ENGAGEMENTS

Conferences

• Talk at the Miro Canvas 2025 (25.11.2025): Cut the Effort of Replacing Legacy Systems with AI + Miro. Replacing a legacy system with a modern standard solution is complex and costly. In this session, you’ll see how AI, embedded directly in Miro, can streamline analysis and design work, from structuring requirements to creating and evaluating RfP/RfI responses.
• Organisator of the Agile Unconference, Zentrum Karl der Grosse, 06. Nov 2025
• Organisator of the Agile Unconference, Zentrum Karl der Grosse, 07. Nov 2024
• Devellopment of the higher eductation course “transformation of digital marketing organizations” at the University of applied science Luzern (HSLU)
• Organisator of the Agile Unconference, Zentrum Karl der Grosse, 09. Nov 2023
• Organisator of the Agile Unconference, Zentrum Karl der Grosse, 10. Nov 2022
• IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference RE ’21, Zürich: Rainer Grau: IEEE-RE21-BaReInALargeAgileOrganization 22. Sept. 2021
• IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference RE ’20, Zürich: Andrea Gees (La Mobiliére), Rainer Grau: An aligned agile approach for strategy and portfolio management 01. Sept. 2020
• PoReDay Zürich, Maximilian Brandt (Leiter Strategie & Planung CSS Versicherung) & Rainer Grau: Das Portfolio-Management der CSS nach dem Denkplan Ansatz, 24. Juni 2020,
• International Advertisment Association, Young Professionals, Zurich 29 MAy 2018: Agility: A Buzzword made tangible  20180529-IAALunchTreffen-V1.3.pdf (1380 downloads )
• SAP Project Management Network, Projekte führen in der digitalen Transformation (1271 downloads ) , Impulsreferat, 21.11.2017, SAP (Schweiz)
• Organisator of the Agile Unconference, Zentrum Karl der Grosse, 03. Nov 2017
• Organisator of the RE-Forum 2017, Swiss Convention Center Zürich, 01. Nov 2017
• Talk “A scenario based Scaling Approach” at the Agile Leadership Day 27. Sept 2017
• Talk “I do not fail – I experiment end learn” at the UpfrontThinking Conference 21. June 2017
• Talk “Agilität als Grundwert; engagiert und sinnstiftend arbeiten” at the “1. Zentralschweizer Pflegesymposium Management & Advanced Nursing Practice (ANP)“, KKL Luzern, 30. May 2017
• Organisator of the Agile Unconference, Swiss Convention Center Zürich, 03. Nov 2016 with special guest Niels Pläging
• Organisator and Talk “Agile Requirements Engineering”, RE-Forum 2016, Swiss Convention Center Zürich, 02. Nov 2016,  20161102-RE-Forum-V1.5.pdf (1821 downloads )
• Talk “Lean & Agile Portfolio Mgmt @ Digitec Galaxus”, Scaled Agile Framework Meetup, Vienna, 03. Oct 2016
• Talk “Transparency, measurements and benchmarks used as lean leadership instruments”, Agile Leadership Day 2016,  20160914-RainerGrau-ALD-v3.0.pdf (1253 downloads )
• Talk “Living Agile Requirements Engineering @ Digitec Galaxus AG”, Upfront Thinking 2016 conference,  RE@DigitecGalaxus-UTConf2016-slides.pdf (1840 downloads )
• Talk “Implementing a Lean Portfolio Management at Digitec Galaxus” Agile Leadership Day 2015, download pdf:  ALD 2015 - Lean PPM at Digitec Galaxus AG (1354 downloads )
• Talk “Scale Agility: Agile Projekte auf Unternehmensebene” at ZfU International Business School Zürich; 20. November 2014; download  ZfU Seminar Flyer (1317 downloads )
• Talk “Scale Agility: Transparenz – offen angestrebt und heimlich gefürchtet” at ZfU International Business School Zürich; 10. Projektmanagement Summit; 12. November 2014; Seedamm Plaza Hotel in Pfäffikon (Switzerland); download  ZfU Seminar Flyer (1337 downloads )
• Talk “A game of Thrones” at Bosnia Agile Day ; 27 October 2014; Sarajevo (Bosnia);
• Talk “Geht Morgen wirklich die Sonne auf?” at spm / BWI Frühjahrstagung; 21. Mai 2014; Technopark Zurich; download  slides of SPM Frühjahrstagung (1443 downloads )
• Talk at 2014 Test Management Summit , 29-30 March 2014, London; download slides about  talk about flow development (2274 downloads )
• Talk “Scaling Problem #1: Die vielfältigen Rollen des {Product ¦ Program ¦ Project}{Owner ¦ Manager ¦ Steward}” at REConf 2014 , 10 March to 13 March 2014, Munich; download  conference slides (1367 downloads )
• Talk at Agile Leadership Day 2013, Zürich “Das Team ohne Team: Das agile Anti-Pattern des PO-Heldentums abstract
• Talk at Hungarian Software Testing Conference HUSTEF 2013 about Effective Requirements Engineering, download  conference presentation (pdf) (1923 downloads ) , (see video on YouTube…)
• Talk at specief.org: Société pour la Promotion Et la Certification de l’Ingénierie des Exigences en langue Française, Sorbonne Paris 2013 The International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB): Goals, organization, certification, download  conference presentation (pdf) (1284 downloads )
• Tutorial at the Product Management Festival 2013 Tutorial about Lean Product Management
• Talk: SwissICT, Evening Event of the Limited WIP Society, 29 May 2013: Grossprojekte und Agilität, download  conference presentation (pdf) (2296 downloads )
• Seminar: Requirements Analyse, Gesprächsführung und Dokumentation ausgerichtet am Konzept des IREB e.V. an der REConf 2013 , 11. März – 14. März 2013, München, Dornach Messe- und Kongresshotel
• Keynote: Agility meets Product Management 2012 at the Manage Agile 2012 Conference in Berlin, Germany, 16 – 18 October 2012, download  conference presentation (pdf) (2295 downloads )
• Full day tutorial: Get involved, get prepared: Tutorial for requirements analysis, conversation and documentation aligned to the IREB e.V. body of knowledge
  at the IEEE Conference for Requirements Engineering RE12in Chicago, Illinois, USA, 25 September 2012
• Talk: Lean, Agile, Produkte, Projekte, Knowledge Management und Pragmatismus: Lieber das Eisen schmieden als den Stab über dem Knie brechen
  at the ASQT Conference 2012 in Klagenfurt, Austria, 6 / 7 September 2012
• Keynote: “Requirements Engineering in the agile Context” for the Industry Track of the 18th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering REFSQ 2012 at the University of Duisburg-Essen
• Talk: Internationale Verkaufsorganisationen: Von organisationalen und menschlichen Befindlichkeiten at the Summit Product Development 2012 in Zürich
• Industry Session 4 and Panel: “Our profession” at the 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
• Talk: Zwei unmögliche Dinge: Fliegende Fische und Agiles RE am SOPHIST Days 15 + 16 September 2011
• Keynote an der OOP 2011 in München Talk: Was Sie schon immer über Change wissen wollten, aber nie zu fragen wagten, download  conference presentation (pdf) (1905 downloads )
• Workshop Agile Development an der SOFTEC 2010 in Kuala Lumpur
• Moderation of Jazoon Konferenz 2010 in Zürich
• Talk “Why Requirements Engineering Trainings Fail” an der REFSQ 2010 in Essen
• Talk: Vorstellung des Zertifizierungsmodells zum
  Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering an der Conquest Konferenz 2010 in Dresden
• Talk Moving to ab agile culture 2009 an der Universität Augsburg Universität Augsburg, download  conference presentation (pdf) (1264 downloads )
• Talk and Podcast beim IBM Plattform Event 16. September 2009 Einführung des Rational Unified Prozess bei der Credit Suisse.
• Late Afternoon Talk “Shaked Agile” 17. + 18. Juni 2009 mit Jutta Eckstein und Philippe Kruchten, Vortrag “XP on the beach oder doch lieber reiner Wein?”, download  conference presentation (pdf) (1250 downloads )
• Talk: Requirements Engineering im Portfolio Management at OOP 2009
• Talk: Vom definiertem zum agilen Prozess, Zug um Zug Veranstaltung der SAQ (2009)
• Talk: Das IREB Zertifizierungsmodell, RE-Days Konferenz 2008 Nürnberg

Education, Communities and Organizations

• Reviewer of the Micro Credential Syllabus “AI for Requirements Engineering” of the International Requirements Engineering Boards (IREB) 2025
• Thought leader and founding member of the Denkplan method – an lightweight and collaborative approach to close the gap between strategy and implementation based on up-to-date methods and good practices.
• Reviewer of the Agile Requirements Engineering Advanced Level Syllabus of the International Requirements Engineering Boards (IREB) 2017
• Reviewer of the RE@Agile Primer Syllabus of the International Requirements Engineering Boards (IREB) 2017
• Member of the advidory board of Pedco AG, Managed Process Services, 2015 – today
• First Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Requirements Engineering Boards (IREB) (2007 – 2016), see as well profile and registry on IREB
• Session Member of the Industry Committee of the 20th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Founding Member of the Swiss Agile Leaders Circle
• Founding Member of the International Software Product Association
• Session Member of the Industry Committee of the 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference in Trento
• Member of the Program Committee of the Requirements Engineering Forum Switzerland in Zürich (2008 – today).
• Head Session Chair Excellence in Software Engineering Conference (ESE 2011 – 2012)
• Head Session Chair Software Engineering Conference 2008 – 2010
• Head Steering Committee of Section Informatics at Swiss Association for Quality (SAQ) (2009 – 2015)
• IEEE member