Manufacturing & Industrial Materials

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

Lillian Ash Baker

Lillian Ash Baker

Lillian Ash Baker (aka Zap!) is a Lead Product Security Engineer with The Boeing Company and Wisk Aero, securing the next generation of civil aviation aircraft. She is responsible for driving cybersecurity requirements across the entire aircraft ecosystem and certifying to DO-356/326. Prior to their time in Product Security, Lily was at Collins Aerospace for 15 years, responsible for the development, test, manufacturing, and integration of civil avionics equipment with a focus on Navigation and Inertial Systems. They have dealt with civil avionics certification to ARP-4754A, DO-160, DO-178, D…Ok, you get the idea. From particle accelerators to inertial flight testing, Lily has plenty Certified Scars and the stories they tell. When not designing aircraft systems, she volunteers as the CFP Organizer at the Aerospace Village.

Lillian Ash Baker (aka Zap!) is a Lead Product Security Engineer with The Boeing Company and Wisk Aero, securing the next generation of civil aviation aircraft. She is responsible for driving cybersecurity requirements across the entire aircraft ecos... Show more

Ramkumar Venkatesan

Ramkumar Venkatesan

I am Ramkumar Venkatesan the Founder and CEO of an AI startup, leading the charge in revolutionizing enterprise operations through spoke generative AI solutions. With extensive experience spanning diverse sectors, including healthcare and insurance, has successfully implemented cutting-edge AI technologies to optimize various business functions. Notable achievements include integrating QR code technology with Clover POS for widespread adoption and drastically reducing life insurance application processing times. My expertise as a Certified Google Cloud Architect has also significantly contributed to non-profit organizations' scalability and efficiency. With a proven track record of driving innovation and delivering tangible results, I am a sought-after speaker and industry expert in the field of AI and technology.

I am Ramkumar Venkatesan the Founder and CEO of an AI startup, leading the charge in revolutionizing enterprise operations through spoke generative AI solutions. With extensive experience spanning diverse sectors, including healthcare and insurance, ... Show more

Ioan Constantin

Ioan Constantin

Cyber Security Professional with 17 years’ experience in corporate cyber security with a steadfast focus to Research and Innovation. Speaker and household name to some of the largest International Cyber security happenings.
Part of a Development and Innovation Team at Orange, where I define, develop, test and pilot new technologies and services for tomorrow’s Telco-tech use-cases. Active developer and participant in Research and Innovation actions in cyber security and networks and technologies for the future.

Cyber Security Professional with 17 years’ experience in corporate cyber security with a steadfast focus to Research and Innovation. Speaker and household name to some of the largest International Cyber security happenings. Part of a Development an... Show more

Adam Dean

Adam Dean

Adam Dean joined the Cardano ecosystem in late 2019 during the ITN phase and has been a stake pool operator, developer, and active community participant ever since. He is the co-founder of Buffy Bot Publishing and the NFTxLV event.

He is currently serving as the CTO of DripDropz, a member of the CIP Editors Panel, on his own projects (including VeriGlyph and UnFrack.It) and as an advisor and consultant to many other projects in the ecosystem.

Adam Dean joined the Cardano ecosystem in late 2019 during the ITN phase and has been a stake pool operator, developer, and active community participant ever since. He is the co-founder of Buffy Bot Publishing and the NFTxLV event. He is currently... Show more

Antonio Escalera

Antonio Escalera

Antonio is a highly accomplished Senior Platform Engineer with over a decade of experience in the design, development, and implementation of innovative platform architectures. Having worked with some of the largest financial services, research, and retail organizations in the United States, he is an expert in creating robust, scalable, and secure solutions tailored to the unique needs of his clients. Antonio's deep technical knowledge is complemented by his exceptional communication and collaboration skills. He is adept at fostering strong relationships with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders.

Antonio is a highly accomplished Senior Platform Engineer with over a decade of experience in the design, development, and implementation of innovative platform architectures. Having worked with some of the largest financial services, research, and r... Show more

Omer Kilic

Omer Kilic

Omer Kilic is an Embedded Systems and Manufacturing Consultant who works at the various intersections of hardware and software engineering practices, product development and manufacturing.

He works with entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes, guiding connected hardware products from ideation to mass production, wielding expertise in design, development, manufacturing and engineering team leadership.

Omer Kilic is an Embedded Systems and Manufacturing Consultant who works at the various intersections of hardware and software engineering practices, product development and manufacturing. He works with entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes, gu... Show more

Sophia Schlegel

Sophia Schlegel

Hi, my name is Sophia Schlegel, I am a software engineer at Ergosign GmbH at our head quarter in Saarbrücken. Ergosign is a company specialized in serving the whole UX life cycle in various business contexts. I work as a Qt/C++ developer, mostly in embedded contexts - hand in hand with analysts, designers, other developers and QA engineers.
In my free time you'll find me dancing or doing any kind of outdoor activity.

Hi, my name is Sophia Schlegel, I am a software engineer at Ergosign GmbH at our head quarter in Saarbrücken. Ergosign is a company specialized in serving the whole UX life cycle in various business contexts. I work as a Qt/C++ developer, mostly in e... Show more

Somil Nishar

Somil Nishar

​Somil is a global smart automation engineer that creates user-friendly interfaces that revolutionize warehouse operations. His focus is on optimizing processes, increasing efficiency, and empowering logistics professionals with intuitive automation solutions. Whether it's intelligent inventory management, robotic picking, or smart tracking systems, he strive to push boundaries and make warehouse automation seamless and transformative.

​Somil is a global smart automation engineer that creates user-friendly interfaces that revolutionize warehouse operations. His focus is on optimizing processes, increasing efficiency, and empowering logistics professionals with intuitive automation ... Show more

Abdullahi Ibrahim

Abdullahi Ibrahim

CEO/Founder Foonange Resources, an IoT leaner, Co-Founder Youth Renaissance Club, A Political Analyst, and Computer Leaner.

CEO/Founder Foonange Resources, an IoT leaner, Co-Founder Youth Renaissance Club, A Political Analyst, and Computer Leaner. Show more

Moeed Ayaz Butt

Moeed Ayaz Butt

I have successfully led multidisciplinary teams in the innovative technologies sector, spanning Metaverse, Digital Twin, 3D maps, IoT, and Web3 domains for 13 years.

Based in London, UK, I currently serve as an agile Technology Innovation, Strategy & Senior Delivery Manager in Accenture’s Metaverse Continuum Business Group. In this role, I collaborate with diverse software engineers, creatives, business analysts, and leaders. Together, we enhance competencies in Extended Reality, crafting impactful experiences for clients in enterprise, industrial, automotive, engineering, and smart city sectors.

My passion lies in leadership roles with significant potential, requiring unwavering dedication and a commitment to delivering top-notch software products.

Outside of work, I enjoy cycling, hitting the gym, and playing Dota 2 and Call of Duty.

I have successfully led multidisciplinary teams in the innovative technologies sector, spanning Metaverse, Digital Twin, 3D maps, IoT, and Web3 domains for 13 years. Based in London, UK, I currently serve as an agile Technology Innovation, Strateg... Show more

Ravi Kumar

Ravi Kumar

My name is Ravi Kumar from Delhi, currently working Shayam cables India Pvt ltd as a Business Development Executive.

My name is Ravi Kumar from Delhi, currently working Shayam cables India Pvt ltd as a Business Development Executive. Show more

Nadja Moeller

Nadja Moeller

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Luyao Zhong

Luyao Zhong

Luyao Zhong is a Cloud Software Engineer in Intel, contributed OpenStack and some related communities before, currently focus on Envoy and Istio projects, she is working on some TLS enhancement feature and investigations about accelerating network by ebpf.

Luyao Zhong is a Cloud Software Engineer in Intel, contributed OpenStack and some related communities before, currently focus on Envoy and Istio projects, she is working on some TLS enhancement feature and investigations about accelerating network by... Show more

SeungHyeon Song

SeungHyeon Song

- Master's degree in computer science at Konkuk University
- Flutter Seoul , Co -organizer
- ShareIT , Lead Developer

- Master's degree in computer science at Konkuk University - Flutter Seoul , Co -organizer - ShareIT , Lead Developer Show more

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

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

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

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

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

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