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We are happy to announce our speaker in the upcoming Tafra.io Meetup #52: Will platforms conquer the world? (Panel Discussion): Peter Stadlinger.

Peter Stadlinger is head of product for Freshsales Suite at Freshworks, and former product leader at Salesforce (Einstein) and Adobe (Experience Cloud).

In his current role, Peter focuses on democratizing artificial intelligence, specifically deep learning and natural language processing, for the purpose of personalizing customer experiences at scale.

For over 15 years, he has worked with a wide range of customers including Fortune 500 brands, mid-market companies, small businesses and startups.

He has spoken at various conferences, including Spark Summit, Dreamforce and Adobe Summit, as well as published thought leadership articles in the industry.

Peter holds a master’s degree in computer science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany.

Get to know more about Peter from the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stadlinger/

Registration Link: https://airtable.com/shrOVvu8u79O5et2M

We are happy to announce our speaker in the upcoming Tafra.io Meetup #51: Increasing Diversity in Product Planning Approaches: Hans-Bernd Kittlaus.

Hans-Bernd is the Chairman of ISPMA e.V. He is also the owner and General Manager of InnoTivum Consulting (www.innotivum.com) which he founded in 2001.

Before, he was Director of SIZ GmbH (Computing Center of the German Savings Banks Organization, Germany) and Head of Software Product Management and Development units of IBM. His main focus area is Software Product Management.

Hans-Bernd has been working as a Trainer, Coach, and Consultant for both corporate IT organizations and companies in a number of industries. He has trained hundreds of product managers in more than 90 SPM training including all five ISPMA-based training modules.

He is a frequent presenter at conferences and has published numerous books and articles, his latest being “Software Product Management: The ISPMA-Compliant Study Guide and Handbook, edition 2” (Springer 2022). He is Diplom-Informatiker (corresponds to M.S. in Computer Science).

Get to know more about Hans-Bernd from the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hansberndkittlaus/

Registration Link: https://airtable.com/shrLRfpgG1IvacFeL

We are happy to announce our second speaker in the upcoming Tafra.io Meetup #49: Is User Experience affected by Covid-19?: Abdelrahman Osama

Abdelrahman is a Product Strategist & UX Consultant with over 20 years of experience. He is the founder of Simpleia & Hive.

At Simpleia UX Consultancy, he had wokred with clients like Qatar foundation (Jalees), Raya (Aman), EFG Hermes (ValeU) & Elmenus.

He also worked as UX Director of UK based NMBl technologies, and head of products of Malaysia based NOOR Tech.

In addition to Co-Founding Hive -A ride hailing service for kids-, He is a Design Mentor with Designlab among other Mentors from Facebook, Mercedes, Nike & Uber. He also mentored students from SF, Germany, Australia, UAE & Singapore.

Osama will be sharing his thoughts with the meetup attendees on how the "User Experience - UX" will be affected by COVID19 and what should UX Designers be prepared for?

Get to know more on Abdelrahman from the following link(s):
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdelrahman/

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/kPLtTBfotJ1byHKk7

We are happy to announce our first speaker in the upcoming Tafra.io Meetup #49: Is User Experience affected by Covid-19?: Amira Sallam

Amira is a passionate UX designer with 14 years of experience in the IT sector. She earned her Masters degree in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo.

Amira is a certified UX designer from Human Factors International, working to bridge the gap between business needs and user goals; she has worked in few companies in Egypt, Belgium and Canada such as financial institutions, insurance companies and on a diverse set of projects such as governmental websites to e-commerce ones.

Last but not least, she is the founder of UXaweya group on facebook.

Sallam will be sharing her thoughts with the meetup attendees on how the "User Experience - UX" will be affected by COVID19 and what should UX Designers be prepared for?

Get to know more on Amira from the following link(s):
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirasallam

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/kPLtTBfotJ1byHKk7

We are happy to announce our second speaker in the upcoming Tafra.io Meetup #48: Tech Team Coaching amid Covid-19 (Online): Mahmoud Ghoz.

A sum of 17 years of experience coaching and delivering complex IT, Web and Mobile projects with multiple technologies; out of which, Ghoz has been practicing Lean and agile techniques for more than 10 years to transform teams and help them scale the right way in different fast-growing local and multinational companies including DXC, ITWorx, OMS, Parent ApS, Swvl..etc.

Being eager to transform teams and organizations to adopt the agility mindset, Ghoz has pursued professional accreditation from Scrum Alliance, the most well-known agile professionals community worldwide, out of which he is the only one in the Middle East who earned both Advanced Scrum Master “A-CSM” and Scrum Professional “CSP-SM” till the moment.

In the field, it was repeatedly observed that as the number of Scrum teams within an organization grew, two major issues emerged:
* The volume, speed, and quality of their output (working product) per team began to fall, due to issues such as cross-team dependencies, duplication of work, and communication overhead.
* The original management structure was ineffective for achieving business agility. Issues arose like competing priorities and the inability to quickly shift teams around to respond to dynamic market conditions.

Mahmoud will show you how to to counteract these issues, using Scrum@Sclae framework for effectively coordinating multiple Scrum teams was clearly needed which would aim for the following:
* Linear scalability: A corresponding percentage increase in delivery of working product with an increase in the number of teams.
* Business agility: The ability to rapidly respond to change by adapting its initial stable configuration.

Get to know more on Mahmoud from the following link(s):
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mghoz/

Registration Link: shorturl.at/chxBQ