Renaud Wilsius, BISAM

Renaud Wilsius, BISAM

In this session, you will learn how BISAM, the leading provider of sophisticated solutions for performance and attribution, GIPS composites management, multi-asset risk analysis, portfolio construction and reporting decided to refocus on quality after more than 10 years of disciplined Agile practices. Biography: Renaud has been working over the last two year with his entire R&D to bring quality of BISAM’s software to a brand new level. BISAM builds Performance, Attribution & Composites Analytics applications using a mixed of Scrum methodology, eXtreme...
Bruno Thomas

Bruno Thomas

The carbon footprint of IT services is between 1 and 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Datacenters try hard to be more sustainable, but software engineers do not invest this domain yet. There are also few papers, books about how to build software to have a reasonnable use of network and servers resources. GreenIT wikipedia page says that it is a continuous improvement process. In this session, we’ll see how we have used Lean during conception phase to reduce the ecological footprint of our website by almost 25% thus improving user experience, decreasing the...
Agustin Tena Leon, 365 Café

Agustin Tena Leon, 365 Café

The basics of Lean – interactive workshop Agustin Tena Leon and Oriol Cuatrecasas will introduce the basics of Lean management through a role play. You will understand all the basic principles of Lean, see how it’s a game changing. This is not an IT story but it will help you see and understand all the benefits of the Lean approach. In this unique Learning Session, the 365 Café team will explain how they have applied Lean in a pure service environment. The Barcelona-based 365 Café is a chain of little cafés and bakeries with one production centre supporting...
Tacio Vollet, Faurecia

Tacio Vollet, Faurecia

Discover through a role play how an IT coordinator and a Plant manager in Faurecia, a worldwide automotive equipment leader, can work together to implement a new ERP that is consistent with lean principles. Three main steps will illustrate how effective collaboration between IT and the Plant can actually create value in Manufacturing operations.   Biography: Tacio Vollet works with Faurecia Group Information Systems. He has played a key role in SAP rollouts in Brazil and is now supporting plants on operational improvements and deploying solutions. He also promotes problem...
Andy Rebbeck, Allstate

Andy Rebbeck, Allstate

Increasing velocity of Test Data Management at Allstate – the impact of Lean thinking and Kata in particular. Allstate has been centrally managing the provision of integrated Test Data in a dedicated team for 4 years. Over this time the team has increased velocity of test data provisioning, reducing the most complex requests by 7 days. The team is now aiming to reduce the delivery time down by a further 50% in 2017, using Kata problem solving. During this presentation Andy highlighted the operational impact and change in thinking which Lean has brought to the team....
Frédéric Petrus, Faurecia

Frédéric Petrus, Faurecia

Discover through a role play how an IT coordinator and a Plant manager in Faurecia, a worldwide automotive equipment leader, can work together to implement a new ERP that is consistent with Lean principles. Three main steps will illustrate how effective collaboration between IT and the Plant can actually create value in Manufacturing operations. Biography: Frédéric Petrus works with Faurecia Group Information Systems. After 14 years in various IT Operations functions, including the responsibility of the IT operations in Asia, Frédéric joined the Governance and Business...