Laurent Alt, Lectra

Laurent Alt is the Director of software Research and Development at Lectra. Laurent has 25 years of international experience in creating and delivering world class software for various industries (automotive, aerospace, VFX, fashion), and is currently leading organizational changes at Lectra. Lectra is the world leader in integrated technology solutions—software, CAD/CAM equipment, and associated services—specifically designed for industries using fabrics, leather, technical textiles, and composite materials to manufacture their products. It serves major world markets:...

Giuseppina Allegretti, Banca Nazionale d...

Giuseppina Allegretti is Head of Risk Group in the IT Department of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. Working in IT environment in Banks since 2000, Giuseppina has been keen on empowering people and increasing productivity and quality with fun. After experimenting Lean practice on asset management, she has been amazed by the results on people, on quality, on evolution of changes in teams and customers. Now she is sponsoring Lean Management in other BNL IT initiatives in order to create value in Project management, Demand management, Delivery, Unit and Use test, Change...

Susana Jurado Apruzzese, Telefonica

Lean elephants: Lean Product Development in a large organization Telefonica, is one of the largest telecommunications provider in the world with operations in Europe, North America and South America. More than 3 years ago Telefonica began to apply the Lean Startup methodology to innovation projects. Lean Startup has allowed us to speed up the innovation process and do more with less, with a clear focus on market and customers. Applying Lean Startup at a large corporation is complex, but the benefits are many.     Biography: Susana is Innovation Manager and...

Nelson Batista, Senior IT & Process...

Nelson has 15 years of GE experience holding various Global and European IT management roles. He has implemented large IT programs, driven acquisition IT integrations and ran several operations. See the workshop about  “Change management methodology and practice, experiences from a large multinational organization” Back to list of...

Charles T.Betz

Charlie Betz has 20 years of IT practitioner experience, including 6 years at Wells Fargo as Senior Enterprise Architect/VP for IT Portfolio and Systems Management. His current research applies Lean thinking to the IT management problems of the largest enterprises. He is author of the recent 2nd edition of Architecture and Patterns for IT. See the workshop about “Lean Lessons in Enterprise Architecture and IT Service Management” Back to list of...

Philippe Blayo, France Billet

Philippe is a developer at ticketing service company France Billet. He has been gradually using Agile practices since 2001. He started his Lean journey in 2009, searching for a better way to do continuous improvement in software development. In 2010, along with Antoine Contal, he co-founded an A3 Lean-Agile community with support from the Agile Alliance. See the session about Agile and A3 Back to list of...