Monday, May 5, 2025

Pre-Conference Workshops

Full day workshop

Virpi Rowe and Silke Kainzbauer, CEO and partner, transformation coach and trainer at WikiAgile – MobAI: Co-Intelligence at Work - AI and Humans Solving Problems and Innovating Together

In this one-day hands-on workshop, you will explore how AI enhances teamwork, problem-solving, and innovation. Through practical exercises and AI-driven collaboration, you’ll gain insight into AI fundamentals, MobAI’s dynamic approach, and essential soft skills for high-performing teams.

This workshop is designed for professionals across industries who want to understand AI’s role in modern work and develop practical strategies for integrating AI into their daily workflows—no prior AI experience required.

Workshop Content:

🔹 Understanding AI & Machine Learning.

Get a clear introduction to AI fundamentals, how it supports teamwork, and key technologies shaping today’s workplaces.

🔹 MobAI – A Smarter Way to Work.

Experience AI-powered collaboration through rapid, structured teamwork cycles. Learn how AI and human intelligence together can accelerate problem-solving and drive innovation.

🔹 High-Performing Teams & Soft Skills.

Develop key team dynamics, including trust, psychological safety, and effective communication, to enable AI-augmented collaboration.

🔹 Solve the Maze – AI-Powered Team Exercise.

Use AI and robotics to navigate a maze in a hands-on challenge designed to strengthen collaboration, adaptability, and AI-assisted problem-solving. No programming experience is needed—learning happens through experimentation and teamwork.

🔹 Action Planning – Bringing AI into Your Work.

Define practical next steps for integrating AI into your daily work. Identify use cases and create an action plan for AI-powered innovation and productivity.

Key Benefits:

✅ Hands-On AI Learning – Gain practical AI experience through interactive exercises and real-world applications.

✅ Smarter, Faster Innovation – Learn how AI can enhance problem-solving, creativity, and experimentation.

✅ Stronger Collaboration – Build skills in psychological safety, adaptability, and communication to work effectively with AI.

✅ Actionable Strategies – Leave with clear, practical steps to implement AI-powered teamwork and innovation in your organization.

Conclusion
This workshop is not just about learning what AI can do—it’s about experiencing it in action. Discover how AI can enhance creativity, accelerate problem-solving, and unlock new ways of working, helping you stay ahead in an increasingly AI-driven world.

How can teams achieve tangible results quickly while simultaneously learning new skills? The MobAI workshop combines teamwork, continuous learning, and a model inspired by Tesla’s groundbreaking practices. This workshop challenges conventional thinking, teaches adaptability in fast-changing environments, and provides a practical way to develop new capabilities.

Virpi Rowe has over 30 years of experience driving product development and organizational transformation across diverse industries. As the CEO of WikiAgile Oy, she focuses on integrating AI into teamwork to reshape how teams collaborate and deliver results. Inspired by the approaches of industry leaders like Tesla, Virpi helps teams achieve high performance and create meaningful, impactful products.

Silke Kainzbauer has been working in the field of change management as a consultant in large transformation projects for over 20 years. The focus of her work is agile organizational development, in particular the constructive handling of increasing complexity, which she implements primarily in scaled agile large-scale projects (Large Solutions). She holds a degree in psychology and a Master of Business Administration and maintains a coaching practice in Würzburg in addition to her work in agile projects.

Lunch

Full day workshop, continues with

Virpi Rowe, CEO and partner, transformation coach and trainer at WikiAgile – MobAI: Co-Intelligence at Work - AI and Humans Solving Problems and Innovating Together

Workshop Track 2

Half day workshop (morning)

Bengt Johansson + Peter Palmér, LPPDE – Lean Product and Process Development Basics

This introductory workshop tells the history of LPPD, including a deep dive in some of the
models. We will explore the different principles and methods needed to create a well working
system for your product development.

• Create usable knowledge
• The role of the chief engineer
• Create teams of responsible experts
• Practice set-based innovation
• Create flow

We will also discuss the similarities and differences with Agile and how to integrate it in the
system.

Bengt Johansson has spent his entire working life at ASSA ABLOY and has seen the
company grow to a global champion. Bengt has been working around 25 years with product
development in different roles, production engineering, through quality management and
product development. The latest 15 years Bengt spent in ASSA ABLOYs Lean Innovation
program where he has been the Global Lean Innovation Manager the latest 8 years.

Peter Palmér has extensive experience in lean management in both production and product
development, as well as experience of leadership in other cultures. With 18 years of
experience within production, engineering and quality followed by 20 years in various
management positions in product development Peter has many stories to tell. Since the
beginning of the 1990es he has been closely involved with the Scania Way development
journey both in Sweden and South America.

He is a frequent speaker at international and national conferences on the subject of LPD and
leadership. Peter has been working closely with LPPDE since the organization's start 2008
including seven years on the LPPDE board with a second period started 2023. Through
LPPDE Peter has organized and chaired or co-chaired many conferences in Europe and in
the US. Since the end of 2020 he runs the monthly LPPDE Virtual Summits, a four-hour learning exchange with four different speakers. He is a member of various LPD-networks and
has co-developed LPD training courses with Chalmers Professional Education and The KTH
Royal Institute of Technology.

Lunch

Half day workshop (afternoon)

Fredrik Viljesjö, Founder and Senior Advisor / Trainer at We Are Movement – Agile for Larger Hardware Products

In this workshop, we’ll explore how adopting Lean and Agile principles bolstered by the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) can transform how larger hardware initiatives are managed and delivered.

Engineers and people in the teams do all the work. See how a Lean-Agile DevOps mindset can unify product development and manufacturing, enabling quicker feedback loops, collaborative problem-solving, and smoother handovers. We’ll also dive into risk management strategies, emphasizing rapid experimentation to validate both technical and market fit early—before costly mistakes arise. Finally, we’ll look at Lean Portfolio Management, revealing how an “investment fund” style of budgeting can balance risk and reward while fueling innovation on a larger scale.

Key Takeaways:

• • Accelerate time-to-market by integrating product and manufacturing development.
  • Apply Lean/Agile principles at scale with SAFe to foster collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.
  • Leverage iterative experiments for robust risk management—spot market and technical issues early.
  • Adopt Lean Portfolio Management for better resource allocation across multiple, complex initiatives.
  • Build a resilient organizational culture where learning, adaptability, and continuous flow thrive.
  • Join us for this half-day session where you’ll walk away with practical tools to align teams, reduce lead times, and continuously deliver high-quality hardware products that delight customers and outpace the competition.

Fredrik Viljesjö is one founder of We Are Movement and works as an Advisor, Enterprise Agile Coach, and DevOps/Architecture Coach with a broad and deep skill set. With 15 years of experience in development, coaching, and management, he has worked with multinational companies in Stockholm to guide them through their Lean / Agile journey.

Guiding and training development organizations to deliver value. From overall strategy and portfolio to individual development teams. He knows the whole chain of activities required for DevOps and Agile work, from getting people to collaborate better to implement a CI/CD pipelines.