Industry Roundtable June 2025 - Agenda

Welcome coffee and registrations

Introduction by the Master of Ceremonies

Javier Galbally
Senior Research Officer
eu-LISA

Opening

• 13:30 – 13:45
  Marili Männik
  Executive Director Ad Interim
  eu-LISA
• 13:45 – 14:00
  Ignacy Niemczycki
  Secretary of State
  Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union)

SESSION 1

Implementing Agile in the public sector – What does research tell us?

• 14:00 – 14:30
  David Baxter, Associate Professor of Innovation, Southampton Business School
  • Agile government: Drivers, challenges and outlook
• 14:30 – 15:00
  Ann Fugl-Meyer, IT Project Manager & External Lecturer, Copenhagen Business School
  • The Subtle Power of Agile: Transforming Public Sector from Within

Coffee break

SESSION 2

New ways of working in IT in multidisciplinary, multicultural organisations: Agile, software factory, DevSecOps

• 15:30 – 16:00
  Sascha Block, Author & IT Architect, Rock the Prototype
  • Secure by Design: Scaling Agile within and across Large-Scale Organisations towards Trusted Digitization
• 16:00 – 16:30
  Jean-Pierre Grillon
  Head of the Technology and Software Engineering Unit
  eu-LISA
  • eu-LISA’s journey towards a Software Factory

Panel discussion and Q&A

Chair: Javier Galbally
Speakers: Jean-Pierre Grillon, David Baxter, Ann Fugl-Meyer, Sascha Block

Networking cocktail

Welcome coffee and registrations

Introduction by the Master of Ceremonies

Aleksandrs Cepilovs
Research Officer
eu-LISA

SESSION 3

Agile at scale: Scaling Agile in large, multidisciplinary, multicultural organisations

• 09:10 – 09:40
  Amine Fendri, Head of the Business Applications Office, French Ministry of Interior
  • Road Education and Driving Licenses: Securing the Data of Millions of Citizens
• 09:40 – 10:00
  Thomas Quartier, Principal and Lean Agile Public Sector Expert, Capgemini
  • Contextualizing SAFe for the public sector: how to successfully and autonomously advance towards mission agility
• 10:00 – 10:20
  Jean-David Muller, Expert Partner Applications, Gartner
  • Steering for Value: Lessons learned to scale Agile and deliver at full performance
• 10:20 – 10:40
  Anamelia Morales, Associate Manager, NTT DATA
  • Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs): Bridging Governance and Agility
• 10:40 – 11:00
  Martin Aspeli, Partner, Deloitte
  • Transforming Immigration: Deloitte’s Insights from our 10 Years of Agile Delivery at Scale with the UK Home Office

Coffee break

SESSION 4

Automation in IT/software development platforms

• 11:30 – 12:00
  Marcin Kucharski, Head of the Digital Services Unit, Frontex
  • The development of modern applications in JHA EU Agencies: Innovation, challenges & considerations
• 12:00 – 12:20
  Simon Melotte, Cloud Solutions Architect, Palo Alto Networks
  • Secure Code to Cloud: Supercharge Your DevSecOps Journey
• 12:20 – 12:40
  Brecht Seifi, Lead Advisor European Institutions, SAS
  • Accelerate Analytical development at eu-LISA
• 12:40 – 13:00
  Jan Van Wassenhove, Technical Director “Design and Develop”, Sopra Steria
  • Developer Productivity in the age of AI: Unlocking Productivity with our Digital Enablement Platform (DEP)
• 13:00 - 13:20
  Jose Gomez, Director of Technical Marketing Engineering, NKP and Cloud Native, Nutanix
  • The AI Factory Behind Tomorrow’s Software

Lunch break

SESSION 5

Monitoring and data analysis tools for continuous delivery in Agile software development environments

• 15:00 – 15:20
  Mustafa Musaji, EMEA Principal Solutions Architect, Red Hat Limited
  • Continuous Delivery with Safety and Efficiency
• 15:20 – 15:40
  Jose Rui Teixeira Nunes, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
  • Bringing AI to Agile software development with Amazon Q Developer
• 15:40 – 16:00
  Olivier Ménil, Strategic Advisor, Fortinet
  • Agile Cybersecurity: Simplify and strengthen cloud security

Closing

Philippe Harant
Head of the Strategy, Capabilities and Coordination Unit
eu-LISA