Conference Chair
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
Speaker
Our experts from science and practice include:
(Subject to change – will be updated continuously!)
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 Evolutionary Architecture & Verticalization
Sylvia Scherer
Transformed people transform people
Sylvia Scherer ist „Wegbegleiter für Wegbereiter“. Für Menschen und Unternehmen, die neue Wege gehen. Durch Coaching, Impulsvorträge und Workshops begleitet sie Führungspersönlichkeiten, Unternehmer und Gründer dabei, Klarheit zu finden. Klarheit zu ihren Werten, Zielen und Stärken. Denn nur wer im Innern klar und strukturiert ist, kann da draußen entschlossen vorangehen.
Sylvia ist seit über 20 Jahren in den Themen Führung, Transformation und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung unterwegs. Nach Start im Mittelstand und mehreren Jahren in der Beratung war sie über ein Jahrzehnt in Führungspositionen für die BMW AG aktiv, davon 3 Jahre als Expat in China. Nach ihrer Rückkehr aus China gründete sie 2016 das unabhängige Movement ,,Connected Culture Club”. um die Transformation der Arbeitswelt mitzugestalten und zu beschleunigen.
Mit ihrem eigenen Business fokussiert sie seit 2018 auf die Wegbegleitung von Visionären, Pionieren und Zukunftsgestaltern, um mit ihnen gemeinsam einen Beitrag für eine positive Zukunft zu leisten. Sie ist außerdem Mitglied des Advisory Boards bei der digitalen Coaching Plattform „CoachHub“, um Persönlichkeitsentwicklung digital noch breiter zugänglich zu machen.
Sylvia ist echt, unangepasst und entschlossen. Sie stellt die großen und tiefen Fragen, und bleibt urteilsfrei, egal welche Antworten kommen. Sie spricht Klartext. Und sie steht für Gemeinschaft. Denn die großen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit können wir nur gemeinsam lösen. Mit ihr als Wegbegleiter entstehen inspirierende Perspektivwechsel, um sich selbst, andere und unsere Welt positiv nach vorne zu bewegen.
Company: Sylvia Scherer – Wegbegleiter für Wegbereiter / Former Sustainability Leader @ BMW Group
Position: Founder
Alexander Gudenus – UNIQA
Maturing your EA practice with EA Services
Alexander is Head of Enterprise Architecture at UNIQA Insurance Group in Vienna Austria. He collaborates with top executives to create value through end-to-end transformations supporting the largest restructuring in the company’s history.
He is keenly focused on implementing Enterprise Architecture capabilities across UNIQA’s companies, drawing on 15 years in insurance industry, expertise as an Enterprise Architect practitioner, and his prior role at Capgemini Consulting where he guided clients on tech-enabled transformations.
Alexander is currently maturing the Enterprise Architecture organization partnering with Lean42 and LeanIX.
Company: UNIQA Insurance Group AG
Position: Group Lead Enterprise Architecture UNIQA
Dr. Rainer Lorenz – Elli – A Brand of the Volkswagen Group
Lecture Dr. Rainer Lorenz
Company: Elli – A Brand of the Volkswagen Group
Position: Senior Vice President Business Design & Integration
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
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
Romina Pyplacz – E.ON Digital Technology
Company: E.ON Digital Technology
Position: Program Lead E.ON Datahouse – Global Data Lake
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
Jean Gehring – IEEE Advisory Board – Levi Strauß
Business Driven IT – Build a Business-Aligned IT Strategy
How Governance ensures your EA is successful and sustainable and supports your ever changing business.
Jean Gehring is the Founder and Managing Director of fi Architects Group. She created this group to help clients ‘right-size’ their enterprise architecture function, enabling them to drive the desired digital transformation outcomes in a business-focused way.
A Chief Architect, educator, and recognized thought leader Jean has extensive experience in leading technology optimization and transformation programs across multiple industry sectors.
Jean regularly speaks and writes on enterprise architecture and governance. The former President of the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations, a global association that promotes the architect profession, she also served on the Advisory boards of IEE-TEMS, OPEX-FI, and Penn State University Center for Enterprise Architecture among others.
Company: CIO Advisory & Board member
Position: CIO Advisory