Welcome to GBR’s FTWorX

22nd – 23rd November 2021, Berlin

Future Technologies, FTWorX – A GBR Community Meeting is taking place in Berlin, Germany. This closed-door gathering of senior executives is a truly unparalleled opportunity to share meaningful and honest dialogue in a media-free environment.

Participants

FTWorX Participants Include

and many more…

Speakers

FTWorX Speakers Include

Juha Pankakoski

Juha Pankakoski

Executive Vice President

Gunter Beitinger

Gunter Beitinger

SVP Manufacturing

Gernot Schaefer

Gernot Schaefer

Vice President

Sarah Bodo

Sarah Bodo

Digital Operations Center Leader Europe

Peter Grimvall

Peter Grimvall

Supply Chain Design and Planning Manager

and many more…

Agenda

DAY 1 – 22nd November 2021
08:00 – 08:40  
REGISTRATION
08:45 – 08:50 
CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS
08:55 – 09:30
A holistic approach to successfully drive digital transformation
  • Our Picture of the (digital) Future
  • Come up with your focus areas
  • Link the picture to tangible projects
  • Everybody is part of the journey
  • Achievements
  • Q&A

Dr. Gunter Beitinger , SVP Manufacturing & Head of Factory Digitalization, Siemens

09:30 – 10:05
The Role of Culture in Digital Transformation
  • Enabling digitization does not only include our technology but also our organisation.
  • It is vital to ensure a cultural change when companies roll out the implementation of new digital technologies.
  • Innovation is key but it seems to be lacking in the new digital age, why? This will be what we investigate as the core points which need to be addressed:
  • Empowering people
  • Dangers of Digital Amnesia
  • Value first not technology
  • Our perception of change vs reality
  • Remote working capabilities

Curtis Carson, Head of Engineering Development System, Airbus Defence & Space

10:05 – 10:40
Success stories of digital champions on their transformation journey
  • Implementation of production control towers to drive advanced planning
  • Predictive maintenance, end-2-end traceability and digital twin solutions to improve asset utilization and factory efficiency
  • Quantitative benefits and recommendation for a successful scale-up

Reinhard Geissbauer, Executive Managing Director, PwC

10:45 – 11:35
COFFEE BREAK
11:35 – 12:05
Securing the IoT eco-system for the future: The answers to the common questions
  • What are the most important considerations for an IoT device manufacturer when it comes to security? Including what policies and standards must be adhered to
  • Are there other complimentary emerging technologies which IoT could collaborate with to change the game?
  • Is transparency between users and manufacturers the key to a truly secure ecosystem?
  • What are some best practice recommendations as we navigate the IoT era?

12:05 – 12:35
Unlocking the value of massive sensor data at the edge
  • As Europe’s leading automotive manufacturer, we have billions of IoT devices processing, analysing and reacting to data on the edge with an explosion in the volumes of new data available to us daily
  • Our greatest challenge lies in accessing and utilizing the full potential of our data analytics and the respective business intelligence it can make available to us
  • Case study: How manufacturers can use edge computing to gain instant feedback, optimize processes, utilize predictive insights to gain a deeper understanding from treasure troves of sensor data

12:35 – 13:05
New Interconnected I40 Ecosystems
  • Old Solutions Paradigms
  • New Technology Enabled Platforms
  • Future Smart Factory Scenarios
  • Chances for SME and Challenges for Solution Providers

Gernot Schaefer, Vice President, ROI Efeso

Planned Investment Areas:
  • COVID-19
  • Digital Technology
  • 5G
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine & Deep Learning
  • Plant Safety & Inspection
  • Industry 5.0
  • Big Data & Manufacturing Information
  • Smart Manufacturing / Digitalisation
  • Cybersecurity
  • Blockchain
  • Manufacturing Automation
  • Predictive Maintenance PdM 4.0
  • Cloud, Edge & IoT Data Management
  • Augmented & Virtual reality (AR & VR)
  • Asset Optimization
  • M2M Communication
  • Wearable Digital Technology
  • Asset Performance Management (APM 4.0)
  • Sensors
13:05 – 13:55
LUNCH

COVID-19

Artificial Intelligence

14:00 – 14:35
Proceeding with the COVID-19 Impact in Manufacturing and Planning A New Future will include:
  • Customer Experience: Personalization and finding individualized value proposition
  • Direct-to-Consumer and Mass Customization: 90% growth in the future coming from D2C
  • Innovation Platforms: New product introduction escalates as manufacturers move to information-based services
  • Industry Collaborative Clouds: An enabler of new business models
  • Networked Manufacturing: Effectivity, costs and logistics optimization
  • Digital, resilient, lean: Managing the smart factory of tomorrow
  • The augmented worker: Superheros on the shopfloor
  • “Thinking” Supply Chain: Connected, cognitive, comprehensive, collaborative, cyber-aware
  • Next generation industrial technology: Global trends, local use cases
14:00 – 14:35
Breaking Down the Convergence; how to Implement the Technologies of Now Blockchain
  • AI & IoT – which technology do you start with?
  • Which technology is fundamental for process optimization, while ensuring Scalability and Interoperability?
  • Are there key applications that can help implement convergent technologies into your current systems?

Karl Prag, Global Head of Data and Information Management, IKEA
Peter Grimvall, Supply Chain Design and Planning Manager, IKEA

14:35 – 15:10
Real Deployment of Industrie 4.0: Digitalization Manufacturing – Ambition and Reality – Post COVID-19
  • Optimisation across the value chain – linking digitization to Lean
  • The current capabilities and limitations of Industrie 4.0
  • Maximising the potential of digitization in design, manufacturing, assembly and services
  • Implementing a digital culture to help implementation
14:35 – 15:10
CASE STUDY – How to deliver step changes in manufacturing execution systems with predictive insights using AI/ML and pharma 4.0
  • What are your biggest pain points with manufacturing execution systems selection implementation and how can common pitfalls and challenges be avoided, or overcome?
  • How can you best use network analytics and modelling to support digital engineering in manufacturing operations?
  • How can digital twins help R&D develop more efficient processes for manufacturing?

Téma Benhalima-Bouville, Head of Strategy & Transformation, ENGIE

15:10 – 15:45
Case Study: Putting the ROI into Digital Technologies, A Company’s Digital Transformation Journey, how did we make it happen – One Vision, One Goal
  • Was digitization forced due to COVID-19 or was it a natural journey?
  • The struggles of moving from a traditional manufacturing company to implementing IoT
  • Knowing the goal and vision but how do we get there? Taking into consideration global restrictions
  • How to implement productivity, flexibility, and modularity in the manufacturing process?
  • Connecting machine to machine for complete communication in production to ensure manufacturing efficiency
  • Real time data analysis for production and predictive maintenance
15:10 – 15:45
Key Industrial Trends to Date with AI and IOT. What can we Expect from 2022?
  • Where are we now versus where we would be before the COVID-19 pandemic?
  • The economic and political landscape – what does the future hold for the manufacturing industry?
  • What are the current obstacles for manufacturers to ready themselves for Industry 5.0?
  • Current challenges in IIoT transformation
  • What will it take to make industry 5.0 real?
15:45 – 16:10
COFFEE BREAK
16:15-16:45
CASE STUDY – Embracing the global digital manufacturing revolution
  • What are the pragmatic truths of implementing digitalised manufacturing in operations
  • Separating Myth from Reality: How can you decide which Industry 4.0 projects (IoT, robotics, RPA and data analytics) to invest in to deliver a proven ROI?
  • How do manufacturers deliver a successful Industry 4.0 technology project?
  • Implementing continuous manufacturing through digitisation: From vision to reality

16:45-17:15
Machine Learning and smarter ways to make Data-Driven decision in Predictive Maintenance
  • The impact of shifting consumer preferences, technology and COVID-19 on enterprise supply chains
  • How to secure future competitiveness by transforming supply chains from disconnected functions into agile, connected, and automated supply chains
  • Real life examples of the results companies have gained by making intelligent manufacturing happen

Planned Investment Areas:
  • COVID-19
  • Digital Technology
  • 5G
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine & Deep Learning
  • Plant Safety & Inspection
  • Industry 5.0
  • Big Data & Manufacturing Information
  • Smart Manufacturing / Digitalisation
  • Cybersecurity
  • Blockchain
  • Manufacturing Automation
  • Predictive Maintenance PdM 4.0
  • Cloud, Edge & IoT Data Management
  • Augmented & Virtual reality (AR & VR)
  • Asset Optimization
  • M2M Communication
  • Wearable Digital Technology
  • Asset Performance Management (APM 4.0)
  • Sensors
17:20 – 17:55
PANEL DEBATE: ARM Industry Update: The Impact of the COVID19 Pandemic on CGT Manufacturing
  • What are the immediate and long-term implications for manufacturers, supply chains and on-site operations?
  • Navigate the current landscape as well as ongoing initiatives nationwide in developing guidelines for cGMP and Process Improvement
  • NextGen Manufacturing – keeping up to date with new innovative technologies and trends

Panel Members:

Michael Thierschmann, Vice President Production Unit, KION Group

18:00 – 19:00
DRINKS RECEPTION
DAY 2 – 23rd November 2021
08:45 – 08:50
CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS
08:55 – 09:30
Industry 5.0 – And the Impact on Manufacturing Execution Systems
  • Implement global and local MES for Smart manufacturing solutions
  • Which manufacturing strategy to consider when deploying MES?
  • Where is the ROI in Industry 5.0 and MES?
  • Advice from manufacturers already implementing MES for Industry 5.0
09:30 – 10:05
The Cultural Change Needed in Industry
  • A change in technology requires a change in an organisation
  • Approaches to get momentum and to keep it to achieve the needed change
  • Empowerment of people to close the skills and learning gap
  • Combining the skills and strengths of human beings and machines
  • Holistic recognition of human being – there is more than the rational part of the brain

Josef Kriegmair, Representative Production Turbine Blade / Structure Castings, MTU Aero Engines

10:05 – 10:40
How Machine Learning & AI are Boosting the new concept of Industry 5.0 (I5.0)

Create value from date is easier said than done. The manufacturing Industry has challenges to face such as combining legacy assets with new digital technologies. But these challenges also create opportunities.

  • How we as an process manufacturer apply a 3-D approach based on:
    1. Bringing new skills (internal and open innovation)
    2. Strategy and governance (including change management)
    3. Infrastructure (data lakes)
  • As a site we leverage this strategy to scale-up machine learning and AI and we’ll give concrete examples of enterprise-wide value creation:
    1. Our large scale Smart Innovative Operations program e.g. predictive maintenance, detecting energy drift
    s, optimization through a digital twin
    2. What perspectives and other use cases for Air Liquide and the Industry

Michael Thierschmann, Vice President Production Unit, KION Group

10:45 – 11:10
COFFEE BREAK
11:15 – 11:45
Operations Digitalization – Data & System Cross Functional Collaboration and Integration
  • Understand the importance of your data & system constraints in CMOs management
  • Begin the transformation from a tactical and isolated approach to data & system management, to a cross functional and coherent approach to data management
  • Identify the realities of a data and system landscape for your company: Putting in place a road map to achieving integrated data & system landscape

11:45 – 12:15
The Digital Twin of the Real World
  • The new trend in operations with AI and Data has significantly changed the way we manage assets from physical to digital
  • A new generation of employees and customers who are fundamentally comfortable with the digital workplace
  • What new skills will workers need, and what are the challenges as we implement these new technologies?
  • What are the risks?
  • Wireless networks, wearable devices, cloud-based intelligence and smart sensors
  • How can this improve the reliability of the physical world?
12:15 – 12:45
Complexity involved with renewals of IoT subscriptions in the long-term

This presentation is about the complexity involved in sourcing and billing for IoT connectivity and how companies can be enabled to benefit from recurring IoT subscription. Based on examples including IoT connectivity in consumer and industrial use cases, we will highlight the following:

  • The challenges involved in including cellular connectivity in your product pricing strategy
  • Compliancy with market specific telecom regulations
  • Consumer identification during the onboarding process
  • The different triggers for subscription renewals

Planned Investment Areas:
  • COVID-19
  • Digital Technology
  • 5G
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine & Deep Learning
  • Plant Safety & Inspection
  • Industry 5.0
  • Big Data & Manufacturing Information
  • Smart Manufacturing / Digitalisation
  • Cybersecurity
  • Blockchain
  • Manufacturing Automation
  • Predictive Maintenance PdM 4.0
  • Cloud, Edge & IoT Data Management
  • Augmented & Virtual reality (AR & VR)
  • Asset Optimization
  • M2M Communication
  • Wearable Digital Technology
  • Asset Performance Management (APM 4.0)
  • Sensors
12:50 – 13:40
LUNCH

PdM 4.0

Digital Technology

13:45 – 14:15
Examples from Real Implementation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to improve Equipment Reliability
  • The benefits of AI to improve equipment reliability remotely
  • An example of real-life AI to better performance
  • Key learnings from AI implementations related to:
    – Where to begin?
    – What tools are needed to be successful?
    – What are the common hurdles and mistakes?
13:45 – 14:15
Evolving MES supporting Digital Plant – Hybrid Cloud MES
  • As businesses prepare to change its factories into digital factory, it is important to understand how systems, such as manufacturing execution system (MES) software, can help manage these changes.
  • See how Hybrid Cloud MES is enabling manufacturing businesses to digitize the operations by connecting systems, processes and factories across manufacturing network.
14:15 – 14:45
The Power of the Smart Factory: Connecting Machines to Maintenance and Reliability Professionals
  • Break the trade-off: Leveraging the power of the smart factory to help workplace safety
  • How to use PdM to help digital maintenance
  • IoT – Physical-to-digital-to-physical loop and related technologies
  • Build the foundation and the seven maintenance pillars: People, parts, documents, tools, equipment, technology and maintenance strategy and processes
14:15 – 14:45
How to scale up the implementation of IoT enabled technologies to accelerate Value in the Processing Industries
  • Where are we today with the deployment of IoT Solutions post COVID-19?
  • How do we move from pilots to roll-outs and larger scale projects ensuring employee safety within governmental guidelines?
  • Highlights of value generation for customers
  • Key recommendations and takeaways

Sarah Bodo, Digital Operations Center Leader Europe, DOW
Doug McKnight, EMEAI Manufacturing 4.0 Director, DOW

14:45 – 15:15
Revolutionizing Industrial Maintenance with Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics
  • Reduce downtime and minimize equipment failure through adopting Machine Learning
  • Balancing multiple sources of data to predict and determine optimal repair time
  • Identifying defects and errors as they occur so they are fixed immediately
  • Machine learning algorithms can determine regular maintenance schedules by utilizing historical data to identify patterns of equipment failure
  • The PdM 4.0 Reliability Engineering vision: Data can be taken automatically from inside the machine without the need for a manual check
14:45 – 15:15
Asset Intelligence: Sustaining the benefits of Digital Technologies and Industry 5.0
  • Improve responsiveness to outages with work and asset performance management in context of Industry 5.0 (Asset Performance Management)
  • Investing in new Digital Technologies
  • Maintenance data collection infrastructure for assets, extract data from sensors and cyber physical systems on the shop floor
  • Applications: Sensor data streams, Static data and Data from the equipment
  • Align the organization with best practices
15:15 – 15:30
COFFEE BREAK
15:35 – 16:05
PANEL DEBATE: Creating a Roadmap to Successfully integrate Artificial Intelligence with The New Normal in Manufacturing
  • European governments have lifted lockdown, but it will not spell a return to the old “normal”
  • The virus still lurks and the ability to contain its spread will dictate what happens now
  • Innovation with robotics and 5G: The process of implementing RPA – looking into economical value and execution
  • How can you drive the combination of AI, simulations, big data and digital process development to enhance cyber-physical manufacturing systems across industries?
16:05 – 16:10
CHAIRPERSON’S CLOSE

Participant Package

Package Details

  • Access to all the conference sessions, keynotes and panel debates
  • Your VIP pass will give you access to all the coffee breaks, refreshments, lunches
  • Pre-arranged F2F meetings with other participants
  • Participation in the executive huddles and interactive workshops
  • Access to the drinks reception on the evening of day 1
  • Access to the presentations after the event (subject to confirmation from speakers)

*Note: Vendors/consultants/solutions/service providers are not permitted to register as a participant attendee. Any such registration/s will be voided.

If you wish to join us please contact faisal.ansari@gb-research.com

Heike Roeder

  • Heike Roeder in her position as Lead Digital Transformation Quality Management System is responsible for transformation of documentation-based quality management towards data-driven digital solution. This transformation comprises the quality standards as classically defined in SOPs and respective quality knowledge.
  • Since many years she is industry influencer for digitalization and holistic transformation: “From document to data”. She is member of the board of directors of the Pharma 4.0 ISPE.
  • Heike brings in a wealth experience from 20 years in the Pharma Industry, in senior positions in various business areas, such as commercial production, supply chain, clinical trial supply, learning and process management, and quality management.
  • She graduated from the University of Düsseldorf (Germany) with a degree in Pharmacy and is certified as Lean Sigma Green Belt and as Change Coach for systemic changes.

Josef Kriegmair

Josef Kriegmair works as Representative Production Turbine Blade / Structure Castings at MTU Aero Engines AG Center Production. His main task has been the development and implementation of digital process chains and manufacturing intelligence systems for turbine blades and structure castings since 2010. Prior to that, he was in production engineering with a focus on technology development for production and for maintenance, repair and overhaul. He hold roles in logistics and plant maintenance at MTU Aero Engines from 1997 to 2001. Josef started in technical procurement at MTU. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering focus Production Technology and a degree in Industrial Engineering focus Project Management and Technology Management.

Josef Kriegmair

Reinhard is a partner at PwC with 25+ years of industry and consulting experience. He leads PwC’s Industry 4.0 globally.
Reinhard specializes in horizontal and vertical integration of the value chain (Industry 4.0), optimizing end-to-end supply chain. He has vast experience in developing digitization strategies and is a thought leader in supply chain, manufacturing and service innovation. Exemplary projects:

• Digitalization strategy and execution

• Digitalization and supply chain optimization

• Smart factory transformation

Reinhard holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a focus on international Finance and Operations, from the University of Kentucky and a Ph.D. in International Business Administration University of Regensburg.

Sarah Bodo

Experienced Digital Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the chemicals industry. Passionate about technology and solving problems. People benefit from a lot of inspirations, creativity, support and willingness to fight for a better world. Strong operations professional graduated from HAW Hamburg.

Doug McKnight

Doug McKnight is leading Dow efforts to derive value in safety and productivity across Dow’s Operations in EMEAI through the adaptation of Industry 4.0 solutions. He partners with Dow’s businesses and technical functions and coordinates across all of the varied sites for the company in the region. He is located in Wiesbaden, Germany – at the seat of the Digital Operations Centre for EMEAI. He is part of Dow’s newly established “Operations IT/OT” function for the company – signaling the intent within Dow to drive digitalization. Before taking this current challenge in the Industry 4.0 world, his experience is in industrial operations leadership including environment, health and safety, production and site leadership, external manufacturing management, supply chain, continuous improvement techniques and advanced process control and systems dynamics modelling. Across his career in ICI and Dow, Doug has lived in many European countries including the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and now Germany where he lives with his family.

Curtis Carson

Since graduating from Ryerson University, Curtis’ journey has taken him to Italy, USA (2 times), Germany and finally France. His experience has included working on the development of the Boeing 787, Airbus A380, and Airbus A350 and realizing a childhood dream working with the Ferrari Formula 1 race team during ’99 and ’00 season. Since setting roots in France in 2006 and joining Airbus in 2011, Curtis has been active with the launch of a variety of the companies forward thinking digital transformation projects, covering topics such as Factory of the Future, AR-augmented reality, 3D printing, IIoT, model based systems engineering methods, advanced robotics & automation to name a few. Curtis’ current role since July 2017 covers transforming and integrating engineering processes across the diverse and rich engineering landscape of Airbus Defense and Space.

Lucretia Loescher

Lucretia Loescher leads the industrial solution business in Europe for Siemens Energy. She has experience in various industries and functions. Her career started in 2004 with sales and marketing for the automotive industry. To broaden her experience, she moved into consulting with main emphasis on innovative technologies, process industries and the energy sector. Subsequently she became Director of Sales Operations for OSRAM Lighting Solutions, followed by an assignment as Vice President Strategy, HSE and Business Improvement for Siemens Energy. She is an ambitious mountaineer, runner and diver. On Arctic expeditions, she gets to know the earth in its extreme. She is the deputy chairwoman for the Bavarian Red Cross in Munich.

Andrea Moroni Stampa

Andrea Moroni Stampa has studied electronic engineering at the ETH Zurich. After some international experiences as a development engineer, he created the R&D department inside Hemargroup, an electronic assembly and production company. Today he is leading a team of 10+ development engineers and is a proud startupper and innovator.

Dr. Michael Thierschmann

Operational Excellence expert based on professional career experience in Research & Development, global technology Marketing & Sales, strategy & process consulting as well as line responsibility in global industrial corporations

Harald Kirsch

Dynamic, entrepreneurial business strategist with over 30 years of professional experience in organizational and business development in the segments of Digital Transformation, IIoT, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, automation of enterprise processes, sales of innovative SW solutions and services, portfolio management, consulting, system integration services, outsourcing as well as business transformation, change management, product management and product development.

My current area of responsibility includes in particular:

- Management of the Automation and Industrial IT division

- Continuous further development of the company's digital strategy

- Structuring and advancing the Industrie 4.0/ IIoT platform strategy

- Optimization, digitalization and further development of manufacturing and production processes

Juha Pankakoski

Juha Pankakoski is a member of the Konecranes’ group executive board, responsible for the development of group core technologies, digitalization, IT, and central procurement. He’s held number of functional and P&L executive positions during the years. Prior to joining Konecranes, Juha worked in IT and Telecomms sectors. He and his wife live in the Finnish archipelago with two Nova Scotian retrievers.

Klaus Schmücker

Klaus Schmücker heads the digital strategy of the BSH Home Appliances Group, to transform the group from a hardware manufacturer to a provider of connected products, digital services and ecosystem offerings. From positions in consulting and at E.ON and Thüga, he has extensive experience developing and executing digital strategies and successfully transforming companies of different industries into digital business models. Klaus hosts a CDO & Digital Strategists network in Munich and is a member of the Digitalization Committee of the Munich Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Jonas Szalanczi

As the CEO and Co-Founder Jonas Szalanczi leads NeuroForge with a clear vision for industrial AI, BigData and Innovation. With his technical background and project experience, he monitors and controls the operational and strategic business process. With his innovation-driven attitude, he positions NeuroForge as the German partner for the use of state-of-the-art AI-technologies at the spearhead of the digitization of the industry. In exemplary projects, he demonstrates NeuroForge's speed, quality and digital competence:

- AI with every kind of Data

- Solving the questions everyone has on AI

- Establishing trust in ai-projects with NeuroForge’s AI development process

Stephan Gerling

Stephan Gerling is a German security researcher working in Kaspersky Lab’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS CERT) where he is responsible for conducting vulnerability research, giving lecture and talks at conferences, conducting incidence response and delivering live and online ICS cybersecurity training programs.

Today Stephan is particularly interested in security for Maritime systems (navigation and control systems) and “smart motor homes”. He enjoys conduction penetration testing of ‘Internet of Things’ devices ranging from electronic door locks to industrial control systems. He has previous experience as a security evangelist in Oil and Gas Industries, Helicopter Navigation System Specialist and 34 Years volunteer firefighter as Platoon leader.

Stephan is certified as CISSP, GCFA, MCSE + security and several other certificates.

Dr. Alexander Below

Alexander brings modern digitization to very traditional industries. After getting his Ph.D. in large mathematical optimization problems he applied these methods to scheduling of locomotive drivers and conductor at Deutsche Bahn’s long-haul traffic – the first of a longer string of process optimization projects. For the last years he has headed the Digital Transformation at DB Cargo, Europe’s leading rail-freight operator. During his tenure, he put in new digital customer interface as well as new service design systems, capacity booking systems, several mobile applications for rail-freight operating staff, production steering systems – to name a few –, and transferred all of DB Cargo’s IT landscape to “the cloud.” He shaped the way digitization is done at DB Cargo, and he is a strong believer in “Business IT Fusion.” In 2021, he formulated the bold new Digital Strategy of DB Cargo, unifying digitization initiatives, modernization of the IT landscape, and the physical automation initiatives needed to ensure the economic and ecological goals of DB Cargo.

Mathias Sundbäck

I am positive and curious, and I like to work together with people toward set targets. I enjoy working within improvement and strategic areas.
I fill my free time with family, friends and training.
Depending on the season and weather, I have a lot of different activities that I do regularly
such as barefoot running, hiking and skiing.

Prof. Franz Dietrich

• Current position: Full Professor at TU Berlin, heading the Chair of Handling and Assembly Technology Research
• Previous Positions at TU Braunschweig, Institute for Machine Tools and Production Technology
• Member of the German Academic Society for Handling, Assembly and Industrial Robotics (MHI e.V.)
• Member of KliB Competence Network Lithium Ion Batteries e.V.

Production technologies for a more liveable and sustainable world. I do this as a senior researcher, a patent-awarded inventor, an experienced consultant, a successful leader, a noteable speaker, a teacher, and as a career coach.
10+ years of leadership, research and consultancy with dedication to industrial automation, advanced robotics, smart factory and sustainable automation.

Kaustav Basu

Experienced in academia and industry, he is working as a lead data scientist at Eneco, Netherlands. He holds a Phd in Electrical and Computer Science from Grenoble Alps University, France. Other Than creating exciting live products/services used by over 500K utility customers he has authored multiple patents and publications.

Alon Arnon

Alon joined ASOCS in 2021 to head the German Market and global strategic accounts. Bringing with him extensive knowledge in digital and technology transformation programs, across the globe, in telecommunication and Industry 4.0 markets. Forming and executing innovative strategies to bridge technologies benefits with Industries 4.0 goals, he brings to the table E2E knowledge built over 20 years of hands-on experience in international sales, business development and engagement practice. Alon started his way in Amdocs to grow BSS/OSS practice, spent 7 years in Ericsson to bring 5G to consumers and Industries and now marking the path for ASOCS 5G software solution to generate Next generation insights using 5G software and Ecosystem partners to German and Global Enterprises on their digital journey.
Alon holds various awards in Telecommunication and holds an M.B.A. in Computer Science (Open University in Israel).

SACHIN MATHUR

Sachin Mathur is a DIRECTOR SOFTWARE & CONTROL EMEA at Rockwell Automation.
He is specialized in navigating organizational transformational programs, identifying, and enabling end-customer business outcomes via new technologies and partner ecosystems.
Sachin is a true believer in pushing “out of the box” execution strategies and driving digital transformation by joining hands with domain experts in a partner ecosystem.

Lydia Kaiser

Lydia Kaiser is heading the Chair of Digital Engineering 4.0 at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Einstein Center Digital Future. She is member of the digital council of the federal ministry of defense. The Digital Council advises the Federal Minister of Defense on digitalization issues.
Lydia Kaiser studied Physics at the Paderborn University and received her Ph.D. 2013 in the field of Model-Based Systems Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Jürgen Gausemeier. Lydia Kaiser was research associate for three years at the chair Product Engineering at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the Paderborn University. In 2012, she changed to Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design in Paderborn. In the research department of Prof. Roman Dumitrescu she was group leader and head of the devision Systems Engineering.

Tilmann Kloppe

Tilmann Kloppe is currently part of the Business Excellence and Quality Management Function at the Rolling Stock (Rail) Business Unit of Siemens. Driving Digital Transformation with focus on process improvement is a major part of his role. Before he joined the Railway Industry he held several management positions in the Air- and Space Industry and Power Generation Industry. He accumulated knowledge and leadership experience in different areas such as Project Management, Supply Management and Operations. Certainly one career highlight was a green field project he successfully led in Eastern Europe.

Dr. Lydia Nemec

As Head of the ZEISS AI Accelerator, Dr. Lydia Nemec and her team work closely together with all ZEISS businesses to create fully operational machine learning products that drive business success for ZEISS. Coming from academic research in high-performance computing and numeric algorithm development, Lydia started her exciting career path in theoretical and computational physics as a post-doc at Fritz Haber Insitute of the Max Planck Society and TU Munich. Before joining ZEISS, Lydia worked as a Senior Data Scientist on Machine Learning development and cloud-based data products at Knorr-Bremse. As part of the ZEISS Data & Analytics unit, Lydia leads the ZEISS Data Science team and is at the forefront of ZEISS´ next generation of AI-infused product and service innovations.