Session Title

What is a Profit Stream™?

Abstract

Profit is the net income resulting from revenue minus expenses - and the essential key to creating, sustainable businesses. In this talk Luke will show how to evolve Value Streams into Profit Streams.

Bio

Luke Hohmann is Chief Innovation Officer of Applied Frameworks, a boutique consulting form helping companies create more profitable software-enabled solutions.

Luke is one of six people in the world recognized as a Principal Contributor to the Scaled Agile Framework, one of the world’s most widely adopted Agile Software Development frameworks.

A serial entrepreneur, Luke founded, bootstrapped and sold Conteneo, an enterprise collaboration platform, to Scaled Agile, Inc. While at Conteneo, Luke worked with an extraordinary dev team to create the Weave, Strategy Engine and Knowsy® collaboration platforms.

The author of six books, numerous articles and cited as an inventor on more than a dozen patents, Luke is an internationally recognized expert in Agile Software Development. Luke co-organized the first Agile conference in 2003, has served on the Board of the Agile Alliance and in partnership with the Scrum Alliance produced the "Collaboration at Scale", the world's largest monthly webinar devoted to helping organizations with 10 or more Scrum teams in 2 or more locations scale agility.

Luke is a highly sought after speaker has as keynoted such conferences as the Agile Alliance conference, Agile Australia, Lean-Agile Scotland, Agile New Zealand, the Austrian Innovation Forum, the CXPA and the SAFe Summit.

Luke is the co-founder of Every Voice Engaged Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit that helps citizens, governments and nonprofit organizations collaboratively solve problems that are unsolvable without civic engagement. EVEF has been a leader in the Participatory Budgeting movement, helping citizens prioritize hundreds of millions of dollars through Budget Games. In partnership with The Kettering Foundation (www.kettering.org), Conteneo created Common Ground for Action, the first scalable platform for deliberative decision-making.

A former United States National Junior Pairs Figure Skating Champion, Luke likes playing with his four kids, his wife’s cooking and long runs in the Santa Cruz mountains. Luke’s an old school Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Instead of building companies to flip, he builds companies that make the world better!