Name: Ruby in London with Mindful Chef
Start: 2025-05-21T16:30:00.000Z
Location: Unit D, Discovery House, Juniper Dr, London SW18 1UY

Hello All!

Hope you're all well and starting to enjoy the glimmer of sunshine the UK weather continues to tease us with!

We're back with our next instalment of Agile London, and this time we're hosted by Virgin Red on Wednesday 7th May, from 5.30pm. (With Pizza and Refreshments)

Multiple speakers on the evening, across 3 talks:

Talk 1: **Lucy Dixon** (Product Manager at Virgin), **Ellie Wallis** (Project Manager at Virgin) & **Paul Garratt** (Delivery Manager at Virgin) with "From Silos to Synergy: Uniting Product & Delivery for Success"

"Great products don’t just happen – they are the result of seamless collaboration between product and delivery teams."

Talk 2: **Erum Quddus** (Agile & Tech Change Storyteller) with "Is Agile Dead or Flatlining? Resuscitate It with Storytelling CPR"

"Agile isn’t dead, but it may be flatlining... To revive it, we suggest storytelling that energises. Lose the boring comms and updates on plan slippages and scope changes. Good leadership comms and powerful people success stories will cut through Agile fatigue and tackle resistance".

Talk 3: **Chris Harper** (Head of Programme Delivery, Tech & Data at Virgin) with "Agile Delivery for Contract Deliverables: What We Got Right and Wrong"

"Lessons from the trenches, especially if you have scars to share"

**Venue Address**: Whitfield Studios, 50A Charlotte St, London, W1T 2NS

Get signed up early as there's limited spaces!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Thanks,
Alex

Agile London

Alex Scriven

Guy Augusto Rodrigues

Rajiv Bhatnagar

Donyale Michael

Sebastian Bober

Hannah McDermott

Beata Szabo

Mike McKinlay

Ravi

Louie Christie

Nuno Ho

Diego

Ashleigh Davidson

Marios Marneros

TJ Johnson

Paul Thomas

Monique 

Anirudh Zala

Barnaby Golden

Agile London with Virgin Red

Charlotte Street

Hello!

I'm pleased to be able to bring you the details of the next instalment of Product London!

**Where**: Experian, Cardinal Place, London.

**When**: Wednesday 21st May from 5.30pm.

**Talk 1:** **James Burgess** (Product Director) & **Leti Marcantoni** (Head of Product) with "Being customer-first in a corporate world: how to build great products in a big business"

**Synopsis:** Doing Product well in large corporates means keeping the customer front and centre, while balancing business needs, shareholder expectations, complex technology environments and more limited risk appetites. This talk shares practical strategies for maintaining customer focus and creating meaningful impact in a large, complex FTSE environment.

**Talk 2:** **Allan Whittaker** (Product Strategy & Operations & British Army Veteran) with "Mission Ready: How Military Planning Principles Can Strengthen Your Product Strategy"

**Synopsis:** This session shares a proven method for aligning objectives, deliverables, and teams, drawing on the best of military and product thinking.

There's limited spaces on this one, so get signed up early to avoid disappointment!

Hope to see you there!

Alex.

Product London

Not Douggie

Erum Quddus

Andrew Leonard

Jay Jernigan

raphsimon

James Scott-Flanagan

Adil Islam

Alex

Philip Phrakaysone

Lucy SB

Daniel Blatchford

Werner Bättenhaussen

Javier

Laura

Anthony Dhanendran

Valerie Gan

Olivia Kalinowski

Product London with Experian

Experian

Hi All,

I hope you are well.

Our next event has been confirmed for Wednesday 21st May with Mindful Chef starting at 5.30pm, with food and drinks provided.

Speakers/Talks

1st: Lewis Buckley, SRE at 37Signals - "What it takes to leave the cloud at scale?"
Learn how the creators of Rails are rethinking infrastructure. Lewis breaks down the tools, tech, and trade-offs behind their bold move.

2nd: Abiodun Olowode, Engineering Manager at Cleo - "The What, When and How of Abstractions"
A practical dive into abstractions—how to think about them, when to introduce them, and how to do it well.

Look forward to seeing you all there!

Thanks,
Josh

Ruby in London

Josh Caulfield

Lewis Buckley

Sebastian Zaremba

Yusuke Goto

Olivia

Vlad Bokov

Thomas Bradley

Priya

Kevin Robayna

Stephan

Shane Reddy

Hayden Rouille

Jose Fernandes

Ruslan Nazarets

Raul Gracia Lario

Vito

Andy Croll

Nick Norkin

John Small

Ruby in London with Mindful Chef 

Unit D, Discovery House, Juniper Dr, London SW18 1UY

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