Thursday, April 3, 2025 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.

Janne Lundberg, President at LIAB – Product Projects in Half the Time – Proven in Practice

Janne will describe, with examples, a ‘simple’ but powerful approach of planning and driving mixed hardware and software projects, reducing the calendar time to half using agile and visual principles.

This approach has proven to work in different types of projects, like tightening systems, door hardware, id card printers, ventilators, wastewater pumps, railway system components, thermal cameras and in building a wastewater treatment plant, moving factories etc. It can be scaled from ‘one man band’ projects to bigger programs.

It is simple to describe but it is not too simple to have success in shortening the time, so I will share tips and tricks that are useful to get the full effect.

Janne Lundberg is a Global Agile Innovation Coach and Speaker. Since 2017 Janne is working as an independent consultant transforming global leading companies – having significantly increased their Value creation, the OnTime performance and the employee happiness.

Until 2017 he worked for 6 years as Global Lean Innovation Manager for ASSA ABLOY, becoming one of the 100 most innovative companies in the world (Forbes) – before Apple. At ASSA ABLOY, Janne introduced Lean Innovation in around 90 Innovation sites globally, including starting 60 Pulse Rooms, training 1500 employees and certifying 170 Lean Innovation Champions.

Before Agile he has worked during the main part of his career at Atlas Copco with global industrial and automotive customers. There he was driving the electrical and digital transformation. He has a Master of Science in Engineering and has used Agile since 2006. He also has a LPD university training at Chalmers 2008.

Matthias Paetow, Senior Lean Manager at HILTI – Perspectives and Experiences from an In-house Consultant

In his presentation, Matthias will talk about:

• His learning path as a Lean Manger,
• The evolution of Lean at Hilti, from tools to systems, based on guiding principles and people’s behaviors
• Chances, challenges and examples of Lean in R&D and engineering

Matthias Paetow has the mission of making teams and people more effective, efficient whilst having more fun at work. He connects a “It’s all about people” mindset with a technical background as engineer. With that he is well equipped to support Lean in R&D and beyond. He coaches leaders, facilitates workshops with leadership teams, trains and mentors A3 problem solvers and helps teams to apply lean tools like k-briefs, root cause analysis, process mapping and more.

Matthias is a certified executive coach (ILM, by https://www.coachingcultureatwork.com/ ) and trainer in Hilti’s LCS ( https://www.leancompetency.org/ ) accredited lean training program.

Mikael Lundgren, Founder, Business consultant at Levla – The Future is Already Here - So How do
We Deal with it?

The Yamaha DX7 not only revolutionized the concept of music synthesizers, but also shaped the sound of popular music for a decade with a sound that is currently making a comeback - yet is so mathematically complex to program that everyone just uses the existing sounds over and over! What can developing an AI system for programming the world's most famous and complex synthesizer tell us about the current state and future of machine learning? In this engaging talk, Mikael will use his experience of Generative AI and his insights in the current state of research to paint the picture of what is reasonable to expect from machine learning now, and in the near future, but also the weaknesses to be mindful about when shaping your strategy for utilizing machine learning in your product development.

Mikael Lundgren has a deep experience of Lean and Agile, in particular Scrum from many types of service- and product developing organizations. He lives for learning, and sharing his experience and insights with the people he works with. Mikael is a consultant transformation leader, interim manager, Lean/Agile mentor, and appreciated trainer and speaker within areas of Service- and Product Development, Product Management, Organizational Change and Management. He am a good communicator, leader and facilitator, and always work with the aim to make things work in practice. He works with start-ups as well as big corporations in Sweden, Scandinavia and Europe, through the people in the organization. Mikael believes growth comes from learning, applying, then teaching your peers, something that permeates all of his work with leaders, management teams and executives.  He is a Certified Scrum Trainer since January 2006.

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By Juha Tammi & Peter Palmér

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