Thursday, July 10, 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.

Gustaf Höstbo, Partner at Harper – Transforming your Organization to a Learning Machine

Innovation needs a fast knowledge creation, even more in today’s fast-paced world. Here you will get some examples of how to implement and improve your knowledge creation ability. We will also learn what to do and what you should avoid to secure the creativity always is on top. What tools, strategies, and communities can help us unlock the full potential of our collective knowledge?

Gustaf Höstbo Is partner at Harper - focus on building meaningful growth. A Harvard Business Angel & wannabe rock star. He is a lean-agile coach with a vast experience in diverse industries. Gustaf prefers hands-on challenges in real life.

Ovidiu Contras, Business Transformation Coach and Author – Herding Cats

Leading engineers or “herding cats” as Ovidiu describe it, is the challenge for most leaders in Product Development. We will go through many examples from Ovis long career which he also share in his recent book “Herding Cats”.

Ovidiu Contras, Ovi , is a Lean Coach and author of “Navigating the Lean Transformation”, book covering some of his personal experiences in Lean transformation efforts, as a continuous improvement employee. His career started as a design engineer for high temperatures industrial equipment. Since 2000 he is actively involved in Lean Transformation efforts as Lean Black Belt, Continuous Improvement Manager, Kaizen Promotion Officer or Lean Coach. Ovi’s experience covers all the business aspects, from developing new products to servicing them, including the support functions like Finance, IT, HR… working for companies in Aerospace, Consumer Goods and Research & Development. Ovi is specialized in the application of Lean principles in complicated multifunctional environments where the product is hard to see, and the work is non repetitive.

Jeswin Jeyasurya, Senior Product Development Engineer at Trudell Medical International – Improving our LPPD system

Jeswin attended last year’s LPPDE NA 2024 conference to gain more knowledge and experience about LPPD. With a clear view of the problems he is facing in his day-to-day business in his current area of practice Jeswin went about transforming the way of working to the better using LPPD. He will tell us about his journey, the initial successes and failures and specially about all the learning they have gained.

Jeswin Jeyasurya is an experienced project engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the biomedical industry. He has experience with new medical device development, product development from design to manufacturing, designing and conducting clinical trials, intellectual property development, writing and publishing scientific papers detailing research, SolidWorks, and Matlab. Jeswin is a strong research professional with a Master of Applied Science focused in Assistive Robotics from The University of British Columbia.

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By Juha Tammi & Peter Palmér

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