Catherine Chabiron, Institut Lean France

Catherine Chabiron is the former Director of IS Governance at Faurecia, a major French industrial group. For 8 years, she has worked at the heart of the Lean transformation of Faurecia’s IS department.   Join Catherine’s masterclass “Lean and Information Systems in today’s large corporations – what does it imply and how to manage it?” on 7 October 2015 to learn from her unique experience: The IS department of a lean corporation, sooner or later, will have to answer the question of how to contribute to the company’s overall Lean approach. This...

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,...

Michael Ballé, Institut Lean France

Author and Speaker, Michael is associate researcher at Telecom ParisTech, and holds a doctorate from the Sorbonne in Social Sciences and Knowledge Sciences. He has written several books and articles about the links between knowledge and management and more recently, co-authored two business novels published by the Lean Enterprise Institute, one about lean turnaround, “The Gold Mine” and one about lean transformation, “The Lean Manager”. He was awarded the Shingo Prize for both of them. More recently, he published “The Lean Management”...

Tomáš Tureček, Tieto

Tomáš has been working in IT industry for more than 15 years in various roles from development to management. He works as Lean and Agile coach in Tieto Corporation. He has more than 6 years of experience from coaching and mentoring of tens of deliveries in distributed environment. Tomáš earned his PhD degree at VŠB Technical University of Ostrava in 2010 where he has been giving lectures from Software development area for more than 9 years. Among others he contributes to IT communities, writes blogs, organizes soft skills workshops and speaks at prestigious...

Rasmus Strand, Fujitsu Sweden

Rasmus is a Fujitsu Lean Academy Gold-level accredited Lean Implementer working with Fujitsu Sweden. He has worked with several large implementation projects with Fujitsu Sweden, helping to foster the idea of continuous improvement with the corporate structure.