Keynote: Why Digitalization Will Kill Your Company Too, Unless...

Digitalization, enabled by software, data and artificial intelligence, is fundamentally changing the value delivery process to customers. This has major implications for all aspects of companies, ranging from business models to certification. Based on experiences from more than a dozen large, global companies, this keynote  discusses the challenges and presents the most promising avenues for addressing these.

Discussed problems:

  • Adopting DevOps in regulated business context
  • Effective use of data from deployed products
  • Implications on business models and product upgrades

Benefits

  • Learn from 15 large, global companies how these challenges are addressed elsewhere
  • Gain access to new frameworks and models to apply in your own business
  • Have the opportunity to discuss your specific situation with the keynote speaker

Biographie

Jan Bosch is professor at Chalmers University Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden and director of the Software Center (www.software-center.se), a strategic partner-funded collaboration between more than 15 large European companies (including Ericsson, Volvo Cars, Volvo Trucks, Saab Defense, Scania, Siemens and Bosch) and five universities focused on digitalization. Earlier, he worked as Vice President Engineering Process at Intuit Inc where he also led Intuit's Open Innovation efforts and headed the central mobile technologies team. Before Intuit, he was vice president and head of the Software and Application Technologies Laboratory at Nokia Research Center, Finland. Prior to joining Nokia, he headed the software engineering research group at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He received a MSc degree from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and a PhD degree from Lund University, Sweden.

His research activities include digitalisation, evidence-based development, business ecosystems, artificial intelligence and machine/deep learning, software architecture,  software product families and software variability management. He is the author of several books including "Design and Use of Software Architectures: Adopting and Evolving a Product Line Approach" published by Pearson Education (Addison-Wesley & ACM Press) and  Speed, Data and Ecosystems: Excelling in a Software-Driven World  published by Taylor and Francis, editor of several books and volumes and author of hundreds of research articles. He is editor for Journal of Systems and Software as well as Science of Computer Programming, chaired several conferences as general and program chair, served on numerous program committees and organised countless workshops. Jan is a fellow member of the International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA) and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science.

Jan serves on the boards of Burt Intelligence, Shelfplanner and Strawberry planet. Earlier he served on the boards of IVER and Peltarion and was chairman of the boards of Auqtus, Fidesmo and Remente. In the startup space, Jan is an angel investor in several startup companies.  He also runs a boutique consulting firm, Boschonian AB, that offers its clients support around the implications of digitalization including the management of R&D and innovation. For more information see his website: www.janbosch.com.

Keynote: Jan Bosch (SWE)