Meet the Keynote Speakers for Global Scrum Gathering Munich

The Global Scrum Gathering Munich, happening May 4-7, 2025, is so much more than a conference; it's a place to fuel your passion, challenge your thinking, and return to work with fresh ideas to deepen your impact. And what better way to spark that transformation than with three incredible keynote speakers who are shaping the future of agile leadership and collaboration?

These visionaries will inspire you with bold insights, real-world lessons, and actionable strategies you can immediately apply. Their stories will leave you energized and ready to level up. 

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Erica Dhawan 

Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence

We live in a world of endless meetings and emails and constant cross-team dysfunction, duplication, and delays. Our collaboration skills aren't working to unlock better value in our business. As radical a concept as Emotional Intelligence was in the 90s, Connectional Intelligence is turning people into super connectors who accelerate innovation, break down silos, and foster breakthrough top and bottom-line impact.

Join author, entrepreneur, and 21st century collaboration expert Erica Dhawan to uncover:

• Successful tactics to address communication overload and create authentic digital and in-person relationships
• How to break down silos and keep teams aligned, accountable, and motivated beyond in-person meetings
• Specific actions to foster loyalty, respect, collaboration, and innovation across all stakeholder networks regardless of physical distance

Ms. Dhawan has studied human innovation and collaboration for more than 20 years. As an executive leader, she's built businesses, learned from failures, and shared insights through two Wall Street Journal bestselling books. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the World Economic Forum at Davos, and she's spoken to millions of people worldwide. Don't miss her keynote in Munich.

Holger Nils Pohl

Neurodiversity, Creativity & Complexity: Rethinking How We Work Together

Agile was meant to help us navigate complexity, but what if the real challenge isn't complexity itself, but how our diverse human minds interact with it?

In this keynote, we'll explore how embracing neurodiversity and creative thinking can offer powerful new perspectives on how we collaborate and lead. What if many of the struggles in organizations aren't individual shortcomings, but mismatches between system design and human diversity? How do meetings, decision-making, and clarity play a role—and how can we make them better?

Expect thought-provoking questions, visual tools, and a fresh take on how to lead with clarity in a complex world.

Holger Nils Pohl is an award-winning communication designer, author of 12 books, and internationally active trainer. He helps people bring clarity to complexity—especially in communication, leadership, and meetings. With a unique blend of visual thinking, systems design, and neurodiversity-informed insight, he turns abstract ideas into engaging, actionable tools. Holger lives near Cologne with his family, a dog, two cats, two horses, and a bunch of rabbits.

Henrik Kniberg

Scrum in the Age of AI

Scrum is over 30 years old, the agile principles are over 20 years old, and we are now entering the Age of AI, a strange new world where intelligence is available as a service.

What does this mean? Are the agile principles still valid? Do we still need scrum master, cross-functional teams, sprints, standups? What does it mean to have an all-knowing, blazing-fast AI colleague on a scrum team? What happens when coding is no longer the bottleneck in software engineering? In this keynote, we take a step back and look at the big picture, revisit some of the underlying assumptions behind agile, and explore how AI affects both the principles, practices, and roles of scrum.

Attend Henrik Kniberg's keynote to:

• Understand how generative AI impacts agile values and principles, as well as scrum roles and team dynamics
• Learn how generative AI can turbo-charge the productivity of your scrum teams
• Understand how generative AI impacts product development as a whole

Mr. Kniberg is Chief Scientist and cofounder of Ymnig.ai. He is an AI whisperer, trainer, product developer, and author. He created the viral video "Generative AI in a Nutshell" and the book with the same name. He is also famous for his videos "Spotify Engineering Culture," "Product Ownership in a Nutshell," and for silly metaphors such as the skateboard metaphor for product development, and for his work as Minecraft developer. He lives in Stockholm with his wife, four kids, and a bunch of random musical instruments.

An experience that has a little bit of everything

Our inspiring keynotes are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the unforgettable experiences you'll take home from the Global Scrum Gathering in Munich. There will also be dozens of insightful, highly applicable sessions presented by leading minds in agile, one-on-one agile coaching services, a can't-miss party called the Monday Mingle, and so much more. Save your spot and join us for this annual gathering of the best and brightest!

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