Manufacturing & Industrial Materials

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

Richard Haag

Richard Haag

Head of UX & Innovation department at Holmen. 20+ years of experience within IT. Spend most of my time in the cloud, especially in Azure.
Focus on the user needs. It’s all about behavior, not technology! But sometime technology can be used as a door-opener to bring value to the user.
I create awesome power automate flows and innovative solutions with the Power platform. Often with ServiceNow as one of the endpoints.

My team at Holmen works with a broad spectra of areas from IT Service Desk, development of ServiceNow, everything connected to the clients (including phones), distribution of applications, Windows patching etc. and all the way to Innovation. Everything with the user in focus. Our vison and what we try to achieve is this:

"We deliver IT to empower the people @ Holmen, creating a productive workforce with digital happiness!"

Articles (swedish):
- 10-årsjubiléum för TechDays 2019: https://pulse.microsoft.com/sv-se/transform-sv-se/na/fa3-lyckat-10-arsjubileum-for-techdays-2019/
- Artikel i Voister om Holmens digitala lycka: https://www.voister.se/artikel/2021/01/molnsatsning-och-digital-lycka-pa-holmen/

Head of UX & Innovation department at Holmen. 20+ years of experience within IT. Spend most of my time in the cloud, especially in Azure. Focus on the user needs. It’s all about behavior, not technology! But sometime technology can be used as a door... Show more

Matthias Gelinski

Matthias Gelinski

I love digitization and paperless processes. I am very passionate about change management and transformation of the ways people work by using digital tools.

I love digitization and paperless processes. I am very passionate about change management and transformation of the ways people work by using digital tools. Show more

Ian Bullock

Ian Bullock

As a seasoned leader in the web development industry, Ian is passionate about managing and mentoring teams to achieve success. With many years of experience in an agency environment, Ian has honed his skills in project management, team leadership, and client communication. He believes in fostering a collaborative work environment where team members feel empowered to share their ideas and contribute to the success of each project. Ian is committed to developing his team's skills and expertise, providing ongoing training and coaching to help them achieve their professional goals. Through his leadership, Ian has successfully managed teams to deliver high-quality web development projects on time and within budget.

As a seasoned leader in the web development industry, Ian is passionate about managing and mentoring teams to achieve success. With many years of experience in an agency environment, Ian has honed his skills in project management, team leadership, an... Show more

Aiste Kytriene

Aiste Kytriene

Having simultaneously worked with over 10 of Softera Baltic's and partner products, I made the switch to focusing on just one - Bankfeed. With the goal for exponential growth, new markets and marketing channels, and lots of room for experimentation - the pace is fast, and the lessons are plenty.

Having simultaneously worked with over 10 of Softera Baltic's and partner products, I made the switch to focusing on just one - Bankfeed. With the goal for exponential growth, new markets and marketing channels, and lots of room for experimentation -... Show more

Chiranjevi Dhulipudi

Chiranjevi Dhulipudi

I'm a Software Engineer with a passion for building scalable, high-performing systems and applications. My experience spans distributed systems, full-stack development, and cloud technologies, with a strong foundation in Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices. I've worked on cutting-edge projects at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and contributed to impactful solutions during my time at Stony Brook University.Equipped with excellent problem-solving skills, I am looking forward t o expanding my technical capabilities to face more challenging and complex problem statements.

I'm a Software Engineer with a passion for building scalable, high-performing systems and applications. My experience spans distributed systems, full-stack development, and cloud technologies, with a strong foundation in Kubernetes, Docker, and micro... Show more

Tobias Lübbe

Tobias Lübbe

Tobias Lübbe is a Software Consultant in TNG’s Innovation Hacking team. His work focuses on Physical AI and the development of innovative robotics showcases. Currently, he is exploring the use of Robot Foundation Models (RFMs) across different robotic systems. Before joining TNG, he studied Mechatronics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

Tobias Lübbe is a Software Consultant in TNG’s Innovation Hacking team. His work focuses on Physical AI and the development of innovative robotics showcases. Currently, he is exploring the use of Robot Foundation Models (RFMs) across different roboti... Show more

Alec Cooley

Alec Cooley

Alec Cooley has worked in the recycling field for over three decades, most recently as a senior advisor with the recycling and waste bin manufacturer, Busch Systems. He began his career managing recycling and waste reduction programs for Cal Poly Humboldt University in Northern California for a decade. Alec went on to work for the National Recycling Coalition as a program manager for three years before joining the national office of Keep America Beautiful as director of recycling programs in 2009. During his nine years at KAB, Alec oversaw behavior-related research initiatives, and served as the program manager for both CURC (College and University Recycling Coalition) and the RecycleMania competition (now Campus Race to Zero Waste). Since joining Busch Systems in 2018, Alec has advised the company on product design and produces a popular webinar series and other best practices content for professional recycling and waste reduction audiences.

Alec is a certified TRUE Advisor, and has previously served on the board of directors for the National Recycling Coalition, the Carolina Recycling Association and the California Resource Recovery Association. He lives near Charleston, South Carolina.

Alec Cooley has worked in the recycling field for over three decades, most recently as a senior advisor with the recycling and waste bin manufacturer, Busch Systems. He began his career managing recycling and waste reduction programs for Cal Poly Hum... Show more

Shalagha Mahajan

Shalagha Mahajan

Shalagha Mahajan is a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Lab126 with nearly a decade of experience developing customer-facing software products across smart home technologies, computer vision systems, device software, and cloud infrastructure. She has contributed to the design, development, and delivery of products used by millions of customers across Amazon Alexa, Ring, Fire TV, and FireOS platforms.
Since joining Amazon in 2016, Shalagha has progressed through multiple engineering roles, advancing from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer. In her current role, she leads and contributes to strategic initiatives within Amazon's smart home ecosystem. Her work includes leading projects focused on smart home feature discovery experiences in the Alexa app, contributing to the development of the Alexa Map View feature, and leading the introduction of ONVIF-compliant third-party camera support for Ring's small and medium business offerings. These efforts required close collaboration with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end customer experiences.
Before her current position, Shalagha worked on Ring's computer vision platform, where she developed frameworks and pipelines supporting machine learning model testing and deployment at the edge. She also contributed to systems that improved the reliability of Ring cameras during offline operation and power failures. Earlier in her career, she led the reintroduction of mirroring technology to Fire TV devices and implemented several FireOS features, including cinema mode, picture-in-picture mode, and operating system componentization. She also contributed to device software innovations such as Ship Mode, Silent OTA updates, and Fire TV Edition development.
Shalagha's technical expertise spans software engineering, machine learning applications, natural language processing, and device software development. She is experienced in navigating ambiguous product requirements, collaborating across multidisciplinary teams, and mentoring junior engineers. Her programming experience includes C++, Java, React JS, and Go.
Before joining Amazon full-time, Shalagha completed a software engineering internship with AWS EC2, where she developed Python-based tools for launching and evaluating cloud instances across multiple AWS regions.
Shalagha earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, graduating with a GPA of 3.71/4.0. She also holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Jaypee University of Information Technology in India and completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Machine Learning through Emeritus in partnership with Columbia Engineering.

Shalagha Mahajan is a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Lab126 with nearly a decade of experience developing customer-facing software products across smart home technologies, computer vision systems, device software, and cloud infrastructure. She ha... Show more

Nikhil Bogam

Nikhil Bogam

Nikhil Bogam is a Functional Safety and Automotive Cybersecurity expert with over a decade of experience across safety engineering, vehicle security, and regulatory compliance. His functional safety expertise spans the complete ISO 26262 lifecycle, including safety planning, DIA, technical safety concepts, FMEA, FTA, FMEDA, confirmation reviews, audits, assessments, and safety case development.
In cybersecurity, Nikhil specializes in UN ECE WP.29 (R155), CSMS, and ISO/SAE 21434, supporting organizations in building compliant and resilient automotive security processes. He has represented Faurecia in Auto‑ISAC communications, contributing to collaborative threat intelligence sharing.
His domain experience includes BCM, PEPS, BMS, headlamp control modules, IVI, and instrument clusters. Nikhil is a frequent international speaker at leading conferences such as Hacktivity, ROOTCON, DefCamp, BSides, Automotive IQ, ANSYS Functional Safety Summit, and CS2AI.

Nikhil Bogam is a Functional Safety and Automotive Cybersecurity expert with over a decade of experience across safety engineering, vehicle security, and regulatory compliance. His functional safety expertise spans the complete ISO 26262 lifecycle, i... Show more

Iaroslav Tugai

Iaroslav Tugai

Yari, also known as Iaroslav Tugai or Ярослав Тугай, is the founder of AF SCOOTERS, an electric scooter shop and repair workshop with locations in Castellón de la Plana and Borriana, Spain.

Since March 2017, AF SCOOTERS has specialised in electric scooter repairs, custom-made lithium batteries speed an autonomy and the sale of scooters, batteries, spare parts and accessories throughout Spain and the European Union.

Yari shares practical knowledge about electric mobility, specialised workshop management, scooter repairs, range extension and lithium battery manufacturing according to the vehicle model, voltage and configuration.

Yari is also known like a founder of ANNANAS which is an international barbershop in Valencia specializing in men’s haircuts, fades, beard shaping and styling, as well as other grooming services. ANNANAS has two locations, ANNANAS Alfahuir and ANNANAS Blasco Ibáñez, serving local and international clients in Ukrainian, Spanish, English and Russian. The first ANNANAS barbershop has been operating in Valencia since 2021.

Yari, also known as Iaroslav Tugai or Ярослав Тугай, is the founder of AF SCOOTERS, an electric scooter shop and repair workshop with locations in Castellón de la Plana and Borriana, Spain. Since March 2017, AF SCOOTERS has specialised in electric... Show more

Juan Pablo Camperos Quiñones

Juan Pablo Camperos Quiñones

Juan Pablo Camperos Quiñones es especialista en ciberseguridad OT/IACS y posee la certificacion como experto IEC 62443 proferida por ISA, con experiencia en evaluación de riesgos, arquitectura segura, segmentación, hardening, acceso remoto seguro y protección de entornos industriales. Ha trabajado en Latinoamerica y Europa con equipos de ingeniería, operaciones, seguridad y auditoría para traducir requisitos de ciberseguridad industrial en decisiones técnicas aplicables en planta, especialmente en contextos de infraestructura crítica, utilities, automatización, SCADA y sistemas de control.

Su enfoque combina estándares como IEC 62443 con una visión práctica de ataque y defensa: entender cómo un adversario puede moverse entre zonas OT, cómo fallan los controles cuando solo existen en documentación, y cómo convertir hallazgos técnicos en mejoras verificables. Actualmente trabaja en NTT DATA liderando la practica de ciberseguridad OT en IBIOL (Latin America e Iberia) y participa activamente en iniciativas de ciberseguridad industrial, formación y divulgación para la comunidad latinoamericana. email corporativo jcampero@nttdata.com

Juan Pablo Camperos Quiñones es especialista en ciberseguridad OT/IACS y posee la certificacion como experto IEC 62443 proferida por ISA, con experiencia en evaluación de riesgos, arquitectura segura, segmentación, hardening, acceso remoto seguro y p... Show more

Amit Rawal

Amit Rawal

Amit Rawal is a business transformation and ERP leader with over 20 years of experience helping organizations modernize operations through digital innovation. As an Enterprise Solution Architect at Avanade, he specializes in Microsoft Dynamics 365, supply chain, manufacturing, and AI-driven business transformation. Amit works with global clients to design enterprise solutions that combine business strategy, ERP, and emerging technologies such as Copilot and Agentic AI to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Amit Rawal is a business transformation and ERP leader with over 20 years of experience helping organizations modernize operations through digital innovation. As an Enterprise Solution Architect at Avanade, he specializes in Microsoft Dynamics 365, s... Show more

Aarush Khatri

Aarush Khatri

Hi, I'm Aarush Khatri, working at FTH Industries, an Ahmedabad-based radiator manufacturer and supplier. We specialize in manufacturing high-quality radiators and cooling solutions for automotive and industrial applications. Since 2013, FTH Industries has been committed to delivering reliable products that meet industry standards while ensuring excellent performance and durability. It is rewarding to be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and customer satisfaction, helping businesses and customers with dependable cooling solutions across India and beyond.

Hi, I'm Aarush Khatri, working at FTH Industries, an Ahmedabad-based radiator manufacturer and supplier. We specialize in manufacturing high-quality radiators and cooling solutions for automotive and industrial applications. Since 2013, FTH Industrie... Show more

Raj Gopal Menon

Raj Gopal Menon

Raj Gopal Menon doesn't fit neatly into any design category. That's always been the point.
A graduate of IIT Bombay's Industrial Design Centre with a foundation in Mechanical Engineering, Raj has spent three decades working across domains - critical care medical devices, off-grid solar systems, vending machines, neonatal incubators - with electronics and software entirely self-taught along the way. His products have reached over 250,000 people across India.

Today, he is a Professor of Practice at the School of Design & Innovation at R.V. University, Bangalore.

Raj Gopal Menon doesn't fit neatly into any design category. That's always been the point. A graduate of IIT Bombay's Industrial Design Centre with a foundation in Mechanical Engineering, Raj has spent three decades working across domains - critica... Show more

Ankit Chauhan

Ankit Chauhan

Hi, I'm Ankit Chauhan, working at Happiyum, a trusted frozen food manufacturer and exporter in India. We specialize in premium frozen potato products, including French fries, potato wedges, hash browns, nuggets, croquettes, and other ready-to-cook snacks. Manufactured at our advanced facility in Mehsana, Gujarat, our products are produced under strict quality and hygiene standards using modern IQF technology. It is rewarding to be part of a company that delivers safe, delicious frozen foods to customers across India and international markets while maintaining a strong commitment to quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

Hi, I'm Ankit Chauhan, working at Happiyum, a trusted frozen food manufacturer and exporter in India. We specialize in premium frozen potato products, including French fries, potato wedges, hash browns, nuggets, croquettes, and other ready-to-cook sn... Show more

Dhaval Trivedi

Dhaval Trivedi

Hi, I'm Dhaval Trivedi, and I work at Viral Industries, a leading valve gearbox manufacturer and global supplier based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. With over 18 years of precision engineering expertise, our company specializes in custom-built valve gearboxes ranging from 300 Nm to 250,000 Nm, including Quarter-Turn Worm Gearboxes, Multi-Turn Bevel Gearboxes, and solutions for Ball, Butterfly, Gate, Globe, Sluice, and Control Valves. We proudly serve industries such as oil & gas, refineries, power plants, water management, petrochemicals, chemical processing, and agriculture automation. Backed by ISO 9001:2015, CE, and ISI certifications, we are committed to delivering high-quality, reliable, and precision-engineered solutions trusted by customers in more than 20 countries.

Hi, I'm Dhaval Trivedi, and I work at Viral Industries, a leading valve gearbox manufacturer and global supplier based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. With over 18 years of precision engineering expertise, our company specializes in custom-built valve ... Show more

Emmanuel Bamidele

Emmanuel Bamidele

Dr. Emmanuel Bamidele is a materials scientist and semiconductor technology-development engineer at Intel Corporation, where he develops next-generation dielectric materials for advanced-node interconnects and leads work integrating artificial intelligence into semiconductor manufacturing. He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering (University of Colorado Boulder), with additional master's degrees in materials science, extractive metallurgy (University of Johannesburg), and computer science (Georgia Institute of Technology), and is the author of 20+ peer-reviewed publications. He is the cofounder of Utivilla Corporation, maker of the Supavector product, and a Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering across several colleges. Nigerian-born and trained across African and international institutions, he works to connect Africa's critical-mineral base and engineering talent to a sovereign, high-value semiconductor and AI future.

Dr. Emmanuel Bamidele is a materials scientist and semiconductor technology-development engineer at Intel Corporation, where he develops next-generation dielectric materials for advanced-node interconnects and leads work integrating artificial intell... Show more

Avi Sujeeth

Avi Sujeeth

Avi Sujeeth is a Senior Account Executive at Quisitive, where he leads healthcare and manufacturing strategy for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Copilot, and Power Platform. He spent nearly 15 years at Microsoft in Director-level and health and life sciences roles before joining Quisitive, giving him a rare view of both sides of the co-sell table. Avi champions an "Adoption-First" approach to enterprise AI: start small, prove value fast, then scale. He works closely with Microsoft field teams to help healthcare and payer organizations turn value-based care pressure into practical, fast-moving AI wins.

Avi Sujeeth is a Senior Account Executive at Quisitive, where he leads healthcare and manufacturing strategy for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Copilot, and Power Platform. He spent nearly 15 years at Microsoft in Director-level and health and life sciences... Show more

Michel Rockstroh

Michel Rockstroh

Michel Rockstroh is a graduate engineer in automotive engineering and currently serves as Head of Research & Development with more than ten years of experience in industrial product development and process optimization. His career spans from classical powertrain engineering to the industrialization of high-voltage battery systems in an international environment.

As a technology leader, he combines engineering excellence with strategic organizational development. Beyond driving innovation in complex technical systems, he is responsible for optimizing company-wide processes and regularly reports to senior management. He gained international experience during a multi-year assignment in the United States, where he supported large-scale industrialization projects.

Michel Rockstroh represents a holistic approach to technology — from early concept development to scalable industrial implementation. His focus lies in aligning engineering, digital transformation, and agile structures to build future-ready technology organizations.

Michel Rockstroh is a graduate engineer in automotive engineering and currently serves as Head of Research & Development with more than ten years of experience in industrial product development and process optimization. His career spans from classica... Show more

Sudhindra Desai

Sudhindra Desai

Sudhindra Desai is a senior engineering leader and applied AI innovator with 18+ years of experience transforming how enterprises build, scale, and govern intelligent systems. He leads at the intersection of agentic AI, cloud-native data platforms, and organizational change, consistently turning emerging technology into measurable business outcomes across financial services, enterprise software, and industrial technology.
At Visa, Sudhindra leads an engineering organization spanning AI engineering, DevOps, and platform domains. He conceived and drove the enterprise adoption of an Agentic AI framework, a first-of-its-kind governance model at Visa, scaling autonomous agent delivery across 150+ teams and generating 300+ pull requests biweekly as engineering squads embedded agentic workflows into their core operating rhythm. Rather than building a centralized capability, he engineered a self-sustaining delivery engine: reusable scaffolding, governed agent registries, and monitoring infrastructure that gave every developer the tools to ship production-grade agents at sprint cadence. In parallel, he led the engineering delivery of Visa's Passkey initiative, bringing FIDO2/WebAuthn passwordless authentication backed by biometrics, PKI cryptography, and multi-region active-active replication to hundreds of millions of users across billions of transactions annually.
At PayPal, as Senior Staff Engineering Manager for AI and Data Platform, Sudhindra led checkout data engineering processing 1B+ daily data points across mobile, web, and marketing channels. He drove a significant reduction in ML model deployment time by institutionalizing MLOps practices across teams and delivered Bayesian attribution and segmentation models that directly improved marketing ROI and checkout conversion. His work shaped how PayPal's engineering organization approached AI, not as a research function but as a production discipline.
At Siemens, across two tenures, he built and led data and platform engineering teams through successive waves of modernization. As Technology Leader for Data Science and Data Engineering, he directed a 12-engineer team delivering cloud-native pipelines processing 100TB+ daily, drove $2M in annual cloud cost reduction through FinOps rigor, and introduced GenAI and LLM-powered systems that increased customer engagement by 40%. Earlier, as Software Development Lead, he led the team behind Teamcenter and Polarion PLM/ALM integrations, platform work that reshaped product lifecycle and software traceability practices across companies globally and delivered substantial engineering overhead reductions for enterprise clients.
His career also spans data engineering leadership at Rocket Mortgage, solution architecture at Ford Motor Company, and large-scale data consolidation at Geometric Global.
A published thought leader, Sudhindra has authored four peer-reviewed scholarly articles on agentic AI architecture, self-healing financial infrastructure, enterprise AI implementation frameworks, and multi-layered memory systems, alongside widely read writing on generative AI strategy, LLM fine-tuning, and resilient cloud design. He serves as a Technical Reviewer for IEEE CCWC, DECoN, and ICETCE, and holds memberships in IEEE, Sigma Xi, and Hackathon Raptors as a Fellow.
Sudhindra holds a Master of Science from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Engineering from Visweswaraiah Institute of Technology. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Terraform practitioner, Certified Databricks Data Engineer, and Certified ChatGPT Expert.

Sudhindra Desai is a senior engineering leader and applied AI innovator with 18+ years of experience transforming how enterprises build, scale, and govern intelligent systems. He leads at the intersection of agentic AI, cloud-native data platforms, a... Show more

Raimund Grothaus

Raimund Grothaus

- Founder and CEO of EAST-4D Carbon Technology GmbH.
- Certification according to EN 9100, NADCAP & aircraft OEMs.
- Composite supplier to major programmes of Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Dassault, Gulfstream, Rolls-Royce, Leonardo.
- First project contract on AI-engineering in 2019 by Bugatti Automotive.
- On-premise AI-system "4Dtech-box" established on-site @EAST-4D.

- Founder and CEO of EAST-4D Carbon Technology GmbH. - Certification according to EN 9100, NADCAP & aircraft OEMs. - Composite supplier to major programmes of Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Dassault, Gulfstream, Rolls-Royce, Leonardo. - First project... Show more

Noah Harris

Noah Harris

Noah is the Managing Director at Radial Agency, an AI consulting firm based in Buffalo, NY. He works at the intersection of engineering execution and executive decision-making, helping organizations adopt AI with the governance, ownership, and delivery rigor required in real businesses. His work spans Fortune 500 and high-growth teams across energy, retail, financial services, automotive, and manufacturing.

Originally from Atlanta, Noah studied Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He began his career in 2014 in defense and government-adjacent environments, moved into startups in 2016, and has since supported teams across the country through consulting and hands-on delivery. Today, he advises leaders, builds high-performing teams, and helps engineers turn skill into career momentum through mentorship and meaningful connections.

Noah is the Managing Director at Radial Agency, an AI consulting firm based in Buffalo, NY. He works at the intersection of engineering execution and executive decision-making, helping organizations adopt AI with the governance, ownership, and delive... Show more

Joe Kehoe

Joe Kehoe

Joe brings over 15+ years experience in driving digital transformation across large organizations. He believes organizations can be successful with transformation when they focus on business change, end user experience, actionable insights, and change management. Joe believes strategy is complete when it is executed and measureable against the business case supporting it.

Joe brings over 15+ years experience in driving digital transformation across large organizations. He believes organizations can be successful with transformation when they focus on business change, end user experience, actionable insights, and chang... Show more

Stephanie Levy

Stephanie Levy

Stephanie Levy is the Director of Education & Skills at EIT RawMaterials, a pan-European innovation community co-funded by the European Union. In this role, she leads strategic workforce and skills initiatives spanning industry-academic collaboration, lifelong learning, and professional development across the critical raw materials and advanced materials sectors.

She has more than twenty years of international leadership experience across education and technology, building partnerships between education providers, industry, and public stakeholders. Stephanie holds an Executive MBA from EDHEC Business School and has completed executive training at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Oxford.

Stephanie Levy is the Director of Education & Skills at EIT RawMaterials, a pan-European innovation community co-funded by the European Union. In this role, she leads strategic workforce and skills initiatives spanning industry-academic collaboration... Show more

Gabrijel Patarčić

Gabrijel Patarčić

TTRPG enthusiast and a mechanical engineering technitian. Funniest man alive and the best driver in modern times.

TTRPG enthusiast and a mechanical engineering technitian. Funniest man alive and the best driver in modern times. Show more

Lars Bergmann

Lars Bergmann

Lars Bergmann is Director Business Development for the Business Unit Smart CMOS & SOI at X-FAB GLOBAL SERVICE GmbH. He holds a Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology with a focus on Microelectronics from the University of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden, Germany (2006).
He joined X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG in 2006, where he built deep expertise in low-voltage and high-voltage ESD protection, I/O libraries, application-specific ESD concepts, and full-chip ESD simulations. In 2015, he was promoted to Principal Design Support Engineer and assumed leadership of the ESD support team.
From 2020 to 2025, Lars served as Director of Design Support at X-FAB GLOBAL SERVICE GmbH, overseeing global design enablement, including PDKs, design IP (analog foundation IP, standard cells, I/O, and memory compilers), design flows, reference kits, and customer design support.
Since 2026, he is actively engaged in Business Development for Smart CMOS & SOI, driving strategic customer engagement and growth initiatives.
His technical interests include advanced ESD protection devices and circuit simulation. Outside of work, he enjoys long-distance running and cycling.

Lars Bergmann is Director Business Development for the Business Unit Smart CMOS & SOI at X-FAB GLOBAL SERVICE GmbH. He holds a Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology with a focus on Microelectronics from the University of... Show more

Paula Wilhelm

Paula Wilhelm

Beginning my academic career in Mechatronics at TU Dresden, I discovered a profound interest in machine learning topics. This led me to explore its applications in medical technology during my thesis. In 2021, I took the initiative to further my skills in the data science domain by joining Bosch Dresden as a student, where I quickly became deeply fascinated by the semiconductor business. I transitioned to a full-time Data Scientist in 2024, where I now apply machine learning methods to analyze complex tool sensor time series.

Beginning my academic career in Mechatronics at TU Dresden, I discovered a profound interest in machine learning topics. This led me to explore its applications in medical technology during my thesis. In 2021, I took the initiative to further my skil... Show more

Stefan Hoffmanns

Stefan Hoffmanns

Stefan Hoffmanns is a Consultant and Solution Architect at Gemba Service BV with more than 20 years of experience in Enterprise Asset Management and IBM Maximo. Throughout his career, he has helped organizations across multiple industries improve maintenance, service, and asset management processes through technology and best practices.

His current focus is on the convergence of Asset Management, Reliability, AI, IoT, and Digital Twin technologies. Stefan is actively involved in helping organizations translate emerging technologies into practical business value and is particularly interested in how AI can support smarter maintenance and service decisions.

As an IBM Champion, he enjoys sharing knowledge, lessons learned, and real-world experiences with the wider Maximo and IBM community through presentations, workshops, blogs, and community events.

Stefan Hoffmanns is a Consultant and Solution Architect at Gemba Service BV with more than 20 years of experience in Enterprise Asset Management and IBM Maximo. Throughout his career, he has helped organizations across multiple industries improve mai... Show more

Thomas Werner

Thomas Werner

Thomas graduated from TU Chemnitz. He joined AMD as Integration Engineer in 1996 and worked in AMD’s Development Center (Sunnyvale), AMD’s Fab25 (Austin) and AMD’s Fab30 in Dresden. After the spinoff of Globalfoundries, he worked as Manager for Technology and Integration in the BEOL. In 2015 he joined Fraunhofer IZM as R&D coordinator in advanced packaging. In 2023 Thomas accepted a position as Head of Metrology Wafer Business at Chipmetrics.

Thomas graduated from TU Chemnitz. He joined AMD as Integration Engineer in 1996 and worked in AMD’s Development Center (Sunnyvale), AMD’s Fab25 (Austin) and AMD’s Fab30 in Dresden. After the spinoff of Globalfoundries, he worked as Manager for Techn... Show more

Thanigaivel Rangasamy

Thanigaivel Rangasamy

Thanigaivel Rangasamy is an accomplished Information Technology Program Manager and Senior Project Manager with over 20 years of experience delivering large-scale technology, quality assurance, and security-focused programs across diverse industries, including telecommunications, airlines, banking, life sciences, retail, manufacturing, and e-commerce
He has a proven track record of leading end-to-end program delivery, managing cross-functional and global teams, and partnering closely with stakeholders to achieve business and technology objectives. Thanigaivel brings deep expertise in program and project management, QA leadership, test automation, security remediation, and process improvement, with hands-on experience across Agile, SAFe, Waterfall, and DevOps methodologies
Throughout his career, he has successfully led complex initiatives involving system integration, performance, security, and UAT testing, while driving quality metrics, release governance, and continuous improvement. He is highly skilled in tools such as JIRA, HP ALM, Selenium, UFT, Jenkins, GitHub, ServiceNow, and cloud platforms, and has strong capabilities in data analysis, SQL, backend validation, and automation frameworks
Thanigaivel holds a Master’s degree in Computer Applications and is a PMP, Certified Scrum Master, SAFe 6 Practitioner, and ISTQB Advanced Test Manager. Known for his hands-on leadership style, he combines strategic thinking with execution excellence to deliver high-quality, compliant, and scalable solutions across global enterprises.

Thanigaivel Rangasamy is an accomplished Information Technology Program Manager and Senior Project Manager with over 20 years of experience delivering large-scale technology, quality assurance, and security-focused programs across diverse industries,... Show more

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