Pierre Pezziardi, Hello Merci

Entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker. Pierre advocates the idea of “convivial computing”: systems aimed at empowering people, opening up pyramidal organizations and supporting self-organized teams. He is OCTO Technology co-founder, a leading IT consulting firm in France, and originated the USI conference, gathering since 2008 a community of leaders in large corporate Information Systems. He founded Octopus Microfinance, now the leading Open Source Platform for the microfinance industry. Octopus is a worldwide community of practitioners in Lean and Agile...

Yves Caseau, AXA

Lean Startup as the innovation engine for the Digital Agency at AXA AXA’s Digital Agency is a recent offspring of AXA digital strategy, whose purpose is to deliver innovative services to both AXA customers and prospects, in 55 countries. To ensure that their mobile and web applications bring true statisfaction to their users, the Digital Agency follows the Lean Startup methods from Eric Ries, with numerous insights that may be found in “Running Lean” (Ash Maurya) or “The Lean Enterprise” (Trevor Owens & Obie Fernandez). The goal is to...