ALE Unconference, the annual event from Agile Lean Europe http://alenetwork.eu/ is the most remarcable agile event I've ever attended and one I will not miss if I can. ALE14 was my second one and my first as speaker, and this time I came back home so full of energy that I want to share with others to join me next year. This presentation try to explain what values are behind and what values I'm looking since then in other conferences.

1. #ALE
Why it's worth going?

3. everything starts with one tweet ...

4. what’s ALE?

5. ALE
Agile Lean Europe
ALE Un-Conference is the annual meeting

6. From Tomek Wykowski

7. is it worth?
Ticket
Transport
Hotel
Life

8. other conferences prices
Spain
CAS 2013 = 126 + 40 + 30 + 20 = 216
UXSpain = 160 + 30 + 60 + 100 = 350
PyconEs = ? + 50 + 50 + 40 = 200
Codemotion = 25 + 10 + _ + _ = 35

9. other conferences prices
International
Gr8Conf = 400 + 150 + 120 + 40 = 700
Craftconf =
ClojureConf =
SpringOne = 1000 +
Scrum Gathering = 1000

10. ALE 14 in Krakow
Ticket (early bird) = 196
Flight (1 stop) = 158
AirBnB (5 nights) = 124
Life = 60
Total = 538 eur

11. conference
three days covering all topics

12. From Tomek Wykowski

16. well done
facilitators

18. From Tomek Wykowski

19. audience
from coaches to developers

20. From Tomek Wykowski

21. talks in an unconference
regular, TED, pecha kucha, lightning,
open space, hackathon
and the longest coffee break ever.
Unconference to follow up the topics in
conference.

26. From Tomek Wykowski

27. From Tomek Wykowski

31. english
out of comfort zone

32. Open Space Software
Development

33. kids & spouses program

35. From Tomek Wykowski

36. From Tomek Wykowski

37. NO
master - apprentice
relationship
everybody pays, market speakers,

40. networking
spaces, puffs, coffee, no-more strangers
dinner, new friends, old friends, and so on...

41. From Future Processing

42. From Future Processing

43. From Future Processing

47. From Olaf Lewitz

48. magic
do the magic! do the magic!

50. strangers iteration
“... we could invite ALE
attendees over to cook
dinner together! So our
spin-off of Dinner with
Strangers, Making
Dinner with Strangers,
was born.”
Juha Heimonen
@evilbubu
http://flowa.fi/blog/2014/08/15/how-to-help-people-make-new-friends-at-conferences.html?lang=en

51. From Olaf Lewitz

52. personal
my first conf in english, my second talk in
english, my first talk in int conf, and think that
I made friends and I plan to see them soon.

53. https://twitter.com/Agile_Sebastian/status/504551702822133760

54. ENERGY!
Energy to fill my soul again for a whole year

58. Links
Photos in this presentation are from Antonio de la Torre except indicated
ALE 14 conference
ALE 2014 post-video
Collection of resources from all attendants to ALE
Photos from Tomek Wykowski
Photos from Olaf Lewitz
Photos from Future Processing