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...

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...

Michael Jones, eBay

Michael leads a team serving eBay’s continental European markets with content management, content strategy, tools & process expertise. Our content enables the business to inspire, advise and engage buyers and sellers, maintaining consistency across markets and languages. Formally, Michael worked for over decade in customer service, gaining frontline experience as an agent, process and project management and building up and running a European team of specialists looking after eBay’s online self service. Michael is based in...

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...