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🚀 Speaker announcement — LeSS Global Conference Japan 2026

How do you combine Large-Scale Scrum with real-world AI in a highly regulated energy context — without ending up in a pile of isolated pilots?

Falko Werner shares honest lessons from a 5-team LeSS-style setup building predictive maintenance for the electricity grid at a German utility: how they structured product definition, team boundaries and ONE common Product Backlog to enable meaningful AI use cases. He'll show how an agentic AI coach (Adrian) helped leaders and teams clarify outcomes and constraints, and how a wearable AI device (Omi) supported observation and follow-up in Sprint Reviews and multi-team Refinements. Expect what worked, what failed, and the patterns you can reuse so AI and LeSS reinforce each other instead of colliding.

🗣 "Scaling Predictive Maintenance with LeSS, Agentic AI Coaching and Wearable AI"
🛠 Talk · 45 min

📅 October 8–9, 2026 · Tokyo
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🚀 Speaker announcement — LeSS Global Conference Japan 2026

Most agile adoptions stop at the edge of R&D. The teams go "agile" — but customer service, operations and product stay disconnected, exactly where fast feedback matters most.

Wolfgang Steffens brings a real case: four teams building a cross-industry platform for energy, climate and environmental management, designed around the ENTIRE customer journey rather than the org chart.

🗣 "Beyond R&D: Designing Product Teams for the Entire Customer Journey"
🎤 Talk · 45 min

📅 October 8–9, 2026 · Tokyo
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🚀 Speaker announcement — LeSS Global Conference Japan 2026

What does LeSS look like when systemic constraints are truly removed and AI expands what teams can do?

Robert Briese takes you on a guided, visual journey into the day-to-day reality of adaptive, AI-augmented organizations: much smaller teams (around 3 people) collaborating synchronously with AI, Sprint Planning becoming shorter and lighter — maybe even optional. A look at LeSS in the age of AI, through real work scenes.

🗣 "Life Inside an Adaptive Organization: LeSS in the Age of AI"
🎤 Talk · 60 min

📅 October 8–9, 2026 · Tokyo
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🚀 Speaker announcement — LeSS Global Conference Japan 2026

When your organization is structured around one way of delivering loans, your people see that channel — not the system underneath it.

Rizki Yogaswara tells the story from Bank Jago, a startup bank where two separate development groups removed the barriers between them and discovered a whole new, more complete perspective on the system they were actually building. A real case of two groups learning to see one whole loan system.

🗣 "The System That Hid in Plain Sight: A Story of Two Development Groups Learning to See One Whole Loan System"
🎤 Talk · 60 min

📅 October 8–9, 2026 · Tokyo
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🚀 Speaker announcement — LeSS Global Conference Japan 2026

How does it really FEEL to distrust someone? Does unilateral trust even exist? Alan Cyment doesn't lecture on trust — he makes the room experience it.

Three powerful large-group games, playable at any group size, that surface the basic tenets of any agile endeavor. Including the chocolates game: teams, a line on the floor, and a decision each round — to jump or not to jump. Juicy insights guaranteed.

🗣 "Embodying (dis)trust: 3 large group activities to experience the pleasures and perils of collective work"
🎲 Interactive session · 60 min

📅 October 8–9, 2026 · Tokyo
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🚀 Speaker announcement — LeSS Global Conference Japan 2026

What ACTUALLY changes when you move from Scrum to LeSS? Rogerio Taques gives both sides of the story.

The upside: the big shift toward whole-product, customer-centric teams, sharper focus on business value, broader skills. And the reality check: the coordination explosion, siloed priorities, resistance and skill gaps that scaling beyond a few teams exposes.

🗣 "From Scrum to LeSS: What Actually Changes When You Scale"
🎤 Talk · 60 min

📅 October 8–9, 2026 · Tokyo
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🚀 Speaker announcement — LeSS Global Conference Japan 2026

The Toyota Production System shaped Agile thinking decades ago. In the age of AI, does it still have something to teach us?

Terry Yin says yes — and not just as philosophy. Drawing on recent hands-on experience across several projects, he shares concrete day-to-day patterns for using AI in ways that improve learning, flow, quality and coordination in large-scale, multi-team environments — rather than amplifying waste.

🗣 "What AI-Augmented Development Can Learn from the Toyota Production System"
🎤 Talk · 60 min

📅 October 8–9, 2026 · Tokyo
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🚀 Speaker announcement — LeSS Global Conference Japan 2026

Priority battles. Fragmented roadmaps. Teams pulling in different directions. In a multi-product MedTech organization, Frederic Siepmann and his teams tried something radical: ONE company backlog and ONE roadmap across all products.

This talk shares the learnings from an ongoing LeSS transition — from establishing that single backlog to improved team alignment, sharper decision-making, and managing for delivery capabilities.

🗣 "The Company Backlog — How a single backlog stopped priority battles, improved decision-making, and aligned teams in MedTech"
🎤 Talk · 60 min

📅 October 8–9, 2026 · Tokyo
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