MAIN STAGE

The Main Stage gives you the best view to the latest trends of the IoT world. Create your own agenda and choose from our radiant speakers who help you to understand the latest IoT viewpoints.

IoT LAB

IoT LAB offer a variety of interesting and unique use cases and demos with the latest IoT ideas for you to discover.

CXO BRIEFINGS

CXO Briefings give you a close-up experience of IoT top ideas of today. Briefings offer you the opportunity to meet up with interesting peers from all around the IoT world.

WORKSHOPS

Generate new ideas and create new perspectives in our Deep Dive Workshops. Interesting and practical workshops give you valuable practice and hands-on experience.

PETER HOPWOOD

Presence, Impact & Keynote Speaker Coach, Founder of Hopwood Commun

Peter Hopwood is a Presence, Impact & Keynote Speaker Coach – Founder of Hopwood Communications.

Essentially, Peter helps people tell clearer stories. Stories with stronger impact. Bringing more value to their ideas, he helps executives, corporates, entrepreneurs and startups to strengthen credibility in front of a crowd or on camera, gain investment and persuade with impact – when it matters.

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From Dubai to Amsterdam, Shanghai to Berlin, Peter’s speaking engagements, workshops and coaching skills are in high demand across global digital, entreprenership and tech scenes. He works alongside various accelerators in Europe and the Middle East as mentor.

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Equally, as an internationally experienced live events MC / moderator, Peter has developed an extensive global portfolio of large scale conferences within industries such as digital, retail, media, marketing, fintech, sport and HR. He loves to be kept on his toes as he continues to wear many hats – leader, mentor, coach, investor, conference host and voiceover talent.

Peter has lived in 7 countries and currently lives between Croatia and the UK.

JOCHEN-THOMAS MORR

Global Industry 4.0 Lead, PwC, Germany

Morr is a leading practitioner in digital operations strategies as well as digital product development for PwC’s Management Consulting. He is principal at PwC Germany. Jochen-Thomas is part of PwCs Digital Operations Impact Center and leads the digital product development and smart manufacturing team. He has more than 14 years of industrial and consulting experience with multinational industrial equipment manufacturers, high tech industry companies and automotive suppliers. His focus is on supporting leading companies in digital supply-chain management, smart manufacturing, operations strategy development, digital product development, global R&D and manufacturing footprint design, and process cost optimization.

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CALVIN SMITH

Director, Edge & IoT Solutions, Dell Technologies, US

In his role as CTO of IoT & Edge, Calvin Smith looks after the technical strategy and direction for Dell Technologies’ IoT and Edge business unit, in tight coupling with the Corporate Office of the CTO. Prior to this role, Calvin led a team of PhD’s focused on building highly differentiable IoT, I4.0, and Engineering Services-driven solutions at Wipro. Before that, Calvin spent the better part of a decade running IoT Strategy and Organic Innovation at Dell EMC, facilitating the incubation of over 100 ideas (products, services, and solutions) from concept to commercialization.

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ALEX EISEN

Security Researcher at ForeScout Technologies Inc., US

Masters in Comp Sci (twice awarded NSA Information Assurance Fellowship). DoD ISP Incident Response and Red Team (DISA) (notable event: Pentagon hack of 2005). Tech edited 2 Hacking Exposed (McGraw) books - Malware and Rootkits (2009); Reverse Deception (2012). Ex-Mandiant, responded to Operation Aurora in Silicon Valley; solved crime cases for FBI with successful attribution of foreign financial fraud criminals. Taught digital forensics at FBI Cyber Crime Academy and UAT.edu Built and led Splunk’s Product & App Security Program and team.

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ALBERTO LEVY

"Innovation Evangelist", TEDx speaker, Global Advisor, SPAIN

Alberto Levy is considered an "Innovation Evangelist" by the Harvard Business Review Summit and the The GlobalShaper program of the World Economic Forum. International lecturer, technology and marketing consultant, executive strategist and creative soul with the ability to continuously break paradigms with new proposals for an effective and memorable dialogue cross-platform between organizations, governments, brands and consumers. With a successful career bringing innovation to various industries, he has worked in more than 15 countries, 1,500 projects and 300 clients including many Fortune 500 companies.

albertolevy.com

KEVIN BETHUNE

Founder and Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life, US

Kevin’s background spans engineering, business and design in equal proportion over his 20+ year career, positioning him to help brands deliver meaningful innovations to enrich people’s lives. Kevin started dd•l in the Spring of 2018. Kevin has given keynote talks at TED, AIGA, DMI (Design Management Institute), DRDS (Design Research Design Strategy, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany), ArtCenter College of Design, MIT, Parsons School of Art & Design, Yale School of Management, Woodbury University and Carnegie Mellon University. Kevin’s perspectives have also been featured in the DMI Review, Bloomberg, Design.Blog and DesignObserver. 

www.ted.com/talks/kevin_bethune_the_4_superpowers_of_design

PATRICE SLUPOWSKI

TEDx speaker, Senior Vice President, Digital Innovation, Orange, France

Patrice Slupowski is Vice-President Digital Innovation running the open-innovation corporate product marketing team of Orange, in charge of several projects around APIs, Internet of Things, mobile applications & mobile OS, personal data aggregation, privacy or emerging technologies (AI, VR, …). Patrice Slupowski is a marketing expert in IoT, social networks, connected TV, wellness & personal data and mobile multimedia services. He founded a start-up called Waptoo in 1999, one of the first companies to believe in the opportunities around mobile data, creating WAP and mobile services and proposing some automated mobile testing software, for companies and telcos, which has been acquired by Lagardere Group. Patrice has been involved in digital space from the very first minute, and is permanently connected from 1990. Patrice is a graduate in Information Science and Technology from Paris-Dauphine University.

MÄRTHA REHNBERG

Co-Founder & Partner, DareDisrupt, DENMARK

Märtha is a trained political economist and published scholar on the future of global value chains and new technologies. She has held talks internationally on what she calls ‘technological intuition’ and ‘responsible disruption’; notions she uses to inspire individuals to lean into new technologies with curiosity, critical thinking and courage to self-disrupt. As an original agenda-setter, Märtha Rehnberg been selected as a ‘Leader of Tomorrow’ by the St Gallen Symposium for three consecutive years, and profiled as a 'FemTech Leader’ by Innotribe, the Carlisle & Gallagher Consulting Group and the Digital Finance Institute. 

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CAROLINE SINDERS

Principal Designer and Founder at Convocation Design+Research, US

Caroline Sinders work boils down to solving the age-old design challenges of bettering the world through design.Caroline is the founder of Convocation Design + Research, a design and research agency focused on the intersection of these new technologies with the challenge of designing for good and improving communication. Her work has led to collaborations with groups like Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, Wikimedia Foundation, as well as features at MoMA PS1, the Houston Center for Contemporary Art, Slate, Quartz, and the Channels Biennale.  

carolinesinders.com

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Principal IoT Solution Architect, AWS, US

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ERGIN TUGANAY

Partner and Head of Industry 4.0, Nortal

Ergin Tuganay, Partner and Head of Industry 4.0 at Nortal has 15+ years of experience on a wide range of areas in industrial automation and data-driven technology. Combining business development and leadership background he has helped several global scale industrial clients in digitalizing their manufacturing operations. Ergin’s secret weapons are in-depth, hands-on competency in traditional OT (PLC, DCS, SCADA, OPC, MES/MOM) and his knowledge of latest IT architectures, such as Edge, Cloud and Big Data. Among others, Ergin has a certification of competencies in MES/MOM Methodologies (MESA CoC) and Microsoft Azure.

TUUKKA SARKKI

Passionate Future Business Executive, Vincit

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VILLE YLLÄSJÄRVI

Co-Founder, Haltian

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JONI LEHTONEN

Lead Architect for Digital Manufacturing Program,
Outokumpu

Joni Lehtonen, MBA and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, is a strategist and business leader who provides thought leadership in digital transformation, innovation management, organisational transformation, data management and technology road mapping. Currently he is Enterprise Architect for Digitalization and Lead Architect for Digital Manufacturing for Outokumpu. He is driving Outokumpu’s digital agenda globally and leading the common agenda for a group of architects.




 

HARRI VUOLLE

Head of Sales, Insta Digital

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AKI PAJUNOJA

Data Analytics Team Lead, AGCO Power.

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JUHA ASUNMAA

Business Unit Director,
Softability

Juha Asunmaa works as a Business Unit Director at Softability Oy. He is responsible for the XR business Unit focusing on the augmented, virtual and mixed reality applications. In addition to the XR applications the business unit delivers remote support solutions.












 

ARI PIHLAJAVESI

CEO and Founder, Predisys

Ari Pihlajavesi is founder and CEO of Predisys, Inc., a Quality Control and Analytics Software company with global reach and offices in Europe and in the USA. Under Mr. Pihlajavesi’s leadership, Predisys has grown from a local Finland based startup to a leading global software provider in a number of industries, such as Semiconductors, Electronics and Automotive. As he founded Predisys in 1996 as a young entrepreneur, his responsibilities varied from sales to product and business development. Today he is in charge of building a winning team, leading Predisys product strategy and engaging in strategic market development initiatives. Mr. Pihlajavesi was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1967 and moved to the United States with his family in 2010 to open Predisys business operations for the Americas. He holds a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology.

JYRI VILAMO

Founding Partner, VVDN Technologies Europe

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