Agile Roadmapping

Luke Hohmann is the founder and CEO of Conteneo Inc. (formerly the Innovation Games® Company). Conteneo’s enterprise software platforms and professional services merge collaboration frameworks, data analytics, and domain expertise to help organizations optimize decision making in the areas of strategy, innovation, sales, product development, and market research. Luke is also cofounder of Every Voice Engaged Foundation (EVEF), a 501(c)3 nonprofit that that helps citizens, governments, and other nonprofit organizations collaborate at scale to solve technical and wicked problems. EVEF has been a leader in the Participatory Budgeting movement, helping citizens prioritize hundreds of millions of dollars through budget games. EVEF has also partnered with the Kettering Foundation to create Common Ground for Action, the first platform for scalable deliberative decision making. Supported by both Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance, Luke is thankful for the thousands of colleagues from the Agile community who have donated their time to EVEF.

Laura is passionate about technology and about helping customers find powerful solutions to pressing problems. She brings 20 years of sales and management experience to Conteneo Inc., including seven years at Uptime Resources where she ran the IT professional services division. Her team managed all aspects of technology for small and mid-sized businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to Uptime Resources, Laura was the business development director at E-Color where she and her team launched an image and color optimization engine to improve the reliability of online images used by large e-commerce sites from companies like Bloomingdales and J Crew. The seeds for her love of technology were planted during the four years she spent with ObjectSpace. As Sales Director for both the East and then the West Coast, she helped large Fortune accounts successfully adopt object-oriented technology and iterative development practices which was very rewarding. Laura holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and has also worked on an MA in Psychology. She lives in the East Bay with her husband and two children and challenges herself a few times a year by participating in a ToughMudder Adventure Race.

Jason Tanner is the CEO of Applied Frameworks, a product management consulting firm. His passion is coaching people in organizations to develop products that customers love. Jason mentors, teaches, facilitates, and sometimes does the work to identify and apply the optimal frameworks for given situations. Lately, he's been focused on very large-scale Agile adoptions and overcoming all of the obstacles thousands of people encounter when their world of work shifts. Jason's experience spans product management and marketing, business planning, partner management, project management, and leadership. He believes that his attraction to Agile is based on over nine years of service as a Marine officer. He received an engineering degree from Cornell, and an MBA from Duke. Jason is a Certified Scrum Trainer®, SAFe Program Consultant and Innovation Games Qualified Instructor. When he's not working, he likes to exercise, read, watch his two kids play sports, and execute the continuous improvement backlog managed by the chief product owner at his house…his wife.