Hans-Bernd Kittlaus
Chairman | ISPMA
General Manager | InnoTivum Consulting

About the Speaker
Hans-Bernd Kittlaus is the chairman of ISPMA e.V. (www.ispma.org). He is also the owner and general manager of InnoTivum Consulting (www.innotivum.com) which he founded in 2001. Before, he was Director of SIZ GmbH (Computing Center of the German Savings Banks Organization, Germany) and Head of Software Product Management and Development units of IBM. His main focus area is software product management. Hans-Bernd has been working as a trainer, coach and consultant for companies in a number of industries and also corporate IT organizations, and as a lecturer at academic institutions. He has trained thousands of product managers in SPM trainings including all ISPMA training modules. He is a frequent presenter at conferences and has published numerous books and articles, his latest being “Software Product Management for Startups: The ISPMA-Compliant Study Guide and Handbook” (with Haragopal Mangipudi, guNaka/InnoTivum 2023) and “Software Product Management: The ISPMA-Compliant Study Guide and Handbook, 2nd Edition” (Springer 2022). He is Diplom-Informatiker (corresponds to M.S. in Computer Science).