Régis Medina, Institut Lean France

Régis is the main Lean IT expert in Europe. As a Lean coach specializing in IT projects, and a Partner at Operae Partners, he has been coaching teams for the past 6 years, helping them deliver their projects on time, with the expected quality and constantly focusing on the users’needs. Based on his coaching experience, he co-authored the first book in French about the practice of Lean management in IT: “La pratique du lean management dans l’IT”. Precursor of Agile software development in France, he has co-authored the first book about Agile in...

Marie-Pia Ignace, Institut Lean France

Biography: Marie-Pia Ignace is highly experienced in managing large operations in the service industry. She started her career as a station master at the French railway company. Twelve years later, she was in charge of a business unit at Atos Origin, managing 2,800 persons distributed over 8 call centers. She launched one of the first French online banks. Subsequently, she built and deployed the first Lean program at BNP Paribas. Since then, she has conceived and deployed Lean management programs for other major European companies, engaging more than 4,000 people in IT,...

Cecil Dijoux

Cecil Dijoux is a seasoned IT Professional with 25 years international experience. Passionate about 21st century management, Cecil has been managing teams in an agile environment since 2004. He is a Lean & Agile Methodologies practitioner, an Enterprise 2.0 activist, a change management e-book author and a blogger on #hypertextual.

Daniel Jones, Lean Enterprise Academy

      Biography: Founder and Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Academy in the U.K., Daniel T. Jones is a senior advisor to the Lean Enterprise Institute, management thought leader, and mentor on applying lean process thinking to every type of business. Daniel Jones is the author, with James P. Womack, of the influential and popular management books that describe the principles and practice of lean thinking in production. These include: The Machine that Changed the World, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your...

Susana Jurado Apruzzese, Telefonica

Lean elephants: Lean Product Development in a large organization Telefonica, is one of the largest telecommunications provider in the world with operations in Europe, North America and South America. More than 3 years ago Telefonica began to apply the Lean Startup methodology to innovation projects. Lean Startup has allowed us to speed up the innovation process and do more with less, with a clear focus on market and customers. Applying Lean Startup at a large corporation is complex, but the benefits are many.     Biography: Susana is Innovation Manager and...

Silvia Cespa, BNL

Biography: Silvia Cespa started her IT career as a software developer for banking applications. In 1987, she joined the Italian bank BNL – Banca Nazionale del Lavoro – as a developer and project leader, where her role evolved into a process improvement and organization specialist. 5 years later, she had the opportunity to start deploying Lean management in the bank IT department. Since then, she and her team have applied the approach to the various fields of IT, involving 450 people, making BNL one of the most advanced IT departments in the Lean IT practice in...