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.

César Gon, Ci&T

César Gon is an entrepreneur in the digital/IT space. In 1995, at the age of 23, he founded Ci&T (ciandt.com), a pioneering IT service company with the goal of transforming the archaic global IT industry through High Performance Teams. Currently he is the CEO of Ci&T, and also investor and board member of several startups. Gon is a Computer Engineer, with a masters degree in Computer Science from the State University of Campinas.

Indranil Das, Ericsson India Global Serv...

Indranil is working as Vice President, Solution Design & Delivery responsible for leading Ericsson’s business within Global Services Center India for global clients in Telecommunication, Media & Entertainment and Utilities. He comes with very rich experience in Global Delivery, Communication and ICT services. Before joining Ericsson, Indranil worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM where he was instrumental in pioneering global delivery model. Indranil is a member of the Ericsson’s Global Services Leadership team driving organization vision, long term...

Pierre Delort, ANDSI – French CIOs...

Pierre Delort is the President of the French National CIOs association ANDSI. He began his career in consulting then in operation management (retail, insurance and industry). In 1991, he started implementing lean in an insurance company (now Generali). Building upon this experience, he conducted a research project (Ph.D.) about lean management in the service industries at Mines-ParisTech (a french University). He then started working as an IS manager committed to innovation (in business, organisation and technology). He created the IS department of RFF (Reseau Ferré de...