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Speaker Kit

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Short Bio

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Suzanne Daniels is Chief Developer Advisor at Microsoft, creator of the Agentile operating model, and a keynote speaker on AI agents, platform engineering, and the future of human–agent collaboration. She brings 30+ years of engineering leadership across EMEA.

Long Bio

~140 words

Suzanne Daniels is Chief Developer Advisor at Microsoft, where she works with CxOs and engineering leaders across EMEA on AI adoption, platform strategy, and the organisational shift to human–agent collaboration.

She created the Agentile operating model and the ISEE framework — practical tools for teams where AI agents do real work alongside humans. With 30+ years across government, telecom, financial services, and security, she has led platform engineering, software development, and engineering management at every level from the trenches to the executive table.

Suzanne founded Great Success for interim IT leadership and has built open-source projects including detective-agentic-mysteries (an AI murder mystery game) and git-ape (a platform engineering framework). She speaks at conferences worldwide on multi-agent orchestration, codified guardrails, and why your org chart won't survive autonomous software.

Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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What I talk about.

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The Decision-Speed Gap

Keynote / Session

Why Your Agent System Works But Your Organisation Doesn't

Code is merged and deployed by agents in the middle of the night. The decision about what to build still takes three meetings and a Slack thread. This talk dissects the growing gap between technical execution speed and organisational decision speed — and what to do about it.

⏱ 30–45 min👥 Engineering leaders, CxOs, tech strategists

9 Suspects, 0 Scripts

Session

What a Murder Mystery Taught Me About Multi-Agent Orchestration

I built a murder mystery game where the suspects lie to you. Real-time, motivated, adaptive deception from nine concurrent AI agents. Every playthrough is different because nobody is following a script. A live-demo talk about multi-agent coordination, emergent behaviour, and what happens when agents have conflicting goals.

⏱ 30–45 min👥 Developers, architects, AI practitioners

Platform Engineering When Software Doesn't Wait

Session

The Platform as the Foundation for AI Transformation

Translating decisions and best practices into instructions for AI agents. This changes the responsibility of platform teams, the toolset, and how they operate. A practical session on what platform engineering looks like when your consumers include autonomous agents.

⏱ 30–45 min👥 Platform engineers, DevOps teams, engineering managers

Codifying Trade-offs

Session

Security, Cost, and Compliance as Agent Guardrails

Every agent demo ends the same way: the agent does the thing, the audience claps, nobody asks what happened to the security review. This talk covers how to encode security, cost, and compliance constraints as guardrails that agents actually respect.

⏱ 30–45 min👥 Security, compliance, engineering leadership

The Org Chart Won't Save You

Keynote / Session

Operating Models for Teams Where AI Does Real Work

Agile assumed all work is done by humans. Sprints, standups, retros — every ceremony was designed around the pace of people coordinating with other people. That assumption held for twenty years. It doesn't hold anymore. Introducing the Agentile operating model.

⏱ 30–45 min👥 CxOs, VP Engineering, transformation leads

From Brainstorming to Release

Session / Workshop

End-to-End with M365, Azure and GitHub Copilot

Up to 60% of engineering time is spent on non-coding tasks. This hands-on session walks through the full development lifecycle — from ideation to deployment — using M365 Copilot, Azure, and GitHub Copilot to eliminate the friction that slows teams down.

⏱ 45–90 min👥 Development teams, engineering managers

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