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...