Pierre Pezziardi

Paris, N/A France

Entrepreneur, OCTO Technology co-founder, USI conference co-founder, Octopus Micro Finance founder, NotreBanque founder, author, keynote speaker. I promote the concept of "convivial computing" : systems aimed at empowering people, opening up pyramidal organizations and supporting self organized teams. In 2011, I started NotreBanque, a new way to manage money inside communities ... In 2005, I founded Octopus, the first Open Source Platform for the microfinance industry. Octopus is a worldwide community of practitioners in Lean and Agile methods, applied towards a better affordability of financial services to the poor. I am the author of several books on IT and many conferences and pr