CRISTIAN PAUN

Cristian is a change maker and an innovator with strong storytelling abilities that inspires growth mindset; a passionate Senior Executive from the Chemical / Insurance / FMCG / Banking / Telecommunications industry. He has focused on the connection between IT and successful business outcomes, both with bringing top-line growth as well as cost reduction programs. Cristian served as technology thought-leader & adviser, implementing technologies like artificial intelligence, robotic process automation or IoT (internet of things) to generate high business value. As a certified business designer and international keynote speaker, he helped companies to transform business ideas into viable digital business models. Lead globally Innovation, M&A, integration and separation programs. He crafted procurement and vendor strategies that allowed to achieve multimillion EUR savings.

Jasper Rutten

Jasper Rutten is the Advanced Analytics manager within the Global Excellence Team of the Huntsman Polyurethanes business. He holds a Master’s in Chemical Engineering from the technical University of Twente. In his current role he is leading the advanced analytics roadmap for the upstream PU manufacturing sites. This roadmap combines black box data modelling techniques with classic engineering modelling & control skills. He also has a strong focus on the change management related to the implementation of advanced analytics and in the broader sense digitization. The past few years multiple solutions have been implemented on the manufacturing sites bringing among others increased operational stability. One of his key attention points now is to make them sustainable for the long-term future.

Jens Palacios Neffke

Jens is an OPEX and digitalization specialist with extensive experience and know-how in designing and improving manufacturing and transactional processes in rapid developing industries. With over 15 years’ experience in industry and academic settings, Jens has been part of several technological and cultural transformations throughout his career and has contributed in the definition and setup of business strategic initiatives of global manufacturing key players. Jens has a PhD in production technology from the Technische Universität Berlin, institution with which he continues to collaborate as part-time lecturer and research fellow in the fields of Lean manufacturing, factory management and industry 4.0. He is also a regular guest lecturer and key note speaker in Asia and Latin-America.

Erik Grakist

Experienced leader in Maintenance, Reliability and Engineering as well in Operations in an international food industry environment. Mechanical engineer by education, having had the opportunity to develop myself throughout the last 28 years at Mars Wrigley in multiple local and international roles such as Regional Engineering Manager, Plant Manager, Global Maintenance leader. Leading change is a key-competence, in which my personal involvement and people-focus are crucial for achieving sustainable results. Current focus as Technical Leader are areas such as investment programs in Extra Ordinary Maintenance, Capacity Extension and Digitalisation.

Erik Grakist

Jens is an OPEX and digitalization specialist with extensive experience and know-how in designing and improving manufacturing and transactional processes in rapid developing industries. With over 15 years’ experience in industry and academic settings, Jens has been part of several technological and cultural transformations throughout his career and has contributed in the definition and setup of business strategic initiatives of global manufacturing key players. Jens has a PhD in production technology from the Technische Universität Berlin, institution with which he continues to collaborate as part-time lecturer and research fellow in the fields of Lean manufacturing, factory management and industry 4.0. He is also a regular guest lecturer and key note speaker in Asia and Latin-America.

Brecht Vanlee

“Technical adventurer, worked in project based engineering, OEM engineering, Sourcing, Project lead, International marketing, sales and business development the last decade. Gathered my experience in three different companies, all of them in the Compressed Oil-Free Air business.

Joerg Recklies

Joerg Recklies has been in the semiconductor industry for 27 years with responsibilities ranging from Chip design to IDM.  He is currently in charge of the General Manager at Infineon Technologies Regensburg. Prior to that, Joerg Recklies was in charge of the FAB Manager at Infineon Dresden and held several positions in automation and productions at Infineon. These positions contributed to his excellent experience in terms of equipment and automation. Earlier in his carrier he has made contributions in digital and analog Chip design. Joerg Recklies holds a graduate engineer for Semiconductor.

Highlight during the time with Infineon ….
- Establish high automation at IFD 1995- 1997 as project leader automation software integration
- Project Leader world wide cost reduction program within Infineon Frontend
- Productions from 1999 –2003 (within Europe, US, Asia)
- Section Manager Plasma Etch / Wafer Inspection 2003- 2007
- Director Maintenance Engineering 2007 – 2014
- Project Leader 300 mm Fab Startup / Transfer Power Technologies 2011-2013
- FAB Manager Senior Director 200 / 300 mm Dresden 2014 – 2018
- General Manager Site Regensburg Senior Vice President since 2018

Alp Akçay

Alp Akçay is an Associate Professor in the department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Management and Manufacturing from Carnegie Mellon University. His research expertise is data-driven decision making in smart industry applications including planning and control of manufacturing processes and the after-sale services of capital goods. Dr. Akcay is a core-team member of the AI-enabled manufacturing and maintenance lab in Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute. He has worked closely with industry in EU projects MANTIS (Cyber Physical System based Proactive Collaborative Maintenance) and DayTiMe (Digital Lifecycle Twins for Predictive Maintenance) and in several national projects on data-driven decision making.

Juliana Woelfel

Juliana Woelfel degreed Master of Science in “industrial engineering and administration” is maintenance coordinator in the central maintenance department of the Brose Group. In her role, she is contact person for the plants maintenance in regards to standards and processes as well as responsible for group-wide projects e.g. qualification concepts in the maintenance area. Since last year, she is managing the project for optimizing the spare parts stock in the Brose Group with simultaneously sustaining the technical availability of production equipment.

Alex Sarishvili

TU Kaiserslautern, Diploma in Mathematics and economics. PhD Thesis in the ÐU Dortmund and TU Kaiserslautern with the focus on time series analysis and neural networks. Since 02.2002 Scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics. Department: System Analysis Prognosis and Control.

Juliana Wolfel

Juliana Woelfel degreed Master of Science in “industrial engineering and administration” is maintenance coordinator in the central maintenance department of the Brose Group. In her role, she is contact person for the plants maintenance in regards to standards and processes as well as responsible for group-wide projects e.g. qualification concepts in the maintenance area. Since last year, she is managing the project for optimizing the spare parts stock in the Brose Group with simultaneously sustaining the technical availability of production equipment.

Maarten Robers

Maarten Robers supports DEKRA's Industrial Inspection services to stay up-to-date and introduce new services as the head of Innovation & Technology Scouting. He has in-depth experience in industrial inspection with testing, inspection and certification companies for oil & gas, petrochemical, pipeline industry as well as rail, over the entire life cycle of assets. Throughout his career he has been working in roles in service development, product management, strategic business development and as manager of operations. Maarten holds a Master's degree in Applied Physics from Delft University of Technology and an Executive MBA from IMD Business School, Lausanne.

Miguel Teixeira

Head of Maintenance at Lisbon’s SGL Carbon Portuguese Petrochemical Plant. With 25 years of experience in developing Maintenance Operations in Transports, Aerospace, Pulp & Paper and Chemical Industry, he has created and improved several complete maintenance structures throughout his career, from older plants to a 550 M€ green field paper mill.

Susanne Reichel

Susanne Reichel works as business developer at LZE GmbH in collaboration with Fraunhofer CCIT. Her focus is the transfer of high-tech solutions from research to industry. With Fraunhofer CCIT, she identifies markets, pilot customers and partners for the innovative monitoring solution »Smart Screw Connection« and accompanies the system from prototype to market maturity. With 12 years of professional experience in various industries (from tourism to railroad industry to research), she has steadily expanded her field of activity. As a graduate of the Executive Master of Digital Business Administration (MDBA) at FAU, she has been working intensively on the topics of digital innovation, IIoT and digital technology & applications since the beginning of 2020.

Eric Bergin

Eric is an experienced Asset Care professional with over 30 years of experience across a variety of business sectors. Eric joined Johnson & Johnson in 2014 as an Asset Engineer, supporting Global Facilities Asset Management in the drive to standardize asset management practices, develop/deploy Asset Management programs, as well as providing subject matter expertise to the organisation. In April 2019, Eric took up the role as EMEA Asset Management Lead, supporting FM asset management activities in the EMEA region, with particular emphasis on Asset Management safety program deployment, FM transformation deployment, base business capital planning as well as being the point of contact for asset management related matters. Since June 2021, Eric has been the Smart Asset Maintenance Lead at the Janssen Sciences Ireland site in Ringaskiddy, Cork, supporting the BioCork 2030 vision.

Christian Silbernagel

Christian Silbernagel holds an Applied Physics degree from the University of Applied Sciences in Koblenz, Germany. He has over 9 years of experience in predictive maintenance and received his ISO CAT III certification in 2018. Christian started his working career at PRUFTECHNIK Condition Monitoring located close to Munich, Germany, as Condition Monitoring Engineer in 2012 . He conducted trainings, installations, commissioning and executed field machinery services throughout various industries worldwide. In addition to the role as Key Account Manager, Christian was point of contact for sales activities and support of various PRUFTECHNIK subsidiaries and distributors. In June 2019 Christian moved to the US, to work as Sales Manager US West for FLUKE Reliability, to build a team for the region and increase FLUKE Reliability`s presence in all business areas. Since August 2021 Christian is working for FLUKE Reliability as EMEA Enterprise Account Manager in Munich, Germany.

Marcin Treśka

Nearly 20 years’ experience in automotive, mostly in maintenance area, but also as Production and Project Manager. In Faurecia over 10 years, while last 6 years management of maintenance within entire business group of Interiors. Responsibility for networking of maintenance community from over 60 plants located in 5 Continents. Standardization, support, trainings for maintenance and production teams in FIS plants.

Edgar Martínez

Edgar Martínez De Aguas is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Atten2, a position he has held since January 2016. Edgar has an extensive professional background with more than 15 years of experience in O&M management projects in different sectors (paper, steel, petrochemical, food, etc.). In addition, he has proven experience in the integration of condition monitoring systems in industrial processes and in data evaluation and correlation with machine performance. Edgar holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela and an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid. He also holds a certificate in project management and direction, certification in Vibration Analysis Level I and a Certificate in Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP).

Ralf Hellwig

Through my 30 years of experience in the manufacturing and B2B distribution industry, I have covered the entire range in PM, Marketing and mainly Sales and General Management. I used to work for Hoffmann Tools in several roles, built a successful C-Level role in Brammer / Rubix as Group KA Director and MD for the DACH region. Transformed as the MD of SIG Germany successfully a distribution business in the building and construction industry. Joint RS as MD DACH in January 2021 and enjoy the most successful period in our history.