Dr. Jeff Sutherland (“Dr. Sutherland”) is the co-creator of Scrum and the world’s leading authority on the framework. A graduate of West Point who served as a fighter pilot in the Vietnam War, Dr. Sutherland holds bachelors’ degrees in engineering, mathematics, and economics, as well as a Ph.D. in biometrics, radiology, and preventive medicine. From his experience in senior engineering roles at various computer and software companies through the 1980s and 1990s, Dr. Sutherland saw firsthand the limitations of traditional methods of software development, particularly the so-called “waterfall” method. Over the course of ten years, he began to develop and prototype an alternative framework, now known as Scrum, that was flexible, empirical, and iterative.

Brigadier Cheesman is the Royal Navy's inaugural Chief Technology Officer. He is charged with accelerating all forms of tech into the Royal Navy through Futures, Disruption, and Change with a particular focus on Digital, Autonomy, Lethality and Agility at Scale.

JJ is the CEO of Scrum Inc. working with organizations worldwide on the strategy and implementation of their Agile Transformations. In the corporate world he has worked with Fortune 500 companies in industries as varied as Space Launch, Research and Development, Manufacturing, Global IT, Operations, Finance, Defense, and Media. He has also worked extensively with the Royal Navy and with units of the US Navy, providing training and coaching to US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Units and Naval Special Warfare Groups. He is the co-author of the bestselling book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time and the author of The Scrum Fieldbook: A Master Class on Accelerating Performance, Getting Results, and Defining the Future. Prior to Scrum Inc. JJ was an award winning journalist with National Public Radio. He was Baghdad Bureau Chief 2004-2011 and also covered the Pentagon.