you can juggle on the day of the conference, plus access to recordings of every session after the conference ends! If you still have your ticket for InnoVAte Virginia 2020, you’ll automatically get an All-Access Ticket to InnoVAte 2022. And, if the All-Access Ticket is out of your price range, you can still get a virtual ticket for InnoVAte 2022 for an incredible value.
AND, if what you really miss was the lunch included with the conference, we’ve got you covered – every ticket will also get a DoorDash gift card, so you can have your lunch delivered!
TICKETS
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE TICKET
This year, we’re offering even more with your One-Day Virtual Conference Ticket.
As an attendee, you get to attend all three keynote presentations, and build your own personalized agenda of four sessions, selected from our six tracks of great speakers and sessions. In addition, you also get:
Access to our Speed Networking event, to connect with other members of our community;
Access to the Community Message Boards, before and during the event, to share questions, ideas, and learn from each other;
Entry into our Raffle drawing for prizes, plus additional ways to win as you engage with the conference;
And, a DoorDash gift certificate for lunch, too!
ALL-ACCESS TICKET
Don’t want to miss any of the sessions, because they all look so good?
Want to come back and re-watch that great keynote for more inspiration?
Our All-Access Ticket is your passport to more!
Every All-Access Ticket comes with all the benefits of a Virtual Conference Ticket, and access to EVERY keynote and session after the conference. You’ll be able to stream video of each session, whenever you want, from anywhere!