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You are receiving this email as a previous participant of an XP conference. We thought you and your colleagues might be interested in this year’s edition of the XP conference: XP2013 – / – which will be held in June (3rd – 7th) in beautiful Vienna.

We finalized the program and we want to give you, as a previous participant, the option for an early bird registration open until April 27th.

Meet internationally recognised experts like Diana Larsen, Emily Bache, Gitte Klitgaard Hansen, Ivana Gancheva, Johanna Hunt, Jutta Eckstein, Andrea Provaglio, Ángel Medinilla, Charlie Poole, Erik Lundh, Gojko Adzic, Jim Shore, Michael (Gee Paw) Hill, Nat Pryce, Nils Brede Moe, Pat Kua, Roman Pichler, Steve Holyer, and many more…

Main conference days:
The main conference will take place from Tuesday (June 4th) to Thursday (June 6th) with seven parallel tracks of talks and workshops. As always, we will also have an Open Space. Keynotes will be delivered by:

David Anania (Blue Man Group) — Listen Up! Hearing versus Listening
Gojko Adzic — Make Impacts, not Software
Helen Sharp — on people-oriented aspects of agile
James Shore — Agile Fluency: What We’ve Learned About How We Learn

Please tell your boss – a new track for executives and managers:
The Executives & Managers Track on Tuesday, June 4th, offers them a chance to share and discuss real-world experience. It’s the place to learn about the latest successful practices for business and technical leadership, focused especially on organizations transitioning to Agile… or considering it. Using a peers-talking-to-peers format, it brings together perspectives on Agile in the enterprise from a variety of industries and sectors.

Tutorial days:
Monday, June 3rd and Friday, June 7th are pre- and post-conference days which round up the event with tutorials to deep-dive into diverse topics such as:

Story Maps,
Specification by Example,
Team Building,
Solution-Focused Coaching,
Organisational Culture,
Complex Projects,
Agile in Medical Software Development,
Lean Startup,
Test-Driven Development, and more…

Conference dinner:
The conference dinner will be served in the famous Wiener Palais Ferstel.

We are happy that Austrian Airlines is our official conference carrier. They offer all participants and accompanying persons a special “Congress Fare” at a 15% discount off all published fares for Austrian Airlines flights to Vienna.

Pass it forward – Some general information about the XP conference:
The XP is the world’s longest running conference devoted to agile, already for more than a decade. A place where people like you can learn about the latest research findings, new practices, listen to stories from the trenches and get a chance to network with peers. Crowd-sourced, peer-reviewed sessions are creating a strong program. We expect 250 to 300 practitioners and researchers from all over the world to come and discuss their experiences and questions.

For the organizing team