Magnus Nyden
Head of Innovation
Magnus Nydén is Executive Director of Innovation in Pharmaceutical Technology & Development, Operations, at AstraZeneca. He leads a team of scientists driven by science-, technology- and collaboration excellence and he works across a suite of scientific tools, from Newtonian physics through to AI.
The team focus on innovations in the areas of process science, manufacturing technology, analytical science, material science, sensors and devices technologies, lean applications as well as modelling and simulation, including AI and generative AI technologies.
Magnus has a PhD in physical chemistry from Lund University. After his PhD he focused on an academic career and became professor (with chair) in 2009 and has experience from university positions in Sweden, Australia and the UK before he took on the Global Chief Scientist role with AkzoNobel in the Netherlands. After that he became the CTO and Public Policy Director at Liquid Wind AB in Sweden. His next job was as Executive Dean of Science & Engineering at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. After that he moved to his current role in AstraZeneca.
Gustavo Cabral
Global Digital Lead for Operations
Ofi
Dr. Gustavo Cabral is currently the Global Digital Lead for Operations at ofi, a world leader in natural food & beverage ingredients and solutions.
With more than 15 years of experience in supply chain, operations and production technology, Gustavo has been part of the technological and cultural transformation of several global key players in different industries throughout his career. His focus is on Industry 4.0 applications, an area in which he holds a PhD from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
I have 7 years of experience in leading teams, predictive/preventive maintenance/inspection culture development, optimizing and empowering people, processes and technology based on agile / LEAN with My motto: Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast!
Moreover, as Honoured Keynote-speaker, and trainer at different Professional Conferences, I have shared my views, and experiences Worldwide.
Csaba Feher
Maintenance development manager
Heineken
25+ years of Maintenance management experience in FMCG, oil and gas/petrochemical industry including manufacturing, Operations, Logistics, TPM, preventive/predictive maintenance, reliability, engineering, project management and focused finance, procurement, coaching
I have 7 years of experience in leading teams, predictive/preventive maintenance/inspection culture development, optimizing and empowering people, processes and technology based on agile / LEAN with My motto: Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast!
Moreover, as Honoured Keynote-speaker, and trainer at different Professional Conferences, I have shared my views, and experiences Worldwide.
Global Engineering Director and Global Head of Software/Firmware Engineering
Fabio Albanese received his MSc in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2005, defending his thesis in cooperation with Arm and under the supervision of Prof. Metra. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from IE Business School, Madrid
He is currently the Group Head of Software/Firmware Engineering and Global Director of the Group Technology Organization in Electrolux
After graduation, Mr. Albanese started a consultant career as an electronic and software designer for embedded systems and for the industrial automation industry. Before moving to Electrolux in 2021, he’s worked for the multinational group Datalogic, a leader in IoT and Vision systems, for 15+ years taking on roles of increasing responsibility and seniority. He lived in the US and in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for 5 years where he founded and developed from scratch the first and now the largest offshore design center for Datalogic. During his tenure in Vietnam, he spent 4 years as the Vice President of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam.
He’s a Scrum Master, a Member of the IEEE and of the Computer Society and the holder of several international patents.
During 15 years, entrepreneur and creative Pierre-Jean developed his own company for a better passenger experience in the aerospace industry using computer vision technology.
Within the Airbus company, he contributed to the deployment of the IoT and mixed reality to enhance daily operations and provide transparency in a collaborative manner.
Today, he defines the trajectory and a common approach for Digital Twins (Product, Industrial and Service) between Airbus divisions to make timely decisions for optimisation and anticipation, all along the products’ life cycle.
Global Head of Hardware Engineering at Electrolux
Giuliano Lovisotto took his MSc degree on Electronic Engineering at University of Padova in 2003 after an internship in Electrolux on Switching Mode Power Supply with high efficiency in Stand-by mode. He started his working experience in Electrolux Home appliance as Hardware Engineer and then Hardware coordinator in a Global Electronic Development Team.
In 2011 he decided to face new challenges moving to a Silicon Valley Company leader on Power Supply IC “Power integrations Inc” based in San Jose – California.
In Power Integration Inc. he worked in the European Sales Team based in Milan – Italy as Engineering Manager supporting top European customers on hardware development.
In 2019 he joined Electrolux as Group Head of Hardware Engineering and Global Director of Digital Technology Organization; he is currently covering this role leading the Global Electronic Hardware Development
During 15 years, entrepreneur and creative Pierre-Jean developed his own company for a better passenger experience in the aerospace industry using computer vision technology.
Within the Airbus company, he contributed to the deployment of the IoT and mixed reality to enhance daily operations and provide transparency in a collaborative manner.
Today, he defines the trajectory and a common approach for Digital Twins (Product, Industrial and Service) between Airbus divisions to make timely decisions for optimisation and anticipation, all along the products’ life cycle.
Digital Twin Solutions Leader
Pierre-Jean is the Airbus leader in digital twin solutions. As key element of the Airbus digital transformation program called DDMS (Digital Design Manufacturing Services), the digital twin concept applied to the three main system of interest; the product, the industrial system and the support in service, will be the instrumental to ensure much better integrated solution during the co-development phase but also to support operations.
During 15 years, entrepreneur and creative Pierre-Jean developed his own company for a better passenger experience in the aerospace industry using computer vision technology.
Within the Airbus company, he contributed to the deployment of the IoT and mixed reality to enhance daily operations and provide transparency in a collaborative manner.
Today, he defines the trajectory and a common approach for Digital Twins (Product, Industrial and Service) between Airbus divisions to make timely decisions for optimisation and anticipation, all along the products’ life cycle.
COO
Matt has over 25 years extensive sales and leadership experience and today leads an international team, developing business strategy to support digital transformations within multinational companies.
Focused on strong leadership and with embedded cultural awareness and communications skills, Matt combines this with extensive commercial experience, constantly aware of targets and a consistent value driven approach to people and business goals.
Today’s Industry 4.0 and digital transformation initiatives map to Matt’s expertise in navigating complex manufacturing IT environments which enable him to drive digital transformation strategies within many global corporations through innovative strategies and commercial solutions.
He has the ability to manage complex sales negotiations across multiple geographic regions to add value to customers, drive innovation in business, meet targets and lead with purpose.
Jesper Toubøl
Vice President Operations - Moulding Production
Lego
Jesper is the head of one of LEGO moulding sites and qualification factories which include both advanced mass manufacturing and maturing of new emerging technologies. Jesper has furthermore delivered organizational footprint and technology strategies within Product Design and Equipment ( Manufacturing – establishing Engineering centers in LEGO manufacturing sites in Singapore, Mexico and Denmark.. During his work Jesper has profound focus on how IoT can support his visions and enable the future – a true IOT-technology evangelist. Jesper has worked for LEGO in several roles. 1) Responsibility for R&D in Packaging and Processing (Decorations and Assembly) product line. 2) Responsibilities for product development execution for LEGO DUPLO , LEGO Games , LEGO Technic , LEGO Hero Factory – leading development teams through design, sourcing and marketing process from concept to finished product. 3) establishing logistics strategy, delivered turn around results in increasing differentiated services and reducing costs by e.g. outsourcing, consolidating sites and redefining logistic service offering.
Sultan Aziz
Senior Director, Business Operations & Portfolio Management
Johnson & Johnson
Sultan Aziz serves as Senior Director, Business Operations & Portfolio Management within Johnson & Johnson Supply Chain’s Strategy Innovation & Deployment Organization. He has accountability for managing the Industry 4.0 innovation portfolio of >200 projects across JnJ Supply Chain. Sultan is also responsible for the management of Technology Innovation Test & Scale Steering Committee, Innovation Book-of-Work development and alignment and business planning for the SI&D Organization.
Director at AME
University of Conventry
Dr Kauffman is the Director of the Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) at Coventry University and a Fellow of the Institute for Innovation and Knowledge Exchange. He has a strong academic background in innovation and business model transformation complemented by direct industrial experience and the track-record of successfully leading and delivering a successful large research intensive centre. He joined the AME in 2016 as Innovation and Digitalisation Director. In this role he led and delivered successful cross-disciplinary R&D projects in a mixed industrial and academic setting, bringing together researchers from different disciplines and sectors to derive viable solutions to complex business problems and conceptualise new collaborative methods that explore optimality in engineering-business contexts.
Prior to joining the Coventry University, Dr Kauffman worked for over 10 years in senior roles across the UK manufacturing industry, leading cross-disciplinary industrial R&D projects ranging from operational improvement projects, to IT/OT projects designed to integrate engineering teams and generate value.
In September 2021 Dr Kauffman launched a book titled Profiting from Industry 4.0: the road to future value in manufacturing aimed at providing manufacturing companies with an insight into how to maximise value creation from the implementation of Industry 4.0.
Martin Green
Head of Business Development
Edzcom
Martin Green has 25 years experience in process and industrial automation, working internationally in the chemical, energy and manufacturing sectors. Prior to joining Cellnex, Martin held senior positions at Emerson, Control Techniques and Brush Industrial Controls, gaining valuable insights working with some of the world’s best known industrial organisations. Martin is a long-standing member and contributor at the InstMC and regularly participates in speaking engagements.
Francesco Contini
CMO
Aqua
Francesco Contini graduated in Aerospace Engineering in 2006. After a career start in mechanical design for the military and automotive sector, he started doing product management and marketing for a multinational company in the plumbing and water business, gaining knowledge and experience in the trade plumbing sector, as well as in managing agile teams in developing groundbreaking new products. Currently head of Strategic and Industrial Marketing for Aqua S.p.A., a medium-sized, Italian-based, manufacturing company for the water treatment industry, he’s in charge of developing strategic plans to ensure that the company’s positioning is always competitive in the international markets.
Rémi Goget
Principal Technical Consultant
Cognite
MSc in Chemical Engineering and MSc in Innovation Leadership. My most relevant working experience is Project and Licensing Manager for speciality chemical companies where I was in charge of the contracting, engineering, construction and commissioning of chemical plants. I also have experience as a Sales Manager in the Food & Beverage and Energy Sector.
Gustavo Cabral
Head of Production Department & Head of Autonomous Maintenance Pillar
Olam Food Ingredients
Dr. Gustavo Cabral is currently the Global Digital Lead for Operations at OFI, a world leader in natural food & beverage ingredients and solutions.
With more than 15 years of experience in supply chain, operations and production technology, Gustavo has been part of the technological and cultural transformation of several global key players in different industries throughout his career. His focus is on Industry 4.0 applications, an area in which he holds a PhD from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Angelika Hofer-Orgonyi
Group Head of Digital Excellence
Mondi Group
Mag. (FH) Angelika Hofer-Orgonyi is the Group Head of Digital Excellence at Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper with over 100 production sites across more than 30 countries, with key operations located in Europe, North America and Africa.
Angelika has a strong background in Finance, Project Management, E2E Business processes and Senior Leadership due to her 25+ years of experience in different companies and industries, such as paper and packaging, water filtration and FMCG.
In her role as Group Head of Digital Excellence at Mondi, Angelika leads a team of data scientists, operations research solutions experts and agile project managers with the vision to shape the digital transformation of Mondi as an enabler toward a sustainable future. Her mission is to create value by applying advanced analytics (mainly via AI, Machine Learning, and Operations Research Solutions) to business & operational data and processes. Her team develops scalable solutions and drives international experience and knowledge exchange across the Mondi Group in the field of digital innovation.
Eric Baldo
Smart Manufacturing Leader
Eramet
Experienced Site Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the mining & metals industry. Strong information technology professional skilled in Manufacturing, Process Engineering, Total Productive Management (TPM), Lean Manufacturing, and Continuous Improvement Lean 6 Sigma.
Engaged to reduce our impact on the environment I am keen on Design thinking and open innovation as a powerful way to enhance the performances and personal motivation of team members. I want to promote energy harvesting and batteryless geolocation system for asset traceability indoor/outdoor.
CTO and Co-Founder
Henrik Aagaard is CTO and Co-founder of Onomondo, a global cellular operator for the Internet of Things. Henrik has extensive experience in the technology space, particularly telco, where he founded companies selling network software directly to the telecommunications industry. When he and co-founder Michael Karlsen discovered that they could solve many common IoT connectivity pain points by creating a new network, Onomondo was born.
Onomondo is a global cellular operator for the Internet of Things, working to connect and simplify enterprise-grade connected services across the globe. Onomondo is available in more than 180 countries with full integration to over 700 local operators, meaning your data is treated the same no matter where you are on the planet.
Onomondo empowers users through its innovative connectivity software, such as real-time monitoring and debugging, cloud connectors, APIs, webhooks, and an easy-to-use management platform. With its unique network infrastructure implemented globally, Onomondo enables a more secure, cost-efficient, and scalable connectivity option, which is breaking down the barriers to building truly global IoT solutions at scale.
Henrik, and the entire Onomondo team, are committed to changing the IoT connectivity landscape for the better. One world. One network.
Tomas Zdrazil
Senior Data Scientist
As Senior Data Scientist in the Digital Excellence department of Mondi Group, Tomas Zdrazil is mostly responsible for design, development and deployment of digital solutions. Over his 3 years’ experience with Mondi, he has worked on several digital projects in the fields of paper making, commercial and business intelligence.
Tomas’ academic background is applied statistics and data analysis, including machine learning. He has a strong feeling for data, also thanks to his previous consulting experience in the fields of forensic data analysis, M&A, compliance and consolidation. He has lived and worked already in various major European business centers, including Brussels, Luxembourg, Munich, Frankfurt, and London.
Richard Groome
Specialist - OT/Manufacturing
Richard heads up strategic engagement for OT, manufacturing and LifeSciences at Armis. Richard works with Armis customers to understand their challenges arising from the management of unmanaged, IOT, OT and Building Management Systems and then helps them to move forward securing their key devices, locations and production facilities. Richard has worked in security and networking for over 25 years and founded a cancer charity which has provided over 70 years of respite care. Outside of work Richard is a keen endurance cyclist.
IoT Sales Director
Currently Regional Sales Director, IoT for EMEA, Michael has a deep background in ICS cyber security including 10 years with Industrial Defender and Lockheed Martin. He offers first-hand field experience, resulting from his role overseeing thousands of Nozomi Networks installations.
Senior Cyber Security Consultant, Technical Lead for Southern Europe
Emanuele has been at Claroty for 3 years on the presales, technical side.
He has an extensive background in OT Cybersecurity. He has worked for many years in England and France. Prior to joining Claroty Emanuele was at Michelin, France, in their OT Cybersecurity Team. He is now based in Italy.
CEO
Building a company and technology ground up with more than 200,000 connected vehicles globally, Mads has during his 6 years as CEO of Connected Cars gained experience with most aspects of bringing a vision of IOT to life.
Connected Cars offers car OEMs, importers and dealerships to connect their customers’ vehicles to the cloud and thereby deliver digital proactive care to ensure stronger customer loyalty and customer satisfaction by leveraging the realtime health data from each vehicle delivered by Connected Cars’ product suite.
Prior to founding Connected Cars, Mads has developed digital strategies for leading Danish corporates including founding the strategy behind MobilePay, a leading Nordic mobile payments platform.
COO
Matt has over 25 years extensive sales and leadership experience and today leads an international team, developing business strategy to support digital transformations within multinational companies.
Focused on strong leadership and with embedded cultural awareness and communications skills, Matt combines this with extensive commercial experience, constantly aware of targets and a consistent value driven approach to people and business goals.
Today’s Industry 4.0 and digital transformation initiatives map to Matt’s expertise in navigating complex manufacturing IT environments which enable him to drive digital transformation strategies within many global corporations through innovative strategies and commercial solutions.
He has the ability to manage complex sales negotiations across multiple geographic regions to add value to customers, drive innovation in business, meet targets and lead with purpose.
