Keynote Speakers
Suja Joseph-Malherbe
Professional Development Manager di Project Performance International, attuale Presidente dell’INCOSE Chapter Sud Africa, ed ex membro del Board of Directors INCOSE
Suja has a passion for leadership and systems engineering and as such she is quite active in INCOSE. She functioned as a member of the INCOSE International board of directors, as Chair of the Ways and Means Committee from July 2014 to December 2016. She is a member of the inaugural cohort of the INCOSE Institute for Technical Leadership. She is currently the President of INCOSE South Africa and her term of office ends 31 December 2018. She received her B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa and her M.Eng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Suja is the Professional Development Manager at Project Performance International (PPI). Her primary role with PPI is to manage the technical resources of the organization that includes the development and presentation of material for training purposes. Prior to joining the PPI team, Suja was a senior systems engineer with Garmin Stellenbosch, creating first-of-its-kind outdoor and fitness products. She led the management of software releases, including the testing, deployment and support of new software. Her experience also includes substantial modelling and simulation, image processing, and the development of technology systems, such as battery packs for the dismounted soldier. This latter work was performed at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for the defense industry in South Africa.
Topic - The leadership imperative and cultivating it
Abstract – INCOSE’s Systems Engineering Vision 2025 document states that the expected competencies of a systems engineer will include leadership skills to enable team effectiveness across diverse organizational, physical and cultural boundaries. Leadership is often associated with hierarchical authority in an organization. That is, the individual has formal authority over the people he or she needs cooperation from to achieve specific outcomes. However, a large part of being a systems engineer is having the ability to influence people with no formal authority. What does this mean? Where do we start when looking to educate systems engineers on the ability to influence?
Massimo Bandecchi
Head of Systems and Concurrent Engineering Section (TEC-SYE) Directorate of Technical and Quality Management, ESTEC – European Space Research & Technology Centre
Massimo Claudio Comparini
Amministratore Delegato di e-Geos, ed ex Chief Technical Officer di Telespazio
Suja Joseph-Malherbe
Professional Development Manager di Project Performance International, attuale Presidente dell’INCOSE Chapter Sud Africa, ed ex membro del Board of Directors INCOSE
Mo Mansouri
Program Lead for Systems Engineering and Socio Technical Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology, School of Systems and Enterprises