Sudip Pal, Ericsson India Global Service...

Today industries are going through rapid and disruptive changes across the world. IT Companies that had been providing software & application services through traditional IT development model are increasingly turning to more innovative development practices to help them meet changing customer demands. Current ways of working result in repetitive manual tasks with avoidable waste of time and effort thereby causing lower C-Sat, low efficiency, less competitiveness and financial drainage. With services evolving faster each year and growing customer demands, mastering the...

Antoine Contal, Google

Google’s secrets for removing waste from the World Biography: Antoine’s lifelong mission is to delight customers and end users. He honed this skill through diverse experiences, ranging from startup software engineer to digital product manager. As a Lean Coach, he helped IT departments and IT vendors to empower their teams and create more value. As a Google Solutions Engineer, he explores and shares technological innovations for Google’s largest customers. Google's secrets for removing waste from the world by Antoine Contal from Institut Lean...

Mike Orzen, Mike Orzen & Associates...

Mike will run a pre-conference masterclass: “Building Your Lean IT Roadmap” on 13 March and present “Lean IT, DevOps & Agile – Learnings from Nationwide” Six years ago, Nationwide (an insurance and financial services company with US$26 billion in annual revenues) embarked on building industry leading software engineering capabilities. Their lean journey has enabled and engaged their 9,000+ person IT organization to deliver great solutions to customers and partners with ever-increasing levels of quality. In this session, we’ll explore the...

Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle, Theodo

How does Lean management help the startups grow? According to Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle, co-founder and CEO of mobile and web dev start up Theodo, the Lean practice is the perfect approach CEOs need to solve the issues their fast growing startups are faced with. He explained the benefits in terms of turnover growth as well as strategic alignment, team empowerment, anxiety transformed into creativity, ability to focus on the right issues and to solve them. He also explained why Lean management is complementary to Agile software development. Biography Benoît...

Takashi Tanaka, Dassault Systemes

While working for Toyota Engineering Co., Takashi Tanaka implemented many TMS (Toyota Management System) tools at various industries, not only automobile but also airplane, mobile phone, fashion, design studio, chemical and medicine. When he worked with Boeing Company, Takashi noticed the need for digital Oobeya for global product development. Since he joined Dassault System, he has been developing not only Digital Oobeya, but also digital formatted Cost planning and Quality into process for embedded software development. Lean cost planning by Takashi Tanaka at the...

Steve Bell, Lean IT Strategies

The New Frontier of Lean: The Digital Lean Enterprise In his talk, Steve will help leaders cut through the complexity and hype to focus on the three, key value-enablers of Digitization and Big Data, supporting informed strategy and execution to help large, established enterprises thrive in the digital-disruptor economy. On March 16, Steve and Karen will lead a masterclass, guiding participants in the development of an action plan tailored to their enterprise, to focus, leverage and scale key value-adding Digitization and Big Data analytics efforts aligned to their...