Pierre Pezziardi, Hello Merci

Entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker. Pierre advocates the idea of "convivial computing": systems aimed at empowering people, opening up pyramidal organizations and supporting self-organized teams. He is OCTO Technology co-founder, a leading IT consulting firm in France, and originated the USI conference, gathering since 2008 a community of leaders in large corporate Information Systems. He founded Octopus Microfinance, now the leading Open Source Platform for the microfinance industry. Octopus is a worldwide community of practitioners in Lean and Agile methods, applied towards a better affordability of financial services to the poors. After being CIO at Bred Banques Populaires, he is now initiating an innovative crowdfunding initiative: Hello Merci