Pierre Pezziardi

Entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker. I am an advocate for "convivial computing"​ : systems aimed at empowering people, opening up pyramidal organizations by supporting self organized communities. In 1998 I co-founded OCTO Technology, a leading IT consulting firm in France, and originated the USI conference, gathering since 2008 a community of leaders in large corporate Information Systems. In 2005, I founded Octopus, now OpenCBS, the leading Open Source Platform for the microfinance industry. OpenCBS is a worldwide community of practitioners in Lean and Agile methods, applied towards a better affordability of financial services to the poors. In 2011, I joined KissKissBankBank as a partner and gave birth to hellomerci.com "borrow from those who care"​. Since 2013, I'm leading a "national startups"​ incubator for the French Government, and rolled out radical innovations such as data.gouv.fr, Marchés Publics Simplifiés or mes-aides.gouv.fr ...... I notably wrote « Une Politique pour le Système d’information – Descartes, Wittgenstein, (XML) », published in 2005, « Lean Management : Better, Faster, with the same people – Convivial Computing » published in 2010 and available online at http://pezziardi.net, and « Trust-based debureaucratization » in 2013, also available online at http://www.fondapol.org/etude/internet/pour-la-croissance-la-debureaucratisation-par-la-confiance/ Spécialisations : IT, Lean, Agile, Bank2.0, Open Source, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, System Thinking