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...

Michael Jones, eBay

Michael leads a team serving eBay’s continental European markets with content management, content strategy, tools & process expertise. Our content enables the business to inspire, advise and engage buyers and sellers, maintaining consistency across markets and languages. Formally, Michael worked for over decade in customer service, gaining frontline experience as an agent, process and project management and building up and running a European team of specialists looking after eBay’s online self service. Michael is based in...

Håkan Forss, Avega Group

Håkan Forss works for Avega Group in Stockholm as a Lean/Agile Coach. He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry and his main focus today are Lean/Agile coaching, system architecture and development. He has a great passion for applying Lean and Agile values and tools to continuously improving your people, processes and business. You can find Håkan’s random thoughts and thinking on Twitter and on his blog.

Bertrand Eteneau, Faurecia

Bertrand Eteneau graduated in 1983 from the Ecole Centrale de Paris in Engineering specializing in Applied Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Mr Eteneau started his professional career at IBM, where he worked for almost 10 years in various positions including the electronic components division as general manager and sales and marketing as international sales account manager. He then became CIO of the international transport branch of Group Bolloré and Chief Operating Officer of 3 Suisses. Between 2003 and 2005 he held the position of Vice President of Gartner France...