ANNOTATION
World Café
The “World Café” method allows groups of participants to share experiences and opinions and to seek answers to questions that are defined in advance. There will be 9 thematic tables, including experienced discussion moderators. Time will be allocated for each discussion for 25 minutes. During the given time for the World Café, you can complete a total of three discussions. The goal of the method is not to arrive at clear conclusions, goals or plans at any cost. Rather, it serves as an exchange of ideas, a broadening of perspectives on the topics at hand.
Table 1
Organizational Culture Shift – How Many Paths Are There?
Jana Fratrič
Behaviors, Values, Environment Adjustment, Training and Development – Where to Start? How Would You Approach It?
Let’s discuss what organizational culture is and isn’t, the myths surrounding it, verify with others what definitely (doesn’t) work and grab tips on valuable resources (studies, books, podcasts, etc.)
Table 2
Openness to change: when we see change as an opportunity and when as a threat
Hana Salačová Svobodová
What factors influence our willingness to accept change? Why do we sometimes welcome change and sometimes resist it? In this World Café discussion, we will share experiences and look for key elements that awaken people’s appetite for change and what holds them back.
Table 3
The Product Clinic: Diagnose, Prescribe, Deliver
Timoté Geimer
Got a product challenge that’s keeping you up at night? Bring it to our clinic! This interactive session is your chance to get real-time, collaborative problem-solving from a room full of product experts. We’ll select one pressing challenge from the group and, using a structured approach, dissect the issue, explore potential solutions, and leave you with actionable next steps. Think of it as a rapid-fire product consultation, where collective wisdom leads to clarity and progress. Come prepared to share, learn, and contribute!
Table 4
Authenticity – The Key to a Healthy Organization?
Martin Čajko
Authenticity is not just a trendy buzzword, but a real pillar on which trust and success in a company can be built. In this interactive discussion, we will reflect together on what authenticity means to us, how to recognize it, and how to cultivate it to create an organization full of energy, openness, and collective growth.
Table 5
EXTREME LEADERSHIP
Ľubomír Kadnár
Let’s explore leadership from a different perspective—especially in stressful or high-pressure situations. How does pressure affect the leader, and how do their leadership abilities shift? What works under pressure, what fails—and how can we prepare for it?
Table 6
Scrum the Your Way: Does It Make Sense to Adapt Scrum?
Nigel Thurlow
Scrum is simple – but applying it rarely is. In practice, teams often tweak, bend, or even reinvent elements of Scrum to fit their culture, constraints, or leadership expectations. But when does adaptation enhance agility – and when does it erode it?
This World Café invites you to explore the fine line between smart customization and harmful deviation. Drawing on Nigel Thurlow’s experience adapting Scrum inside Toyota – a company renowned for its lean culture – we’ll open the space for critical thinking and honest sharing.
Together, we’ll examine:
– Why teams feel the need to adapt Scrum
– What kinds of changes make sense – and which are red flags
– Whether it’s possible to balance fidelity to the framework with local relevance
Expect sharp insights, diverse perspectives, and maybe a healthy challenge to your own assumptions.
Table 7
Compensation Without Taboos: What Works in a Liberated Company – and What Doesn’t?
Lubor Semrád
How do you set up compensation in a company where people don’t wait for orders from above?
How do you align fairness, motivation, and results in an environment of freedom and trust?
Come and share experiences about what works (and what doesn’t), what questions to ask, and what obstacles we most often encounter.
An open discussion about the possibilities, dead ends, and opportunities that come with doing compensation differently.
Table 8
Team diagnostics: Science, faith or voodoo?
Rastislav Duriš
Do you work with teams, but sometimes you feel that “something is not right” – and it’s hard to name it? In this World Café, we will exchange experiences with team diagnostics: from proven tools to intuitive reading of dynamics. We will look at what really works, what is just wishful thinking and when measurement becomes manipulation or an alibi. We will openly talk about when and why it makes sense to “measure” a team at all – and when it is better to look somewhere else. For those who believe in data. And for those who prefer to follow their instincts. And for everyone who suspects that a team is not just the sum of individuals.
Table 9
Product Management – How to Manage Something We Don’t Control?
Jiří Brych
The biggest bullshit in the industry is that a product manager is a “mini-CEO.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
We have no direct control over development, analysis, projects, and certainly not over other stakeholders.
So let’s get together to share experiences, ideas, and also questions and failures in trying to manage people whom we don’t actually manage, and who often couldn’t care less about what we say.
