Agile Open Canada is an annual Open Space Technology unconference created to bring together people together to share your latest ideas, challenges, lessons learned, laughable moments, and experiments.
Agile Open Canada is a 2-day Open Space Technology unconference that rotates between Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. The upcoming conference will be in Vancouver, British Columbia for May 26-27, 2025.
A heartfelt thank you to our sponsors, participants, and the wonderful city of Victoria for making the 2024 event a success. We look forward to seeing you all in Vancouver in May 2025!
What is it like to attend an Agile Open event?
Grow as an Agile Practitioner
It has been said that an open space conference, also called an unconference, contains all the things that happen in between the sessions at a regular conference. The networking with peers, the focused conversations around mutual topics of interest and the tremendous learning that happens when you talk to people with a wide variety of experience.
Marketplace of Ideas
An open space conference does not have a list of pre-selected speakers and topics. Instead, the attendees build the agenda around the topics they are interested in at that time. We call this the building of the marketplace of ideas. Our event has nine sessions, usually with five or six topic choices for each session. When the marketplace of ideas is complete, the sessions are listed out in a grid with time on the Y-axis and location on the X-axis.
For the remainder of the conference, attendees will move around sessions playing a variety of roles. An open space has one law, five principles and five roles
One Law
Law of Two Feet
If at any time during our time together you find yourself in any situation where you are neither learning nor contributing, use your two feet, go someplace else.
Five Principles
- Whoever comes is the right people
- Whenever it starts is the right time
- Wherever it is, is the right place
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have, be prepared to be surprised!
- When it’s over, it’s over
