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Henrik Kniberg

English, Swedish, English

Stockholm, Sweden

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Title: Chief Scientist

Henrik Kniberg is Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Abundly.ai, where he spearheads the development of Abundly's platform for autonomous AI agents. He is a pioneer and thought leader within Generative AI, constantly learning and spreading knowledge and inspiration through keynotes, videos, books, articles, and courses. Full profile, talks, and resources: https://abundly.ai/team/henrik-kniberg.

Henrik is famous for his previous work as coach at Spotify and LEGO, and his work as Minecraft gameplay designer at Mojang. He loves taking complex concepts and explaining them in a simple, visual way that anyone can understand.

He is former member of the board of directors of the Agile Alliance and enjoys helping companies succeed with both the technical and human sides of software development. During the past 15 years Henrik has been CTO of 3 Swedish IT companies and helped many more get started with agile and lean software development.

Henrik is an experienced teacher and award-winning keynote speaker. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer and has done regular training and coaching together with Jeff Sutherland, Mary Poppendieck, Alistair Cockburn, and other thought leaders.

Henrik's four books have over 500,000 readers, are available in over 20 languages, and are used as primary guide to Agile and Lean software development by hundreds of companies worldwide.

- Scrum and XP from the Trenches - How We Do Scrum
- Kanban and Scrum - Making the Most of Both
- Lean from the Trenches - Managing Large Scale Projects with Kanban
- Generative AI in a Nutshell - How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of AI

Henrik also created the popular Scrum checklist, the Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell video, and the Spotify Engineering Culture videos. He was previously active in the climate change area, created the video Friendly Guide to Climate Change and co-founded GoClimate.com.