How did a virtual band top Billboard’s World Digital Song Sales chart? It was a desired yet unexpected result of building a foundation of business agility—not to avoid disruption or adapt to external forces, but to place our players firmly in the center of our universe. Ahmed Sidky and Michael Robillard will explain the business agility practiced by Riot Games, the video game developer behind League of Legends, whose characters make up chart-topping virtual K-pop girl group K/DA. They will discuss the "Copernican Revolution" that informs their mindset, and how they balance the interplay...
Ahmed Sidky
Head of Business Agility
Riot Games
Ahmed Sidky, Ph.D., is a global thought-leader in Business Agility. He has been at Riot Games for about 5 years where is was the Head of Development Management and is now the the Head of Business Agility. Before Riot, Ahmed was an enterprise agile consultant for a number of Fortune 100 companies, guiding enterprise Agile transformations, educated leaders on the Agile mindset, and creating customer-centric cultures of learning. He is the President of the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) and the co-founder of the Business Agility Institute; co-author of “Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World;" and a seasoned international keynote speaker.