Portia Tung is the creator of Agile Fairytales and is passionate about people, process and continuous improvement. She is a consultant-coach, storyteller, and games maker who combines business strategies with play to bring about positive organisational change.

Portia is an international speaker, and the creator of concepts such as Playmaking and Enterprise Gardening. She shares her insights and experiences as a coach and parent on her blog Selfish Programming. Portia is also the author of The Dream Team Nightmare, the first ever Agile novel where your decisions determine the outcome of the story. If you’ve enjoyed the Agile Fairytales, you’ll love this first novel in the Agile Adventures series created by Portia.

Katherine Kirk is a highly experienced independent Agile/Lean Consultant and international conference speaker.

Her primary area of expertise lies in co-discovery and insight facilitation through exploring and combining eastern and tribal philosophy to find practical answers to tough, on-the-ground issues, specifically involving contextually driven edge-cases and the cultural interaction between hierarchical management and Agile/Lean teams.

After gaining a first class BSc (Hons) in computing she completed post graduate studies in software engineering at University of Oxford and currently enjoys being an active participant of a community of Lean and Agile practitioners in Europe who explore and challenge the status quo through experimenting and collaborating.