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Jochen is responsible for service innovation at Krones AG with major focus on digitally-enabled business models and the related transformation process, including technological, organizational as well as cultural change. During his professional career Jochen developed a very customer-oriented business perspective, established a strong background in R&D project and portfolio management and gained extensive experience withRead more

Paul Brooks is a Digital Transformation Lead within a group specialising in understanding where business value and benefit can be gained by the transformation of process when applying digital technology. Paul has been a Senior Consult for a Global Systems Integrator, where he ran projects and assessments for multinational companies. He has over 18 yearsRead more

Torsten Scheidt holds a PhD in experimental physics and was educated in Munich, Stellenbosch, South Africa and Jena, Germany. Over the past 14 years he has held various positions in R&D and Operations within the ZEISS Group. In his current role as Head of Engineering for ZEISS Consumer Products, he is responsible for production engineeringRead more

Sairam Potaraju is responsible for Digital technical Services a Business model Innovation venture of Covestro, a leading supplier of high-tech polymer materials (formerly known as Bayer MaterialScience). Operations, Product strategy and Innovation enthusiast Sairam and his venture aims to create a new technical service based business model for Covestro customers globally by seamlessly integrating PolyurethaneRead more

Kari Terho is the General Manager for Elisa Smart Factory, with a focus on Industrial IoT and Data Analytics. Kari has been advising several Fortune 500 companies to strategically transform and optimize their manufacturing operations with help of digital technologies. Kari joined Elisa as Vice President and Head of Fixed and mobile Network Services inRead more

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Stefan Hoppe is the OPC Foundation President since end 2018 coordinating the OPC expansion into the Internet of Things & Industrie4.0. Stefan has been the Global Vice President since 2014 and the President of the OPC Europe organization since 2010 being the catalyst for initiating liaisons with other industrial consortiums that has resulted in OPC workingRead more

Dr. Elias Knubben is Vice President and Head of Corporate Research and Innovation. This area includes research and advanced development for automation solutions in the field of factory and process automation. This also includes the Future Concepts, which deal with levitation under the brand SupraMotion, as well as the biology inspired projects of Festo’s BionicRead more

Goran started his career in the academic world where I got a PhD in physics by researching large scale data acquisition systems for physics experiments, such as the LHC at CERN. After leaving academia he has been working in several tech startups in different management positions over the last 20 years. His passion is learningRead more

As Executive Vice President Augmented Reality Dr. Hendrik Witt is responsible for driving product development in the AR field and establishing TeamViewer as a leading solution provider. Prior, Hendrik was co-founder and CEO of AR-specialist Ubimax. With more than 15 years of professional experience in the areas of innovation, software technology and strategy development, HendrikRead more