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In this episode of AgileNEXT, Joel Semeniuk joins Daniel and Stephen to discuss his agile journey.  Some topics include:

  • Agile at Scale
  • Agile Transformations & The Agile Organization
  • Startup ecosystems
  • What is next for Agile
  • What the heck a Chief Innovation Officer does

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joels

Bio:

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/joelsemeniuk

Joel Semeniuk is a founder and Chief Innovation Officer/Incubation Director at Imaginet Resources Corp., a Canadian based Microsoft Gold Partner and the #1 Small to Medium Sized Employer in Canada. Joel also served as the Executive Vice President of Innovation and Agile Project Management at Telerik. Joel has a degree in Computer Science and is also a Corporate Microsoft Regional Director (of only 13 word wide) and Previously a Microsoft Most Valued Professional in the area of Application Lifecycle Management and previously Software Architecture.

With over 20 years of experience, Joel specializes in bridging technology to business needs by applying “outside the box thinking” and passion to everything he touches across an extremely broad set of industries. Joel is globally recognized for his knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management as well as team and organizational change. Joel regularly speaks at conferences around the world on a wide range of ALM, Agile, Lean and Customer Development topics. Joel is a zealous Lean thinker, and works to apply Lean Thinking strategies to the delivery of customer value and business development.

Over the past 10 years, Joel has dedicated himself to the establishment of his unique approach to innovation and business development, drawing from Customer Development, Lean Thinking and Growth Hacking practices. Considered by his peers as an “idea hamster”, he now works exclusively in emerging and new business development/consolidation at Imaginet. Joel worked as a mentor at AcceleratorHK, Hong Kong’s most successful Startup Accelerator and Mach5 in Silicon Valley. Joel a serial entrepreneur helping to establish a number of startups.

Joel is well published, coauthoring four books and hundreds of articles over the past 20 years. Joel is also regularly engaged by industry press for quotes and insight.