Agile Lean Europe 2026

Datum: 2026-08-26 – 2026-08-28

Ort: Keizersberg Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Since 2011, the ALE conference has moved across Europe, from one city to the other, with only one tagline: "We share because we care".

People are at the heart of this conference. A place where, year after year, more than 200 people gather from all over the continent to learn with, and from each other. This is a conference created by the participants. Everyone can be a speaker.

Wednesday - Day 1 - 2026-08-26

  • Lunch
  • Will we be relevant in 5 years? - Lukas
  • Tai-Chi Workout & Strech - Vlad
  • One Goal metaphor to rule them all - Manuel
  • Neuroscience, psychotherapy and agile - Elena
  • The Adaptative Identity game - Sylvia
  • Life is too short to/for … - Tamás
  • Future -> Teams what will they look like? - Laetitia
  • Get back to control - Orshee
  • Angels and Demons in Ensemble Programming - Michel & Tim
  • Maximise Claude - Dov
  • Build a castle - Hugo Santos
  • Identity VS Role Confusion - Nicky Scott & Sylvia Taylor
    Unlearning who you were is hard
  • Liberating Structures
  • An exploration of Clean Language - Andy
  • Challenges to forecasting - Sonya
  • 🎼 Agile Choir 🎶 - Christoph
  • Solution-oriented coaching - Olivier
  • Regenerative Primer - Jeroen
  • What do you actually want from a coach? - Stef
  • The Enshittification of Workshops - Saskia
    How does Enshittification happen and what can we do to not have it happen to our workshops?
  • You tried Team of Teams, but it never worked - Michal
  • Nancy's energizer feestje - Nancy
  • Walk + Talk
  • ADHD as a superpower - Dov
  • How (not) to lose spirit of Agility in the corporate waterfall. Lessons learned - Karolis
    Knowledge sharing and discussio n
  • Newbie? Ask any question about ALE - Colin
  • Siesta in the Library!
  • AI Adoption done - How to measure change - Maki
  • Let's build ducks (Lego) - Nancy Beers
  • Belha wants a gaming PC - Manel
  • Slicing the cake - Koen Vastmans
  • Workshop Menu - Aga
  • Fuck! The world is burning! - Alex
  • P_P Karaoke - Bruno
  • De-Risking - Patrick Steyaert
    Move fast without breaking things!
  • AI has weird effects - Bruno
  • Tetrominos yours - Ralph
  • Arnica, Duck Princess - Boldi Koenig
    Live audiobook session 1
    Princess, ducks, wicked witch, true love, ruffians, very much brothers, happy end
  • The entrepreneur failure journey - Sonia
  • Presence through embroidery - Caro
  • What is Obeya? - Sylvain
  • Game about Perfectionism - Marianne
    I created a card game with a friend about Perfectionism and would like to get your feedback to make it better
  • Say goodbye to Postits -3D World Facilitation - Sven Dill
    You will experience all 4 phases of the 3D World Facilitation method from Janek Panneitz. If you like boardgames and you wanna make your workshops ore engaing join me... i have space for 10 active players. Silent spectators welcome.

Thursday - Day 2 - 2026-08-27

  • Unconferences: PEAK! But why? - Gerhard
    Let's take a look at the similarities and differences between unconference formats: Barcamps, Open Space, World Café, Lean Coffee, Fishbowl, Hackathon, Pecha Kucha, Appreciative Inquiry Summit, FedEx Day, Brown Bag Session, younameit …
  • Lunch
  • Relational Intelligence - Susanne
  • Authentic Relating - Jeroen
  • Food & Stories Tasting - Olivier
  • Think with hands - Iveta
  • Stop playing games - Sam & Charles-Louis
  • What is business value anyway - Inge
  • Siesta / Nap / ZZZZ - Olivier
  • Job search is fucked … - Dov
  • How to foster team confidence - Susi
  • Visual Bingo - Aga
  • Tai-Chi Workout & Strech - Vlad
  • Positive Intelligence 1/2 - Marta
  • Positive Intelligence 2/2 - Marta
  • De-Risking - Patrick Steyaert
  • Who gets the raise? - Katrien
  • Take people through change with ADKAR - Asia
  • The Adaptive Identity Game - Sylvia
  • The Culture Map - Sonia
  • Better Collaboration - Nicole
    Forget Respect - Use Unconditional Positive Regard instead
  • Get unstuck - Ieva
  • More Solution Focus - Klaus
  • How to work with Pokemon - Stephanie
  • Future Team Scenarios? - Laetitia
  • Chocolate Shooter - Michel
  • Co-Demo: Change MGMT in digital times - Ivo
  • P_P Karaoke - Bruno
  • Systemic Constellations Coaching - Oana, Klara
  • Unlearn … - Kristin
    Tipps for your younger self
  • Tea Time: How are you? - Tamás
  • Study Software Development when AI does all the programming - Evert & Arne
  • Konenki Menopause iOS App - Yves
  • Fraudster in the team - How to recover - Audrey
  • 🔍🔍 2 Extra Lenses - Jan
  • 3D World - Facilitation without Post-Its - Sven Dill
  • Recharge School with a teenager - Sophia
  • What Would Ted Lasso Do? - Aline
  • China Speed for Europe? - Kurt
  • Be fully human in age of AI - Silvana
  • Restorative Conferencing - Quentin
    Resolve the conflict AND repair the relationships
  • Playful and practical culture change - Els
  • Everything is a must - Koen Vastmans
  • The Responsibility Process - Christoph, Timo, Sonia
  • Arnica the Duck Princess - Boldi
  • Agile Coach, what (new) skills to develop for staying relevant in 5 years? - Sylvain
  • The best session ever of ALE 2026 - Walt
  • Leadership Challenge Game - Pierre
  • Presence through embroidery - Caro
  • How would you include illiterate people in a workshop? - Clovis, Stéph
  • Feedforward Canvas - Maria
  • Ukulele 101 - Stéph, Maria
  • Sound Bath Manifestation - Dov
  • Improv Session - Klara
  • Mission Teams - How do they work? - Tamás
  • Code of Conduct violations - now what? - Nancy
  • Claude who? - Maki
  • ALE in a camping - Olivier
  • Body Clapping to Recharge - Véro
  • Agile people are just fancy feel good people - change our minds - Enrico and Saskia

Friday - Day 3 - 2026-08-28

  • On Endings … - Charles-Louis
  • Output 2 Outcome - Knut
    AI - The new contraint is value
  • Co-Living Life - Léo
  • AI without the hype - Radovan, Stephi
  • Gods Plan vs. PMs Plan - Mandy Sunner
  • Systemic Constellation - Klara, Oana
  • Playing Poker with the universe - Dov
  • WTF is AI Adoption Coaching? - Jay
  • An exploration of clean language - Andy
  • Slicing the cake - Retake - Koen Vastmans
  • [KANBAN] You want to have flow? - Carsten
    All you want to know about the Kanban Method
  • What's a Meta 4? - Klaus
  • Babel conversations - Claudia
  • Debate AI - Emily
  • Mental load - what are you doing to shift it? - Yves
  • Yes, you have permission! - Sylvia
  • Tai-Chi - Vlad
  • ALEathon for public good - Timo
  • Vicious & virtuous cycles of motivation - Tims
  • Metta Walk - Susanne
  • When the coachee didn't choose to be coached - Quentin
  • Guiding & enabling transformation - Timo
  • [TUIN] 3-sided football - Lukas
  • dAdGile Jokes - John
  • Learn the magic of Zwiegespräche - Carina
  • The Powerpoint Karaoke - Sonia
  • When to prioritise - Audrey
  • Unfolding the storms of your life - Ralph
  • How do you apply coaching skills in day-2-day personal life - Jonas
  • The Dynamo and the AI - Manuel
  • Navigate change with ease … use the Adaptability Compass - Sylvia, Nicole
  • Tea Time - Tamás
    How to structure: Vision/North Star/Goal/Strategy/Initiative/Theme/Roadmap/Objective … (Discussion)
  • Insight Harvesting - Jeroen
  • Flow for collectives - Véro
  • Shared Services - Corporate Battle Royale - Hugo Santos
  • AI on human loads - Colin
  • Team Catalyst - a card deck to spark meaningful conversations about teams - Anne
  • 6 Is of innovation (co-creation) - Andrea
  • Memento Mori - inviting death to workplaces - Christoph
  • Intentionally recharge with Rewire - Romain
  • Recharge with Embroidery - Caro
  • Red flags of dating in 2026 - Jay
  • Exploit your weaknesses! (for your own good) - Maria
  • Playful Retros - Koen Vastmans
  • Consent 101 (an introduction - Quentin
  • The (partial) whole story of building Cobble Gobble - Manuel
  • Let's play Nancy's favourites - Nancy
  • What are your demons + a story from The Phantom toolbooth - Inge
  • [TENT] Keizersberg visit 1
  • [TENT] Keizersberg visit 2