Thursday, April 4, 2024 Virtual Conference

Peter Palmér, LPPDE and Juha Tammi, Lean Association of Finland - Welcome and Instructions

Peter and Juha represent the two organization who organize these virtual online events and will moderate the Virtual Summit.

Paolo Sammicheli, Managing Director, entrepreneur, author, speaker and registered scrum trainer and coach at Klimsoft and Scrum@Scale – Reducing Time to Market in Hardware Development with Scrum

How to combine Agile, Scrum, and Lean to get the best of the two worlds:

Effectiveness and Efficiency together. In this talk we'll see a case study showing a Scrum implementation into an Oil & Gas company to create and build the production line of a Home Gas Regulator.

Paolo Sammicheli is an Italian entrepreneur with +30 years of experience, International Speaker, and Author of the books "Scrum for Hardware," the first significant publication in the world on the topic, and "Scrum in AI - Artificial Intelligence Agile Development with Scrum." Today Paolo works as an Agile Business Coach, specialized in Scrum, Scrum@Scale, Kanban, Design Thinking, and Lean Startup, helping organizations uncover better ways of delighting their customers. Scrum and Scrum@Scale Trainer for Scrum Inc, Lean-Agile Procurement Trainer, and Management 3.0 Facilitator. Passion about Technology, Innovation, Online Communities, Free Software, Events, Communication, Design, Marketing, and Startups.

Carl Starendal, Sustainability and Leadership Development Entrepreneur & co-founder of We Are Movement & SAFe Fellow & SPCT – Leading Innovation - Direct & Indirect Leadership Skills Fit for the Future

A bad leader can really destroy a good innovation culture, but…

What kind of direct and indirect leadership skills are needed to lead innovation? That as well as the needs to be fit for the future are on the agenda.

Carl Starendal is an Enterprise lean/agile trainer, coach and Sweden's only SAFe Fellow and Program Consultant Trainer (SAFe SPCT). He has worked directly for Scaled Agile, Inc., the creators of the Scaled Agile Framework® for several years as well as having years of hands-on experience as an important part of several multinational Lean-Agile transformations across a diverse range of industries, in and beyond the software industry. As part of his work at Scaled Agile he was one of the key contributors to the SAFe RTE certification training.

​Carl also frequently speaks about internationally about leadership, Lean-Agile transformations and leadership in product development, and he is a highly regarded mentor, trainer and facilitator.

Today Carl is a senior Partner and one of the co-founders of We Are Movement in Sweden.

Bengt Johansson, Global Lean Innovation & Quality Manager at ASSA ABLOY Group – Searching for the Corporate Unicorn – A Customer Centric Approach to Doing the Right Thing

Imagine a world where innovation is not just a buzzword but the core force propelling your business into new realms of success. That's the vision ASSA ABLOY brings to life with our comprehensive innovation system.

What truly distinguishes our approach is its power to refine and expedite innovative activities, turning a stream of concepts into solid, measurable outcomes that drive the organization to lead the market. It's about strategic resource utilization, anchored by focused planning and integrated objectives.

But innovation isn't a solo journey—it thrives on diversity and collaboration. Our system draws on the strength of diverse collaboration, uniting unique insights to ignite revolutionary breakthroughs. With our structured method, you can define clear targets and steer your day-to-day operations with exceptional clarity and swiftness. And with our disciplined approach, split into Lean Governance and Lean Execution, we establish clear objectives and manage daily operations with precision and agility.

Bengt Johansson has spent his entire working life at ASSA ABLOY and has seen the company grow to a global champion. Bengt has been working around 25 years with product development in different roles, production engineering, through quality management and product development. The latest 15 years Bengt spent in ASSA ABLOYs Lean Innovation program where he has been the Global Lean Innovation Manager the latest 6 years.

Dantar Oosterwal, Sr. VP & Partner Lean Product Development practice lead
at Argo-Efeso Consulting Group – Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) Increases the Speed of Innovation

Dantar is highly regarded as a global thought-leader in Lean Innovation & Product Development systems. He has applied his LPPD-model in diverse industries and seen remarkable results in speed and innovation.

This presentation is about how to implement and succeed in increasing the speed of innovation using LPPD. By creating many ideas and then selecting the best you develop your product development organization to a lean machine

Dantar Oosterwal, Sr. Vice-president at Argo-Efeso consulting group, is highly regarded as a global thought-leader in Lean Innovation & Product Development systems as well as an advisor, speaker and award-winning author.  He has a passion for learning and applying lean product development systems to impact improvements of business performance. Dantar has championed many large and global operational improvement initiatives as well as developed and led Lean Innovation transformations for organizations resulting in profound improvements to both top-line revenue and bottom-line efficiency.

He has been awarded the Shingo Prize for his work in Lean Innovation by the Shingo Institute, the Outstanding Corporate Innovator award from PDMA and several product patents. Dantar has served as the Global Vice President of Innovation at Sara Lee and Product Development & Product Planning Leader at Harley-Davidson Motor Company. His consulting experience spans a diversity of industries ranging from raw materials (mining and chemicals) to high-tech defense systems.

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By Juha Tammi & Peter Palmér

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