Previous EMS speakers included:

Most executives say that they want an organization flexible enough to adjust quickly to changing market conditions. So, if this is true, why then do so many companies fail to meet ever changing c... [ view bio ]

Shekar is a world recognized author, speaker and a thought leader. He has received numerous industry accolades for his ground breaking work that effectively transformed the way how large corporat... [ view bio ]

Joining Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd during the first stages of construction as one of the earliest local Management team his first responsibility was as Manager of the Facilities and Envi... [ view bio ]

Stephan Bily, 43-year old, located in the European HQ in Geneva, Switzerland, is in charge of Lexmark’s Supply Chain Organization, supporting the whole region in terms of Logistics Operatio... [ view bio ]

Since 2008, Ed has had responsibility for the SABMiller Manufacturing Way – the group’s approach to lean manufacturing. Ed has sixteen years experience in operations management and... [ view bio ]

Kevin Duggan is the Founder of the Institute for Operational Excellence, the leading educational center providing training and education on creating and achieving Operational Excellence. A renow... [ view bio ]

Bob Borchelt has been working for Cummins Inc. for over 12 years. In his current role as Director of Manufacturing IT Systems and Industrial Controls he's responsible for: Defining the common bu... [ view bio ]

Billy Storer was one of the most popular speakers at EMS 2010, but how has his lean programme progressed since he last presented? Billy will outline what United Biscuits have achieved since 2010,... [ view bio ]

Steve Evans spent 12 years in industry, finally as Engineering Systems Manager at Martin-Baker Engineering, the world leading manufacturer of ejection seats. He has been Professor of Life Cycle E... [ view bio ]

Simon Jacobson is responsible for Gartner's coverage of manufacturing operations. He researches and works closely with clients on current and future manufacturing strategy; alignment with supply... [ view bio ]

Professor Richard Dashwood joined the University of Warwick in July 2008 after 25 years at Imperial College. His expertise lies in the fields of physical and chemical metallurgy and his research ... [ view bio ]

Eilish was a pioneer of change management in government more than 20 years ago – leading efficiency and cultural change programmes to achieve significant and enduring performance improvemen... [ view bio ]

Prof. Dr. Frithjof Klasen is Director of the Institute for Automation & Industrial IT at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences and is head of its PROFINET Competence Center AIT. Since... [ view bio ]

Scott Stanley is a sales and marketing executive with over 15 years experience in the Aerospace, Medical Device and Pharmaceutical industries. Working in a global manufacturing environment for o... [ view bio ]

Mr. Zens has over twenty-five years of experience in building and managing international business organizations in Germany, the US and the UK. His background includes technology management, strat... [ view bio ]

Mr. Warren left Boeing in 1982 to start the organization that became Raima. In 1984, Raima released its first commercial product, db_VISTA, which is the predecessor of today’s RDM Embedded... [ view bio ]

Robert Kent, Vice President, Western Europe, Competitive Capabilities International Robert has more than 35 years experience in the brewing industry. As General Manager at Molson Coors’ Alt... [ view bio ]

Ton Aerdts, Business Partner, Competitive Capabilities International, Holland Ton Aerdts spent several years working in Tanzania as general manager of a manufacturing company and he has been help... [ view bio ]

Martin Wing is European Managing Director for global operational improvement consultancy Kepner-Tregoe. His extensive experience includes many years of operational management experience in the A... [ view bio ]

Frank van den Berg, technical director EMEA for Green Hills Software, graduated with a BSC in electrical engineering. Frank worked in the embedded industry as a software engineer building softwa... [ view bio ]

Greg Kinsey is Vice President at Celerant Consulting and Global Head of the Celerant Institute. He has over 20 years of experience in industrial, technology and consulting businesses, with deep e... [ view bio ]

Fred Yentz joined ILS Technology as senior vice president and chief operating officer in January 2007, bringing with him more than 20 years industry experience in the technology solution market. ... [ view bio ]

Starting in January 2011 Joachim Hauck is responsible for the Industry Segment in the Vodafone Global Enterprise Business Unit Machine-to-Machine (M2M). As Global Business Development Manager Joa... [ view bio ]

Ratna Sarma Kolachana (Ratna) heads Controls and Operations Management (COM) practice in Cognizant. Ratna holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & S... [ view bio ]

Dr. Phanibhushan Sistu (Phani) heads Center of Excellence (CoE) of Engineering and Manufacturing Solutions practice at Cognizant. In his current role he is responsible for driving innovation in p... [ view bio ]

Dr. Martin joined The Foxboro Company in the 1970’s and has worked in a variety of positions in training, engineering, product planning, marketing and strategic planning. He left Foxboro t... [ view bio ]

Simon is a former manufacturing leader of the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Corporation. He was working as leader of a team responsible for delivery of 600 vehicle bodies per shift to two assembly p... [ view bio ]

Tomas, has been working in subcontracting business over 10 years. Background and MBA was based on "Industrial relationship management". Main activity during this period was to organi... [ view bio ]

Learn how Rockwell Automation can help organizations to achieve process automation excellence. Our scalable, open, and cost-effective process solution (PlantPAx) offers state-of-the-art automatio... [ view bio ]

Jos is Senior Director Supply of the production cluster of Spain, Italy Portugal and Switzerland in the Heineken group. He has over 20 years of international experience in production and logistic... [ view bio ]

Leonardo has a Master degree in Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan. Before joining Solving Efeso in 2000, he started his career working for 5 years in the Saint-Gobain group covering roles i... [ view bio ]

Initially starting life out as a design engineer Chris had a close affinity with "design for manufacture". This took an interesting turn when he joined a System Integrator for his first... [ view bio ]

Janis Oslejs is an entrepreneur and economist, based in Riga, Latvia. He has launched several very succesfull high-technology international businesses in material sciences and IT, leading them fr... [ view bio ]

Between 1978 – 1994 Maris Elerts worked as university teacher and researcher in glass physics and electronics. With the economic change in the Baltic countries he changed his field of activ... [ view bio ]

Roddy Martin, SVP Global Supply Chain, CCI, and industry recognized SC thought leader was employed at AMR Research for 12 years as SVP, Research Fellow & Distinguished Analyst. Roddy operated... [ view bio ]

A leader with broad experience, Gary Hoover is head of TBM’s Consulting Practice in Europe. Gary has led some of TBM s largest global enterprise transformations including Nike ApparelR... [ view bio ]

Mark Sutcliffe has served as Senior Vice President of CDC Software International and President of CDC Factory, one of CDC Software’s Enterprise Divisions, since October 2006. Mr. Sutcliffe ... [ view bio ]

Mr. Bron is the Global Director Operations at ATS. Mr. Bron has more than 30 years of experience in operational management in several manufacturing environments including Cosmetics, Food (Ingred... [ view bio ]

Currently Jacques is General Manager and co-owner of Every Angle Belgium. Jacques started his career as information engineer at the Belgian Gendarmerie, where he gained experience in software eng... [ view bio ]

Thomas Göttle is Member of PA's management team in Germany with focus on the automotive sector regarding Supply Chain Management, Cost Consulting, Strategy, and Restructuring. Furthermore, h... [ view bio ]

John McNiff is currently responsible for business development of the manufacturing solutions at SAP, covering the region EMEA (Europe, Middle East, & Africa). He joined SAP during the acquisi... [ view bio ]

A lean leader for almost 20 years now, Gérard is valued for his leadership and project management skills. He has extensive experience in the areas of assembly, machining, welding, paint and... [ view bio ]

Simon is a former manufacturing leader of the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Corporation. He was working as leader of a team responsible for delivery of 600 vehicle bodies per shift to two assembly p... [ view bio ]

Thomas Lantermann has been working for Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V for more than 20 years. During this time, he was responsible for project management, product marketing, technical project man... [ view bio ]

Falk Hartmann is the Head of Software Development at ubigrate, a leading vendor for Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) in production and logistics based on an SaaS-delivery model. Before co-found... [ view bio ]

Dipl.-Ing. Christoph Behler started working for Mitsubishi Electric Europe in 1991. He gained experience in technical support, marketing, as well we international sales in different industry sect... [ view bio ]

SCHAD GmbH was set up by Christian Schad in Hamburg, Germany, in November 2007. The company has developed a unique system for mobile operating and monitoring of machine and plant system controls:... [ view bio ]

Igor Steiner works as a Process Control Division Manager for company INEA. INEA is one of the largest research and system integrator companies in SE Europe. Igor has 20 years of work experience ... [ view bio ]