Agile Chennai 2026 : Premier Lean

About The Conference

Agile Network India’s AgileChennai.com Conference has emerged as one of the most influential thought leadership platforms in India since its inception in 2021.

Now in its sixth successive edition in 2026, the Agile Chennai Conference brings together distinguished leaders, practitioners, academicians, and change-makers from across industries. Anchored in three defining dimensions - Business strategy, technology and process excellence - this conference serves as a dynamic forum for exploring transformative ideas, progressive leadership practices, organizational excellence, innovation, and the evolving future of work.

Agile Chennai 2026 title theme:
Resilience 2030 – Preparing for the Next 5 Years

The sub-themes associated with this theme are:

Navigating Technology
Steering Leadership
Reimagining Business

Know More about the Theme Panel & Debate Topic

Program Review Committee

Objective of the Program Committee is to build a valuable and high quality program

The Review Committee comprises the Conference Chairperson and the Reviewers. The Review Process is led by the Conference Chairperson. The Reviewers follow the defined Review Process to assess and select the session proposals that are submitted through the Call for Proposal process The Conference Chairperson is responsible for defining the final program through exercising a formal consensus with the Reviewers.

Chair

Prashant Mavinkare

Lead Consultant
INNOVATION ROOTS

Reviewer

Sudarshan Sridharan

Technical Program Manager - Enterprise Cyber Security
Pacvue Corporation

Reviewer

Purusothaman Siva

Specialist
ZF

Reviewer

Vaidyanathan Lakshminarayanan

Scrum Master
EPAM Systems

Facilitator

Anjali R Nair

Project Manager
Hexaware

Facilitator

Radhika S

Scrum Master
IDP Education Pvt Ltd

Conference Theme

Resilience 2030 – Preparing for the Next 5 Years

In today’s rapidly shifting landscape, five years can redefine industries — and preparing now determines where we stand in 2030.

As technology accelerates and uncertainty becomes the norm, resilience is no longer optional — it is strategic. Resilience by Agile Chennai is about equipping individuals, teams, and organizations to thrive amid disruption, emerging technologies, talent shifts, and evolving business models.

This one-day conference brings together practitioners, leaders, academicians, and students to explore how to stay resilient and prepare for the next five years.

We invite speakers to share practical insights, real-world experiences, research perspectives, and future-focused thinking aligned with our sub-themes below.

Sub - themes:

Navigating Technology

In a world shaped by rapid innovation and continuous disruption, navigating technology is no longer optional — it is essential. This subtheme explores how individuals and organizations can move beyond hype, adopt emerging technologies responsibly, and build sustainable, future-ready capabilities that drive real impact.

Steering Leadership

Leadership today is less about authority and more about adaptability, empathy, and clarity in uncertainty. This subtheme focuses on developing the mindset and skills required to lead teams, drive transformation, and evolve from contributor to influencer in a rapidly changing world.

Reimagining Business

Markets are evolving, customer expectations are shifting, and business models are transforming. This subtheme explores how organizations and aspiring entrepreneurs can rethink value creation, embrace innovation, and design sustainable, agile business models. Resilience means not just surviving change — but shaping it.

Panel & Debate Topic

Panel Topic:

Resilience as Strategy - Preparing Information Technology for the Next Five Years

This panel will delve into resilience not as a reactive response to crises, but as a deliberate, forward-looking strategy for IT organizations. It challenges leaders, practitioners, and architects to move beyond "surviving disruption" and instead build systems, teams, and cultures that are anticipatory, adaptive, and antifragile - ready for the Next Five Years of exponential change in AI, cybersecurity, workforce evolution, and platform engineering.

Debate Topic:

Speed of Learning vs. Depth of Expertise: What Defines Success in the AI Era?

The Burning Debate: We live in a world where most of the existing job skills will be transformed or made obsolete by 2030 or sooner, AI rewrites entire industries overnight, and yesterday's expertise can become tomorrow's liability. In this volatile landscape, a provocative question demands honest debate: Is the ability to learn fast more valuable than the ability to know deep? This is not an academic exercise. It is a survival conversation.