Nicolas Stampf, BP2I

Nicolas Stampf works with BP2I, a joint venture of IBM and BNP Paribas. He is a lean coach in IT Operations with a developing interest in creating respectful change in organizations using strength-based principles. He has mostly facilitated transversal kaizen workshops (business-developers-operations) where he helped teams (re)communicate and thereby solve the problems that prevented the whole process from functioning properly. Follow Nicolas on Twitter.

Andrea Pinnola, Telecom Italia

Passionate about quality and people, he received the ‘Human Resources Development’ Award as head of the OSS Qualification department. Since 2008 he is leading and facilitating improvement activities and workshops in Telecom Italia IT Data Centers, Service Delivery, Service Assurance and Innovation departments, in order to help the adoption of lean practices throughout the company. He is also involved in Future Networks studies within the Technology Planning and Standard Coordination Group.

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...

Jeromy Markwort, Pacific Northwest Natio...

Jeromy Markwort has been working in IT for close to 15 years and is currently leading Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Lean IT initiative. He has a degree in Industrial Technology from Cal Poly SLO and has enjoyed getting back to process improvement and leveraging his manufacturing background to improve processes in IT.

Leonardo Mattiazzi, Ci&T

Leonardo Mattiazzi is vice president, Europe and ASPAC, at CI&T. With CI&T since 1997, Mattiazzi has spearheaded several of the company’s critical business units, including Professional Services, Sales, Marketing and Software Products. He also leads the company’s Disrupt! initiative that aims to generate the next growth engine for the company. Mattiazzi has been an active proponent and driver of the CI&T’s transformation into a Lean organization. He has become a prominent industry thought leader on the topic of Lean as both an application...