Agile Hardware Development for Leading Experts 2025!

Networking Coffee & Breakfast

Make sure to bring your Passport, register at the reception desk and then step into the Agile Hardware Development event and grab a coffee (or tea) to start your day!

Welcome & Kick-off Agile Hardware Development: Disruption is the new quickest!

This years edition will be kicked off by our host Arent van 't Spijker where we will introduce the line-up of the day and the theme: Disruption is the new quickest!

Arent van 't Spijker • Gladwell Academy - Highberg

Opening Keynote: When Hardware met Agile (and some things exploded)

When hardware met agile, everyone had an opinion about what would happen next — some expected miracles, others explosions. The reality? Agile makes the obvious suddenly uncomfortable — and in hardware, that’s where the real breakthroughs hide.

Eelco Rustenburg • Gladwell Academy

Coffee & Connect

Keynote - Learning Faster Than Disruption

In a world where disruption never stops, speed of delivery alone is not enough. The quickest learn faster than change itself. Cristiano Coelho shares lessons from Agile hardware development, showing how teams can thrive by turning uncertainty into reflection, resilience, and lasting innovation.

Cristian Coelho • Aldi DX

Round 1: Case studies - Pick 'n choose

You can pick and choose one case study that you find most interesting.

Case Study 1: From Delay to Delivery - a look behind the scenes in the Chipset ART at Demant

Stine Nørgaard Olesen • Demant

Toke Kanto Andersen • Demant

Case study 2: Agile leadership in complex product development

Learn how Vanderlande is transforming hardware and software product development through agile leadership, mindsets and behaviours. In this session, Frank Humpohl will share insights from working with mixed and hardware-oriented teams, managing complexity through a dual operating system, and creating value streams through agile leadership. Join us to explore how agile leadership can work – even in the most technical environments.

Frank Humpohl • Vanderlande

ASML Tour: Innovation Center

As we are at a unique location, we also have some guided tours for a select few. Registration for a tour will be possible via the event app.

Lunch & Connect

Keynote: From Commodities to Competitiveness - Transforming Hardware with Software at Siemens Energy

Siemens Energy is reshaping its approach to hardware development in response to a fast-changing energy market. As hardware becomes increasingly commoditized, software is emerging as the key differentiator. The creation of the Digital Products and Solutions (DPS) organization marks a crucial step in enabling this shift. This transformation reaches far beyond technology, touching organizational structures, skills, processes, leadership, and culture — redefining how Siemens Energy delivers value in the energy industry.

Giovanni Bechini • Siemens Energy

Niels Groen • Highberg

Round 2: Case studies - Pick 'n choose

You can pick and choose one case study that you find most interesting.

Case study 1: Agile Hardware Development - Navigating Complexity with Confidence

In a world where hardware development is rapidly evolving, agility is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity. Join Edward Arunraj from Philips as he shares a compelling case study that dives deep into the real-world challenges and triumphs of applying Agile in hardware environments. This 45-minute session is packed with insights, practical strategies, and leadership lessons drawn from the trenches of innovation.

Edward Arunraj • Philips

Case study 2: Surviving the AI Bubble - how cheaper, smaller hardware will help us survive when the hype is over

In this talk we will run through how the AI bubble inflated and how this affected the design of Fonetic - an open-source, community maintained AI for use in public spaces. Moore's law may lead to trillion-dollar AI data-centers, whilst also leading to ultra-cheap, hyper-local AI.

Dennis Mansell • Highberg

ASML Tour: Experience Center

Register for the tour (max. 10 participants) and get to know more about ASML and live the experience.

Coffee & Connect

Round 3: Open space or Round table session

During this time you have 2 options: you can either follow the Open space that is happening in the -1 Twinscan foyer and mingle and network with fellow Agile hardware engineers or RTE's and start a topic to discuss or join others into an interesting discussion OR you can sign up for a Round tbale session via the event app, led by Adam Mattis.

Round table session: Beyond the Big Room - AI Hardware for Digital Twins and Real-Time Planning

What if you could simulate planning outcomes before making commitments? This session explores how AI-powered digital twins are transforming hardware development. We’ll examine the accelerators, GPUs, TPUs, and beyond, that make large-scale “what-if” scenario modeling possible in real time, and how planning and execution platforms are evolving to bring those insights directly into ART flow. The discussion will highlight how these capabilities, once limited to Fortune 100 enterprises, are becoming accessible to every ART.

Adam Mattis • Scaled Agile, Inc.

Open Space: "the Unconference Part"

We offer you to connect on your topics of interest in the open space, grab a flipchart or post-it and feel free to network on topics that you find most interesting! Join participants from the RTE Summit and mingle or start your own topic and get people involved.

Closing Keynote: Inside ASML - Mechanical Development’s Journey to Agility

Curious how the Mechanical Development department in ASML tailored their way of working and are growing in agility? Hugo Petiers shares a candid and insightful take on their transformation journey, including the challenges, lessons, and convictions that shaped Mechanical Development’s agile way of working.

Hugo Petiers • ASML

Closing of the day

Arent van 't Spijker • Gladwell Academy | Highberg

Drinks & Bites

Enjoy networking with your peers and closing of the event with a refreshing (non-alcoholic) beverage and bites!