The Agile Open conference is the second international unconference on agile development. It is an Open Space intended for software development and business people from all walks of life, taking place on April 27th and 28th, 2006, in Mechelen, Belgium … an amazingly open, warm and lively community space where people spark new insights in and relationships for collaborative (software) development and doing business together.

From Agile Open

Unfortunately I won’t be there, one of the downsides of not being self-employed is that can’t you frequent every conference you’d like (the upside is that when I do, my employer pays all expenses). As you can read on their website, it will be an Open Space conference, I’m kinda curious as to how such a conference feels like, but alas, my curiosity won’t be satisfied this time. I know that there must be something good about the Open Space format as I know a few very intelligent people that make their living out of “Open Space Communication”.

Anyway, if I look at the sessions that were covered last year, it looks like it will be as interesting, engaging and funny as the XPDays2005 in Rotterdam. The location of the Agile Open 2006 is btw the same as the one of the XPDays2004, which I did attend, and I can tell you, the Elewijt Center is a top-notch place.