Speakers (17)
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Pierfrancesco Manenti
Research Director EMEA
IDC Manufacturing Insights
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Pierfrancesco Manenti is Research Director EMEA at IDC Manufacturing Insights . Pierfrancesco will bring his experience and expertise to highlight how businesses now need to focus on balancing short-term aims of survival with longer-term plans to reap the benefits of renewed growth and an economic upturn.
In doing so, he will emphasise the importance of operational excellence in preparing for an expected upturn; highlighting the use of OEE ...more
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Dr Christof Spathelf
Head of Manufacturing Overseas
Volkswagen
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Dr. Christof Spathelf is Head of Manufacturing Overseas at Volkswagen. Dr. Spathelf will put forward the argument that an economic upturn is coming and that manufacturers need to be ready to reap the benefits. He will highlight Volkswagen’s approach to preparing for this impending upturn is to continue with a global strategy. Having recently opened a new factory in India, Dr. Spathelf will assert it globalisation remains key to ensuring competi ...more
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Paul Neutjens
Lean Director
Sapa Group
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Paul Neutjens is Lean Director for the Sapa Group. Paul brings a wealth of experience in lean implementation, and will advise that lean is a long-term journey; not simply a quick fix solution. He will highlight how lean at Sapa Group has been a journey of organisational learning, moving to all parts of the enterprise; not solely manufacturing. Paul will also emphasise how important it is to manage your workforce through the lean journey to ens ...more
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Jose Bravo
Chief Scientist
Shell
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Jose Bravo is the Chief Scientist at Shell, based in the USA. Jose will headline day two of the summit, revealing how Shell create competitive advantage through its use of innovative technologies. He will discuss how Shell embraces technology to pump Shell’s business by maximising visibility to facilitate better decision-making. Jose will illustrate the intelligent use of technology at Shell has improved manufacturing processes and driven new ...more
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Dr Jürgen Weinhofer
Director, Integrated Architecture EMEA
Rockwell Automation
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Robert Claasen
Director, Corporate Manufacturing
DSM
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Robert Claasen is Director for Corporate Manufacturing at DSM, based in the Netherlands. Robert will highlight how DSM are integrating their Manufacturing Execution System (MES) with the wider enterprise to ensure the business remains agile during what has been a volatile climate. He will highlight how MES exists as a strategic business lever to achieve integration with the enterprise, while he will also reveal how DSM are placing their MES pla ...more
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Mark DeLuzio
President
Lean Horizons Consulting
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Tapani Ryhänen
Head of Strategic Research
Nokia
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Tapani Ryhänen is Head of Strategic Research at the Nokia Research Centre, based in the UK. While many companies have minimised Research & Development (R&D) budgets in light of the global climate, Tapani will highlight how a recession is in fact the time to invest in R&D to drive innovation and be ready for the upturn. He will emphasise the need to trust R&D in difficult economic times to gain competitive advantage, while ass ...more
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Douglas Kent
European Chair
Supply Chain Council
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Douglas Kent is the European Chair for the Supply Chain Council and President of eKnowtion. With nearly 20 years of supply chain experience, Douglas Kent brings proven expertise in creating, implementing, and operating complex supply chain projects by "unlocking value" within client companies. Through formalised business process re-engineering techniques, Douglas drives this improvement by utilising the SCOR model as the bas...more
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Peter Wilson
Former Group Chief Information Officer
Inchcape
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Peter Wilson was, for 11 years, Group CIO and Logistics Director at Inchcape plc, the world’s largest independent, international automotive distributor and retailer and Toyota’s largest franchise distributor and retailer. Peter will describe how Inchcape piloted and then rolled out Toyota’s re-engineered downstream supply chain programme ‘Customer Orientated’ logistics. He will describe how Toyota’s tried and tested lean manufacturing philosophi ...more
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Mariela Nino-Restrepo
Environmental Manager, Europe
Cadbury
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Mariela Nino-Restrepo is the Environmental Manager for Europe, bases in the UK. In an era where cutting costs to drive bottom line benefit is vital, she will reveal how driving down your carbon footprint will indeed drive down costs. Arguing that green manufacturing is no longer a mere compliance issue, Mariela will illustrate how Cadbury has minimised costs by switching to renewable and low carbon energy sources.
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Giovanni Polvani
COO
JMAC EUROPE b.v.
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Giovanni Polvani was born in Genoa and is 49 years old. He Graduated in 1986 as Mechanical Engineer, specialised in Thermodynamics of Nuclear Plant, got 1st employment in Planning and logistics in a Petrochemical Plant ( ERG Petroli ). He joined JMAC in 1989, at very early start up of European operations and is today is COO of Jmac Europe B.V. , coordinating 6 JMAC offices in Europe and managing cross business development. He is a Senior Consulta ...more
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Kevin Whelan
Senior Vice President
CCI Inc
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Kevin Whelan helped co-found CCI 20 years ago. He filled the role of CCI Group CEO for 14 years and played a prominent role in driving CCI’s international expansion and in the development of TRACC®, a Continuous Improvement Management System.
Mr. Whelan has led many major change interventions in blue chip organisations and has developed specialist expertise in the Food and Beverage Industry. He now leads CCI’s business development in Europe ...more
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David Hatrick
Management Consultant
PA Consulting
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Carlo Baroncelli
Vice President, Member of the Executive Committee
Solving Efeso
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Carlo was one of the promoter partners of Efeso and has more than 25 yrs experience in Operations Strategy and World Class Operation Management, leading programs for multinational companies, from Product Development to Supply Chain domain.
His experience encompasses many industrial sectors, from Automotive to Pharma, Packaging, Mechanical, Paper, Steel, and Public Administration. The most relevant experiences fall into the field of Manufacturing ...more
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Robert Weigl
DACH Industry Services Leader for Consumer Goods, Consumer Packaged Goods, Retail and High Tech
Dassault Systèmes
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Robert Weigl is responsible for Services within the Consumer Goods, Consumer Packaged Goods, Retail and High Tech industries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland at Dassault Systèmes, a Paris-based software company, world leader in product lifecycle management (PLM) software.
As the Industry Services Leader, Robert has vast interests and knowledge of all areas of PLM, including a focus on services in the emerging industries.
Robert contr ...more
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Claudio Nutkiewicz
Vice President of Technology Projects
Global Technology Holdings
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