2018 Lean in higher education conference

Wednesday 31 October

09.00

Registration. All delegates will be able to register at the venue (Hotel the Edge) from 9 to 12 on this day and on the morning of the second day.

12.00

Bus transfer from The Edge to the University Campus (Breivika). 

12.00

Lunch (In Solhallen, Teorifagbygget Hus 1)

Plenary sessions

13.00

Conference opening and welcome greetings (Aud 1, Teorifagbygget Hus 1)

13.30

Pecha Kucha Lean HE style. In this fast paced session the audience will be taking part in 4 different stories on impact from the #LeanHE conference: Putting conference inspiration directly into practice. This session will follow the Pecha Kucha standards based on showing 20 slides each for 20 seconds (automated).

14.15

Coffee & tea

14.30

Keynote: "Courage"

Tove I. Dahl, Professor, UiT the Arctic University of Norway

15.30

Break and refreshments

16.00

Keynote: "Facilitation - How to generate change and engagement at the same time"

Niklas Modig, researcher, Center for Innovation and Operations Management, Stockholm School of Economics

18.00

Networking and refreshments

18.30

Bus transfer from Campus Breivika to Ølhallen

19.00

Snack & refreshments - meet and greet at Ølhallen, Tromsø's oldest brewpub

Thursday 1 November

Plenary sessions

09.00

Daily huddle, lead by the conference host

Standardising, streamlining and digitalising business processes (Australian National University)

09.45

Coffe & Tea

Parallell sessions

10.00

Parallell 1: Lean in daily work: Visual framework for CI (University of Michigan)

Parallell 2: Stand up and be counted (Middlesex University)

Parallell 3: Ubuntu and the power of active listening (Bournemouth University)

Parallell 4: 

(HAN University)

10.45

Coffe & Tea

11.00

Parallell 5: No flip charts required! (University of Cambridge)

Parallell 6: Please make me a brown cheese sandwich (Lancaster University)

Parallell 7: The games people play (Macresco Limited)

12.00

Lunch

Plenary sessions

13.00

Using lean to address institutional risk (University of Waterloo)

13.35

Training and development workshop (Facilitated by conference hosts)

14.45

Coffe & Tea

Parallell sessions

15.00

Parallell 8: Inspiring lean in your organization (University of Strathclyde & CQUniversity)

Parallell 9: Learning a lean way - applying an A3 (Wester Norway University of Applied Sciences) 

Paralell 10: Being the difference. Everyday lean (University of Stirling)

Plenary session

16.05

The Lean HE global network (Chair Lean HE global - Stephen Yorkstone)

16.15

Panel: superheroes Championship - play the "newly wed' panel game"

17.00

5-minute Wrap up and info

19.00

Conference dinner and entertainment at The Edge
Friday 2 November

Plenary session

09.00

Daily huddle, lead by the conference host

Parallell sessions

09.15

Parallell 11: Leaning leadership and management of teams (York St John University)

Parallell 12: ABC in practical improvement work (The University Hospital of North Norway)

Parallell 13: The faculty on the factory floor. Kata in the classroom (Coventry University)

10.15

Coffe & tea. Check-out from the hotels for those who travel out from Tromsø today

Plenary sessions

10.45

Kiss from a rose- Growing and Nurturing a High Performing CoP University of Canberra

Establishing a culture of challenge University of Essex

In this exciting session, two institutions from different parts of the world will give you the opportunity to reflect upon and learn about the importance of storytelling, engagement, training and branding to build a culture of continuous improvement. 

11.45

Lunch

12.45

Closing Keynote: "Open process innovation: Future of lean?"

Torbjørn Netland, Professor, Head of Chair of Production and Operations Management, ETH Zurich

13.30

The 2019 Conference handover and closing