Riina is an Agile HR pioneer and enterprise organisational development professional. She was one of the first to start working with #AgileHR in 2010, when she began the Finnish Agile HR network, now over a thousand people strong and still growing. With a solid background in HR, Riina has now trained hundreds of HR professionals in Lean HR and Agile HR. Riina works as a development and change architect, supporting change on scale and all levels of an organisation, involving Agile and lean methodologies, progressive training and facilitation, people technology, advanced analytics and cognitive computing. She uses Agile ways to accelerate companies into the next digital era of people operations. Riina holds a M. Sc. degree in technology and an array of Agile certificates. She’s also a professional certified coach and has an Executive Master’s degree in applied neuroscience from Middlesex University, bringing theoretical background and hard science to her work. Her specialty is getting things planned with an Agile twist, from a modern and respectful change perspective, and then engaging people into participating and getting things done, delivered, together. Email: Riina.Hellstrom@agilehrcommunity.com

Holder of BSc Business Administration with concentration in Management Information Systems, worked mainly in the IT and Training industry. From 2003 till 2013, I have been working as a Trainer/Manager of Training center mainly for professionals covering the areas of IT and Business Administration. Since 2013, I am working in Agile Environments as a Scrum Master, Innovation facilitator and Agile Coach (multicultural environments of 150 employees) coaching, mentoring, providing agile trainings and workshops and managing innovation process and projects. I am the founder of Cyprus Agile and Innovation community and already organized two successful Agile meetups in Limassol. I have participated in the Agile Summit in Greece on 2017 and 2018 and got invited to the Beyond Agile Israel 2018 in Tel Aviv as a speaker, and gave a TED style talk about Agile and Innovation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwixQ13wZk). Email: kareklask@gmail.com