BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:obeyasummit2026 X-WR-CALDESC:Event Calendar METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//Sched.com Obeya Summit 2026//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T063000Z DTEND:20260626T170000Z SUMMARY:Walk-in & Greeting DESCRIPTION:Your starting point of the Obeya Summit. Register here\, grab your badge\, and mingle with fellow attendees as we prepare to immerse yourself in a day filled with inspiration and insights. CATEGORIES:CONNECT & ENERGIZE LOCATION:2. Foyer\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:f58f484cdda07c95b8d9c34b03a1c30f URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/f58f484cdda07c95b8d9c34b03a1c30f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T063000Z DTEND:20260626T173000Z SUMMARY:Obeya Playground DESCRIPTION:This welcoming area provides a comfortable setting for everyone to drink\, eat\, mingle\, network and engage in meaningful conversations.\n\nCome to the Foyer and Jutekelder to take a break\, to connect\, to recharge and to revitalize while wandering through the vibrant Obeya Playground and Marketplace. Our Training Partners\, Summit Sponsors are on the spot to share their valuable insights. If you're attending by invitation\, you’ll find your host here! This is your chance to refuel with refreshments and discover visual inspiration that sparks new ideas and insights.\n\nOur Playground and sponsor partners this year\, are:\niObeya\nVisual Workplace\nAgileWalls\nCegeka\nKPMG\nVertX CATEGORIES:PARTY & PLAY LOCATION:Foyer & Jutekelder\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:bebbcdc37ad6b3bade1eece4434f68bf URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/bebbcdc37ad6b3bade1eece4434f68bf END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T073000Z DTEND:20260626T075000Z SUMMARY:Obeya Summit: Opening DESCRIPTION:Here we are again with the 3rd edition of the Obeya Summit! With a lot of diversity and versatility in speakers\, topics\, goodies\, music\, food and more. Just like Obeya is diverse and versatile. Let yourself immerse in everything Obeya. There is so much joy and inspiration to find\, so much to explore\, discover and learn.\nWe have done everything we could to bring you the best of what Obeya has to offer. Let's celebrate its magic together with a lot of community! Enjoy it all! CATEGORIES:CONNECT & ENERGIZE LOCATION:3. Perserij (Mainstage)\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:4d110f0820952633fcc5556d77697e75 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/4d110f0820952633fcc5556d77697e75 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T075000Z DTEND:20260626T082000Z SUMMARY:Making the Invisible Visible: How Obeya Drives Safe Execution on Holland Hydrogen I DESCRIPTION:Holland Hydrogen I represents a unique execution challenge: Europe's largest renewable hydrogen plant\, with simultaneous construction and pre-commissioning activities across civil\, piping\, mechanical\, and E&I disciplines—all while managing multi-company teams on a first-of-a-kind facility where safety is paramount.\n\nThis session presents how Shell and ExecuteX applied Obeya principles to connect construction activities directly to project leadership decision-making. Through structured visual management meetings synchronized with construction and pre-commissioning rhythms\, the project team created proximity between leadership and the work floor\, enabling rapid problem-solving and continuous improvement based on real-time site conditions.\n\nAttendees will learn how the Holland Hydrogen I team implemented core Obeya principles in a megaproject context: establishing meeting cadence aligned with operational heartbeat\, designing visual flows that reflect actual work processes\, and ensuring data owners make information readily consumable and current. The presentation demonstrates practical application of "making the invisible visible"—transforming abstract strategy into coordinated daily execution across multiple contractors and disciplines.\n\nMark de Boer\, Shell's Site Manager\, and Nynke Bel from ExecuteX will share concrete examples of how visual collaboration bridges the gap between site execution and leadership decisions\, driving safe delivery on pioneering energy infrastructure while offering insights applicable to any complex\, multi-stakeholder capital project. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:3. Perserij (Mainstage)\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:1234ec84403370947f5ac82dbe477454 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/1234ec84403370947f5ac82dbe477454 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T082000Z DTEND:20260626T085000Z SUMMARY:Service with heart and clarity DESCRIPTION:In this paper\, Van Tilburg-Bastianen (VTB) and AgileWalls describe the implementation of Obeya within a large-scale aftersales service organization with sixteen locations. The case shows how Obeya functions as a connecting instrument in which human judgment\, team safety\, and collective intelligence come together with performance management\, operational steering\, and strategic execution. The contribution shows how qualitative improvements in collaboration\, focus\, and decision-making demonstrably contribute to sustainable performance\, and how VTB is taking the next step toward more quantitative performance evidence. We also want to showcase one of the TB Obeyas on stage to take the audience into daily practice. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:3. Perserij (Mainstage)\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:114aa150c0a574eb402ef643a14a1134 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/114aa150c0a574eb402ef643a14a1134 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T085500Z DTEND:20260626T091300Z SUMMARY:Beyond Visuals: How leaders really accelerate decisions DESCRIPTION:Many organizations use Obeya to improve and speed up strategic decision-making. In practice\, the impact often stops at clear visuals and nice overviews. Decisions still take too long\, come back again and again\, or are even made outside the Obeya. This is rarely caused by a lack of information\, but much more by how leaders deal with different ways of thinking and working.\n \;\nIn this session\, I show how Belbin Team Roles help make these differences within leadership teams visible and discussable. This insight transforms Obeya from an information board into a place where real decisions are made. By seeing which roles are dominant and which are missing\, teams understand why decisions get stuck\, why momentum is lost\, or why support fades away. At the same time\, this shared understanding builds trust and mutual respect within the team.\n \;\nUsing concrete examples\, it becomes clear that leadership teams do not need to “fix” missing roles by adding new structures or extra governance. By consciously working with role behaviour\, smartly designing the decision-making process\, and applying focused interventions in the Obeya\, more flow emerges. The focus is on behaviour and collaboration\, not on tools or work formats. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:5. Postkamer\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:e40f6043b76323318adf887f688848c2 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/e40f6043b76323318adf887f688848c2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T090000Z DTEND:20260626T094500Z SUMMARY:From Conversations to Collective Decisions: Building Human-Centered AI as a Socio-Technical Decision System DESCRIPTION:Public and social support systems are often fragmented\, making it difficult for citizens\, especially those with limited literacy\, to find appropriate help\, while organizations lack visibility into how people move through the system.\nThis session presents Met Mij\, a human-centered AI initiative that supports citizens in navigating local social services while creating a continuous feedback loop between users\, social organizations\, and technical teams. Rather than positioning AI as an autonomous solution\, Met Mij is designed as a socio-technical decision system: AI assists with navigation and matching\, while humans remain central in defining criteria\, validating outcomes\, and steering system evolution.\nThe talk shares practical lessons from building this system in real-world conditions\, including how user interactions are translated into learning signals\, how cross-organizational alignment is supported without formal Obeya structures\, and how decision-making emerges through visible feedback loops.\nBy framing Met Mij through an Obeya lens\, this case illustrates how human judgment and AI can be integrated to improve system-level learning\, alignment\, and service delivery offering insights for organizations exploring how Obeya principles can extend into AI-enabled environments. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:6. Douchelokaal\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:826816176ea79ebf2d7e263fa07bf722 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/826816176ea79ebf2d7e263fa07bf722 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T091500Z DTEND:20260626T093300Z SUMMARY:Better Care\, Better Numbers\, An Obeya case study that connects humanity and performance DESCRIPTION:Many organizations treat Obeya as a visual management upgrade: better boards\, cleaner KPIs\, sharper templates. Useful\, but it does not explain the real leap in performance. In this keynote Wendy Manders is sharing an elderly care case where financial strain\, staff scarcity\, and daily complexity made it impossible to choose between being human and performing. We designed a way of working that holds both\, with a practical dose of Ubuntu: I am because we are. Not as a slogan\, but as a rule of thumb. You stop letting residents\, families\, and professionals pay for internal boundaries\, unclear decisions or shifting priorities.\n\nI walk the audience through ten working principles that make Obeya a living operating system: one truth and a predictable rhythm\, purpose linked to numbers and stories\, clear decision making\, and explicit attention to psychological safety\, power\, patterns\, and shared ownership. This is not soft. It is precise. People recover from the constant friction\, and the organisation gets better at focusing\, deciding\, and delivering. \;\nThe case is backed by concrete metrics and visuals. The key message is not that culture matters\, but that culture becomes measurable once you design the right routines\, roles\, and evidence loops. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:5. Postkamer\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:9151ee96a694abb34ae9566e445a3a7d URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/9151ee96a694abb34ae9566e445a3a7d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T091500Z DTEND:20260626T100000Z SUMMARY:Build Obeya Walls Fast with AI Vibe Coding DESCRIPTION:Organizations increasingly adopt Obeya to align strategy\, execution\, and learning - yet many struggle with the initial design phase. Teams often spend weeks debating wall layouts\, metrics\, and visual structures\, delaying real dialogue and decision-making.\nThis session introduces Build Obeya Fast\, a practical approach that uses AI-supported vibe coding to drastically shorten the lead time from strategic intent to the first usable Obeya. Rather than replacing Obeya principles\, AI is positioned as an accelerator that enables rapid prototyping\, early feedback\, and learning through use.\nDrawing on real-world experience\, we demonstrate how AI tools can help create Obeya MVPs in minutes\, enabling leadership teams to engage with real visualizations instead of abstract concepts. The session combines live demos\, concrete examples\, and facilitated reflection on where AI adds value - and where human judgment\, dialogue\, and collective intelligence remain irreplaceable.\nParticipants will leave with a clear understanding of how to responsibly integrate AI Vibe Coding into Obeya design while preserving its core purpose as a system for alignment\, decision-making\, and learning.\n\n\n CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:7. Havenmeester\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:fa66bc7027d9f7dba72ee2d37025bab6 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/fa66bc7027d9f7dba72ee2d37025bab6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T094000Z DTEND:20260626T095800Z SUMMARY:Obeya maturity & success factors: data driven research insights DESCRIPTION:Built on insights from 80+ completed \;Obeya \;Maturity \;scans across industries and \;geographies\, this \;session delivers the clearest picture yet of how organizations use \;Obeya \;to \;drive \;performance. \; \;\n\nIt will reveal where organizations sit on the maturity curve\, which routines and behaviors consistently separate top performers from lower performers and what the common pitfalls are that slow progress. \;\n\nFeiko\, Eric\, and Yoram will provide insight how maturity relates to impact (e.g.\, faster decision making and improved predictability to targets). \;\n\nAnd they will share their experience from real implementations\, along with practical tools and stories that you can apply immediately. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:5. Postkamer\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:f2067d5dd40c74eebf2ed81f324a9180 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/f2067d5dd40c74eebf2ed81f324a9180 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T100000Z DTEND:20260626T105500Z SUMMARY:Lunch DESCRIPTION:Time to savor lunch! Join us to indulge in a delicious meal\, network with fellow attendees\, and recharge for the afternoon sessions. Enjoy food and drinks that will fuel both your body and your enthusiasm. CATEGORIES:CONNECT & ENERGIZE LOCATION:2. Foyer\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:1f4a92ebecfd402b7e42dd19d6aa2b15 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/1f4a92ebecfd402b7e42dd19d6aa2b15 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T115000Z DTEND:20260626T123500Z SUMMARY:Making Decisions Visible: Transforming Risk into a Performance Enabler DESCRIPTION:In many professional services organizations\, risk and compliance functions are experienced as slow\, opaque\, and misaligned with business needs. This session presents a real-world transformation of a 50-person Risk & Compliance team in a global law firm\, responsible for AML/KYC approvals required before client work could begin.\n\nThe firm faced growing tension: lawyers experienced delays of up to two weeks\, trust in the risk function was low\, and workarounds were becoming common - creating both commercial and regulatory risk. At the same time\, the risk team felt overloaded\, undervalued\, and disconnected from the firm’s strategy.\nRather than replacing people or introducing a new methodology\, the transformation focused on redesigning the decision system itself. Over 90% of the team remained unchanged. Performance shifted through clarity of direction\, visible work and flow\, domain-based specialization\, clear ownership\, and daily leadership support. A shared performance dashboard created a single\, transparent view of reality for the team and firm leadership\, aligning speed with compliance.\n\nWithin four months\, the team improved its core performance KPI by 85%\, achieved same-day decisions\, stabilized attrition\, and rebuilt trust across the organization.\n\nThis case demonstrates how Obeya-aligned principles unlock performance\, strengthen human engagement\, and deliver clear\, measurable results. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:6. Douchelokaal\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:dcf2c77a6846ceb47803e2e691a62697 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/dcf2c77a6846ceb47803e2e691a62697 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T115000Z DTEND:20260626T123500Z SUMMARY:Strategy execution with Obeya driven portfoliomanagement DESCRIPTION:Strategic portfolio management is about connecting strategy and execution\, enabling organizations to effectively steer toward their goals and priorities. In an environment of increasing complexity\, limited resources\, and rapidly changing regulations\, making the right choices is becoming ever more challenging. As a result\, portfolio management is evolving into an explicit governance and steering mechanism: it requires clear strategic direction\, multidisciplinary collaboration\, and continuous adjustment.\n\nIn this presentation\, we demonstrate how Obeya\, as a visual management approach\, helps organizations translate strategic objectives into concrete actions\, make progress transparent\, and strengthen collaboration across the portfolio. In addition\, we share our hands-on experience and key lessons learned from practice. The session provides practical insights and shows why Obeya is indispensable for organizations that truly want to steer strategically and remain in control of their portfolio. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:7. Havenmeester\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:1cc94fa7bfb1bc69aa55ac93d509822b URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/1cc94fa7bfb1bc69aa55ac93d509822b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T115500Z DTEND:20260626T125500Z SUMMARY:From visual boards to governing systems: how Obeya restores decision quality in complex organizations DESCRIPTION:Many organisations adopt Obeya to improve alignment and collaboration\, yet struggle to translate visual management into sustained performance and sound governance. Too often\, Obeya remains a facilitation practice rather than a governing system.\n\n\nThis session explores how Obeya can be designed and used as an integrated decision-making system in complex organisations\, where ambiguity\, competing priorities\, and cross-functional dependencies challenge traditional management models. Drawing on experience across sectors and knowledge-intensive organisations\, the presentation demonstrates how Obeya strengthens decision quality by clarifying responsibilities\, making trade-offs explicit\, and connecting human judgment to operational and strategic performance.\n\n\nThe session challenges the common assumption that a better culture alone leads to better outcomes. Instead\, it shows how governance structures\, management systems\, and decision architecture shape behaviour\, learning\, and results. Obeya is presented not as a visual tool\, but as a mechanism for restoring coherence between strategy\, execution\, and accountability.\n\n\nParticipants will gain insight into how mature Obeya implementations support portfolio governance\, strategic execution\, and leadership decision-making in high-complexity environments. The session is aimed at leaders\, decision makers\, and experienced Obeya practitioners seeking to move beyond boards and rituals toward system-level impact. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:4. Meelzolder\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:aeb6c15e33e84d724e8ccd3923875c3d URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/aeb6c15e33e84d724e8ccd3923875c3d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T115500Z DTEND:20260626T121300Z SUMMARY:No Title\, No Problem - Using OBEYA to Govern Transformation\, Keep the Shop Open\, and Become a Trusted Advisor in an Engineering-Driven Culture DESCRIPTION:In fast-growing\, engineering-driven organizations\, leadership teams often struggle to steer transformation while keeping day-to-day operations running. Strategy is defined and frameworks are introduced\, yet execution remains fragmented. Improvement initiatives multiply\, ownership becomes unclear\, and leadership behavior defaults to firefighting. In such environments\, Agile and change roles are frequently perceived as overhead rather than value contributors.\n\nThis session presents a real-world case from an industry-leading lithography company in the Netherlands\, where OBEYA was introduced as a staff-level steering mechanism to reconnect strategy with execution. Starting with a basic OBEYA implementation \;- \;grounded in fundamentals and adapted to organizational maturity \;- \;the leadership team used Obeya to govern transformation\, improve operational decision-making\, and expose leadership blind spots.\n\nRather than focusing on the tool itself\, this case shows how OBEYA enabled clearer prioritization\, stronger ownership\, faster escalation resolution\, and more disciplined leadership behavior. It also demonstrates how an Organizational Change Manager\, without formal authority\, used Obeya to earn trust\, secure a permanent seat at the leadership table\, and become a trusted advisor by delivering visible value.\n\nThis session is relevant for Organizational Change Managers\, Agile leaders\, OBEYA practitioners\, and senior decision-makers seeking a practical\, human-centered approach to improving performance and governance. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:5. Postkamer\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:dd3b7a44d63b23a85c59c8815fbd620a URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/dd3b7a44d63b23a85c59c8815fbd620a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T121500Z DTEND:20260626T123300Z SUMMARY:Governing Performance in the Age of AI From Insight to Action Through Human Judgment DESCRIPTION:As AI\, automation\, and algorithmic decision systems accelerate across organizations\, performance challenges are shifting from execution to judgment. Leaders are no longer short on insight or data. They are short on clarity\, alignment\, and accountable decision-making at speed.\nIn this session\, I draw on my experience working with global organizations on strategy\, foresight\, and execution to explore how high-performing systems balance human cognition with machine-driven intelligence. I share how decision clarity is created\, how trade-offs are surfaced\, and how leaders move from insight to action without slowing the organization down or surrendering accountability to technology.\nThis talk is designed for executives and transformation leaders responsible for performance\, investment\, and governance. It reframes performance not as a function of better tools\, but of better decision architecture that protects human judgment while enabling speed\, scale\, and organizational value creation. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:5. Postkamer\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:65cc0035f63b63313c0690b184d32c42 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/65cc0035f63b63313c0690b184d32c42 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T124000Z DTEND:20260626T132500Z SUMMARY:False Rivals: Digital versus Physical Obeya Boards DESCRIPTION:Digital and physical Obeya boards are routinely treated as competitors. One is scalable\, modern\, and data-rich. The other is tactile\, social\, and anchored in the work itself. Leaders are told they must choose.\n\nThis is a false binary.\n\n\nPhysical boards do something the brain is exquisitely designed for. Digital boards do something entirely different—something no wall can do. Most organizations sense this distinction\, but few articulate it clearly\, and fewer still design\, deploy\, and resource both with that distinction in mind.\n\n\nWhen digital boards come to dominate the informational environment\, subtle failures emerge. Interaction shifts into observation. Engagement thins into explanation. Alignment appears stronger than it is. Results plateau—not because visuality fails\, but because information is made visible without regard for human use.\n\n\nIn this session\, Gwendolyn Galsworth reframes digital and physical boards not as alternatives\, but as distinct and complementary forms of visuality. The real question then becomes not which board is better\, but what kind of thinking\, alignment\, and commitment each one makes possible—and what is lost when one is overlooked.\n\n\nJoin us to explore how recognizing and restoring this balance renews Obeya clarity\, momentum\, and impact—making a mission-critical human difference. \; CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:6. Douchelokaal\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:b51aa821f1451aa0a09aa18b966c3e55 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/b51aa821f1451aa0a09aa18b966c3e55 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T124000Z DTEND:20260626T132500Z SUMMARY:Getting More Out of Obeya: How Great Obeya Really Begins DESCRIPTION:Obeya works best when it reflects shared understanding\, real commitment\, and clear priorities. But how do you prepare what to put on the Obeya and find the goal behind the goal? How do you measure that? How do you get buy-in from everybody involved?\nIn this session\, we share a practical and engaging approach that prepares teams for Obeya. We call it the Obeya Genkan \;玄関: the “transition space” before entering the Obeya\, where intent\, focus\, and ownership are shaped together.\nUsing visual\, interactive working sessions\, teams and leaders clarify their goals\, translate them into meaningful measurement points\, and agree on early actions and scope.\nTested and optimized across 100+ complex projects in industry-leading organizations\, this approach helps teams move into the Obeya with clarity\, alignment\, and momentum: \;\n\n- We reduced meeting times by 40%\n- We helped find better solutions than originally envisioned\n- We solved simmering conflicts before they surfaced - \;every time\nThis \;saves \;multiple sprints \;each year!\n \;\nThis is where Where Humanity Meets Performance comes to life: both the preparation and the Obeya as a place where visual thinking\, human connection\, and performance focus come together to turn strategy into coordinated action. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:7. Havenmeester\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:840c034ac72c24f10299560a581257e1 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/840c034ac72c24f10299560a581257e1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T130000Z DTEND:20260626T140000Z SUMMARY:Why our people aren't the reason we fail at our goals DESCRIPTION:Organizations often explain failed transformations by pointing to change fatigue: people are tired\, resistant\, or unwilling to change. But this explanation is convenient — and largely wrong.\nBased on research from McKinsey and Gartner and grounded in real-world transformation experience\, this keynote challenges the myth of change fatigue. In reality\, resistance rarely comes from unwillingness. It emerges when people don’t understand why change matters\, how it connects to strategy\, or what it means for their daily work.\nThis session explores why most change initiatives fail to land — not because there is too much change\, but because organizations fail to create shared clarity\, ownership\, and context. The keynote shows how Obeya\, when used as a leadership and alignment system (not just a visual tool)\, creates the conditions for meaningful\, sustained change.\nBy making strategy visible\, connecting outcomes to daily work\, and enabling real dialogue across silos\, Obeya shifts change from something that is “done to people” into something that is shaped together. Attendees will leave with a renewed perspective on resistance\, leadership accountability\, and the role Obeya plays in turning intent into adoption.\n\n\nThe session is hosted by Cegeka. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:4. Meelzolder\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:5468ea9e92331035a28ae7f90eeb1f98 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/5468ea9e92331035a28ae7f90eeb1f98 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T133000Z DTEND:20260626T141500Z SUMMARY:From Task Delivery to Decision Leadership: How Human-Centred Clarity Drives Performance in Complex Organisations DESCRIPTION:Across many organisations\, work moves quickly but decisions do not. Teams deliver tasks\, artefacts\, and dashboards at pace\, yet performance stalls due to unclear ownership\, unresolved trade-offs\, and repeated escalation. This session explores why that gap exists and how mature Obeya environments close it.\nDrawing on real transformation and governance engagements\, the session introduces a shift from task delivery to decision leadership as a core Obeya capability. It demonstrates how performance improves not through additional metrics or visuals\, but through human-centred clarity: the ability to frame decisions\, surface constraints\, and enable collective judgment under uncertainty.\nThe session examines how Obeya strengthens governance by making accountability explicit without creating fear\, and how it reduces decision latency in complex\, cross-functional environments. Particular attention is given to leadership behaviour\, language\, and decision design in contexts shaped by digital transformation\, automation\, and AI augmentation.\nParticipants will gain practical insight into how Obeya enables better human judgment and measurable performance outcomes\, and how organisations can move beyond activity and reporting toward decisions that genuinely drive strategic and operational results. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:6. Douchelokaal\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:9579fa0979d50fe42abdb8d6ad00e66d URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/9579fa0979d50fe42abdb8d6ad00e66d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T133000Z DTEND:20260626T141500Z SUMMARY:Toyota Kata: evidence created by experience DESCRIPTION:The combination of Obeya and Kata is \;pure gold. Toyota Kata helps develop learning processes at the individual\, team (including the management team) and organizational levels. A very effective way to develop your organization toward the agility\, resilience and full utilization of all \;available \;knowledge and skills needed to thrive in today’s complex and uncertain world. In this workshop\, you will experience Kata firsthand and learn skills that help you transform your Obeya conversations into learning dialogues.\n\n CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:7. Havenmeester\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:fa88510e27b884d0c6e03aab89035af8 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/fa88510e27b884d0c6e03aab89035af8 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T140500Z DTEND:20260626T150500Z SUMMARY:Obeya as a Strategic Cost Management Instrument DESCRIPTION:When the wall knows the cost: Obeya as a strategic cost management instrument.Most Obeya rooms are excellent at showing what is being built. Far fewer show whether it is worth building - or what the steady accumulation of scope changes is actually costing the organisation. This talk presents a research-backed framework for extending the Obeya's visual discipline from operational delivery into strategic cost management\, and shares live findings from a real-world pilot conducted with Flynth\, one of the Netherlands' leading advisory and accountancy firms.The research identifies two forms of strategic waste that are structurally invisible in most organisations. The first is passive: money continues flowing into initiatives that are not generating their planned value\, because the gap only becomes visible at the next quarterly review - by which point redirection is expensive. The second is active: scope decisions that appear individually reasonable accumulate into collectively undisciplined cost\, because the running total is never in the room when the decision is made.Two practical interventions are proposed\, each testable within a standard Obeya environment in under six weeks: a value burnup chart that surfaces underperforming investments in the same review cycle they emerge\, and a scope change register whose dominant visual element is a live cumulative cost total - designed to anchor every new decision against the full weight of everything already approved.The Flynth pilot provides the first real-world evidence for both mechanisms. Come and see whether the hypotheses held\, what we learned when they did not\, and how the strategic cost Obeya can be built in any organisation already running an Obeya practice.You will leave with: >\; a clear framework for distinguishing passive and active strategic waste\; >\; a practical visual design for both panels\; >\; and the measurement framework to run your own test within weeks of this summit.At Flynth\, they are working on updating and innovating their entire landscape – from internal users to clients (external users). Flynth uses Obeya to visualize the 'Up-to-date' program (consisting of 8+ projects) in order to bring these projects to a successful conclusion. We would like to take you through how Flynth got started\, where things stood in Dec/Jan\, and where they stand around the Summit. >\; The evolution of an Obeya – what we have learned\, done\, and not done\, and why that works for us! CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:4. Meelzolder\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:a247edb9c4307502ff40067a72dd25b4 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/a247edb9c4307502ff40067a72dd25b4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T142000Z DTEND:20260626T150500Z SUMMARY:Confucius meets AI: a practical way to start with Obeya (workshop) DESCRIPTION:In this 45-minute workshop\, you will work in small teams to generate\, build and explore a physical Obeya based on a realistic management situation.\n You will experience how AI can quickly generate a realistic management context with visible tensions and trade-offs.\n \nWhat you will do:\n Work in small teams (max. 7 people) on a realistic management situationDefine tensions\, trade-offs and complexity togetherExperience how AI generates the situation as an ObeyaPrint and physically build the Obeya togetherExplore tensions and leadership decisions as a team \nWhat you will learn and take away:\n How to turn complex situations into shared visual understandingHow to make strategic tensions and trade-offs visibleHow AI accelerates shared context and conversationsHow visualization improves leadership discussionsHow to create a realistic starting point for an Obeya \nYou leave with practical experience using an Obeya to explore real management tensions and improve strategy conversations.\n \nConfucius captured it simply: knowledge without action is useless. Real understanding develops through doing.\n\n CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:7. Havenmeester\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:79b3114a4a1bf61059ca1af60e819a59 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/79b3114a4a1bf61059ca1af60e819a59 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T142000Z DTEND:20260626T150500Z SUMMARY:Norwegian Research Project. How to use Obeya to improve Industrial Cluster Innovation Collaboration DESCRIPTION:A special presentation by Norwegian students presenting the research project they worked on with their professor - and Obeya Summit jury member - Bjarne Berg Wig. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:5. Postkamer\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:8249efd59852ce66844f84acb2a0de88 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/8249efd59852ce66844f84acb2a0de88 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T142000Z DTEND:20260626T150500Z SUMMARY:When metrics stop guiding decisions DESCRIPTION:Mature portfolio Obeya and the hidden cost of metrics.\n\nPortfolio Obeya rooms are often presented as evidence of mature governance. With increasingly sophisticated metrics\, dashboards\, and analytics\, executives expect stronger alignment\, clearer oversight\, and better portfolio control.\nAcross mature portfolio Obeya environments\, however\, a recurring pattern can be observed: portfolios become overloaded and initiatives are rarely stopped. Capacity constraints are visible\, but do not translate into decisive stop or reallocation decisions. Instead\, portfolio conversations focus on optimizing ongoing work\, while the question of whether initiatives should continue quietly disappears.\nThis session examines how widely used metric practices contribute to that dynamic. Metrics do not merely inform decisions\; they shape portfolio conversations by defining what is discussed\, and what is not. As a result\, portfolio Obeya increasingly functions as a forum for managing existing commitments\, rather than for making deliberate choices under scarcity.\nParticipants will learn how this shift occurs\, how to recognize early signals of decision drift\, and how to intervene before default continuation sets in. The session equips executives and portfolio leaders to restore stopping and reprioritization as legitimate governance acts\, creating space for work that truly matters and strengthening the organization’s ability to translate strategy into results.\nPortfolios rarely fail loudly\; they drift. CATEGORIES:SESSION LOCATION:6. Douchelokaal\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:fd811ec081b7568d0105f546b56bc2a9 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/fd811ec081b7568d0105f546b56bc2a9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T154500Z DTEND:20260626T170000Z SUMMARY:Cheers\, Bites\, Beats\, and Farewell DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lively finale as we raise our glasses\, savor nice bites\, groove to music\, and bid farewell to an unforgettable event. CATEGORIES:CONNECT & ENERGIZE LOCATION:2. Foyer\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:85b66c6151bba61dee3124d2bad5df73 URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/85b66c6151bba61dee3124d2bad5df73 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T102604Z DTSTART:20260626T164500Z DTEND:20260626T173000Z SUMMARY:Summit Afterparty DESCRIPTION:The illustrious Summit Afterparty is our best kept secret! Just come and find out! CATEGORIES:CONNECT & ENERGIZE LOCATION:Foyer & Jutekelder\, Venue - DeFabrique SEQUENCE:0 UID:5692dd2b95b49231e3bd36a53828822d URL:http://obeyasummit2026.sched.com/event/5692dd2b95b49231e3bd36a53828822d END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR