Matej Kastner, Tieto

From frustrated software developer demotivated by a few years of waterfall development, Matej Kastner has turned into an enthusiastic team leader who strongly believes in iterative methods, transparency and democratic leadership principles. Matej has 15 years of experience in programming, last 6 years working at Tieto, an IT company based in Finland and Sweden. His main focus is to create a great environment for his team to perform at their best. See the workshop about “Lean@TIPS: Lean transformation of large distributed product development” Back to...

Philippe Laniesse, BNP Paribas

Philippe Laniesse is CTO at BNP Paribas, the leading bank in the Eurozone. The Group has one of the largest international networks with operations in nearly 80 countries and 200,000 employees, including more than 150,000 in Europe. BNP Paribas has three core businesses: Retail banking , Corporate & Investment Banking and Investment Solutions. Present across Europe through all its business lines, the Group has four domestic retail banking markets in France, Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg. Philippe Laniesse joined the company in 1992 and he has held several positions in...

Mark Lear

Mark Lear is a Sr. IT Manager at Menlo Logistics, which is a part of the Con-way company; Menlo Logistics is a Global Supply Chain company, operating in 20 countries worldwide. With over 20 years’ experience in IT and Transportation and Logistics, he was actively involved from the inception of Lean into the IT organization back in early 2008. To improve on the efficiencies gained during the formative years of the Lean journey, the IT functional organization was overlaid with the concept of Value Streams; Mark is the owner of the Project and Enhancement Value Stream, and...

Richard Mathis, MEI

After 7 years as a software architect, Richard became the manager of the recognition software department at MEI. For 4 years Richard has been applying Lean principles to the department’s current activities. Richard’s presentation covers the significant challenges and successes at increasing productivity when faced with substantial growth expectations. See the session about Doubling the output of the team and still freeing up resources for the future Back to list of...

Silvia Cespa, BNL

Biography: Silvia Cespa started her IT career as a software developer for banking applications. In 1987, she joined the Italian bank BNL – Banca Nazionale del Lavoro – as a developer and project leader, where her role evolved into a process improvement and organization specialist. 5 years later, she had the opportunity to start deploying Lean management in the bank IT department. Since then, she and her team have applied the approach to the various fields of IT, involving 450 people, making BNL one of the most advanced IT departments in the Lean IT practice in...