Thursday, June 4, 2026 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.

Stephen Young, Business Coach at Kick-start Medical Ltd – The Basics of Value Engineering

About 10 years ago, maybe more, I was shown the methodology for value engineering. At the time it was like someone had turned a switch on and finally I saw a way to solve multiple business needs using the same tool. I have used value engineering or parts of the methodology to minimize complexity, reduce cost and support risk management, but this is the tip of the iceberg for my all-time favorite methodology. I am so looking forward to sharing my experiences on the 4th June and hopefully I will turn on a few switches in your heads too.

Stephen Young is a motivational leader, results driven and people oriented. He is a business entrepreneur who formulates inspirational strategy and the framework to which it will be delivered. Stephen is a versatile executive with a proven track record of delivering positive change within medical device, gas analysis and semiconductor industries. He is a specialist in business wide LEAN implementation including new product development, office and manufacturing and a lecturer for Cranfield University.

Colleen Soppelsa, Senior Vice President of Operations and Supply Chain at Stealth Group – Systemic Problem-Solving using AI

Building a culture of systemic Problem-solving (technical + relational) is challenging. Using AI makes it a bit easier. We will go through:

1. 1. A3 logic
   2. Above / Below line behavior
   3. Punishment pattern

And bring it all together to create better decisions.

Colleen Soppelsa is a Lean and Six Sigma Transformation Leader with 25+ years experience across the Automotive (Toyota), Aviation (GEA) and Aerospace & Defense (L3H) Industries. She has a solid career track of executing goals and objectives associated with project engineering development, commodity management and cost planning in early product lifecycle. Colleen is highly skilled at applying Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to reduce risk and improve total cost of ownership by eliminating waste. Committed to creating breakthrough thinking environments based on the "Respect for People" principle.

Vesa Koskela, Murata Electronics at Murata Electronics – What’s Wrong with Agile Development in Hardware

In this presentation Vesa will share his experiences from working agile and with the SAFe framework and discuss what works and what does not work and how Murata has managed these challenges.

Vesa Koskela is a passionate professional in R&D and ICT delivery with 20+ years experience in managing teams in semiconductor and ICT areas to develop and deliver products to customers. Vesa has passion for building something new, to develop yet better products, yet more effective methodologies, yet reduced life cycle costs, resulting motivated and happy teams and customers.  He enjoys working with diverse, cross-cultural teams, seeking best ways to achieve effective teams.

Outside work Vesa has been PMI board member, and president of the PMI Finland chapter, promoting professionalism in project management, personal development of professional project managers and project management methods as everyone’s life skills.

Final reflections and remarks

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By Juha Tammi & Peter Palmér

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