About LAST emails

I want to let you know about the three types of emails that you get from LAST Club, particularly the messages with details about online and in-person events you have signed up to.

I also want to say that we don't pass on emails to third parties without permission and we only send out information about LAST Club activities or about things that we genuinely believe are of interest to people who are part of LAST Club. We also don't send you dozens of emails a week!

Finally, I also want to make sure you know how to top receiving emails, if you truly don't want them.

1. Marketing emails

These will typically be emails that contain information about upcoming paid or free online sessions or in-person conferences. If the events and sessions we organise no longer are relevant to you, then you are always able to click the Unsubscribe link in the footer of these emails. It will ask you to confirm your email address and once you do, you will be marked as "Unsubscribed". If yo...

From 2012, this post was written by co-founder of LAST Conferences, Ed.

LAST Day Melbourne is a one day, low cost, grassroots mini-conference for Lean, Agile, and Systems Thinking practitioners. The day will be structured to allow participation and interaction via workshops and activities, rather than death by projector.

Regular readers will remember my writeup about Agile Tour Sydney. That article had a call to action, regarding doing something along the same lines, here in Melbourne.

When I got back, I was able to enthuse Craig Brown, a fellow co-organiser in the Melbourne Meetup scene and we’ve been working on the idea for the last couple of months.

Originally, we wanted to do something really rapidly, holding the event in March, or even February. The Agile Tour is held between October and December, and I just couldn’t wait that long for Melbourne to have its turn.

Reality stepped in though, as we realised that we probably needed a little time to clear the New Year season...

Sometimes it feels like it's all Snakes and no Ladders, but one thing we've all learned in the last 16 months is that things can change…fast. 

Due to what has happened in the past couple of days, we have made the decision to postpone the Mini-LAST Conference scheduled for next Friday (23/7).

The advice is that this lockdown may be lifted from Wednesday morning, however even if things went great for the next couple of days,there will most likely be a gradual relaxation. We couldn’t see how we could achieve what we were setting out to do.

We have to keep on trucking though, and on the bright side, we had a decent response for the event, so with more time and improvement in the general situation…the postponed event should be great!

Rescheduled date

We have been talking with the Abbotsford Convent and have a rescheduled date for this event as follows:

Friday 3 September 2021
9:00am - 4:45pm

We anticipate that the schedule and line-up will be very similar to what we had planned for next...

LAST in 2020

Since March 2020, we have delivered a programme of over 50 talks, 90-min workshops, longer courses and mini-conferences…all online. These were presented by over 70 people from Australia, Asia, Canada, the USA and Europe.

Presenters included Barry O'Reilly, Diana Larsen, Prof. Mike Steger, Hugh Mackay AO, John Cutler, Nigel Dalton, Dr Elise Bialylew, Jeff Patton, Kazuyoshi Hisano, Norman Bodek, Dr Zach Mercurio and many more.

Free Members were able to join many of the live sessions, with many of the recordings being available in the free library for a limited time. You can view a Preview of the sessions and also join for free, to access what is in the Free Library. We also have a Slack group that has over 2000 members. Come and find your people.

If you're not at least a free member of the LAST Club, you're missing out!

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Full Members were those who chose to go more in-depth for one or both of the "seasons" of the LAST Club. Some joining as a replacement for ...