Speaker – Lean Konferenz 2023

Karsten Voges – Lean42 GmbH

Business Driven IT – Build a Business-Aligned IT Strategy

Karsten Voges brings 20 years of leadership experience, ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies, plus various IT management consulting firms. He and Inge Hanschke have been working together in different organizations for 15 years and his motto “lean & smart” is very similar to Inge’s “easy & effective”.

With degrees in computer scientist (TUM) and an MBA (UK), he has been combining IT and business for years. As a product manager in enterprise architecture management, head of IT architecture and as a founder of a data collaboration platform, deep technical knowledge comes together with a lot of business acumen. Therefore Karsten Voges ensures fit for purpose solutions that are followed through with change management, plus that they are also implemented in state of the art technically.

Conference speaker, e.g. Planview Horizons, TexWeek, Gartner, Lean Konferenz, Penn State etc.

Company: Lean42 GmbH
Position: Managing Director

Juliane Berger – Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE

From Strategy to Execution at Allianz guided by Business Architecture

Juliane is leading the business architecture practice at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE. She has been a long-time certified practitioner, being engaged with Business Architecture Guild’s insurance reference model team. She actively engages in and contributes to international business architecture networks. Recent completed learning programs included “Building a Strategic Business Architecture Practice” and “Effective Communication for Business Architecture Success” by Biz Arch Mastery. Previously Juliane held roles with Allianz and BMW Group as well as consulting in project management and business architecture.

Company: Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE
Position: Head of Business Architecture

Dr. Thomas Meintrup – Mercedes Benz Group

EA Governance – Do we really need it? But how?

Herr Dr. Thomas Meintrup ist nach dem erfolgreichen Abschluss seines Studiums in Theoretischer Physik mit dem Erhalt des Doktortitels der Université de Neuchâtel in der Schweiz im Jahre 1994 seit über 25 Jahren in der IT-Branche zunächst als Wissenschaftlicher Berater, Software Entwickler, Software Architekt und in den letzten Jahren als Unternehmensarchitekt und IT-Strategieberater in zahlreichen Projekten bei unterschiedlichsten Unternehmen aktiv.

Seit November 2019 ist Herr Meintrup als Unternehmensarchitekt bei Mercedes-Benz angestellt und verantwortet hier die Themen Enterprise Business Architecture und moderne Organisations- und Architekturthemen wie Vertikalisierung und Evolutionary Architecture.

Er hat im Mercedes-Benz Konzern in diversen strategischen Projekten wie z.B. VerSO oder Vertrieb der Zukunft oder im Kontext unserer 100% Digital-Strategie eine Business Capability basierte Architektur-Methode und ein agiles Architekturarbeitsmodell eingeführt und ist einer der Gründer und Leiter der Hey Architect! Community. Herr Meintrup ist seit einigen Jahren Sprecher auf verschiedensten Architekturkonferenzen.

Company: Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Position: Head of Enterprise Architecture

Dr. Rainer Lorenz – Volkswagen Group Charging GmbH (“Elli”)

From idea to implementation – How to think in processes helps to define a MVP (minimum viable product)

Everyone has new ideas for Business Models and wants to be the first on the market. Minimum viable product (MVP) is the magic word. What one often forgets – VIABLE is the crucial word. How do you design a new business model if you don`t want to fail during implementation, roll-out or due to European regulation? And how important are processes and compliance topics? My showcase is a B2B Wallbox product for the European Market.  From idea to implementation – how to develop a high-level idea into an end-to-end process design for implementation. Which processes, pitfalls and compliance issues can emerge during such a project. Is the MVP approach with its agile methods in conflict with process management methods? My experience is that they complement one another.

Company: Volkswagen Group Charging GmbH (“Elli”)
Position: Senior Vice President

Tobias Mohr – Lufthansa Technik Group

Escape from the brownfield Swamp – Digital Transformation Strategy to enable Flexibility and Speed

Tobias Mohr works as “Head of IT Architecture & Production Systems” at Lufthansa Technik. He is responsible for the overall architecture of the IT landscape and the process organization of IT in cooperation with the business units. Together with his team, he strives to drive the digital transformation of Lufthansa Technik with state-of-the-art technologies and lightweight architectures, team topologies and processes.

The experience from his previous engagement at AVIATAR, Lufthansa Technik’s digital startup, helps him in this endeavor. As a founding member of AVIATAR, he built up a software engineering organization to develop digital products and a cloud platform. Tobias Mohr led this organization as „Head of Technology“ from 2017 – 2021.

From 2013-2017, he worked as “Head of IT Strategy & Governance” and has held various additional positions at Lufthansa Technik since completing his studies in business informatics.

Company: Lufthansa Technik Group
Position: Head of IT Architecture & Production System

Marlene Roth – Lufthansa Technik Group

Escape from the brownfield Swamp – Digital Transformation Strategy to enable Flexibility and Speed

Marlene Roth is responsible for the Enterprise Architecture Management at Lufthansa Technik. She strives to make software engineering a cutting-edge capability of organizations.

In her current role, she drives the digital Transformation of Lufthansa Technik by leveraging Conway’s Law and combining state-of-the-art architectures and technologies with effective team topologies.

Marlene is passionate about software engineering strategy, Big Tech and lifting heavy weights.

Company: Lufthansa Technik Group
Position: Enterprise Architect

Dr. Marcel Morisse – Hermes Germany GmbH

Business and IT in Concert : Business IT Alignment at Hermes Germany

Dr. Marcel Morisse works as Enterprise Architect at Hermes Germany GmbH since 2018 and completed his PhD studies researching resilience of entrepreneurs in digital contexts in 2019. Next to supporting innovation projects (e.g. quantum computing in logistics), he is responsible to implement digital twins in logistics, foster business IT Alignment and integrate manifold IT tools to implement a holistic enterprise architecture

Company: Hermes Germany GmbH
Position: Enterprise Architect

Leslie Robinet – MEGA International

Sustainable modernization of applications

American-born Leslie Robinet graduated from Virginia Tech with a major in Industrial Systems Engineering. After working in the U.S. in the area of process optimization using a lean approach, she settled in France in 2005 and joined MEGA International as a Solution Engineer to assist various clients with their enterprise architecture projects. As Professional Services Director, she now manages MEGA’s engineers for the Francophone region and the DACH region. In parallel, she is one of the founders of the association “Mon Epice’Rit” in her city, a food cooperative based on the principles of collaboration, ecology and solidarity.

Company: MEGA International
Position: Services Director and CSR Ambassador

Michael Drobnik – Herzog & de Meuron

Innovative Design Technologies in Architecture and Construction

Michael Drobnik joined Herzog & de Meuron as BIM Manager in 2014 and was appointed an Associate in 2020. Michael leads the multidisciplinary and global Design Technologies (DT) Team, that supports architectural projects with digital methods and tools ranging from BIM, Computational Design, Visuals and Animations to the Analogue/Digital Workshop. Over the years Michael and his team have brought research initiatives like XR, custom Early Design Tools or Sustainability and Performance Simulations into daily practice.

Michael received his architecture degree in 2007 from the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the TH Karlsruhe, Germany, having already gained practical experience in Amsterdam, New York, and Munich. From 2011 – 2014, Michael taught at the Chair for Architectural Informatics at the TU Munich in the field of Computational Design. Michael worked as a commission member and lecturer for the CAS ARC Digital at the ETH Zürich and has published articles for ARCH+, TEC21 and in the publication “The BIM Manager”.

Company: Herzog & de Meuron
Position: Associate, Lead Design Technologies

Mathias Hess – MHIM Interim Management

IT Services Off the Rack! Future vision or pipe dream

ENTHUSIASTIC OPPORTUNITY USER AND DIGITALIZATION OPTIMIST

Mathias Hess has been active in the digital world for around a quarter of a century – in national medium-sized companies and in large international corporations, as CIO and IT manager and in responsible management positions at IT service providers.

He knows everything that the modern IT environment has to offer in terms of opportunities and risks when it comes to digitization.

He has extensive experience in project management, both with the introduction of new applications and processes (ITIL) and in the implementation of outsourcing projects and complex offshore services.

As part of his job, he is often responsible for change management, which is increasingly becoming a decisive success factor in many projects.

Mathias Hess is an enthusiastic user of opportunities and digitization optimist. In the future, he sees IT less and less as a cost optimizer and more as a driving “business enabler”.

Mathias Hess is an interim manager and professional speaker. His topics are innovation, leadership, agility and change management.

Company: MHIM Interim Management
Position: IT Interim- und Projektmanager

Mark Bodman – ServiceNow Inc.

Achieving “project to product” transformations through better collaboration of Digital Product Managers and EAs

ENTHUSIASTIC OPPORTUNITY USER AND DIGITALIZATION OPTIMIST

Mark is a Senior Outbound Product Manager at ServiceNow with responsibility for CMDB, Common Service Data Model and Service Graph Connectors.  He leads several Open Group IT4IT™ and Architecture forum work-streams, led creating the widely used Digital Product definition, creating the IT4IT revision 3 and associated white papers.  Mark was previously an IT4IT strategist @ HPE, Product Manager @ Troux, and Enterprise Architect @ Dell. Mark received an honorable discharge from the US Army in strategic warfare systems, and has 4 US patents: (10832201, 10785331, 10686647, 8635592)

Company: ServiceNow Inc.
Position: Sr. Product Manager CSDM & CMDB

Jean Gehring – IEEE Advisory Board – Levi Strauß

7 Steps to Mature Your EA Capability

How Governance ensures your EA is successful and sustainable and supports your ever changing business.

Jean Gehring is the Global Managing Partner at Lean 42 GmbH. Jean sets the direction and oversees the CIO advisory activities across Central Europe and the U.S.  She works with IT executives to cultivate C-level competencies and architect meaningful change to make organizational and technology transformations possible. Her career spans 25 + years in leading IT organizations and managing operational architecture within Financial, Insurance, Retail, Manufacturing, and High-Tech companies.

A recognized thought leader on Emergent Strategies and Enterprise Architecture, Jean has a passion and proven track record in helping shape and promote the EA profession. A member of the Women in Architecture Association she served as President of the Federation for Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations and on the Boards for Penn State’s Center for Enterprise Architecture and IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society.

Company: Lean42 GmbH
Position: Global Managing Partner