Agile Tour '10 Sponsors

Thoughtworks

ThoughtWorks, Inc. is a global IT consultancy providing systems development, consulting, and transformation services to Global 1000 companies. The company's pioneering approach, which includes industry-acclaimed Agile and Lean best practices, helps CIOs maximize investment performance across a portfolio of complex, business critical applications, while reducing time and risk. ThoughtWorks' 1000 professionals serve clients from offices in Australia, Canada, China, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. ThoughtWorks Studios is the company's specialist product division, which develops the next generation of tools for custom software development, including Studios Mingle®, Cruise® and Twist®. To learn more, visit us online: www.thoughtworks.com or follow us: www.twitter.com/twthoughts.

Berteig Consulting

Berteig Consulting is a boutique consultancy dedicated to helping Canadian organizations become hyper-productive. We are experts at helping organizations through the deep cultural changes required to intensify focus, learn continuously and excel at serving their market's needs. Our fundamental guiding principle is Truthfulness, which is required for trust, learning and creativity and ultimately productivity and effectiveness. We live our own methods – all our work is done iteratively, incrementally, collaboratively, and with a deep appreciation of learning and the needs of our clients. Berteig Consulting is based in Canada and has trusted partners in China, the United States and Europe.

Intelliware

Intelliware Development Inc. is proud to sponsor Agile Tour ’10 Toronto.  As a leading practitioner of Agile software development, we are a strong supporter of the Agile community.  We look forward to this year’s conference which promises to be an excellent event, with a strong line-up of topics and engaging speakers.  Intelliware’s Gordon Cameron will host a session, How small is too small? Adapting Agile for Mobile micro-projects, where he will discuss the implications of Agile processes for smaller projects.  As well, Lawrence Ludlow from Intelliware along with Mark Levison from Agile Pain Relief Consulting will hold an interactive session entitled, Introduction to Scrum/Agile.

Be sure to visit our booth to say hello, learn more about us and play our recently launched iPad™ game, Bake Sale Blow-up HD™.

Rogers

Rogers Communications Inc. continues to lead the Canadian communications market through its innovative products and customer focused solutions. In support of this leadership, the Rogers Information Technology team continuously innovates through both Agile and Waterfall delivery frameworks, drawing heavily on the strengths and talent of its team members to lead the company’s Information Technology platform into the future.

Architech Solutions

Located in downtown Toronto, Architech Solutions is a Canadian consulting and Agile software development company that’s dedicated to proving there’s a better way to develop software. Since inception in 2004, Architech’s 100+ projects have been successful through small team deployments that follow an agile process emphasizing collaboration, software engineering best practices, and incremental software delivery. Architech helps clients understand how technology can best solve their business needs -- and then develop the right solution. Clients include startups, mid-sized and larger corporate brands, and nonprofits in a range of industries including telecommunications, financial services, retail, and technology. Architech has a portfolio of brilliantly designed and executed applications, and is currently looking to recruit the best and brightest to add to our growing team.

IBM

Agilitrix

Agilitrix provides Agile coaching, consulting and training services in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Founder and principal consultant, Michael Sahota has been helping companies with Agile and Lean practices for the last 9 years. Talk to us if you need help with Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Kanban or Lean.

Open Text

Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 50 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness.

Thoughtcorp

Thoughtcorp is a 15-year-old, Toronto-based consulting company that uses business performance improvement technology to solve complex business problems for large organizations. With experience in a wide array of technology platforms, Thoughtcorp focuses on business solution architecture, development, system integration, data warehousing, and business intelligence. By employing some of Canada’s sharpest minds who thrive on solving complex business challenges, Thoughtcorp has been successful in delivering high value IT solutions to many of Canada’s most prominent companies. Our clients are able to make educated and timely decisions, which is crucial for survival in today's competitive market. For more information, please visit www.thoughtcorp.com.

Deloitte