event - 4 December 2025

Gofore & DASA Breakfast Session: Wiring the organisation for flow and value maximisation

  • Digital Society
  • Intelligent Industry

Join an exclusive breakfast session on 4 December in Helsinki, hosted with DASA, the world’s leading industry body helping enterprises achieve high-performance digital transformation.

This breakfast session is designed to bring together a small group of leaders for a morning of discussions, problem-solving, and networking over coffee and breakfast. Together, we’ll explore how to wire organisations for flow and value maximisation. This can help you to optimise workflows to ensure every part of your organisation contributes to efficient, high-value outcomes.

This event is aimed at transformation and IT leaders such as directors, CXOs, and departmental heads from a variety of industries and sectors, allowing for diverse perspectives. We reserve the right to prioritise places according to the above participant profile.

Why join this exclusive session?

  • Engage with experts from Gofore and DASA on key topics like portfolio management, product management, and experience management.
  • Participate in hands-on sessions that allow you to engage in real world problem-solving using what you have learned. 
  • Gain practical frameworks that you can immediately apply to remove friction, increase flow, and improve performance.
  • Connect with fellow directors, CXOs, and department heads in a relaxed, collaborative setting, and benefit from peer insights.

Agenda

9:00 Breakfast served

9:30 Program begins

  • Opening remarks
    • Rik Farenhorst, DASA, Kari Kakkonen & Miika Nurminen, Gofore
  • Keynote: Why Change Leadership is a competitive advantage?
    • Maria Gauffin, Gofore
  • Keynote: Building a customer-first digital enterprise
    • Rik Farenhorst, DASA 
  • Workshop: Creating customer value using portfolio management, product management, and experience management
    • Product Management: You will understand how to shift from managing projects to managing products, aligning teams around customer outcomes rather than output, leading to greater adaptability, more predictable delivery, and better ROI visibility across initiatives.
    • Portfolio Management: Through Portfolio Management frameworks, you will learn how to define “value” clearly and prioritize investments that drive strategic outcomes, discovering practical techniques for balancing innovation and optimization, ensuring resources are focused where they matter most.
    • Experience Management: Through Experience Management principles, embed customer needs into every decision and continuously measure impact, using data and feedback loops to refine products, services, and employee experiences in real time, and increase customer satisfaction, improved retention, and a more agile, responsive organization.

12:00 Event ends

DASA is the world’s leading industry body helping enterprises build highly efficient digital value streams and transform into high-performance digital organisations. With a body of knowledge, talent, and guidance solutions, and a powerful global community to facilitate organisations in their journey towards flow, business agility, and value maximisation for both their customers and employees. With 300+ member and partner organizations in our ecosystem, DASA helps define, inform, and advance the DevOps industry through networking, knowledge sharing, awards, continuous learning, and certifications.

As part of Gofore’s sustainability work, we ensure that our events do not cause waste. When you register, you agree to cancel your participation if you are unable to attend the event.


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Speakers

Rik Farenhorst

CEO, DASA

Rik’s biggest passion is to help create high-performance digital organisations: organisations that gain optimal value out of IT/digital and establish a culture focused on flow, in which people thrive. Often this has little to do with investing in the latest technology. Much more important to create the right ‘smell of the place’ is to build facilitative leadership skills, talent development, and organisational change management capabilities.

Rik, with over 15 years of experience in senior leadership across industry, consulting, and academia, currently leads as CEO at DASA, reflecting his extensive track record in these fields. He combines his knowledge and vision on digital and organisational transformation with plenty of energy and a hands-on approach. Rik strives for flow in people and organizations and helps to bring them to a next level.

Kari Kakkonen

Service Owner, Customer Expertise Development, Gofore

Kari is a passionate advocate for software testing and QA. He has almost 30 years of testing experience, over 15 years of agile experience, over 10 years of DevOps experience, and over 5 years of AI experience. He’s been working in ICT consulting, training, finance, insurance, pension insurance, public sector, embedded software, telecom, gaming, and industry domains. He moved his training business to Gofore in 2024 and runs the successful Expertise Capability that provides ISTQB, TMMi, test automation, and other software testing, agile, DevOps, and Al training services in Europe. He has trained over 3000 people over the years. Kari also assesses companies’ testing, agile, DevOps, and IT processes with TMMi, TPI Next, or other methodologies regularly.

Kari is the 2021 EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award winner, Tester of the Year in Finland Award 2021 winner, and DASA Exemplary DevOps Instructor Award 2023 winner, and 2024 finalist. He is included in the Tivi 100 Most Influential People in IT 2010 listing. Kari has M.Sc. in Industrial Management from Aalto University.

Maria Gauffin

Senior Change Consultant

Maria is an enthusiastic and productive change management professional. In addition to experience in large transformation programs, mainly in large international corporations, Maria has gained insight from training & coaching, marketing & communication, process development & automation and management consultancy.

Miika Nurminen

Director, Digital Services

Miika leads Gofore’s Digital Services business.

Ari Lahti

Agile Coach, Gofore

Ari is an experienced professional, specialised in change and project management, with a heavy emphasis on agility, especially the agile mindset. Ari has led several business-critical transformation projects, including agile and business model transformations. Ari’s strong belief is that to achieve impactful change, you have to align your culture, processes, and technology, all driving in the same direction.

Jenni Niemiaho

Principal Designer, Gofore

Jenni is a problem-solver, strategist, and service designer focused on making digital services work fluently. Jenni gets fascinated by creating new things, having to re-think everything, both in process and in the user experience sense: what does the user really need and want. Jenni is superb at designing concepts and user-centric service design, making things happen. Jenni thinks openness and transparency in everything you do is the key to success.

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When

Thu 4.12. at 09:00-12:00

Where

Gofore Event Space, Paasivuorenkatu 4 A, Helsinki

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