I am driven by exploration and love connecting things as I believe that a topic seldom can be fully understood isolated but instead within their larger context. Thereby I have become dedicated to organic organizational development and scaling with the aim of reaching a whole that is larger than the sum of its parts. I am a consultant that twist and turn perspectives to unfold the nature of things and thereby seek to understand - focusing on root-causes and the long-term perspectives enabling lasting change. I have become deeply engaged in mentoring and personal development lies close to my heart as this where I believe true change originates. As a Sports coach I have learnt to explore personalized improvements by working with intrinsic motivation and playfulness.

Mattias Falkehag

Partner at Netlight

A Detour to Find a Career

I am a business-minded, people-oriented, data-savvy problem solver. Passionate about utilizing technology, data, behavioral sciences, and modern product management tools to make changes for the better. A recovering jack-of-all-trades, I now focus on product management, with the occasional relapse into strategy work, data analytics and coaching.
My background in strategy work, behavioral economics, and endurance sports has made me deeply respect the trade-offs inherent in all decision-making. These are the trade-offs inherent in who I am: I value 1) prioritizing the essentials over finalizing the details, 2) achieving the goal over following a process, and 3) taking action over staying comfortable. In other words, I would make for a lousy accountant.

Juuso Nisula

Product Strategist

Roadmaps are dead — Long live the roadmap

I am a cybersecurity consultant with the mission of spreading awareness about the importance of cybersecurity for organizations. I believe in a proactive approach to security and strive to provide insights and best practices that organizations can implement to stay ahead. With a strong focus on open communication, I work to demystify technical jargon and make cybersecurity accessible to everyone within an organization. I aim to create a holistic mindset to security, in which every individual understands their role in protecting the company's assets and sensitive information.

Alexander Sworski

Cybersecurity Consultant

Risk Estimation is easier than you might think, thanks to DREAD

I am passionate about everything that makes a team create meaningful and valuable digital products! This can be from finding out what to build and why and also creating a plan on how to get there in small steps that can be used to gather feedback, but also on a level where a team needs to find out how they can work together in order to maximise the value they are creating.
Often these things are very connected and overlapping, so I don't stick to usual role descriptions and will observe the situation, the team the product and do whatever is needed to create successful outcomes.
My passion for observing and reflecting on what i am seeing is also very present in my personal life where i am very enthusiastic about photography.

Thiemo Kersting

Product Manager & Organisational Coach 

My favorite resources about Product Management

I am a passionate machine learning engineer and product owner. I enjoy empowering organisations to use the right approaches and techniques for building product-oriented data science software. I also love to solve challenges in an innovative and creative way, focusing on the team's motivation and well being because at the end of the day, people are what matters.

I am inspired by supportive, enthusiastic and caring leaders, caring for their team, their industry, their world. I am inspired by people who address the real challenges of this world, such as social differences, environmental crisis or poverty.

Malou Ockenfels

Data Scientist & Scrum Enthusiast

Agile Development In Data Science Projects: Is It Even Possible?

I believe in organisations built from love and connection, where knowledge sharing is a natural part in every employee’s mind, where trust and a genuine interest for people, organisations, and society is an important cornerstone. An organisation where everyone is a leader and a follower at the same time. This is my perception of Netlight. And I am lucky to be a part of it.

Amin Zamanzadeh

E-commerce enthusiast

Do you feel let down by your e-commerce platform?

I am passionate about fixing stuff, whether it is code or a more efficient day-to-day life. Trying to be creative by failing fast and improving through time. I believe in automation and making showing quick results. I have experience with working in the public and private sectors with business-critical systems. In both small (3-5) and bigger (10-15) teams and enjoy being a team player - helping out where needed.

Emir Husic

Software Engineer

N-Layer Architecture In A Multi-Project Solution

I am passionate about experience. Achieving results and making things work is not nearly enough. Caring ownership is about the whole experience, how things work and what the results feel like. Experience happens between people, therefore I care about Inclusion, Equity and the Diversity of the people engaging. As a woman and a leader I am used to being both in the in-group and out-group and care for the difference it makes.

Lina Hagman

Is it possible to create a safe live IRL conference for 1000 people if you’re spread out over 9 offices in 6 countries?

I am interested in the process of execution, the interplay of people and to create something that is larger than the sum of its parts. I am also inspired by ambitious levels of creativity and playfulness.

Erik Ringertz

Producer of Netlight

20 Years of Impact

Originally from Turkey, I came to Switzerland 7 years ago to study Computer Science. During my studies, I worked as a software engineer, scrum master, cloud developer, and data scientist. I chose to specialize in cyber security in my Master's with the thought of "No matter what I decide to do in computer science, I should have a good understanding of the security topics". At the end of my studies, what brought me to Netlight was my willingness to develop myself in various roles in different sectors. During my first assignments, I had, and am still having, lots of fun discovering the data world and what it has to offer. Building a recommendation engine in 3 months, seeing it live, and even witnessing the data product we created winning an award... I can't imagine a better start to my career. My goal for future assignments will be to use the data in a way that shows our clients the treasure it holds. When I'm not on a treasure hunt, I enjoy hiking in the mountains and traveling(preferably by train :)). Another passion of mine is the DEI topics. As a consultant, I want to support our future clients and Netlight in creating safe, inclusive, diverse workspaces in any way I can.

Nazli Uzuner

Data Scientist

How to build and deploy a recommendation engine in 3 months?

I am a part of the Netlight Sales team where I get to build the office together with my fellow Netlighters. The best part of my job is connecting with new people and helping our clients unleash their potential by supporting them in their business challenges. I love thinking outside the box and exchanging ideas about the best potential solutions to any and all challenges. I am inspired by my team, where everyone can bring something unique to the table. When I'm not at the office, you can find me working on my new hobby crossfit, or home with my two puppies.

Katariina Kesseli

Engagement Manager

Why Build a Data Platform

Automatic Software Version Bump Using GitLab CI/CD

I am a consultant, a coach, a leader, a team builder, a learner, an achiever, and a problem eater full of positive energy.
My goal is to coach, lead, inspire, and motivate individuals and organizations to become high performers in their own fields achieving their goals.

Kevin Husell

Agile Coach/Product Owner

Estimations in Agile Environments — Why, When and How to use it

Coaching in Organizations and how it’s done

I am currently a platform engineer, but my background is software engineering. I started out as a fullstack developer with a passion for backend, and especially architecture. Then deploy pipeline challenges triggered my interest for CI/CD, which in case evolved into a critical view on the platform that hosted the applications. And that's where I am now, basking in the unlimited potential of containers, cloud and CI/CD, with just a trickle of monitoring.

Bjørn Espen Opstad

Platform Engineer

Tech 101

I am a curious software engineer with a passion for writing code that tests the limits of hardware. I find the inner works of modern hardware components fascinating and I love diving into CPU manuals in order to understand how one could get the most performance out of it. As a consultant, I strive to bring this mindset to the client as well. When I am not writing code, you could probably find me tinkering with an old Nintendo console, or yet again rereading Frank Herbert's Dune franchise.

Kosta Stojiljkovic

Enabling computer-brain interfaces in the cloud

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Data science projects are research heavy. Agile frameworks are application oriented. Do that mean that they are contradictory? Like salt and pepper, they seem to be very different and not so easy to combine at first sight, but they are and should be used together in most of the meals to reach the best possible taste.

Munich

Agile and data science: A spicy journey through a salty and peppery universe

I am on a mission to equalise the gender distribution within the tech industry. Not just in absolute numbers, but also in regards of influential power, to ensure that women are equally involved in decisions regarding what technology we build and what problems we solve.

Sanna Cedergren

Tech savvy visionary at Netlight

Have you ever played with the thought of how you can save the world? Or found yourself feeling an urge of using your skills to at least contribute to it? Running out of ideas for lockdown friendly hobbies I decided to spend the beginning of this year exploring this thought deeper by approaching it in the way I would approach any non-commented, anonymously-named, yet exceptionally functioning piece of code: reverse engineer it. In this talk I would like to invite you on to my journey of solving this problem. Resulting in insights to not only what impact tech can have on the world, but also how this relates to each and every one of us as an individual.

Saving the world with Slack, Hashtag and a Pirate Flag

I am passionate about inspiring and enabling others every day to innovate for a better tomorrow. At Netlight and my clients and with all amazing people I am proud to know. 

I am inspired by deeply connecting with people - living on different continents taught me to constantly question the known. I love exploring the world with open eyes to then collaborate and create something worthwile that enhance people's lives.

Birte Herrmann

Driver of Innovation & User-centred Transformation

How to discover your next digital Innovation? 

In her talk, Birte will clarify some of the misapprehensions and sharing best practices from her experience accompanying the so called fuzzy front-end of innovation when getting started with building digital products and demonstrate a hands on guide to tackle it. She will uncover the major steps of an iterative process on how to build customer-centric solutions to discover a solution that brings value to both - the customers and to the business as well as people working with it. At the end, you'll have a ready to use toolbox to get started with discovering the next digital Innovation.

The fuzzy frontend of Innovation Discovering from Lightbulb to Lighthouse

I may be labelled as a data-something guy, but I slowly drifted from confined titles. But rather became a lot more driven by utilising whatever's in(or not yet) in my inventory of skills to enable and empower clients in the domain, to reach their goals and ideally beyond.
I am inspired by when people bring their creative A-game together, dropping all differences, to achieve success.

Omar Moussa

Everything Data & harvesting its powers within organizations

Co-Talk with Florian Müller, Lead Data Engineer at Kühne + Nagel

At the birth of data teams within organizations, the main challenge is usually fixated towards establishing and certifying the business value of data science. This can be done via selecting a handful of use cases to investigate and ideally proclaim results. Most of the time, the focus at this early stage is on the output rather than method. As soon as the worth of a data department roots its presence, and becomes a prospect of valuable resource with descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive outcomes, it embarks on a journey of ongoing maturity. The team(s) size grows, responsibilities and use cases at hand increase, and the proof of concept(PoC) mindset needs to evolve towards creating polished data products. This state advocates the necessity for gradually building common processes, refining engineering practices, and providing stable infrastructures. Ideally, to harmonize and synchronize methodologies across teams, enable collaboration, and take away duplicated work from sub-teams, to ensure swift development journeys.

In this talk Florian and Omar, join forces on displaying this daring ongoing journey from the eyes of K&N’s data department, how it started, how it’s going, and the future challenges ahead. Moreover, how a collaborative bottom-up approach across engineers and scientists is taking place, to understand the needs arising and develop common solutions accordingly, elevating the department into the next level.

Hamburg

Growing Data Teams: An ongoing journey of mindshift

I am a consultant who loves fast paced advisory assignments. I am on a mission to help clients to unleash the full potential of their tech organizations. In the end, people build products for other people.

I am inspired by people who can explain complicated things simply and make difficult things look easy, yet always take time to enjoy a coffee together.

Sabrina Balzer

Consultant & Organisational Master Mind

Advisory as a term is loaded with many prejudices. But there is beauty in uncovering problems and creating a sense of urgency for change. When you then combine advisory with hands-on consulting the power of change can truly be unleashed.

The power of hands-on advisory

I am curious about and fascinated by organizations: Why organizations are as they are? How can we make individuals shine and further on make the organization to evolve? I am also inspired by the powerful balance of speaking and listening, creativity and structure, sensing and responding.

Katri Junna

Crafting consultant, pedalling partner & CEO at Netlight

Independent where in the tech universe we set up camp, we are constantly surrounded by feedback to improve our way of finding solutions. Giving feedback is important and we often talk about techniques on how to give it most effectively, but we seldom address the art of receiving feedback. Receiving feedback can be hard: our default answer to positive praise may be “Njaah, I was just doing my job”.

Constructive feedback may be hard to accept or it may cause an emotional storm. By understanding why receiving feedback is sometimes hard we can become better in utilising the feedback we receive, as well as improve our skills as feedback-givers.

Feedback is a precious GIFT! (and sometimes oh-so-challenging to receive)

I am building Netlight as a sustainable platform for client impact and personal growth. I am on a mission to build products that matter. I believe that a successful product creates impact because no one can escape a good product. Eventually everybody will use it and when they do they have to listen to what the creator of the product has to say.

I am inspired by all those pioneers who push the limits. From inventing great companies, products, organisations to creating cultures and experiences.

Christoph Gerdes

Partner at Netlight 

It has never been easier to build products that matter. Yet, we often fail and invest huge sums into products and initiatives that never take off. A recent study indicates that time plays a crucial role for the digital journey. In this talk we will wander through space and time and explore the 4 dimensions relevant for building a successful product.

It is time to make it real

I am always aiming to be a better version of my self. I like to take the people around me on the same journey, setting high goals and helping each other to reach them.

I am inspired by people who dare to fully commit to their dreams. I am inspired by people who have gone through very tough journeys in life and who have come out even stronger. I am inspired by my mom. :)

Djavad Hedayati

Advisor and Partner at Netlight

What is the point of a change project if the organization does not see some immediate progress? How can we take thousands of failed attempts of change initiatives and learn something from them? How can we make sure we have the backing by the organization to actually give the change a fair chance to succeed and finally how do we know that the change is going the right direction? In this talk you will hear Djavad, an expert in change, talk about a recipe he uses to make the planning phase, the execution phase and the conclusion phase of a change project much more tangible.

The Change Formula

I am curious at heart - about places, industries, technologies. I want to understand and I want to create. I build Netlight like it is my home, and my clients like they are my own business. I want to know what things could be like if we try!

I am inspired by creators - whether your medium is words, visuals, or code lines. I am inspired by people who are able to listen, understand, and map out the world around them in new ways. I am inspired by people who focus their impact on where it is most valuable, and who grow others around them.

Rebecca Staffas

Tech Consultant & Advisor at Netlight

Is this you? You are well read up on the latest in tech, you have the experience needed to make it all work in practice, and you have an eye for what is really needed. But you are hungry to make it all count, to turn it into something _special_. How do you make it happen? How do you become successful?

How to be successful

As an Architect, DevOps & Full-Stack-Engineer, I strive to be a "glue person" between product discovery, software delivery, and operations. My technical foundation lies in web development, container & serverless technologies, security, networking, and infrastructure as code. Beyond my core competencies, I have also helped clients address challenges like organizational transformations (at scale), mergers, engineering management, staffing, and quality assurance. For this, I reach out to my network for perspectives and advice.

I am genuinely proud to have helped successfully launch and relaunch scalable and maintainable workloads in very different tech stacks & industries. I believe that all my projects were a team effort and look forward to discuss how we can work together with your teams.

Stefan Dang

"Glue Person" between product discovery, delivery & operations

What is DevOps? Dev and Ops merged in one team? Ops writing YAML? Kubernetes? This talk will explore some core principles & metrics that might help you adapt effective DevOps patterns in your environment — beyond buzzwords.

A Pragmatic Approach to DevOps

As a management consultant in tech, it’s exciting to see and shape how people in different industries organize themselves and operate around their products and services, data and information, and common goals. I am inspired by resilience that lasts, humble professionals who take pride in their work, and caring people who show tough love with respect.

Liisa Lundell

Consultant at Netlight 

Carita Logrén

Stories from tech teams and how devops tools and practices can help almost any industry to build better products faster.

Helsinki

Why we love devops and coffee

I am all about enablement: our clients to boost their business, Netlighters to unleash their potential and my team to truly collaborate and have fun.

I am inspired by visionaries that communicate that vision in a way that enables and inspires others to share and contribute to it."

Pascal Ackermann

Product Manager and Analytics Aficionado

What are the success factors to get your organization to really work with data? Sure, you need some sort of data storage, ETL, BI tool and so on but getting to "data-driven" involves much more than just building a sophsiticated tech stack. In this talk, we'll look at the most important factors: your DATA and your PEOPLE, too.

Towards a Data Driven Culture (and the tech stack to make it work)

I have a crush on organisations with the ambition to change the world. Unleashing their creativity and enabling them to discover and build successful products is what motivates me the most. 
I am inspired by complex problems, seemingly impossible odds and people that dare to face them.

Maximilian Schramme

Advisor for Product Organisations 

Lisa Laux

Consultant at Netlight Hamburg

1+1 is not 3...it‘s 4! Defeating mathematics by coaching our consultant teams.

I am a genuine consultant with a passion for user-centered app development who always loves to learn something new.

I am inspiered by people who go their own way and motivate others to follow them.

Laura Mühlbach

Consultant at Netlight

Sono Motors reorients your car’s purpose from an idle asset to a meaningful, value-creating vehicle on our streets. In this talk, our Netlight Consultant Laura Mühlbach together with Group Lead Sono Digital Henrik Mitsch, explain the key characteristics of Solar Electric Vehicles (SEV). Additionally, they show how a Munich-based, nasdaq listed company,reimagines environment-friendly, individual mobility through solar and connected technology.

Reimagining sustainable mobility: Transforming the vehicle experience through solar and connected technology

I am a curious explorer who loves to work with talented people to build successful organizations.

I am inspired by people who feel enthusiastic about their job, their life or their family and who are passionate about what they do.

Manuel Fernandez

Change Enthusiast & Consultant at Netlight

A deep dive into Leadership, Strategy with insights on how to assure the art of execution via enabling others.

What it needs to build THE leading European experience platform apart from alpacas

"...What does your boss say about that? - I don't know, I don't think I have one…” 

Erik Ringertz believes in the natural ways of managing, being organised and taking decisions without the need for bureaucracy and hierarchical structures. In this enlightening talk, he walks us through his philosophy of creating a trust culture in a company and how important is to build upon perspectives rather than just considering facts.

The natural way of managing leaders

Netlight and Erik Ringertz go way back - 20 years to be precise.

Hand in hand Netlight and Ringertz have been awarded for the succesful way of managing and organising a company.

As the“Executive of the Year”, Eric felt stronger then ever the need to write a book about his vision of leadership - Harder Better Faster Stronger. And this year it was released in German!

This talk dives right into his thoughts around Trust & Leadership. 

The absurd idea to trust people first

I am the one in the room who stands up if things go the wrong way. I love to ask the hard questions and guide teams and products in the direction of finding answers to these questions. If I’m not doing this you’ll find me in the box for CrossFit or you’ll see me petting every dog on the street.
I am inspired by what intrinsic motivation is able to set free in people.

Jana Maria Gemlau

Agile Project Managing, Coaching & Product Owning

Co-Talk with Finn Lorbeer, Director of Engineering at MOIA

MOIA faced a radical changing market environment, when Covid hit Hamburg and no one was allowed to ride a MOIA anymore. But what do you do in your company and in your team if giving up is not an option?

With crisis-after-crises in the past years, the flexibility to adhere to changing markets on a company- to team-level became a true asset.

The basic idea behind “being agile” was that companies and businesses should be flexible enough to react to changing market requirements. It also describes the evolutionary processes inside a single team: As smaller business units, also teams need some flexibility to adopt to those changing markets conditions and to be able to unleash their full innovative potential.

Listen to Finn and Jana who will tell you the story of MOIA and how daring can innovate not only a product but also a company with a truly #agile reaction to new needs of the market.

How to reinvent your business model when Covid f***s you - or: The business value of “being agile & innovative”

I am a software developer who is passionate about innovation, leadership, and the world of startups. I love tackling and dissecting interesting problems, and looking at it from all its facets (technical, business, people...).
I am inspired by higher purpose, and making an impact on the world.

Mansour Kheffache

Fullstack Developer & Problem Solver

Co-Talk with Håkan Dackefjord, CEO/Founder at WiTTRA

Imagine aiming at a moving target, while riding a wild horse and being completely blindfolded; an accurate picture of what the world of IoT startups feels like.On one hand, IoT is a field that has emerged recently and is constantly evolving, making it difficult to make long-term decisions and understand the right tools to be able to unlock its full potential. On the other hand, the start up world relies quite a lot on taking risks, pioneering, and innovating. These two factors make these two worlds fit nicely together; where experimentation, error, and resilience are the main drivers of success.In this talk, Mansour and Håkan will share the exciting journey of Wittra, an organization that embraced daring as one of its core values since its inception. They will talk about some of the main challenges the company has faced, and how they could overcome them with the right mindset geared towards trying and daring.

"Try, try again, repeat": what it takes to create a revolutionary IoT product

Co-Talk with: Thole Janssen, CPO at bonprix

Technology, customer-centricity, employee experience, and innovation has never played a more powerful role in the ever-changing landscape of successful product development. After years of risk evaluation and several internal discussions, bonprix ecommerce finally succeeded in having the courage to invest in fundamentally changing the way of working: transforming from a project-driven operating model to an empowered product organization.

By proofing that chances are bigger than risks, aiming high for an outcome-driven approach by enabling the teams discovering and delivering what brings the biggest value, bonprix ecommerce is in the middle of organizational transformation. Facing several challenges to overcome such as decentralized decision-making and new alignment models from strategic to product team level, the treasure of knowledge grows every day.

Thole and Birte will share key success factors and learnings of their journey encompassing skills, organizational and cultural aspects while transforming into a continuously learning product organization which cares to dare.

Why caring for daring is worth it: A journey transforming towards an empowered product organization

I love building things together in a group and seeing them flourish. As a kid, my best memories were from building Lego with my friends. Today I build digital products and a consulting office in Zurich.

With my passion for Product Management and my experiences as Product Manager, Product Owner, and Advisor/Product Leader for organizations striving to transform into more modern user-centric product organizations, my goal is to build products customers love. I like the challenge of finding pragmatic ways to empower teams one step at a time in a way that is a good fit for a company, as well as pushing for an outcome-driven approach and bringing in perspectives from tech, UX, and data early on in the product development process. I have been driving product development in market-leading organizations as well as startups. I have built up multiple product teams, primarily within E-commerce and marketplaces.

The best feeling for me is in the moment when a team is building on top of each other’s ideas, whether related to a digital feature, startup idea, or strategy!

Patric Ögren

Product Management & Product Coaching

Birte Herrmann and Patric Ögren share their experience of assessing the maturity of a product organization, creating a transformation plan, building commitment for the new organization and ways of working, as well as ramping up toward the new user-centric target state and generating continuous innovation.

One year into the transformation, the revenue was already increasing by 20%, the customer NPS increased, and the organization found attracting and maintaining talent easier.

A transformation toward a modern user-centric product organization

Hyperpolyglot computer engineer with several years of experience in Agile work environments and full-stack technology. Passion for challenges, technology and machine learning.

Christian Greciano

Scrum Master & Backend Engineer

A talk by Jani Leirimaa (CEO at Hiven) & Christian Greciano (Netlight Consultant)

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