Together in Excellence 2019

Slovenian non-profit associations itSMF Slovenija and PMI Slovenija are joining strengths, interlace and spread knowledge on one unique conference TOGETHER IN EXCELLENCE, which is regional core event featuring the most actual contents on IT service management and project management.

Program

CONFERENCE, March 19th, 2019

Digital Transformation in Action

How Digital is changing the way we work together Avoiding Stone Age Practices // Kimberly Wiefling, President of Wiefling Consulting, co-founder of Silicon Valley Alliances, and author of Scrappy Project Management Asset management through new glasses // Urh Lednik, Troia d.o.o. Closer to your customers // Luka Mulej, ISL Online

Virtual Power Teams

Working together in the new world Virtual Power Teams // Peter Ivanov, Senior Manager, Keynote Speaker and Executive Coach Panel Modern Leadership: Who is Leading?

Project Management Office

Managing Projects in the new world PMO in the VUCA world // Thiago Ayres, Global Managing Director at PMO Global Alliance The PMO as an engine to implement the strategy // Jaka Borštnar, Tine Vižintin, Zoran Korenjak, Triglav Group.

ITIL 4

The new ITIL for the new IT world When go-live goes wrong! How to successfully transition and support new services into the live IT environment // Rosh Hosany, PwC ITIL 4 and Digital Transformation – how do they fit together? // Barclay Rae, ITIL Lead Author Team Member
WORKSHOPS, March 20th, 2019

Project Management

  • Workshop 1: Selling the PMO to the CFO: making business value tangible // Thiago Ayres, Global Managing Director at PMO Global Alliance
  • Workshop 2: Face-to-Face in a “Virtual” World // Kimberly Wiefling, President of Wiefling Consulting, co-founder of Silicon Valley Alliances, and author of Scrappy Project Management

IT Service Management

Workshop 1: Memorable Metrics // Barklay Rae, ITIL Lead Author Team Member

Speakers

Kimberly Wiefling

President of Wiefling Consulting, co-founder of Silicon Valley Alliances, and author of Scrappy Project Management Kimberly Wiefling is the President of Wiefling Consulting, co-founder of Silicon Valley Alliances.

Peter Ivanov

Senior Manager, Keynote Speaker and Executive Coach
Peter Ivanov is Manager, Entrepreneur and Virtual teams Expert with over 20 years of international experience. Born in Bulgaria he graduated Mathematics and joined a multinational company as Data Analyst. He quickly became IT Manager for Bulgaria and gradually worked his way up to IT Services Manager for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Barclay Rae

ITIL Lead Author Team Member. Barclay is an experienced ITSM consultant, analyst and writer. He has worked on approximately 700 ITSM projects over the last 25 years, and also writes blogs, research and white papers on ITSM topics for a variety of industry organisations and vendors. He has also worked for a number of ITSM organisations, and he delivers strategic ITSM consultancy, as well as media analyst services to the ITSM industry.

Thiago Ayres

Global Managing Director at PMO Global Alliance Consultant, educator, angel investor and global speaker in the areas of governance, management, innovation and leadership.
With degrees on 3 continents, helps corporations and startups in their strategic challenges. In this professional trajectory, Ayres has been to more than 10 countries and became a nonconformist with traditional management, orthodox education and the status quo – a transformational activist.

Rosh Hosany

Leader of PwC’s UK Assurance practice for IT Service & Operations Management and board director of itSMF UK Rosh leads PwC’s UK Assurance practice for IT Service & Operations Management and is a board director of itSMF UK as well as a regular industry speaker, panellist and podcast guest. She has 20+ years of global ITSM operational experience across a variety of industries and is currently advising AXELOS on the ITIL update after having previously advised the SDI on updating Service Desk standards.

Jaka Borštnar

Director of Project Portfolio and Change Management Department, Triglav Group
Jaka Borštnar is the Director of Project Portfolio and Change Management Department in the Triglav Group and has more than a decade of experience in the insurance industry, having supervised and led various strategic projects, such as non-life insurance information system development and CRM implementation.

Tine Vižintin

Member of PMO, Triglav Group Tine Vižintin is an experienced, PMP certified project manager with a demonstrated history of working in the insurance industry for more than a decade. In the past years, he took part in many different projects in various roles, such as a technical project manager in a non-life insurance information system implementation and a project manager on an end-to-end BI system implementation.

Zoran Korenjak

Project Director in the Project Portfolio and Change Management Department, Triglav Group
Zoran Korenjak is the Project Director in the Project Portfolio and Change Management Department in the Triglav Group. With 20 years of experience in the insurance industry and 10 years of experience in project management and training, he became a competent project manager and trainer.

Urh Lednik

Head of Development, TROIA d.o.o. Urh is Head of development activities at TROIA d.o.o. and is leading a team of developers. He is in charge of implementing new IT trends and technologies as well as for planning the development and extending company portfolio with new in-house products.

Benjamin Orazem

Cloud Adoption Leader, IBM Cloud Labs, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Benjamin works for IBM where as a Cloud Adoption Leader helps organizations adopting new cloud computing paradigm by transforming their traditional IT services and culture into the new cloud supported ecosystems that matters to the business and enable their digital transformations and new disruptive business models.

Janez Bensa

CEO, Parsek d.o.o.  Janez has been managing fast growing businesses in diverse IT related industries. Born and educated in Slovenia, he acquired international business experience early in his career. Janez’s passion emerges from diverse fields of entrepreneurship:
Business development related to innovative business models and products;

Igor Mrzlikar

Consultant, SUZOHAPP. USA. For the past three years he has been working as a consultant for the global US company SUZOHAPP. As the Customer Project Director, he runs global projects and virtual time and work on business development in the Balkans and CIS countries. Industry Hi Tech. Before that, he was managing portfolios and programs in construction as a COO for 10 years.

Luka Mulej

Sales manager, ISL Online Luka Mulej, Sales manager at ISL Online. Received his B.Sc. from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering in 2008. He was recognized as a World Class Software Marketer by NASA in 2013 after winning the NASA World Wind Europe Challenge with the Gaea+’s engine. In 2014, he received a Golden Award for the Best Innovations in Slovenia from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, for the Smart Locator solution – an application for instant and accurate smartphone call location acquisition.

Saša Mrak

Executive Director, Managers Association of Slovenia Mrs. Saša Mrak, the Executive Director of Managers Association of Slovenia, connecting more than 1100 Slovenian managers and supporting the development of management in Slovenia for over 25 years. Saša has over 15 years of experience working on projects of people development, management and marketing. On behalf of the Managers Association, she is a member of the Expert Council for the Competitive and Stable Business Environment.

Igor Verstovšek

Executive Director, Managers Association of Slovenia. Mr. Igor Verstovšek is a deputy CEO and cofounder of Cosylab, a high-tech company that provides system integration and customer adapted products and solutions, specialized in accelerators. He covers all aspects of company management (180 employees in 2018, out of which 140 are engineers).

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