The Agile2009 conference, which takes place in Chicago, August 24 to 28, is one of the most exiting and talked-about conferences this year. The conference schedule is packed with sessions from some of the stars of the Agile Development world, including keynotes by none other than Alistair Cockburn himself! 

John Ferguson Smart, CEO and Principal Consultant of Wakaleo Consulting, will be giving three talks at Agile2009 this year:

• Lasse Koskela and John will be giving a talk on Executable requirements: BDD with easyb and JDave.
• John will be presenting some very practical techniques about managing releases and automating the deployment phase using tools like Maven, Nexus, JIRA, and Bamboo or Hudson in Automated deployment with Maven and friends - going the whole nine yards.
• Finally, John will be giving a fairly detailed round-up of the latest in development life cycle tools and techniques in Java Power Tools - getting it all together