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...

Vivek Goel, Tata Consultancy Services

Vivek Goel is a Service Delivery Manager at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). With over 13 years of experience, he leads a team of 100+ engineers to deliver production support services to more than 13,000 users across the globe. An engineer by qualification, Vivek is also ITIL V3 Service Operations Certified. Vivek distincts himself with his passion for improvement and has received recognition from clients as well as within TCS. See the session about Fat to Fit: Recipe for a Lean IT Service Back to list of...

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...

Alan Shalloway, NetObjectives

With over 40 years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum and agile design- having written four books on these topics. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide. See the session about Managing Product Development Flow Across an IT Organization Back to list of...