Jean Cunningham, JC Consulting

Jean is widely recognized for her pioneering work in Lean Accounting and the Lean Back Office. She is principle of Jean Cunningham Consulting. Providing workshops, kaizen events, and strategic coaching, Jean helps companies fully integrate all their business functions with lean operations to minimize waste and maximize customer focus. Jean is the co-author of the acclaimed book, Real Numbers. She is also co-author of Easier, Simpler, Faster, a book on applying lean principles to information systems processes and optimizing output data within the lean workplace. Both books...

Christiane Fischer, SAP

Next to leading a global team within SAP Global IT Infrastructure Services, Christiane Fischer drives organizational design and change management. It is her mission to support other units optimizing business processes to be a powerful and flexible organization. She enables employees to contribute with their potential by providing methodologies and insight to support continuous transformation of E2E services to increase customer value. Christiane has been part of the lean leadership team in SAP Global IT Infrastructure Services for over three years, following the approach...

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...

Anju Saxena, Tata Consultancy Services

Anju Saxena is working at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in the Global Consulting Practice. A consultant with over 19 years of experience, she designs and leads service improvement and transformation initiatives across the globe. She is a certified ITIL Master. See the session about Fat to Fit: Recipe for a Lean IT Service Back to list of...