The Global ManuChem Strategies 2024 | we.CONECT Global Leaders Group | 5 March 2024 | Maritim proArte Hotel Berlin, Friedrichstraße 151 Dorotheenstraße 65 (Navigationsadresse, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Multi-complex challenges & all-encompassing digitalization - What will manufacturing look like in the future?

The chemical industry is facing the greatest upheaval and change since the advent of mass production. The status quo will no longer suffice. While resilience has remained a key theme, energy costs are rising and sustainability in products plays an increasing role, innovations such as IIoT, advanced analytics and automation, and trends such as predictive maintenance, digital twins and intelligent automation are creating a challenging environment of change.

The benchmark calendar event for all chemical manufacturers in Europe will address these challenges by bringing together more than 150+ manufacturing-, supply chain-, and automation decision makers to discuss opportunities, optimize your resilience and strengthen your future because one thing is certain: change always means both challenge and opportunity.

Join now, and discuss process optimization, automation 4.0 and excellence strategies with your industry peers!

Key Topics:
• IIoT & Smart Factory: What are the biggest opportunities and pitfalls for Industry 4.0 and digital transformation in chemical manufacturing?
• Sustainability: How can sustainability be integrated as a guiding principle in chemical production?
• Workforce- & Talent Management: What are best-practices to get all people on boat of the journey and a cross-departmental and holistic change management?
• Energy Efficiency & Cost Optimization: What paths do energy efficiency and supply security initiatives take in chemical manufacturing in the coming months?
• Plant Assessments: How feasible are digital plant assessments and in which new strategies and technologies best to invest?
• Advanced Manfacturing IT: How does the cloud work as enabler and accelerator of digitalization in chemical manufacturing?
• New Technologies & Operational Deployment: How best dealt with emerging technology capabilities, application integration and global scaling of concepts?
• APM & RCM: What are the newest trends in plant- & asset performance monitoring and reliability centered maintenance?
• Maintenance Excellence: What are predictive and value orientated maintenance measures for the industry?
• Carbon Footprint: How can manufacturing data be utilized accross operation sites for footprint optimization?
• Industrial Cybersecurity: How to think digitalization and security together and how can a best-in-class company-wide roll out looks like?
• RPA & Automation: How to identify business opportunities through process mining, utilize them for manufacturing stability and translate them into business value for RPA?
• From the Smart Factory Pilot to the Global Rollout: How can economic potential be leveraged in practice?

Why should you join:

• Multi-Touchpoint Networking:
Our fun expert community offers an opportunity to enjoy two Evening Events; Pre Event Workshops with drinks and finger food, with dinner at a luxury restaurant the next day. Our unique event get-togethers are terrific!

• Guided Delegate to Delegate Matchmaking & One2Ones
Our Matchmaking tool will enable you to find other event visitors that suit your preferences and interests, and our friendly staff will gladly help you connect with them at the event too.

• 85% Decision Makers:
At any we.CONECT event, you will create solid connections. A majortiy of our guests are senior executives and decsion-makers at influential businesses.

• 15+ hours of intense direct networking and discussions:
Unique Workshops like World Cafes and Challenge your peers to ensure you get to discuss your and other’s ideas in learning exchange sessions with leading industry experts. Our formats will help you find out which ideas and viewpoints others are exploring and share and learn along them.

2024 Speakers

Bruno Betoni
Scientific Director BASLEARN, Berlin-based Joint Lab for Machine Learning, BASF

Benjamin Daum
Site Head, Sandoz

Daniel Sliz
Senior Manager ROC Region Eastern Europe and Middle East, Linde AG

Sibylle Gruner
IT for Operations Senior Manager, BASF

Stefan Matull
Global PO Catalyst Operations Manager, INEOS

Dominik Majid
Global Head of Customer and Transformation Excellence, Henkel

Rizwan Malik
General Manager Manufacturing Digital Transformation, Engro Corporation Limited

Norbert Pechler
Plant Manager, Clariant

Christoph Attila Kun
Global Product Manager Digital Data Chain, BASF SE

Dr. Martin Stolz
Manager Sales, Sasol

Peter Wilms
Sustainability Manager Umicore Battery Materials, Umicore

Oleg Pajalic
Principal Scientist, Perstorp

Frederico Giunchetti
Head Maintenance & Asset Reliability, Sandoz

Klaus Weckheuer
Senior Site Director, Grace

Marius Lawall
Engineer Manufacturing Leadership, Grace

Daniel Szwarc
Performance Manager, Linde

Amol Kirtikar
Sustainability and Innovation Manager, Clariant

Onur Kalyoncu
Head of Technology Office, Budenheim

Nils Erwes
Process Engineer, Lanxess

Carlos de Jesus
Leiter Vertrieb Facilities Services, Infraserv

Sanjeev Sujan
Senior Manager Digital Projects, Clariant

Matthijs Geerse
Advanced Analytics Engineer, Huntsman

Ajay Shrivastava
Vice President Operation, CTX

Remi Goget
Principal Technical Consultant, Cognite

Benjamin Day
APM Enterprise Advisor, Aspentech

Daniel Knowles
Senior Solution Consultant APM, Aspentech

Veit Hora
COO, Eschbach

Marcus Mullenberg
Business Development Manager Digital Transformation Solutions, Emerson Electric Company

Niels Schenk
CTO, BioBTX

Erik Weytjens
Principal Consultant, EFESO Consulting

Markus DR. Scheller
Board Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

John Papastylianou
Managing Director, Founder, CYZAG

Christiaan Moons
POE Sales Director, IPCOS

Lukas Pansegrau
Senior Solutions Manager, TrendMiner

2024 Partners

COMPETENCE PARTNER:
• Aspentech

PARTNERS:
• CYZAG
• Emerson
• EFESO Consulting
• Cognite
• ConMoto
• Seeq
• TrendMiner
• IPCOS
• Eschbach