Rob Akershoek is an IT Management Architect. For over 20 years he has been involved in improving IT organizations by designing, implementing and automating IT management processes. He helps organizations to transform to a new IT organization, ready to manage new technologies such as Cloud and mobile, as well implementing new IT management concepts such as DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Big Data for IT and Self Service.
Currently he is working as an IT4IT architect at Shell responsible for the solution architecture and design of IT management solutions. In this role he has been involved in IT4IT Forum from The Open Group. He is author of the IT4IT management guide published by The Open Group.
He has a broad range of experience in implementing IT management capabilities (for example based upon ITIL, COBIT, SCRUM, PMBOK, etc.) and has been responsible for the roll-out of numerous integrated IT management solutions. This included projects related to Enterprise Architecture(EA), Service and Application Portfolio Management (APM), Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Continuous Delivery, Agile and Lean Software Development, Test Management, Deployment Automation, Service Monitoring, IT Service Management (ITSM), Software Asset Management (SAM), IT Financial Management (ITFM), IT Reporting, CMDB and IT Asset Management.
After being an officer in the Merchant Marines, I started my career in IT as a developer for a consulting company in Holland. In the early days I worked as a developer in a team maintaining a network administration system.
In August 2000 I changed employer and started to work for Mercury as a sales engineer. In the beginning the portfolio was testing tools, but later additional products were added to the portfolio like monitoring, project and portfolio management, SOA management. After being a sales engineer for a couple of years, I changed position and became a PPM Solution Architect working with customers across Europe.
When Mercury was acquired by HP in 2007, I joined the consulting part of HP as a member of the Global Practice Team. After a couple of years I changed into the EMEA Architecture Team of HP Software. Through a Spin-off and Merger of the HPE Software business with Micro Focus, I joined the Micro Focus organization as a Solution Architect.
Since December 2017 I am working for Fujitsu as an Engagement Lead, helping organizations with their Digital Transformation.
Lionel van Dongen is a Senior Program Manager, currently working as contractor for the Brussels Regional Informatics Centre (BRIC): the ICT entrusted partner within the Brussels-Capital Region, with any mission of computer, telematics and cartographic development.
For over 20 years, Lionel has helped various telecom, energy and insurance organizations to adopt their digital transformation and to implement new e-services such as wifree or VoD (video on demand), as well as managing new technologies such as IoT, cloud and docker.
Lionel is an entrepreneur and funded in 2008 his own consulting firm (Skill Factory) which is active in Program Management and Business Intelligence.
Before debuting his career as an entrepreneur, Lionel served as Principal Consultant at DXC Technology in their Brussels office. He also spent six years as Managing Consultant at Gemini Consulting (Cap Gemini Group) in their Paris and Brussels offices.
Lionel obtained his MBA degree at Saïd Business School, Oxford University (UK) in 2008, and his Master’s degree in political science from Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in 1996.
As Chair of the Open Platform 3.0™ Forum, I help guide the Forum's direction and strategy in developing open, impactful, and executable standards around emerging technology trends that are converging and leading to new business models and system designs.
These trends currently include:
Emmanuel Gastaud is an IT project manager. He is graduated in computer science engineering from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon. He started his career at Sopra-Steria as IT engineer and project manager in software development teams, in the field of industry and public services.
He joined the Métropole de Lyon in 2000 and first managed IT projects for the internal departments, more specifically in the field of dematerialization.
Since 2015 he is in charge of the development of digital services for the smart city in the domains of Internet of Things, Energy and Smart Grids. He is also involved in the management and publication of urban data.
Jacco has almost 30 years of experience in the Oil and Gas industry in different functions. He joined Shell in 2013. Before Shell he worked in ExxonMobil for 16 years and before that worked in different Engineering contractor and Petrochemical Operating Companies.
In the Maintenance space his first job was Maintenance Team Leader (Electrical and IS&A) on a Chemicals complex. Later in his career Jacco fulfilled a role in the Operational space as Asset Manager for a Refinery Reformer- and H2 Production units. Apart from the Asset manager role, he had two other managerial roles. One as Engineering manager for a Refinery and Chemical site leading the E, IS&A, Rotating & Reliability Equipment disciplines and the other as Maintenance Excellence Manager for a large Refinery and Chemicals complex in Europe.
Jacco is TÜV certified Functional Safety Engineer, Reliability RCM Facilitator and has a strong background in Root Cause Failure analysis.
He was “exposed” to all aspects of DCS, PLC and Safety systems in lots of different circumstances and situations which gives him a broad knowledge about what our systems can bring but also where the opportunities for improvement are.
In his current role he is working for global Shell on the “DCS of the Future” and more particularly on what it should bring and how we can get there. In this he see a considerable role for O-PAS™ as a standard of standards.
Lauri Paavola works as a researcher at CKIR under Aalto University School of Business. Before joining CKIR, he was working as a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford. Much of his research has concentrated on understanding the challenges of an increasingly digital world of retail, particularly through technological innovation and the use of customer data.
The theoretical focus of Lauri’s work is on microfoundations of organisational behaviour, the origins of field transformation, and the management of innovations. Lauri earned his undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and Management at Aalto University and is currently finalizing his PhD. During his research, Lauri has been working with many companies, including Tesco, Dunnhumby, Sainsbury's, Aimia, Waitrose and SOK.