Manufacturing & Industrial Materials

A roster of manufacturing and materials specialists at the forefront of innovation in the production and utilization of industrial materials

Janne Anttila

Janne Anttila

I'm experienced leader, project manager and advisor in digitalization, data driven business, data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics. During the past over 18 years I have led business intelligence & analytics companies, developed and led sales of large analytics company and delivered hundreds of customer consulting assignments. Usual assignments are related to as-is analysises, data strategies and getting value out of Microsoft technologies.

I have planned and managed large projects all around the ICT-field, in data warehousing, business intelligence, analytics, Power Platform, various web-based applications and many others. I have technical background and deep knowledge on different technologies and architectures. I have been instructor for tens of different training courses like visualization best practices, cloud data warehousing, data warehousing, data modelling, architecture and many Microsoft technologies & tools.

I'm experienced leader, project manager and advisor in digitalization, data driven business, data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics. During the past over 18 years I have led business intelligence & analytics companies, developed and le... Show more

Humza Akhtar

Humza Akhtar

Humza is a Principal in the Industry Solutions Team at MongoDB looking after Manufacturing and IoT. Prior to joining MongoDB, he was working at Ernst & Young Canada as a Senior Manager, leading their digital operations consultancy practice. Humza did his PhD from Singapore and worked with the Singapore Manufacturing industry for a number of years on Industry 4.0 research and implementation.

Humza is a Principal in the Industry Solutions Team at MongoDB looking after Manufacturing and IoT. Prior to joining MongoDB, he was working at Ernst & Young Canada as a Senior Manager, leading their digital operations consultancy practice. Humza did... Show more

Greg Gillespie

Greg Gillespie

Greg Gillespie is a consulting professional who has been working with Power BI since its release. Over the course of his career, Greg has acquired a track record for success by advising, leading, implementing, and managing more Power BI projects and trainings than he can count.

Greg's 10+ years of consulting on data projects has provided him with the technical expertise to architect Power BI enterprise solutions. He also knows how to listen to his client’s pain points, in order to customize a solution that drives provable and consistent value where needed.

Greg has a remarkable ability to lead a team of consultants from the inception of a project all the way through to its completion, and he’s not satisfied with calling a project successful until his clients are, too.

During his projects Greg maintains a close working relationship with his clients, ensuring success through continuous improvement methodologies during his engagements. With a key emphasis on transparency and open communication, Greg makes sure his clients know they can trust him at every stage of the project, and his open nature and extensive skillset have improved countless businesses’ data infrastructure – all done with a smile on his face.

Greg Gillespie is a consulting professional who has been working with Power BI since its release. Over the course of his career, Greg has acquired a track record for success by advising, leading, implementing, and managing more Power BI projects and ... Show more

Selma Büchner

Selma Büchner

Selma Büchner accompanies people, teams and organizations with clarity and empathy on their way to more flexibility and communication as well as customized requirements engineering processes.

She has evolved from a classic manager to an agile coach and understands the challenges for teams and executives in volatile or transforming environments very well. Time and again, she picks them up as needed, guides them with openness and practicality to beneficial insights, and creates spaces where teams can open up and agree on appropriate ways to work together.

As an operational and strategic buyer, she has gained many years of diverse experience in the large-scale production and project business of complex products and systems. One focus here is certainly the improvement of processes and communication in the value chain. Selma is also a certified coach and mentor.

Selma Büchner accompanies people, teams and organizations with clarity and empathy on their way to more flexibility and communication as well as customized requirements engineering processes. She has evolved from a classic manager to an agile coac... Show more

Falko Werner

Falko Werner

Professional Experience
Starting as a PhD student with experience abroad in Hungary and Cuba, I continued through the development stages as a software developer, project manager, speaker, software architect, agile coach, general manager and CEO.
Currently I lead a team of integration architects on one side and on the other I closely cooperate with other trainers and authors in professional education and training with topics like Scrum, LeSS, SAFe, Kanban and especially DevOps.

Early Years
My interests in doing sports developed through the years from swimming latchkey kid to judoka, rowing, basketball and athletics to windsurfing, parachute jumping to jogging with our dog.
The schooling careere started in primary school in my home town Schönebeck (Elbe) at the POS Karl-Liebknecht , followed by high schools there Gymnasium in Malzmühlenfeld with a detour via the Turner High School in Montana back to the high school for graduation withe the German Abitur.
After finishing school via the basic military service in the logistics regiment, I went on to the Otto-von-Guericke University to graduate as the first master in engineering computer scientist with distinction.

Further Details
http://www.werner.biz, https://www.falkowerner.de

Professional Experience Starting as a PhD student with experience abroad in Hungary and Cuba, I continued through the development stages as a software developer, project manager, speaker, software architect, agile coach, general manager and CEO. Cu... Show more

Benjamin Breeden

Benjamin Breeden

Benjamin Breeden is the Founder and CEO of Caf2Code, a trusted Microsoft Partner for D365 Finance, D365 Supply Chain, and Power Platform. Caf2Code leverages the Power Platform to create efficiencies and offer business insights for its mid-market clients.

Ben is an entrepreneur, investor, technical architect, solutions architect, and an executive. He leads with an inspirational and caring style, aiming to help his teams reach their full potential.

Ben has designed, coded, and published to Microsoft App Source a successful ISV application in the role-based security horizontal. He considers himself a tech nerd who understands business, speaks Finance, and is comfortable in the board room.

Ben is passionate about building a company that does things right, both for its employees and its clients. He helps Caf2Code clients align technology with business needs, maximize ROI from their tech investments, and strategize for the future.

In his spare time, Ben enjoys time with his wife of 15 years and their dog, Batty.

Don’t miss the session Ben is co-presenting with Caf2Code Solutions Architect Brittany Burke, in which they will discuss the “Challenges of D365 in the Weeks and Months After Go-Live.”

Benjamin Breeden is the Founder and CEO of Caf2Code, a trusted Microsoft Partner for D365 Finance, D365 Supply Chain, and Power Platform. Caf2Code leverages the Power Platform to create efficiencies and offer business insights for its mid-market clie... Show more

Kyle Christensen

Kyle Christensen

Kyle is a mid-career professional who has developed a passion for enabling and transforming businesses through use of the Power Platform. He's been working at Microsoft in the Worldwide Customer Success - Digital & App Innovation organization since January 2022. Prior to his time at Microsoft, he spent 18 months consulting as a Senior Solution Architect with a Microsoft Gold Partner Firm after having spent more than 10 years in the Energy industry (mostly as a business process advisor & digital transformation advisor). Prior to energy, he spent time as an 8th grade English Teacher and college deskside IT support agent. To say he has a varied and unique perspective in the low-code / digital transformation space is probably an understatement.

Kyle is a mid-career professional who has developed a passion for enabling and transforming businesses through use of the Power Platform. He's been working at Microsoft in the Worldwide Customer Success - Digital & App Innovation organization since ... Show more

Ayush Banka

Ayush Banka

Ayush has previously scaled a consumer headphone brand to $10M ARR, Xprize Winner ($ 1Mn), and Co-Invented the patented technology of personalized audio. And the undercover lead designer behind the fashion NFTs and many more

Ayush has previously scaled a consumer headphone brand to $10M ARR, Xprize Winner ($ 1Mn), and Co-Invented the patented technology of personalized audio. And the undercover lead designer behind the fashion NFTs and many more Show more

Nikhil Bhaskaran

Nikhil Bhaskaran

Nikhil Bhaskaran is a first generation techie entrepreneur . His experience includes running a global company in China and then returning to India to build a community(IoTIoT.in) of AI and IoT engineers while working on his own startup Brainy pi and Shunya OS . He is also one of the innovators in ARM innovator program

Nikhil Bhaskaran is a first generation techie entrepreneur . His experience includes running a global company in China and then returning to India to build a community(IoTIoT.in) of AI and IoT engineers while working on his own startup Brainy pi and ... Show more

Juan Bravo Vargas

Juan Bravo Vargas

Microsoft Certified Trainer, Certified Educator & Microsoft Dynamics 365 Solution Architect

Microsoft Certified Trainer, Certified Educator & Microsoft Dynamics 365 Solution Architect Show more

Mario Mattos

Mario Mattos

22 years of experience with software tailor-made solutions, Complex Programs and Projects and 08 years in Digital Product development, Agile, Digital Transformation initiatives, Scrum at Scale, Business Agility and Practice in Consulting and Integration of IT Systems, experience all mobile operators in the Country (Telefonica, Claro, Tim, Nextel and Oi) beyond Latin America, Europe and The Caribbean experience. Expat to Brussels, I've lived in England, Bolivia & USA.

22 years of experience with software tailor-made solutions, Complex Programs and Projects and 08 years in Digital Product development, Agile, Digital Transformation initiatives, Scrum at Scale, Business Agility and Practice in Consulting and Integrat... Show more

Nichola Carty

Nichola Carty

Nichola has over 20 years’ experience creating innovative solutions for industry-leading corporations. She works closely with customers, partners and key accounts, to help them find the best business solution, providing UC, Modern Workplace and Cloud technology; with a focus on the Microsoft stack and Azure.

Nichola has over 20 years’ experience creating innovative solutions for industry-leading corporations. She works closely with customers, partners and key accounts, to help them find the best business solution, providing UC, Modern Workplace and Cloud... Show more

Himanshu Dabir

Himanshu Dabir

18 years of experience in Information Technology in diverse areas
Author of a book on Oracle
An Agile Coach with 8 years of experience in implementing Agile Philosophy using multiple frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe in domains such as Insurance, BFSI and Manufacturing

18 years of experience in Information Technology in diverse areas Author of a book on Oracle An Agile Coach with 8 years of experience in implementing Agile Philosophy using multiple frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe in domains such as Insurance,... Show more

Markus Soppa

Markus Soppa

Markus Soppa is Managing Director and co-founder of Filancore GmbH, which offers solutions for decentralized identities around the Internet of Things. Previously, as Chief Development Officer at accessec GmbH, he was responsible for software and service development in context of IIoT and automotive security. As a specialist for connected devices, his focus is particularly on disruptive security technologies such as distributed ledgers (blockchain). He has applied his extensive know-how at leading automotive manufacturers in Germany, including as a consultant in the field of automotive security at Deloitte. In addition to his expertise in information security, he has in-depth knowledge of decentralized identities and IoT-PKI.

Markus Soppa is Managing Director and co-founder of Filancore GmbH, which offers solutions for decentralized identities around the Internet of Things. Previously, as Chief Development Officer at accessec GmbH, he was responsible for software and serv... Show more

Fraser Dear

Fraser Dear

Senior digital transformation leader, connecting business need with data insights. Understanding and crafting business systems for the needs of business through deep understanding of both people and process.

I bring a hybrid of analytical and creative processes together to generate concept, development, delivery and onboarding of technical business solutions.

I have extensive experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents), SAP ERP and CRM, Salesforce Sales & Service Cloud.

I am an experienced Senior Manager, Facilitator and Coach. Skilled in a wide range of different disciplines and sectors including Manufacturing, Service, IT, Customer Service and Marketing.

Senior digital transformation leader, connecting business need with data insights. Understanding and crafting business systems for the needs of business through deep understanding of both people and process. I bring a hybrid of analytical and cre... Show more

Digjoy Samanta

Digjoy Samanta

Well, in my professional stint - I have 6 months of experience in process mapping in manufacturing followed by a 18 months of experience in performance and product based reporting for publishing industry. I like black coffee and yes, Excel and Power BI are my henchmen. I have an expertise in as-is reporting and assisting in Change Management initiatives with data-driven support and certified in Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Methodology.

Well, in my professional stint - I have 6 months of experience in process mapping in manufacturing followed by a 18 months of experience in performance and product based reporting for publishing industry. I like black coffee and yes, Excel and Power ... Show more

Kamal Pandey

Kamal Pandey

Digital Transformation Leader →UiPath | Microsoft 365 | Google Workspace | Power Platform | Azure| AWS| Slack - with over 14 years of IT experience.

I am enabling enterprises to grow by implementing modern digital workplace solutions, enterprise content management (ECM) systems, application developments, and transformations. I work with CTOs, VPs, and Leaders of IT to adapt Office 365 and Azure products & services to remain agile and resilient in the digitalization journey.

I am very passionate about modern IT. I am a global technology and cloud solutions partner, an adviser with extensive experience in digital transformation, application modernization, technology direction, and implementation. Products and solutions are used by millions of people.

Diverse professional background in digital workplace strategy consulting, product engineering in small to large organizations, helping enterprise customers to build and rolled out a modern workplace with an integrated platform to accelerate employee engagement and productivity using Microsoft enterprise cloud, Office 365 suite, UiPath, Slack, Citrix FileShare and Google Workspace.

Master’s and Bachelor’s Degree in Computer science and several technical certifications such as Cloud Solutions Architect, ITIL, MCSE- Office 365, Teams, MCPD, MCITP, MCTS, SCRUM, and Zachman, TOGAF framework.

I've gained valuable experience working within both, the core business units and information technology sides of the enterprise, which enables me to bring a unique perspective to solving business problems.

Succeeds in challenging, high-pressure environments, remaining passionate about connecting with clients to provide world-class Modern IT solutions that are targeted to their direct needs, allowing for cost savings, and enhanced productivity.

Digital Transformation Leader →UiPath | Microsoft 365 | Google Workspace | Power Platform | Azure| AWS| Slack - with over 14 years of IT experience. I am enabling enterprises to grow by implementing modern digital workplace solutions, enterpris... Show more

Kapil Singh

Kapil Singh

Kapil Singh is the co-founder of SemiDot Infotech. He has a strong background in IT management combined with experience as CTO and Business Head, with the ability to develop and deploy IT plans that achieve strategic business goals. Kapil masters SDLC, DDLC, Client Communication, SRS Development, along with many other advanced project management skills.

Kapil Singh is the co-founder of SemiDot Infotech. He has a strong background in IT management combined with experience as CTO and Business Head, with the ability to develop and deploy IT plans that achieve strategic business goals. Kapil masters SDL... Show more

Michael Kimani

Michael Kimani

Student of the juggernaut that is life.

Student of the juggernaut that is life. Show more

Daniel Schimpfoessl

Daniel Schimpfoessl

Hybrid Cloud and DevOps expert with full-stack development experience. Enjoys engineering projects, scouting, technical and fine woodworking, piloting aircraft and spending time with his wife, two kids and dog.

Hybrid Cloud and DevOps expert with full-stack development experience. Enjoys engineering projects, scouting, technical and fine woodworking, piloting aircraft and spending time with his wife, two kids and dog. Show more

Christopher Watson

Christopher Watson

Chris has worked with Microsoft Teams since 2017 and has architected and overseen deployments of Teams in Healthcare, Education, Financial, and Manufacturing for the majority of his Teams career.

Chris has worked with Microsoft Teams since 2017 and has architected and overseen deployments of Teams in Healthcare, Education, Financial, and Manufacturing for the majority of his Teams career. Show more

Ajay Singh

Ajay Singh

Focused on delivering continuous digital transformations using Dynamics 365, Collaborating with CXO's on business strategy powered through increasing business adoption. Expertise in effective stakeholder engagement and influencing for impact. Managed large scale business systems implementations, and achieved results through driving and motivating teams.

Specialties: Proactive leadership, Team building, Strategic planning, Leading change, Personal interest in Food & fuels logistics, Supply Chain and Retail.

Focused on delivering continuous digital transformations using Dynamics 365, Collaborating with CXO's on business strategy powered through increasing business adoption. Expertise in effective stakeholder engagement and influencing for impact. Managed... Show more

Rowland Gosling

Rowland Gosling

I’m a former Microsoft CSA and MTC Technical Architect for Data & AI and have been designing and building data systems since 1990. I've worked in a variety of platforms such as MS SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2 and xBase languages like FoxPro/FoxBase and Clipper. My work has also led me to technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and more lately, Azure Databricks, Azure ML and Cognitive Services.

These days, my wife and I live in her hometown of Wichita, Kansas - home to general aviation manufacturers Learjet, Cessna, Beechcraft and Boeing; Actors Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind),and Don Johnson (Miami Vice), Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh and Ann Dunham - President Obama's mother - all Wichitans.

I’m a former Microsoft CSA and MTC Technical Architect for Data & AI and have been designing and building data systems since 1990. I've worked in a variety of platforms such as MS SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2 and xBase languages like FoxPro/FoxBase an... Show more

Amul Baranwal

Amul Baranwal

Myself Amul baranwal and having 14+ year of Experience in IT in which having 12+ Year of Experience on Salesforce Platform. Currently working with Techmatrix as Solution Architect Role.

Myself Amul baranwal and having 14+ year of Experience in IT in which having 12+ Year of Experience on Salesforce Platform. Currently working with Techmatrix as Solution Architect Role. Show more

Buck Bard

Buck Bard

Buck Bard is the Chief Harbinger at Canary Works. He has been designing and delivering innovative learning solutions for over 25 years.

Buck has built global teams responsible for developing solutions for classroom, mobile, and virtual environments. He has earned certifications from the Association for Training and Development (ATD) and Stanford University.

Buck Bard is the Chief Harbinger at Canary Works. He has been designing and delivering innovative learning solutions for over 25 years. Buck has built global teams responsible for developing solutions for classroom, mobile, and virtual environme... Show more

Michael Elkins

Michael Elkins

Information management and compliance professional with extensive experience helping leading organizations around the world in the design and deployment of comprehensive information management strategies and solutions. Always striving to find better, more effective ways to leverage information as an asset and to provide value to the business.

Information management and compliance professional with extensive experience helping leading organizations around the world in the design and deployment of comprehensive information management strategies and solutions. Always striving to find better... Show more

Rita Breen

Rita Breen

Rita Breen is an experienced and passionate Agile coach with over ten years of experience and a passion for people. Presently operating as a senior coach for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s Federal Employee Program in Indianapolis, she is certified as a SAFe Program Consultant, Certified Scrum Master (SCM), and Certified Scrum Practitioner. She has found the most fulfillment over the course of her career when assisting organizations with their Agile Transformation, focusing on transparency, relentless improvement, and collaboration.


Rita is an avid reader, enjoys inspirational TedTalks and loves movies from the 40’s and 50’s. She dreams of opening a yoga shop where she can wear leggings daily and sell her homemade kombucha.

Rita Breen is an experienced and passionate Agile coach with over ten years of experience and a passion for people. Presently operating as a senior coach for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s Federal Employee Program in Indianapolis, she is certifi... Show more

Wayne Wang

Wayne Wang

Wayne Wang is experienced in all aspects of IT systems delivery and operations, from strategic planning, portfolio management, project initiation, systems design, build, implementation, support, and maintenance. Wayne is a strong advocate for building quality in every step of the IT value chain using Agile/Lean and DevOps principles.

In the last a few years, Wayne found a new passion of helping software development teams to move from the traditional waterfall method to Agile, supported by automated CI/CD pipelines. He built a team from scratch to develop CI/CD capacity in his previous company, for a development organization with several hundred developers, and played a pivotal role for its adoption of Agile and DevOps practices. As a result, the organization can now release software more frequently and with a significantly improved quality.

In his current job as the senior manager of DevOps at J. B. Hunt, he is leading CI/CD development and driving software delivery automation across the enterprise. He is also working closely with the Ops Platform and Dev teams to deliver a full DevOps experience from build, release to production, to continuous monitoring.

Wayne Wang is experienced in all aspects of IT systems delivery and operations, from strategic planning, portfolio management, project initiation, systems design, build, implementation, support, and maintenance. Wayne is a strong advocate for buildi... Show more

Kevin Wang

Kevin Wang

Kevin Wang has been an outstanding contributor in the CNCF community since its beginning and is the leader of the cloud native open source team at Huawei. Kevin has contributed critical enhancements to Kubernetes, led the incubation of the KubeEdge, Volcano, Karmada projects in CNCF, actively participated in the TOC, and played a critical role in building and supporting the growth of CNCF technologies and the CNCF community in China.

Kevin Wang has been an outstanding contributor in the CNCF community since its beginning and is the leader of the cloud native open source team at Huawei. Kevin has contributed critical enhancements to Kubernetes, led the incubation of the KubeEdge, ... Show more

Atul Yadav

Atul Yadav

🌐 Blog : www.dynamicscommunity101.com
📧 Email ID : atulyadavwork1994@gmail.com
📱 Phone : 9871286647

🌐 Blog : www.dynamicscommunity101.com 📧 Email ID : atulyadavwork1994@gmail.com 📱 Phone : 9871286647 Show more

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