Hugo Messer has been building and managing teams around the world for over 10 years. His passion is to enable people that are spread across cultures, geography and time zones to cooperate. Whether it’s offshoring or nearshoring, he knows what it takes to make a global collaboration work. Scrum is a central part of Hugo's story, he's a certified scrum professional (CSP) and certified scrum master (CSM). His software company Bridge Global has recently gone through an agile transformation.Hugo is currently building Ekipa Indonesia. Ekipa is an agile agency, offering training and coaching. Hugo's currently living in Bali. He's helping Indonesian organizations adopt an agile mindset and implement practices through community events, training and coaching.- He has written 6 books about managing remote teams: http://bridge-global.com/ebooks

John is the founder of Auspicious Agile, based in Singapore. John founded the Agile services practice for Rally in Asia. John is also a contributor to InfoQ on Agile & DevOps. He has nearly two decades of experience in technology related projects, and over nine years of experience with Agile methods and coaching. John has led corporate Agile training, executive education, and Agile certification sessions publicly and in corporations across multiple industries in the US & Asia. 

John is a frequent speaker at Agile conferences. John has also taught several courses in the academic higher education setting (including Enterprise Agile Scaling at NUS). John has proven success in numerous roles as an Agile leader. He has worked multiple industries for numerous Fortune 500 companies including Disney, JP Morgan, Toyota, and Accenture. 

John has a BS degree (UCI), a MBA degree (UCLA), and a JD. John is a CSM, CSPO, CSP, SA, SPC4, and Certified Trainer for the IC Agile - ICA-APM & DevOps.