Sven Egyedy – CIO & CTO of Federal Foreign Office of Germany – Serving the citizens and democracy by CIONET

Can a highly regulated public institution deliver an MVP in 24 hours? Is it possible to prevent humanitarian crisis by managing data?

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode Sven Egyedy, CIO & CTO of Federal Foreign Office of Germany talks with Hendrik Deckers about his efforts to bring home over 200,000 German citizens home when the first wave of Coronavirus hit the entire world.

Sven’s team implemented the „Rueckholprogramm“:

✅ a stable worldwide working system implemented within 24 hours
✅ 2 h sprints allowed for the system to be tested and fully operational
✅ risk mitigation by providing an integrated dev-ops team
✅ full agile framework in the highly regulated public sector
✅ strict security approach based on an individual risk-assessment

“My role is to provide an environment where as a team we can work in a really good way”, says Sven and stresses the importance of empowering people and giving them a clear goal.

Every year CIONET nominates top CxOs as finalists of the European Digital Leader of the Year. Sven represents Germany in the Public Sector category.

Table of contents:

01:06 | Introduction and Sven Egyedy’s background

03:49 | About Federal Foreign Office of Germany

06:24 | COVID Repatriation Program

14:14 | Lessons learnt

20:24 | Managing and preventing humanitarian crisis

27:00 | Digital & IT internal organization

28:22 | Rotation system

29:23 | Sven’s role

31:34 | Sven’s management & leadership style

35:48 | Attracting talents

37:16 | What drives Sven?

38:48 | MBTI: the Entrepreneur

43:06 | Sven’s core values

44:27 | Sven’s mentors

46:38 | Personal mantra

46:56 | The best & worst thing in life

52:32 | Advice for people starting out