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ALEXANDER WILLINEK, EVACO GMBH
EXPERT
More than 18 years of passion in BI projects – these are years in retrospect for Alexander Willinek, where he has gained a wealth of experience with a lot of passion and curiosity. As a programmer, he loves the situations where he develops solutions for customers in the first row, even if these are becoming increasingly rare in his current job as managing director and founder of EVACO GmbH.
EXPERTISE:

  • Business Development
  • Business Intelligence


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ANDREAS HAAS, MM1
EXPERT
Andreas is a senoir consultant at mm1. He is highly skilled in project establishment,specification and execution processes, with high expertise in the design and management of systems to drive technical innovation. He graduated with a Master of Business Administration degree in Business Administration from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2008).
EXPERTISE:

  • Digital Innovation
  • Business Development
  • Management


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BENJAMIN LINNIK, OPITZ CONSULTING
EXPERT
Benjamin Linnik is a senior data engineer at Opitz Consulting. During his academic career, he has acquired profound knowledge in mathematics, physics and computer science. He uses his analytical skills to precisely grasp complex business and technical issues and to design customer-oriented IT solutions. During his Ph.D. Benjamin contributed to the development of a particle detector for a heavy-ion experiment at the international particle accelerator facility FAIR. For this purpose, he evaluated data statistically in order to ensure the suitability of the used components. Benjamin also used to automate complex (laboratory) workflows.
EXPERTISE:

  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Science
  • Programming


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CHRISTIAN WEISS, HOLISTICON AG
EXPERT
As a consultant, coach and trainer, Christian deals with the topics of business process management and agile project management. In particular, it is important to him to support large companies in the introduction of nimble, automated business processes and agile practices. Social concerns often play a major role in the implementation of ideas, for which he have developed a sensitive sense and sensitivity over the years.
EXPERTISE:

  • UML
  • BPMN


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CHRISTOPH VOIGT, NEXOCRAFT GmbH
EXPERT
Christoph Voigt is the IoT & AI Solution Manager at nexocraft GmbH, where he offers customised solutions for those who want to delve into the world of AI. He is a graduate engineer in electrical engineering, who, having discovered AI as a new basis for modern automation technology in recent years, works closely with customers to implement the new AI Controller and offers client-specific solutions.
EXPERTISE:

  • AI
  • IoT


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DANIEL WERTH, FERDINAND-STEINBEIS-INSTITUT
EXPERT
Daniel Werth ist Senior Researcher and Director Multilateral Ecosystems at the Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute. In transfer-oriented projects in digital-based ecosystems, he strives to generate new added value for companies and added value to society. Daniel has over 15 years of experience in medium-sized companies, with a focus on wholesale and new services/business transformation. He received his doctorate from the LMU Munich in the field of business psychology.
EXPERTISE:

  • Business Transformation
  • Multilateral Ecosystems


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PROF. DR. DIETLAND ZÜHLKE, TH KÖLN
EXPERT
Prof. Dr. Dietlind Zühlke is a professor for applied mathematics at the TH Köln,since 2019. Before Dietlind worked at the TH Köln, she was a data science manager at Horn&Company Data Analytics. She was primarily responsible for projects for the conception and implementation of data science and machine learning applications, for the development of machine learning competences as well as programs for the transformation towards data-driven companies. Dietlind studied Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Neural Networks at the Universities of Leipzig and Bonn.She earned a PhD in Computational Intelligence from the University of Groningen, Netherlands.
EXPERTISE:

  • Data mining
  • Machine Learning
  • Algorithms


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DIRK CASPER, OPITZ CONSULTING
EXPERT
Dirks motivation is to develop and implement viable and sustainable solutions together with customers and partners. From the brainstorming, development, project management and sales of IT solutions as well as change facilitation, he has worked through all roles. Together with connectivity partners and sensor manufacturers, he designed solutions for customers, identified suitable IOT platforms and helped developing complete ecosystems. At Opitz Consulting he is part of the AI core team and responsible for NLP, NLU, chat and voice bots. This also in combination with technologies such as augmented reality.
EXPERTISE:

  • AIoT
  • NLP
  • NLU


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DIRK SLAMA
(Editor-in-Chief)

EXPERT
Dirk Slama is VP and Chief Alliance Officer at Bosch Software Innovations (SI). Bosch SI is spearheading the Internet of Things (IoT) activities of Bosch, the global manufacturing and services group. Dirk has over 20 years experience in very large-scale distributed application projects and system integration, including SOA, BPM, M2M and most recently IoT. He is representing Bosch at the Industrial Internet Consortium and is active in the Industry 4.0 community. He holds an MBA from IMD Lausanne as well as a Diploma Degree in Computer Science from TU Berlin.
EXPERTISE:

  • AIoT
  • Architecture
  • Methodology


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GENE WANG, BOSCH.IO CHINA
EXPERT
Strategic Consultant of IoT & Digital Transformation. Gene Wang, the General Manager of Bosch.IO China, has been active in IoT market for more than 10 years, and provides consultant services and helps customers on their digital transformation strategy and new IoT business model with innovative technologies and solutions. Besides, Gene has more than 25 years experience in Energy Area, and he held various positions at GE Energy.
EXPERTISE:

  • IoT
  • Smart Energy
  • Industry 4.0


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HAJO NORMANN, ACCENTURE
EXPERT
Hajos interest in business-focused, enterprise-wide, cross siloed bundles of functionality arose in 2001 while he was responsible for a shared service platform at a large German bank as an architect and technical team lead. For many years he is helping to motivate, designing and implementing solutions successfully at various customers and work on choosing the right mix of tools, on setting up a successful modernization, sourcing & vendor strategy, and sharing Integration Architecture principles, design guidelines, and best practices. Haj has worked as a consultant, sales consultant, management consultant, technical team lead, and architect in large project teams in banking, retail, government, and telcos.
EXPERTISE:

  • BPM
  • Methodology
  • SOA Design Pattern


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JIM MORRISH, FOUNDING MEMBER, TRANSFORMA INSIGHTS
EXPERT
Jim is a respected Digital Transformation and Internet of Things industry expert, with over 20 years’ experience of strategy consulting, operations management and telecoms research. Previously he was a Founder and the Chief Research Officer of Machina Research, the world's leading IoT analyst firm, which was acquired by Gartner in 2016. He is a co-author of the Ignite IoT framework on which the Ignite AIoT framework is based.
EXPERTISE:

  • AIoT Business Models