Rethink! SPMS Europe 2019 | we.CONECT | 18 February 2019 | TITANIC Chaussee Berlin, Chausseestraße 30, 10115 Berlin, Germany

The Rethink! SPMS Europe 2019 is the leading strategic smart manufacturing summit for production executives and plant managers to interactively discuss the future of Smart Factories, Industry 4.0, IIoT and Workforce 4.0. Innovative technologies, as well as trends on current projects, strategic thinking and latest developments in the field of Smart Manufacturing will be discussed throughout 2 ½ days of interactive and intensive best practice sharing.

2019 Speakers

Gerard Baum
CDO, Schaeffler

Michael Edel
Global CDO, Voestalpine

Dr. Michael Gerstlauer
CDO, Siemens

Prof. Dr. Dieter Wegener
Vice President, Siemens

Guido Stephan
Senior Principal Key Expert Engineer Industrial Digitalization, Siemens

Rene Reif
Managing Director, Plant Berlin & Hamburg

Dr. Andreas Wendt
Managing Director, Plant Dingolfing, BMW Group

Dr. Peter Miltenburg
Global Head of Production & Logistics Planning for Body-in-White Assembly, BMW Group

Gunther Bohner
Director Assembly, BMW Plant Dingolfing, BMW Group

Dr. Thorsten Widmer
Vice President Digitalization Manfacturing, Bosch

Armin Schwab
Vice President Manufacturing, Bosch

Andre Kuchuk
Vice President Development Machining Methods, Schaeffler

Dr. Sami Krimi
Vice President, Plant Manager Ingolstadt

Dr. Andreas Weber
Vice President Global Business Development, Technology & Infrastructure, Technical Services, Evonik

Stephen Bowers
Manager Global Projects | Performance Intermediates, Evonik

Jens Kaatze
Senior Vice President - Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation Business Unit Coatings, Adhesive and Specialties, Covestro

Stefan Fritz
Vice President SP Manufacturing Prematerials & Digital Factory, Osram

Jesper Toubol
Vice President, Elements and Moulds - Engineering, Lego

Dr. Andreas Grassmann
Senior Director BE Technology, Infineon

Rouven Vierfuss
Director Production, Plant Oelde, Miele Immer Besser

Cornelia Thieme
Director Global Manufacturing Science, Biogen

Burkhard Wandelt
Director Engineering & Technology, Merck

Jens Harde
Country Manager Germany/Chief Executive Officer Hildesheim Operations & Arconic

Stefanie Brickwede
Managing Director, DB

Christoph Langehenke
Managing Director & Chief Technology Officer, Voit Automotive

Stefan Cortiglioni
Toyota Academy Director, Toyota

Luciano Martello
Executive Manager Engineering and Production, Cameo

Stefan Zach
Director Supply Chain Management, Wieland

Alexander Michalski
Head of Human Resources Industrial Technology Division, ZF

Thorsten Wedekind
Head og Manufacturing & Digitization Corporate Program, Wurth Elektronik

Kalman Palvolgyi
Site STA Manager, Ford

David Munoz
Ford Motor Company STA Engineer, Industry 4.0 Advisor, Ford

Dr. Lukas Kwiatkowski
Head of Innovation, Otto Fuchs

Hayati Yildiz
Asia Pacific Regional Supply Chain Manager, Voestalpine

Prof. Dr. Christoph Luth
Head of the Cyber-Physical Systems Research Unit, DFK

Prof. Dr. Boris Kaehler
Faculty of Business Administration and Information Sciences

Christian Gossler
Account Advisor, SAS

Alexander Rumpel
Program Director, Rethink

Dr. Michael Gerstlauer
CDO, Siemens

René Reif
Managing Director, Plant Berlin & Hamburg, Daimler

Jesper Toubøl
Vice President, Elements and Moulds – Engineering, Lego

Rouven Vierfuss
Director Production, Plant Oelde, Miele

Cornelia Thieme
Director Global Manufacturing Science, Biogen

Luciano Martello
Executive Manager Engineering and Production, Cameo

Christian Mundo
Head of Digital Office, Siemens

Martin Ruskowski
Head of the Research Department Innovative Factory Systems, DFK

Marc Mulzer
Chief Architect for Global Manufacturing and Quality IT, Enterprise Architecture, Gm

Andreas Hampe
SVP & Technical Plant Manager, Bosch

Egbert-Jan Sol
Director Program Office TNO Industry – CTO Smart Industry, TNO

Ken Creasey
Senior Director, Supply Chain Technology & Innovation, Johnson&Johnson

Michael Schachler
Executive Director Operations - Global Lead Industry 4.0, Yanfeng

Cosmin Batrin
Director, Operations Engineering - Core Technologies, New Product Introduction & Packaging, Polaris

Joy Anwuri
Global Engineering and Quality Manager, Ikea

Hans-Christian Heidecke
CIO, Volkswagen

Ondrej Panek
Smart Manufacturing Lead, P&G

Chris Gilbert
Vice President Production and Technology, Oil Additives,

Ulrich Stark
Innovation Manager, Airbus

Peter Pirklbauer
Innovation Cell Manager, Airbus

Ingo Engler
VP & Head of Process Technology Lighting, Hella

Kristian Müller-Niehuus
Director Engineering, Freudenberg

Rainer Hensl
Head of Competence Center Maintenance, Clariant

Werner Przybilla
Global PSR Operational Excellence Leader, Hexion

Bert Klauke
IT Director Operational Technology, Hella

Axel Schmidt
Director Manufacturing Engineering, Sennheiser

Torsten Schneidt
Technical Director Consumer Optics Business Group, Zeiss

Jeroen Jüngschläger
Plant Manager, AkzoNobel

Markus Schmidt
Head of Operations, Kendrion

Karsten Eller
Chief Operating Officer, Beckers

Gregoire Ferre
CDO/Head of the Digital Transformation Project, Faurecia

Marc Turpin
Managing Director, Business Development Europe, TBM

2019 Partners

• E2Open
• Valcon
• Stiwa Group
• SAS
• IBM
• TBM
• Intech
• Zuhlke
• Dr. Terhalle & Nagel
• IFS
• Itizzimo
• Industrie Informatik
• GFOS
• Infraserv Hochst
• Aecom
• Qlik