Agenda

Draft agenda

DAY ONE - Thursday, 20th November 2025

08:00 - 08:50

REGISTRATION, REFRESHMENTS AND NETWORKING

08:50 - 09:00

Chair’s Welcome and Opening Remarks

CIRCLE CHALLENGES

We kick off the summit with our NEW ‘Circle Team Challenges,’ delivered over three separate 25-minute sessions. The sessions consist of 15 tables of 8-10 attendees, including sponsors and industry leaders.

The 15 tables will be labelled with a specific industry challenge. Pre-event, all guests will choose 3 out of the 15 challenges that are most interesting and relevant to them. During each session, the group of like-minded attendees will work together to find a solution and potential business impact.

09:00 - 09:25

Circle Challenge 1

09:30 - 09:55

Circle Challenge 2

10:00 - 10:25

Circle Challenge 3

10:25 - 10:50

COFFEE AND NETWORKING

10:50 - 11:30

HEADLINER PANEL DISCUSSION

Digitization in Manufacturing – Managing your Transformation

MODERATOR
Marcin Golemba
Engineering Director
Reckitt

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PANELLISTS
Anthi Tsirogianni
Digital Platform Manager Manufacturing & Maintenance
Coca-Cola

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Miguel Arauj
Industrial Director
Riopele

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Jose Araujo
Project Manager
BA Glass

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José Manuel Gonçalves Elias
Corporate Director of Digital Innovation
CIN

11:35 - 12:00

WORKSHOP

Understanding of Business Processes as a Base for Automation
  • Process landscape and mapping activities
  • Relevant attributes to assess each process step
  • Ideation to enhance your process digitalization and automation
  • Key parameters for use case prioritization
  • Available technologies to support use case execution

Marçal Bosch
Global Head of Process Engineering, Standards and Compliance – Novartis

Novartis

Meeting session 1

12:05 - 12:30

WORKSHOP

The dichotomy between OT and Cloud security
  • IT Resilience in OT environments: different ways to go about implementing resilience mechanisms for OT 
  • Network segregation and the Purdue model for ICS
  • Hardening and traditional IT process limitation in the OT space
  • IIoT – Local vs Cloud

Radu Onica,
Principal Information Security Architect – PMI

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Meeting session 2

12:35 - 13:00

WORKSHOP

Digital Transformation Strategy for the Global Enterprise - Vision and Opportunities
  • Drivers for your digital transformation journey
  • Why MES is the foundational element of your operations
  • How to align digitalization processes from plant to enterprise, from local to global
  • Smart Factory technologies accelerating business growth and opportunities (Cloud, Analytics, AI,…)

Richard Porter
Discrete Industry Lead, GE Vernova

GE Vernova

Meeting session 3

13:00 - 14:00

NETWORKING LUNCH

14:00 - 14:25

WORKSHOP

Predictive Maintenance in Industry 4.0

Revolutionizing Maintenance with AI and Smart Technologies

  1. What is Industry 4.0 means for Reckitt
  2. Understanding Predictive Maintenance (PdM) as a part of MES
  3. How Predictive Maintenance Works
  4. Key Components of Predictive Maintenance
  5. Benefits of Predictive Maintenance in Industry 4.0
  6. Challenges and Solutions

Ewa Kosmowska
IT&D Manager – Reckitt

Marcin Golemba
Engineering Director, Reckitt

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Meeting session 4

14:30 - 14:55

WORKSHOP

Program Management as the basis for an ideal digital transformation
  • Alignment for Impact – how it’s not about technology but how program management aligns to ensure every effort drives meaningful results.
  • Agility in Transformation—Learn how a process-first approach can empower companies to adapt swiftly to changes, minimize risks, and maximize growth potential.
  • Scalable Success – a strong approach on people & governance supports sustainable, scalable transformation for lasting competitive advantage.

Sergio Hernandez
Director Pre-Sales
AG Solution

AG Solution

Meeting session 5

15:00 - 15:40

HEADLINER PANEL DISCUSSION

Fragmented Landscape – The Benefits of Improved Data Quality and Analysis

MODERATOR
Ray Ellis
Global Head of AI Security
PMI

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PANELLISTS
Paulo Gomes
Data Science Manager
BA Glass

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Pedro Conceição
Asset Management & Reliability Director
Sonae Arauco

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Connor Calnan
Manufacturing Support Engineer
BASF

BASF

15:45 - 16:10

WORKSHOP

Governance - Preventing Shadow AI & Mitigating Risk
  • The Critical Role of Data in Manufacturing AI
  • The Hidden Costs of Poor Data Quality
  • Data Validation and Control Methods
  • Building a Secure Data Infrastructure

Ray Ellis
Global Head of AI Security, PMI

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Meeting session 6

16:10 - 16:30

COFFEE AND NETWORKING

16:30 - 16:55

WORKSHOP

Make 2030 objectives happen thanks to digitalised energy management
  • Turn decarbonisation strategy into measurable achievements 

  • Embark the whole company into energy performance

  • Use data to leverage energy performance

  • Improve energy performance with existing assets 

Vincent Sciandra
CEO
Metron

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Meeting session 7

17:00 - 17:25

WORKSHOP

Danone Industry 5.0 Vision
  • Industry 5.0 evolution
  • Danone Digital Transformation journey
  • Role of innovative technologies

Simon Levinson
Global Head Digital Manufacturing Innovation, Danone

Manuel Aguado
Global Digital Manufacturing Manager, Danone

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Meeting session 8

17:25 - 17:45

DAY ONE WRAP UP

18:00 - 19:00

DRINKS RECEPTION IN THE ROOF TOP BAR

DAY TWO – Friday, 21st November 2025

08:00 - 08:30

REFRESHMENTS AND NETWORKING

08:30 - 08:40

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION TO THE DAY

08:40 - 09:25

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

Small group discussions tackling your most critical challenges

TABLE 1: Real Solutions for Real Problems: Efficient Asset Health Monitoring for All Industrial Plants.
Hosted by: Dynamox

TABLE 2: Smart Manufacturing: Navigating the challenges to drive true business value.
Hosted by: Ganesh Kumar Bukka, Vice President & Global Head ITxOT Practice, Hitachi Digital Services

TABLE 3: Empowering Digital Factories: Leveraging Data Management with Informatica and AWS for Effective Digital Twins Integration.
Hosted by: Informatica & AWS

TABLE 4: Digital Transformation Requires More Than Great Software – Empowering Workforce Transformation at Scale
Hosted by: Paolo Braiuca, Industry Principal Pharmaceuticals, Seeq

TABLE 5: Top to Bottom Change: Implementing Systems That Build Organisational Resilience
Hosted by: Ben Passey, Senior Account Executive & Shaber Husein, Senior Account Executive, Safety Culture

TABLE 6: Saving Operational Cost in Tough Times. Best Practice Strategies Exchange
Hosted by: Norman Hartmann, Co-Founder and CEO, Workerbase

TABLE 7: Breaking points why digital transformation programs fail
AG Solution

09:30 - 09:55

WORKSHOP

Listening to End-users: OPC Cloud Initiative to establish the USB connector to the Cloud

OPC is undoubtedly widely used and OPC UA as a common technology between OT and IT people was first introduced in the OT world in 2007. But now the end users are pushing their cloud providers to collaborate on easier interoperability connectivity of their automation solutions to the cloud systems!
In detail, the presentation is about these main topics:

    1. Which cloud vendors, which end-users are participating
    2. End users wish for a secure, standardized bidirectional transport of information to cloud providers.
    3. End users requirement to preserve or retrieve the context of OT information in their cloud solutions.

Stefan Hoppe
President
OPC Foundation

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Meeting session 9

10:00 - 10:25

WORKSHOP

Sustainability Accelerating Product Development

Accelerating product development with a focus on sustainability means incorporating eco-friendly practices from concept to end-of-life. This approach requires rethinking traditional processes and aligning them with environmental objectives.

In this workshop, we will develop ideas on how to integrate sustainability into each stage of the product lifecycle.

Considerations:

  1. Dematerialization
  2. Optimal Material Selection
  3. Green Supply Chain Management
  4. Product Longevity and Efficient Use:

Carlos Gomes
Sustainability and Continuous Improvement Corporate Director
Sodecia

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Meeting session 10

10:25 - 10:45

COFFEE AND NETWORKING

10:45 - 11:25

HEADLINE PANEL DISCUSSION

Overcoming IT Challenges to facilitate the Digital Evolution of Manufacturing.

PANELISTS

MODERATOR:
Dimitris Stathopoulos
OT/IT Convergence Manager, Coca-Cola

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Pedro Fonseca
 Head of Cloud Center of Excellence, Saint-Gobain

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George Gouveia
Head of Data Analytics & AI, Solvay

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Antonio Araujo
Head of IT & Digital Transformation, Aralab

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Ines Cadhila
Head of Digital Division, Lusospace

Lusospace

11:30 - 11:55

WORKSHOP

More coming soon…

Jürgen Friedrich
Industry Leader Manufacturing Industry Europe
DXC

DXC

Meeting session 11

12:00 - 12:25

WORKSHOP

Driving Efficiency: Integrated Digital MES/MOM Solutions for Data-Driven Manufacturing at Volvo Cars
  • Integration between our PLM – ERP – MES solutions
  • How you can collect the Data during the Assembly Process
  • Become more data driven and provide the relevant and accurate information to all your employees 

Toine Dirvan
Head of Manufacturing Digital
Volvo Cars

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Meeting session 12

12:30 - 13:30

WORKSHOP

The Emerging Technology Curve: Created by the Industry for the Industry

During the DMS event, we will collaboratively create the Emerging Technology Curve live. Every participant will play a crucial role in mapping the journey of new emerging technologies through five phases, from their initial entry into the manufacturing market to the point where a typical business can benefit from their adoption. Together, we will highlight key emerging technologies and predict their adoption status in 2025.

Created by you !

13:30 - 14:30

FAREWELL LUNCH

Manufacturers only permitted to attend as delegates.

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