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Ensure that escalator manufacturing processes run safely, reliably and efficiently, in a sustainableway. Manuel Alonso is the Head of KAIZEN at thyssenkrupp’ Norte manufacturing center in Spain. He is leading the digital transformation process and also all the initiatives for continuous improvement at the plant. Manuel has been always related to change, innovation and technologies.Read more

A highly qualified manufacturing IT engineer with 20 years’ experience ranging from consulting, project management, systems implementations, process improvement, quality management, organizational development, software validation and new product introduction for life science, food and electronic multinational companies.Read more

Oscar Lazaro is Managing Director of Innovalia Association, the Associated Research Lab founded by the Innovalia Alliance, one of the 3 strategic technology groups in the Basque Country. Innovalia develops technology in the fields of E2E cybersecurity (chip to cloud), quality assurance for high performance IoT/CPS systems, mobile 3D visualisation and big data analytics. InnovaliaRead more

Prof. Dr. Dimitris Kyritsis is Faculty Member at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the School of Engineering of EPFL, Switzerland, where he is leading a research group on ICT for Sustainable Manufacturing. His research interests are Closed Loop Lifecycle Management, IoT, Semantic Technologies and Data Analytics for Engineering Applications. He served also as GuestRead more

Helping to drive Innovation within the IS \ IT function of Nissan Europe. Responsible for: * Driving innovation within Nissan Europe IS \ IT through the research of emerging technologies and concepts, providing innovative ideas and fostering innovative solutions from within the organisation * Design & implementation of an Innovation framework * Working with startups,Read more

Agmon has over 15 years of experience in diverse roles at global hi-tech companies and startups turning ideas into reality. Agmon, holds two BSc’s in physics, a Master degree in biomedical engineering and an MBA. Leading the innovation lab of ham-let, a $150 million and growing company focused on flow solutions for industrial use (Semi, Oil&gas,Read more

Klaus Bauer is Head of Basic Technology Development at TRUMPF. His work focuses on Industry 4.0 and intelligent machine networks. Klaus has over 20 years’ experience in machine building, software engineering, usability engineering, machine to machine communication and security. As a pioneer of Industry 4.0 and member of the German Plattform Industrie 4.0 he workedRead more

Shaun has over 20 years experience in industry before returning to Univerity as a lecturer for Service innovation. During his industrial phase he supported power plant operations and maintenance with Smart Solutions, constructed service contracts based on ‘power by the hour’ concepts that were underpinned with digital technologies, often technologies that are based on lean and Six-SigmaRead more

Toby Walsh is a leading researcher in Artificial Intelligence and is Scientia professor at the University of New South Wales and Digital Think-tank Data61. He has a BA from the University of Cambridge and MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Edinburgh. He was named by the Australian newspaper as a “rock star” of the digitalRead more

Athanasios currently holds the position of “Computational & Data Science R&D Scientific Director”. He is a graduate of National Technical University of Athens and holds a PhD from University of Liège. He joined Air Liquide in 1995. Within the Group, he found several ways to express his passion for simulation and applied math in R&DRead more