Martin Chmelar, Tieto

For the last six years, Martin has been working as a Lean and Agile coach, mentor and consultant in Tieto, which is an IT company with 18 000 employees distributed over the world. He lives with Tieto teams and helps them and their customers achieve their goals, deliver more value, solve problems and improve efficiency, productivity and quality via adoption of Lean & Agile principles, practices and tools. Typical activities are coaching, facilitating Kaizen workshops and root cause analysis, training, problem solving and practice adoption. And, of course, encouraging...

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...

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...

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...