Welcome to Lean Business Ireland Conference 2021
Plenary Session
10.15am - 10.35am
Ruairí Ó hAilín.
Chairperson - Lean Business Ireland
To discuss: Lean Business Ireland Overview & Call to Action
Minister Robert Troy
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
To discuss: Competitiveness & Productivity
Parallel Stream 1: People, Leadership, Culture
STREAM SPEAKER
PRESENTATION TOPIC
10.35am - 12.05pm
Professor Peter Hines - Waterford Institute of Technology
Human Centred Lean - The People Value
Stream
Helen Blake - Chief Executive - Futurecurve
The Human in the System
Stream Chair: Darrin Taylor
Fiona Keogh - Learning & Organizational Development Manager - Analog Devices
People, Learning Development & Cultural Change
Parallel Stream 2: Methods & Systems
STREAM SPEAKER
PRESENTATION TOPIC
10.35am - 12.05pm
Miriam Keogh - Head of Supply Chain & CI - Dawn Farm Foods
How to work in a
Hybrid World
Dónal Galligan - CEO - Takumi Precision Engineering
...intuitive dashboarding systems... information to run the business
Stream Chair: Gene Leonard
Dr Leigh Griffin - Senior Engineering Manager - Red Hat
Agile - The Strategic Return to its
Lean Root
Parallel Stream 3: Fundamentals: Lean & Digital
STREAM SPEAKER
PRESENTATION TOPIC
10.35am - 12.05pm
John Savage - Chief Operating & Technology Officer - Action Point
IF Lean THEN Operational Excellence ELSE Stagnate – Lean Process Improvement
Cillian Farrell - Lean Coordinator - Farrell Furniture
Family owned manufacturing company - Their Lean Journey
Stream Chair: Mairead O'Donnell
Charlie O'Neill - Director - Heating Engineer Supplies
Lean-Digital starting points - Simple digital systems to get started
LUNCH & NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY
12.05pm - 12.44pm
Take this opportunity to visit the case study area of the virtual platform and enjoy short Lean implementation case study videos.
12.05pm - 12.44pm
Case Study 1: Dell Technologies
Case Study 2: Leading Edge Group
Case Study 3: Institute of Technology Sligo
Case Study 7: Trinity College Dublin
Case Study 4: S A Partners
Case Study 5: SeaChange Limited
Case Study 6: University of Limerick
Parallel Stream 4: People, Leadership, Culture
STREAM SPEAKER
PRESENTATION TOPIC
12.45pm - 14.15pm
Ryan Tierney - Director - Seating Matters Ltd
Leadership mindset change
Wendy Hamilton - MD Ireland & UK - Netwatch Group
Strategic Human Resource Development & Operational Excellence
Stream Chair: Pauline O'Flanagan
Gavin Carpenter - CEO - Phonovation Limited
Leading a Lean Transformation
Parallel Stream 5: Methods & Systems
STREAM SPEAKER
PRESENTATION TOPIC
12.45pm - 14.15pm
Úna McDermott - Director HR Services - Dell Technologies Services Global Command Centre
Transform : Elevating Skills for a New World of Work
Simon Tritschler - Digital Technical Deployment Specialist - BAM Ireland
The construction environment -
Lean/Green/Digital
Chair: Robert Hernan
Dr Pat Lynch - Director -
RIKON
LI4 (Lean Industry 4.0) - what can this do for 'me'? - a scenario of what will be possible
Parallel Stream 6: Fundamentals: Lean & Green
STREAM SPEAKER
PRESENTATION TOPIC
12.45pm - 14.15pm
Richard Morrisson - Business Improvement Expert - Optien
Where Lean meets
Green
Vincent Blake - EHS Manager - Beckman Coulter
The Beckman Coulter Story - Waste and Operational Excellence
Stream Chair: Aidan McKenna
Aoife Beirne - Chief Transformation Officer - Mergon Group
Waste streams from one co feed into another - Mergon using recycled materials
Lean Business Ireland Keynote Speaker
14.25pm - 15.25pm
Dr. Jeffrey Liker - University of Michigan
Theme/Topic: Leading the Toyota Way through Scientific Thinking
Jeffrey K. Liker is Professor Emeritus, Industrial and Operations Engineering at The University of Michigan and President of Liker Lean Advisors, LLC. He is author of the best-selling book, The Toyota Way, Second Edition, and has coauthored nine other books about Toyota including The Toyota Way to Service Excellence, Designing the Future, and The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership. A recent graphic novel with Eduardo Lander and Tom Root tells the story of lean transformation at a mail-order company: Lean in a High-Variety Environment. His articles and books have won thirteen Shingo Prizes for Research Excellence. He was inducted into the Association of Manufacturing Excellence Hall of Fame and the Shingo Academy.
Summary & Close of the Day
15.25pm - 15.35pm
Mary Buckley
Executive Director - IDA Ireland
Session Chair: Ruairí Ó hAilin
Tom Kelly
Divisional Manager: Innovation & Competitiveness - Enterprise Ireland
