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Alastair Barnfield joined Johnson Matthey in July 2018 as Director of IT Architecture as part of a new leadership team in the IT department. Alastair brings over 30 years experience across a wide range of industries and is key to building up the architecture and innovation practice within JM IT. Alastair has worked in UKRead more

Pierre-Alain Saurin is CEO of Syngenta Production France and Site Manager for a chemical site in France. Starting as an engineer in chemical industry (Dupont), he has conducted risk insurance audits (Zurich) and than spent 10 years in project management in automotive industry (PSA). He’s joined Syngenta in 2009 to improve reliability of a majorRead more

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After studying Chemical Engineering at the Universtiy of Dortmund Oliver Klein started in the Technical Management of Unilever´s Personal Wash business. After that he joined BASF SE as Technical Manager. During this period he was working for BASF´s Magnetic Recording, Styrenics and Cynid Value Chain Business. After that he took over the technical responsibility forRead more

Michael Merget is CVP Global Head of Operations and Supply Chain at Henkel Adhesive Technologies. 20 years of work experience (6 years in Henkel): Global Head of Quality of Adhesive Technologies Global Head of Operations and Supply Chain for Transport and Metal, Adhesive Technologies Executive VP Product Development, Kiekert AG Educational Background: PhD in ManufacturingRead more

Fernando Cruzado is the head of the global chemical industry team at ROI-EFESO. He has a strong background in operational excellence issues and the development and implementation of organizations. In more than 20 years of consulting, he gained experience in the development and implementation of sustainable transformation programs with a focus on the chemical industry.Read more

Maarten Willems, graduated with a MSc. in chemical engineering, he has worked for 10 years in the area of Industrial Digitalization. His experience covers real-time monitoring and optimisation, data integration technologies and engineering workflows design. Over his career, he has had numerous roles working for companies such as Arkema, Rohm, Total Energies, and others. MaartenRead more

Dr. Ahmed Mosallam is a value-driven data scientist with almost 10 years of experience in both research and industry, in the areas of data science, advanced analytics, machine learning and prognostics and health management. Ahmed has extensive experience in: Shaping cross centre analytics teams Communicating and collaborating with various levels of the business Successful leading,Read more

Until mid 2019, Rainer Oehlert was responsible for Process Automation (PA), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Advanced Process Control (APC), Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), DCS Migrations, Functional Safety and Automation (OT) Security. Previously in various production, technology and engineering roles including Senior Automation Engineer for Capital Projects of all sizes, DCS Migration Projects and Regional DirectorRead more

Jared Hartness is Senior Product Marketing Manager at GE Digital, the leading software company for the Industrial Internet.Read more