Speakers in Alphabetical Order

Esko Aho, Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations and Responsibility, Member of Nokia Leadership Team, Nokia Oyj, Finland:“Creating Value Through Sustainability" (video)

Enrico Annacondia, Technical Officer, UCIMU, Italy: “Machine Tools Sector's Proactive Approach to Energy Efficiency” (video)

Kari Anttila, Sales Director, Formia Emissions Control Oy, Finland: "Emissions Management Cluster" (video)

Prof. Tamio Arai, The University of Tokyo, Japan: “Service Manufacturing Process of A Manufactured Product” (video)

Ian Aubrey, Director, CyberPharm Ltd., United Kingdom: “Eco 3D –Integration of Carbon Footprinting in 3D Factory Simulation” (video)

Dr. Robert J. Axtman, Director, Business Development, Visual Components Ltd., USA: “Achievements and Best Practices in Digital Manufacturing” (video)

Alexey Baranov, President, Orgprom Group of Companies, Russia:  “Development of Lean Production in Russia” (video)

Dr. Eberhard Bessey, Senior Adviser at Daimler AG, Germany: “Beyond Lean -The Response of the Automotive Industry to the Future Challenges” (video)

Robert Blumberg, Vice President, Production, Valmet Automotive Inc., Finland: "Automotive Evolution: from Combustion to Electricity" (video)

Prof. F. Frank Chen, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA: "From Lean to Green and Sustainable Manufacturing" (video)

Teijo Fabritius, Vice Chairman of Board, Head Tech Oy, Finland: “Trends in Lean Factory Automation”

Prof. Pierre-Marie Gallois, President,  PROCONSEIL Consulting Group, France: "Lean, the Art of Permanent and Long Lasting Conquest" (video)

Filip Geerts, Director General, CECIMO, Belgium: “World Competitive Manufacturing Requires both Technology and Manufacturing Capacity” (video)

Andrea Gentili, EC - DG Research and Innovation, Belgium: “Towards a Common Strategic Framework for Research and Innovation for Supporting Manufacturing in Europe” (video)

Mikael Haag, Team leader, VTT, Finland: "Finnish View for the Digital Manufacturing"

Dr. Christoph Hanisch, Director, Future Technology, Festo AG & Co.KG, Germany: “Strategy Linked to Sustainability” (video)

Henri Harmia, Vice President, Business Development & Strategy, TeliaSonera Finland Oyj, Finland: “Innovation Capability as a Competitive Edge - Case Finn-Power ja Fastems”

Kari Häyrinen, President & CEO, Finpro ry, Finland: “Competitiveness and Sustainability through Foresight” (video)

Thomas Hedenborg, Chairman of the ManufacturingFinland Cluster, Finland: "The Cluster ManufacturingFinland - Towards Value Networks" (video)

Pekka Heikonen, CEO, Pemamek Oy, Finland: ”High-Tech Production of XXL-size Green Products” (video)

Jarmo Hyvönen, CEO, Fastems Oy Ab, Finland: “Integrator or a Good Supplier? -In Changing World Roles and Business Models Need Changes as Well” (video)

Dr. Mika Hyötyläinen, Customer Insight, TeliaSonera Finland Oyj, Finland: “Innovation Capability as the Competitive Edge of Value Nets"

Dr. Dongik Joo, Senior Vice President,  Head of Manufacturing Engeering Center, Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Korea: “Trends in Micro and Electro-Mechanic Device Manufacturing Business”

Dr. Mikko Koho, Tampere University of Technology, Finland: “Finnish Manufacturing Companies' Views on Sustainable Development and Sustainable Manufacturing”

Matti Koivu, Program Director, PrintoCent, Finland: “Printing and Hybrid Manufacturing –Development or Disruption”

Joni Lehtonen, Concept Owner, Business Process Improvement, Tieto Finland, Finland: "Transparency and Control of Business Elements in Distributed Manufacturing Networks" (video)

Pekka Lundmark, CEO, Konecranes Oyj and Chairman of The Federation of Finnish Technology Industries, Finland: “Prerequisites for Investments, Growth and Jobs in Manufacturing Industry” (video)

Timo Luotonen, Factory Manager, Kone Industrial Oy, Finland: "Lean Solutions at Kone Oyj Hyvinkää Elevator Factory" (video)

Ari Lylynoja, Product Manager, Fastems Oy Ab, Finland: "Easy Factory Automation"

Dr. Mahesh Mani, Guest Researcher, SID, EL, NIST, USA: “Next Steps towards Sustainable Manufacturing”

Dr. Massimo Mattucci, COO, Comau SpA and Chairman of EFFRA, Italy: “Enablers and Support Actions for the Future Success of European Manufacturing Industry” (video)

Jarkko Miettinen, Vice President, New Business Development, Confidex Oy, Finland: ”Latest Success Stories in Leveraging RFID in Manufacturing Business”

Juha Mäkitalo, Managing Director, Prima Power / Finn-Power Oy, Finland: "Green Means - Sustainability Enablers in Sheet Metal Fabrication"

Dan Nagy,  Managing Director, IMS Inter-Regional Secretariat, Switzerland: "Services for Global Manufacturing RDI. The Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Initiative"

Risto Niemi, Manager, Fastems Oy Ab, Finland: ”Advanced XXL-size Manufacturing”

Dr. Edoardo Rabino, Process Research Director, Centro Ricerche Fiat S.C.p.A., Italy: “New, Safe & Green: The Manufacturing Role”

Juhani Rantalainen, Director, Fastems Oy Ab, Finland: “CSM Hotel -From Dream to Reality” (video)

Kai Salminen, Project Manager, Tampere University of Technology, Finland: "Integrated Product/Process System for Next Generation Manufacturing"

Petri Salminen, Production Director/Business Development, ISS Finland Oy, Finland: “Integrated Facility Services”

Dr. Vesa Salminen, HAMK, Finland: ”Sustainable Business Transformation Powered by Hybrid Innovation”

Mikko Savolainen, Product Manager, Robot Applications, Pemamek Oy, Finland: ”Easy Welding Automation” (video)

Martin Schüler, CEO, HBPO GmbH, Germany: "Innovative Business Model to Master the Challenge Ahead" (video)

Peter Seidenschwang, Head of Offering Management and Go-to-market, Industrial R&D, Tieto Deutschland, Germany: "Smart Product Engineering" (video)

Susannah Stewart, Principal Business Innovation Consultant, Tieto Sweden, Sweden: ”Sustainability – from Green Hype to Business Value” (video)

Prof. Dr. Volker Stich, Managing Director, FIR e.V., RWTH Aachen, Germany: “High Resolution Supply Chain Management”

Dr. Adolfo Suarez, EADS Expert, European Aeronautics Defense and Space Company (EADS France), Innovation Works, France: “What if Workers could Touch Robots?”

Prof. Marco Taisch, Politecnico di Milano, Italy: “Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing” (video)

Dr. Markus Thannhuber, CTO, Einhell Germany AG, Germany: “Quality Engineering along International Supply Chains – Learnings from 30 Years Manufacturing in Asia”

Prof. Reijo Tuokko, Head of Department, Tampere University of Technology, Finland: General Chair

Teuvo Uusitalo, Senior Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland: “Sustainable Value Creation in Manufacturing Networks”

Martin Wright, CEO, The North West Aerospace Alliance, United Kingdom: ”Advanced Manufacturing in Aircraft Industry” (video)

Esko Aho

Esko Aho
Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations and Responsibility
Nokia Corporation

Esko Aho is executive vice president, Corporate Relations and Responsibility. He heads Nokia's government and public affairs function, and oversees the company’s global policies and activities regarding sustainable development and social responsibility. He has been a member of the Group Executive Board since 2009, and was appointed to his current position in 2008. He reports to the CEO.
   Before joining Nokia in 2008, Esko enjoyed a long and distinguished career in government service. He was Prime Minister of Finland from 1991 to 1995. After the presidential campaign in 2000, he joined Harvard University as a lecturer, and following his retirement from the Finnish Parliament, he worked as a consultant.
  He was elected to Parliament in 1983 and served on several key committees. He also served on the Nordic Council and the Finnish Delegation to the Council of Europe, is a former vice chairman of Liberal International, and a former chairman of the Finnish Ski Association. In addition, Esko is a former vice chairman of the Finnish Olympic Committee, and a former president of the Finnish Innovation Fund, SITRA. Currently, he is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) World Council and vice chair of ICC Finland, as well as a board member of the Technology Academy Finland. He also serves as a board member of Fortum Corporation and is vice chairman of the board of Technology Industries of Finland. Esko is an invited member of the Club de Madrid, an independent organization of former heads of state and government dedicated to strengthening democracy, and the InterAction Council, an organization of former heads of state and government that seeks solutions to the economical, political and social problems confronting society. He holds a master’s in social science from the University of Helsinki.

Enrico Annacondia

Enrico Annacondia got master degree in Engineering of Industrial Technologies at Politecnico of Milano in 1994. After a short experience in Gerardi Spa (SME manufacturing machine tools and fixtures), he worked as consultant in CNR-ITIA for 4 years, operating in the field of Robotics RTD (and in particular on PKM and simulation) and being involved in a number of European and National research projects.

For two years, he operated in Stola Spa (automotive company supplying Fiat Group, Ferrari, Maserati and others) as supervisor of prototyping and pre-production phases developed at customers’ plants.

In 2000 he joined UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE as officer of the Technical Department, where he deals with RTDI, innovation and has relationship with RTDI organisations and research projects.

Kari Anttila

Sales Director of Formia Emissions Control Oy. He has over 20 years experience in various project and sales positions. He has earlier worked as a Business Unit Director in Formia Vesme Oy and as a Sales Director and Project Engineer in Vesme Systems Oy since 1998, being responsible for the business operations, sales and key client relationships as well as project management of automatic materials handling solutions. Based on this experience, he has a broad knowledge in the sales and service of industrial equipment.

Formerly he has worked in various project management  and teaching positions the field of adult education. He has also served as UN Military Observer and Sector Engineer in two occasions in the Balkans during 1992-1996. Prior to that he has worked in construction business as General Manager and Project Manager.

Prof. Tamio Arai

Professor Tamio ARAI graduated The Univ. of Tokyo in 1970 and obtained Dr. of Engineering from the same university. He has been a professor in Dept. of Precision Engineering since 1987 and was the director of Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering, in The Univ. of Tokyo from 2000 to 2005. 
His specialties are assembly, robotics and multi-agent systems: graspless assembly, multiple mobile robots including legged robot league of RoboCup and Holonic Manufacturing System. He is a member of CIRP, IEEE/RAS, RSJ, JSPE, Honorary President of JAAA, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

Ian Aubrey

Born in 1983 Ian is a Company Director of CyberPharm Limited, based near Manchester in the United Kingdom. CyberPharm's interests lie in the fields of software creation and pharmaceutical management. Ian is a decisive and driven leader, who achieved his degree in Cybernetics and Virtual Worlds during 2005. And since, has been increasingly frustrated with the flawed accountancy based approach to managing energy usage and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

CyberPharm has built upon 3D factory simulation software already adopted by various industries using proven methods to reduce the emerging liabilities of high carbon emissions. Under Ian's leadership CyberPharm is highlighting a path to lower emissions, reduced waste, financial savings improved communications and a smoother adoption of these best practices. In essence, improving profits by offering a cutting edge solution to an increasingly prevalent problem.

Dr. Robert J. Axtman

Dr. Robert J. Axtman’s 40+ years of Engineering Design, Marketing, Sales and Communications experience includes 26 years in automation manufacturing management and consulting, covering a range of industries including automotive, aerospace/defense, high-tech electronics and industrial equipment. Additionally, he has served as President, Resident Director and Pacific Rim Business Development Director for a major PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and software provider while assigned and living in Japan.

Currently Dr. Axtman is a team member for Visual Components serving as Executive Director of Business Development North America. His charter is to introduce Visual Components’ Digital Manufacturing solutions into the North America markets and Industries.  This challenging initiative will cause the North American enterprises to re-look at the benefits and opportunities of sustainability that have been adopted and deployed in Europe, Australasia and Asia by the use of affordable and superior Digital Manufacturing Solutions. 

Dr. Axtman has authored and published multiple articles relative to Digital Factory Solutions and LEAN Manufacturing. He has also served as a subject matter expert to several Industry Analyst groups and participated as an adjunct professor for 3 years at a Technical Community University conducting Engineering Design and Management courses.

Dr. Axtman holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Masters degree in Engineering Management and a Doctorate in Engineering Systems and Communication.

Alexey Baranov

Alexey Baranov is President, Orgprom Group of Companies. He is also a certified Lean expert (LeanPlus, USA) and author of "Production Growth" training course as well as numerous articles and publications on Lean.

He has been successfully implementing Lean training programs for executives and leading specialists of such companies as AVTOVAZ, Rusal, RusGidro, Irkut Corporation, KAMAZ, VSMPO-AVISMA, Versivo Association, Tatneft, Kamensk-Uralskiy Metal Works Plant, etc. since 2002.  

Alexey has acted as science editor to publish TPS literature in Russian.

Mr. Baranov is supervising the creation of Lean Bulletin, Russian e-magazine on Lean. He is Chairman of Program and Organizational Committee of the Russian Lean Forum, the founder of the Russian Lean School, Chairman of Board of Inter-Regional Public Movement "Lean Forum. Lean Manufacturing Professionals"

Dr. Eberhard Bessey

Eberhard Bessey graduated from the Technical University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1975 and finished his thesis in Process Engineering and Materials Science in 1977. He began his career as assistant to the CTO of DLW AG (automotive supplier) 1978 with technical and economical process analyses in production. In 1882 he joined the Daimler-Benz AG, now Daimler AG, as Development Engineer for engine thermodynamics and combustion in the Commercial Vehicles Division. In 1992 he became Senior Manager within the Group’s Technology Strategy and Business Development division. Since 1996 he has been responsible for Technology Management of Materials and Manufacturing within Group Research and Advanced Engineering. Since 2004 he is Support Group member of the European Technology Platform Manufuture, and Secretary of Manufuture ETP since 2006.

Robert Blumberg

Vice President, Production at Valmet Automotive

Robert Blumberg holds a Master of Science (Engineering) degree from Åbo Akademi University, Finland and in 2010 he received his MBA degree graduating as class valedictorian from Rutgers Business School, Shanghai, China.

Joining Metso Paper in 2000, he has held various managerial positions mainly in the field of project management, working with projects in Europe, Asia and South America. In 2006-2010 Mr. Blumberg lived in China, where he set up the local capital project management operations of Metso Paper. In 2010 he joined Valmet Automotive to lead all series vehicle production at the Uusikaupunki plant.

Valmet Automotive is a service provider for the automotive industry, employing currently 1,600 people in Finland, Germany and Poland. The company focuses on lean and flexible solutions for engineering, manufacturing and business development, and delivers premium class cars, convertibles and roof systems. Valmet Automotive is a global forerunner in electric vehicle engineering and manufacturing.

Dr. F. Frank Chen

Dr. F. Frank Chen is presently the Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair Professor of Advanced Manufacturing and Director of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean Systems at the University of Texas-San Antonio. Before returning to academia in 1991, he was with Caterpillar Technical Center Manufacturing R&D Divisions as a Senior Engineer and a Project Manager leading a corporate research and technical services group with specialization in design and control of manufacturing cells.  Before joining UTSA in 2006, he had been with Virginia Tech as the John L. Lawrence Endowed Professor of Manufacturing Systems Engineering at its Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He was one of the 20 faculty members received the 1996 NSF Presidential Faculty Fellows (PFF) Award at the White House. His current research interests include lean and sustainable manufacturing and operations, design and analysis of flexible manufacturing systems, intelligent manufacturing, microelectronics manufacturing, and enterprise and supply chain design and modeling.

Teijo Fabritius

Head Tech Oy,  Vice Chairman 1.9 2010-

President of Master Automation Group Oy 2005-2010

Master Automation Group Oy  Chairman of the board 2002-2005

President of JOT Automation Group Plc. 2000-2001

JOT Automation Group Plc. Vice President  1999-2000

JOT  Automation Group Sales and Marketing Director 1997-1999

In the international robotics business since 1985

Prof. Pierre-Marie Gallois

Pierre-Marie Gallois is an Affiliate Professor at ESCP Europe. He is also President of PROCONSEIL Consulting Group.
He is an expert in industrial management, Lean manufacturing, Supply Chain Management and in Performance and continuous improvement management.
While supporting industrial companies in the development of their competitiveness and in their progress plans, professor Gallois teaches in universities and takes part in research projects.
At ESCP Europe, professor Gallois is involved in the MBA and executive programs teaching Operations Management, Industrial excellence and Global Supply Chain.
During his career, professor Gallois has been involved in several international research programs in the field of Advanced Manufacturing. He was a member of the International Technical Committee in the IMS research programme (Intelligent Manufacturing Systems).
He has published many articles, working documents and two books on the management of industrial performance.

Filip Geerts

 
Filip Geerts, Director General of CECIMO, the European Association of the Machine Tool

Industries.

Filip Geerts is a professional in international, EU and national public and regulatory affairs.

He is specialised in the management of corporate and governmental affairs departments of companies, national and EU trade associations and non-profit organizations. He was deputydirector for the largest Belgian association for the technological industry, public and regulatory affairs manager for IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa and secretary general for numerous European trade associations in e.g. the ICT, the electro-medical, lighting and environmental sector. He has degrees from Insead Fontainebleau and Singapore, London School of Economics, Vlerick, College of Europe, The Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve and the Catholic University of Leuven in commercial engineering.

Dr. Andrea Gentili

Andrea Gentili is a mechanical engineer graduated at the University of Pisa in Italy. After some experience in industry as production manager in a company in the consumer-goods sector, in 1995 he joined the Ecole de Mines d'Albi in France as researcher in the field of numerical models and optimisation. In 1996 he came back to industry and joined, as technical director, an American company in the field of engineering. In 1998 he became associated of a French SME providing software development and engineering services for the automotive and aerospace sectors.

In 2001 he joined the European Commission’s Research Directorate-General taking the responsibility in the NMP programme for the machining industrial sector, followed by the intelligent mechatronics and micro-manufacturing. Since 2004 he took responsibility for the setting-up and running of the European Manufuture Platform and the horizontal activities with the European Technology Platforms related to manufacturing.

In January 2009, he has been appointed responsible for the Commission for the "Factories of the future" Public-Private Partnership included in the European Economic Recovery Plan adopted by the European Commission in November 2008.

Andrea Gentili is also Programme Officer for several successful EU projects such as EUPASS, NEXT, AFFIX, I*PROMS, EU-MECHA-PRO and ECOFIT.

Mikael Haag

Mikael Haag works as a senior research scientist, project manager and team leader in VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He received his master’s degree in production engineering from Tampere Technical University in 1994. After 13 years software product development in machine tool industry he joined VTT in 2007. His area of interest is all production and manufacturing related research and development having the focus on the exploitation of modern ICT.  In 2010 he took the position of team leader of Production Processes team at VTT.

Dr. Christoph Hanisch

Christoph Hanisch, earned his degrees from the University of Düsseldorf in Mathematics and in Applied Physics. For his phd he did research in the field of micro magnetism which laid the foundation of his future work in research and in industry in the field of magnetic sensors, micro systems, simulation of magnetic systems,  non destructive magnetic testing methods and hydrogen technology. Today he works for Festo AG & Co. KG in Esslingen in Germany in research and in strategic research networks. Being responsible for Future Technologies his interests focus on the effective design of research for successful future factories and on the question how to strengthen manufacturing in Europe.

Henri Harmia

Head of Solution Concepts

Teliasonera Business Services

Mr. Henri Harmia is responsible for the development of customer need specific solution concepts. Mr Harmia joined Teliasonera in 1996 and has held a wide range of roles including heading new business and venture development as well as strategy and business development. He has also been active in major M&A activities. Earlier in his career Mr Harmia worked for 10 years in management consulting. Mr Harmia holds an M.Sc (Econ) from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration and an MBA from the Helsinki University of Technology.

Tomas Hedenborg

Tomas Hedenborg graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1985 as M.Sc. majoring in Automotive Engineering and Combustion Engines. The first part of his professional career was spent in the automotive industry with system suppliers in Germany such as Valeo and Faurecia in R&D executive positions. Moving to general management, Tomas became CEO of automotive module company HBPO GmbH in 2001. Since 6 years Tomas is CEO of the Finn-Power Group, a Finnish sheet metal machinery manufacturer with a global presence. After Prima Industrie (listed in the Milan Stock Exchange) acquiring FP in 2008, Tomas also became Managing Director (Sales, Marketing and Service Business) of the merged Group.

Pekka Heikonen

Pekka Heikonen is President and CEO at Pemamek Oy, the manufacture of innovative production automation for the global metal industry. Pekka Heikonen has started his career at Pemamek Oy in 1978 and in 1982 he became the CEO. Since 1988 he has been the owner of the company and developed Pemamek Oy the world’s leading specialist in designing and manufacturing welding mechanization and automation systems.

For many years Pekka Heikonen has also had a very active role in different organisations such as The Federation of Finnish Technology Industries and Confederation of Finnish Industries.

Jarmo Hyvönen

CEO

Fastems Group

Jarmo Hyvönen has been working in Manufacturing Enabling Industries (mainly with Machine Tools, Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Robotics) in Finland for nearly 30 years in different positions. Fastems is one of the world leading companies in the field of Factory Automation having direct presence in Europe., Asia and the US.

Trusteeships:

Vice President of CECIMO (European Machine Tool Manufacturers Association)  

Deputy member of the Board of directors of the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries and President of the Machine Tool Manufacturers Branch Group

Vice president and member of Board of directors of the Association of Finnish Technical Traders.

Dr. Mika Hyötyläinen

Customer Insight, TeliaSonera Finland Oyj

Mika Hyötyläinen works at TeliaSonera Finland's business customer unit, as a researcher for market information collection and analysis. He holds a Master of Science in Helsinki University of Technology and a doctor degree from Aalto University School of Economics. The Ph.D. work deals with complexity of the ICT service management ('Towards Service Factory Managing the Complexity of ICT Services'). He has focused her research work in international marketing and business strategies as well as in telecommunication software.

Kari Häyrinen

Mr. Kari Häyrinen (51), was appointed in March 2010 as the President and CEO of Finpro. During his two and a half year career at Finpro Mr Häyrinen has worked in the management team as the Head of Region Asia and as the Executive Vice President responsible for Finpro’s strategy and foresight activities. He holds a masters degree from Helsinki University of Technology majoring in Electronics with minors in International Economics as well as in Marketing. He also has an international MBA degree received from Helsinki School of Economics and University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Mr Häyrinen’ professional career started with a listed Finnish company’s power electronics division mainly in product marketing activities having been posted both in Finland and in the USA. In the early 90’s he joined a government funded venture capital company investing in high technology companies in Finland. The last twelve years before joining Finpro Mr Häyrinen worked for two listed Finnish telecommunications cluster companies as executive team member. He hold first a position of Business Development Director in charge of both organic and inorganic growth of an EMS company. Last nine years of this period he was heading the Asian business and its development first for the EMS company and later for a mechanics component supplier - living both in Hong Kong and in Beijing. The managed organization peak with over 7500 employees with several factories and offices around the region.

Mr Häyrinen holds several positions of trust both in public and private sectors including board memberships for example in Invest In Finland Foundation, Finland-China Trade Association, Finnish-British Trade Association,  The Finnish-Japanese Chamber of Commerce  and in a listed manufacturing company.

Dr. Dongik Joo

Senior Vice President,  Head of Manufacturing Engeering Center, Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co..

BS, 1978, Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea.

MS, 1980, Mechanical (Production) Engineering, KAIST, Korea.

Ph.D. 1987, Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, Auburn University.

Senior Project Engineer, Shin-Etsu Handotai, Vancouver, WA.

Senior VP and Head of Manufacturing Center, Samsung Electro-Mechanics. (Current)

VP, KoPEA (Korea Printed Electronics Association)

Industrial Advisory Board Member, Mechanical Engineering, KAIST

Dr. Mikko Koho

Affiliation: Research Fellow and Project manager at Tampere University of Technology, Department of Production Engineering

Mikko Koho received his M.Sc. (Tech) degree in Industrial engineering and management in 2003 and Doctoral degree (Doctor of Science (Technology)) in 2010, both from Tampere University of Technology. Koho’s doctoral studies focused on production engineering, production systems and processes and his doctoral dissertation presents a tool for assessing and improving make-to-order and assemble-to-order production systems.
Dr. Mikko Koho works as Research Fellow and Project Manager at Department of Production Engineering, Tampere University of Technology. His research and teaching activities focus on designing, operating and improving production systems and processes, and on Competitive Sustainable Manufacturing (CSM). The CSM-related research projects aim to increase knowledge and understanding of competitive sustainable manufacturing, and to assist companies in realizing competitive and environment-friendly products and production networks.

Matti Koivu

Matti Koivu is Programme Director for PrintoCent, printed electronics and optical measurements innovation centre. He is providing business development, product concept development and innovation services through his own company Oledon Oy, also.  He is former CEO of Coronaria Impact Ltd, a patient process management software company. Matti has a ten year long career with Nokia corporation gaining experience in product development and management, marketing and sales, business management and  in corporate venturing. He has worked with Printed Intelligence since 2002.

Matti Koivu holds a M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and telecommunications from the University of Oulu.

Joni Lehtonen

MBA, Director for Business Process Service at Tieto

Joni Lehtonen is the head of Business Process Performance Services Unit at Tieto. Lehtonen is focused to Business Process Management and predictive process execution in distributed business environments. Lehtonen has been working for business process improvement in Supply Chain and Manufacturing area since 1998. His tasks have varied from business consultancy to project and program management in large international projects. Presently he is focused on manufacturing and forest industries focusing strongly for deploying predictive working methods to improve operational excellence and performance. The leading theme is to use existing information to prevent unwanted business activities happen, and thus reducing the waste and inefficiency in organizations and simultaneously improving the external responsiveness like customer satisfaction.

Pekka Lundmark

President and CEO, Konecranes Plc

Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, serving a broad range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards, ports and terminals. Konecranes provides productivity-enhancing lifting solutions as well as services for lifting equipment and machine tools of all makes. In 2010, Group sales totaled EUR 1,546 million. The Group has 10,000 employees in 578 locations in 46 countries. Konecranes is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd (symbol: KCR1V).

Mr. Pekka Lundmark has been employed by Konecranes since 2004. He was Group Executive Vice President of KCI Konecranes 2004-2005, CEO of Hackman Abp 2002-2004, Managing Partner of Startupfactory 2000-2002 and had various executive positions at Nokia Corporation 1990-2000.
Lundmark serves as a Chairman of the Board of the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries, a Chairman of the Board of Marimekko Ltd and  as a Vice Chairman of the Board of the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK.

Timo Luotonen

Timo Luotonen has M.Sc. in Engineering; graduated on 1999 from Tampere University of Technology, and is currently working as Factory Manager at KONE Industrial Oy elevator cabin factory in Hyvinkää (since 2008). Previously he has worked as Production Manager in crusher equipment production at Metso Minerals Oy Tampere factory (currently Metso Mining and Construction Oy).

Ari Lylynoja

Ari Lylynoja. Born in 1969. M.Sc (eng) at Tampere University of Technology 1997. He works currently as a Product Manager for Robotics at Fastems Oy Ab. He has over 15 years of experience in factory automation, especially in the field of industrial robotics and digital manufacturing. 1994-1995 he worked at the Institute of Hydraulics and Automation at Tampere University of Technology focusing on telerobotics.

In 1995 he joined Tehdasmallit Scandinavia Oy Ab (later Delfoi Oy Ab), where he worked as a Project Manager in various off-line programming and simulation projects for manufacturing industry. During 1998-1999 he worked at the Gothenburg office in Sweden. After returning back to Finland he set up a branch office in Tampere. 2000-2007 he was responsible for DELMIA robotics applications and R&D for special processes. In addition, he led the development of simulation, off-line programming and planning systems in a 4 year long EU project NOMAD, Autonomous Manufacture of Large Steel Fabrications. He has been a board member of the Robotic Society in Finland during 2001-2003 and from 2010 up to date.

Since 2007 he has been working at Fastems Oy Ab with the main focus on robotics product management, technical support and R&D activities.

Dr. Mahesh Mani

Dr. Mahesh Mani is a NIST Associate/ Guest Researcher with the System Integration Division (SID), Engineering Laboratory (EL), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Prior to joining NIST, Dr. Mani worked as a Research Engineer at the Centre for Intelligent Products and Manufacturing Systems (CIPMAS), National University of Singapore. His research interests include sustainable manufacturing, modeling and simulation for sustainability, rapid response manufacturing, distributed and collaborative manufacturing including reconfigurable systems, manufacturing information networks and interoperable solutions.  He has published widely on sustainability and product development, rapid prototyping and benchmarking, distributed and collaborative manufacturing. He is a member of ASME. Dr. Mani obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

Dr. Massimo Mattucci 

Dr. Massimo Mattucci is Chairman of EFFRA -the European Factories of the Future Research Association.

Dr. Mattucci is involved in the new business development of the Italian COMAU Group, a technology  and innovation leader in advanced manufacturing systems, which has more than 11,000 employees in 15 different countries worldwide

Dr. Mattucci has been with the company since 1969 and has held various leadership positions in the fields of advanced engineering, research and development, design and quality control. In the 1980s, he was COMAU’s vice president for engineering in the USA and, following the group’s worldwide growth and expansion, has been responsible for overall business development within the company, with a focus on diversified industries.

Massimo Mattucci obtained a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin.

Jarkko Miettinen

Vice President
Confidex Ltd

Mr. Jarkko Miettinen is one of the co-founders of Confidex, a globally leading
supplier of RFID products for industrial applications and public transportation.
Since establishment in 2005, Confidex has supplied over 100 million products and
has been ranked as one of fastest growing high-tech companies in Europe (6th in
Deloitte Fast500 list in 2010).
Jarkko has a decade of experience in RFID and currently focuses on emerging
applications and technologies.
He is actively participating in the international RFID industry groups and forums
as representative of the company.

Juha Mäkitalo

Juha Mäkitalo

Managing Director

Finn-Power Oy

Juha Mäkitalo is the Managing Director of Finn-Power Oy. He has been working for Finn-Power since 1996 mainly in various positions at R&D, from which five years as Vice President of R&D. Mr. Mäkitalo is chairman of Finn-Power Executive Committee and is a member of Board of Directors of Finn-Power Oy, Mother Company of Finn-Power Group. Mr. Mäkitalo has been a member of board for several national research programmes and is currently holding a position in FIMECC Oy Research Council. He has done his studies at Tampere University of Technology in the field of Automation Engineering.

Finn-Power Group is a multinational group of companies specializing in sheet metal working technologies. Since 4th February 2008, Finn-Power is owned by Italy-based stock listed company Prima Industrie S.p.A. Prima Industrie Group turnover 2010 was 250 MEur and is employing about 1400 persons.

Dan Nagy

Mr. Dan Nagy is Managing Director of the Inter-Regional Secretariat of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Scheme, an international industry-led and government-supported collaborative manufacturing R&D program of the European Union, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, and United States. He is responsible for oversight of activities related to the IMS international strategy, program development, and organizes international meetings and workshops in the following thematic areas: sustainable manufacturing, key technologies, standards and interoperability; energy efficiency, and education. Mr. Nagy joined IMS in July of 2002 and has served in Washington D.C., Seoul, Korea, and currently resides in Bern, Switzerland.

Mr. Nagy contributes and edits books, proceedings, and publications including the IMS Annual Report. He prepares briefs and documents on various issues for the International Steering Committee of IMS and its working groups. 
Mr. Nagy was former Director of Corporate Accounts for Apogent Technologies where he guided sales and marketing of scientific products. Mr. Nagy also directed database management and development for an Apogent subsidiary.

Mr. Nagy holds a Bachelor of Arts from Lycoming College, a Masters of Business Administration degree from Baker University, and is a certified medical laboratory technologist.

Risto Niemi

Risto Niemi, born 1974 in Rovaniemi, Finland works as the Manager of Technical Sales in Fastems OY AB. He is responsible of technical cooperation with machine tool manufacturers with special focus in global development and trends of machine tools and their integration in advanced automation solutions. Earlier Niemi has worked as R&D manager and product manager of machine tool division at Fastems. During 2004 he was working as service manager at Konecranes International.

Niemi has graduated from Helsinki Institute of Technology 1999. Part of the studies was completed in Ingenieurschule Bern in Switzerland.

Dr. Edoardo Rabino

Graduated in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico Torino, in 1984 he joined Centro Ricerche FIAT starting his professional career as project leader on development and applications of high power laser systems and cost-value management methodologies. In 1999 was appointed Responsible of Advanced Technologies Department and since 2005 was Responsible of Vehicle Research Division.

From 2006 up to the date he has been responsible of Process Research Area, with the mission to provide knowledge and activities to Fiat Sectors for synergetic development and early validation of new manufacturing technologies, mechatronics components and methods for product-process competitiveness and leadership on factory sustainability, step ahead toward plant implementation and product integration. His responsibility includes technology scouting, road mapping and feasibility studies on selected research areas to satisfy the emerging customers needs and, at the same time, to move ahead fulfilling the emerging legislation on workplace ergonomic and factory environment aspects.

He is working to develop and promote private-public initiatives on manufacturing innovation, building and leveraging the network with OEMs, Suppliers, Universities, Research Centres and other Institutions, as well as to build and share convergent vision and road map on manufacturing sustainability within national and international context. President of UNI Technical Commission Nano Technology, Member of the High Level Group of Manufuture and Member of Industrial Advisory Group of the PPP Factory of the Future.

Juhani Rantalainen

Juhani Rantalainen. Born 1951. M.Sc.(eng.) at Tampere University of Technology 1977. Currently member of the management board, responsible for Marketing and Business Development at Fastems OYAB which is the leading supplier of factory automation technology for metal industry. Mr. Rantalainen has long experience factory automation specially in automating metal cutting machining processies. 1977-1987 he worked in various management, projecting and sales support posts at Valmet Linnavuori Works supplying special machine tools for metal industry. 1986 he set up the specialized division at Valmet to develop and manufacture Flexible Manufacturing Systems. 1987-1995 he worked in several major excecutive posts at Robcon OY, Työstökonekeskus OY and Mercantile OYAB. Since 1995 Mr. Rantalainen has been at Fastems in charge of  FMS division and later the whole manufacturing operation. From 2005 up to the date he has been responsible for the company marketing and business development. As a member of several national development program boards Mr. Rantalainen has participated in discussion of developing relationship between industry and education. Member of the high level board of Manufuture.

Kai Salminen

Kai Salminen works as a Project Manager in Department of Production Engineering at Tampere University of Technology. Areas of interest and expertise are Factory Planning, Manufacturing Methods, Production Systems Design, and Industrial Information systems, Sustainable Manufacturing, Technology Foresight and Innovation Systems. He has B.Sc in Mechanics and Design, M.Sc in Production Technology and Industrial Economics, Doctoral studies in Production Engineering and Industrial Economics. Current work is on Distributed Information Integrated Manufacturing Systems (DiMS) , Competitive Sustainable Manufacturing Hotels and eco-factories.  He has worked 20 years in industry and 10 years in research acting as project manager of several national and EU-research projects and technology programmes within the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries Department of Innovation activities.

Petri Salminen

Petri Salminen works currently at ISS Palvelut Oy as production director in ISS Finland business development department.  Petri is responsible of service product concept development resource management and service desk activities. Petri has over twenty year experience working in labour intensive production environment, mainly in airline catering business in Finland, Germany, UK and Sweden and over ten years in hotel & restaurant business in Finland and Russia.

Dr. Vesa Salminen

Doctor Vesa Salminen is involved with several activities on research, education and industrial implementation. His expertise areas are innovation leadership, spiral innovation process, management of networked business, industrial service and life cycle business and management of business transition.

He is involved with several university educational and research activities, incl. HAMK University of Applied Sciences as Director of  Masters Program on Industrial Services and Research Director at YAMK Division, Tampere University of Technology at Department of Industrial Management and Engineering as research facilitator, Lappeenranta University of Technology at Department of Mechanical Engineering as expert moderator of Master of Science Program on Future Product and Production, and University of EasternFinlandas program leader of MBA on Networked Production. 

He also served the period 1999-2001 as senior research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, and has over 20 years industrial experience on various positions in several enterprises and in industrial organization Technology Industries of Finland. 
He is also the managing director and partner at a spinoff company Spiral Business Services Corp. that is providing consulting services for industrial service and network businesses.

Mikko Savolainen

Mikko Savolainen is working as Product Manager for Robot Applications at Pemamek Oy, the manufacture of innovative production automation for the global metal industry. Before joining Pemamek on 2006, he has been working for Nokia in Program Manager position. He has graduated from Lappeenranta University of Technology and his master thesis was related to the control system of a Flexible Manufacturing System of a fully automated welding factory.

Martin Schüler

After finishing his „Mechanical Engineering studies“ at RWTH Aachen, Martin Schüler started a job at Faurecia Autositze GmbH in Stadthagen. First he was responsible for quality management, then he changed the job within Faurecia and worked as Product Manager VW group and at least as Director Advanced Sales for customer VW.

In 2001 Martin Schüler joined Hella KGaA, Lippstadt, where he worked as Director Acquisitions for VW Group and OEMs in China. Afterwards he took over the job “Vice President Sales Daimler, Chrysler and Porsche worldwide” within Hella.

Since 2005 Martin Schüler works as “President & CEO” for HBPO group in Lippstadt.

Peter Seidenschwang

Head of Offering Management and Go-to-market

Industrial R&D

Tieto Deutschland

Peter Seidenschwang has received his degree in Mathematics and Economics at the University of Munich. Altogether he has been working for more than 15 years at Tieto in a wide range of roles like Business Development, Offering Management, Head of a global product line as well as Senior Consultant in international projects in Europe and Asia. He has broad experience in the Forest and Manufacturing industries. Currently Peter is responsible for Offering Management and Go-to-market coordination in the Business Unit Industrial R&D at Tieto. This unit at Tieto is focusing on smart products engineering services like embedded software.

Susannah Stewart

Sustainability Thought Leader
Principal Consultant, Business Innovation

Susannah Stewart, 42, is responsible for Sustainability at Tieto. As a business visionary, risk-embracing strategist, and change agent she has created significant transformational success across a wide range of industries and in various countries, resulting in substantial multidimensional return on investment.
Breadth of international focus, experience, and education, combined with a dedication to ethical integrity and sustainability have allowed Susannah to effectively combine business evolution and market dynamics to create vast opportunities and innovation by strategic differentiation, customer experience enhancement, brand/reputation development,stakeholder engagement, cross-border harmonization, multidimensional equity capital growth and values-driven profit.
Before joining Tieto, Susannah worked for 20 years in various executive and consulting positions predominantly focused in strategy, business/market development, process optimization and sustainability. She is also anentrepreneur and philanthropist committed to the blue half of the environment and ending global water pollution by co-founding the Going Blue Foundation.

Prof. Dr. Volker Stich

Managing Director of FIR e.V. at RWTH Aachen

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Stich studied Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University.

He was working with the Research Institute for Rationalization and Operations Management (Forschungsinstitut für Rationalisierung ‑ FIR) in Aachen from 1982 to 1986 as a Scientific Assistant.

During this time, Prof. Dr. Stich was in charge of several research and industrial projects dealing with logistics, IT, information systems and personnel economics.

In 1987 he graduated to Dr.-Ing. (Ph. D.) at RWTH Aachen

From 1987 to 1996 he worked at the St. Gobain company where he later became the Logistics Manager for the German plants of Sekurit, and in 1994 he was appointed „Directeur d`études“ for new international car projects in Germany, U.S.A., Mexico and Thailand.

Since 1997 he is the Managing Director of the FIR at RWTH Aachen University.

In 2010 he was called to become Professor at RWTH Aachen.

Dr. Adolfo Suarez Roos

Dr. Adolfo SUAREZ ROOS graduated at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia  in mechanical engineering with a M.Sc. in mechanics in 1992. He obtained his Ph.D. in robotics at the Université d’Evry, France In 1997. After being docent and working on mobile service robotics for domestic use he became research engineer for the automotive assembly industry in 1999. He joined the European Aeronautics Defense and Space Company (EADS) as researcher in 2006 and is currently working on new robot applications and intelligent assist systems. He was promoted EADS expert in 2010.

Prof. Marco Taisch

Marco Taisch is full professor at the Politecnico di Milano, where he teaches the courses of Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Industrial Technologies. He has been the director of the Executive MBA and the full time International MBA of the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano.

He chairs since 2007 the IFIP Working Group on Advances in Production Management Systems. He is in the editorial board of Production Planning & Control, the International Journal of Management in Education and the Int. Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing & Renewable Energy.

His current interests are in the area of design and management of Sustainable and Energy Efficient Manufacturing systems and Industrial Services. He has published four books and more than 115 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has long experience in technology foresight, being chairman of IMS2020 and partner in the ActionPlanT consortium for the development of a roadmap on ICT for Manufacturing for FP8.

Dr. Markus Thannhuber

Chief Technical Officer since January 1st, 2007

After studying physics at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich where he specialized in quantum optics, Dr. Markus Thannhuber worked as a research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institut IAO in Stuttgart and then at the Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management (IAT) at the University of Stuttgart. He later worked as a researcher in the Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Department (IEEM) at Hongkong University of Science and Technology. In 2001, Dr. Thannhuber took over as CEO of iSC GmbH in Germany (Landau/Isar). He received his doctorate in 2003 under Prof. Bullinger, the President of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, for his work on system and organization theory. “The Intelligent Enterprise” (ISBN 3-7908-1555-1) was published in 2004.

Prof. Reijo Tuokko

Teuvo Uusitalo

Teuvo Uusitalo, LicTech (Engineering) 1992, Tampere University of Technology. He joined VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in 2001 and works currently as a senior scientist. He has been involved in research related enterprise risk management, critical infrastructure protection, security management, resilience, and sustainability.  His current research topics are related to risk management in service business and business networks and sustainable value creation in manufacturing networks. Before joining VTT he worked as project manager at European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.

Martin Wright

Chief Executive Officer, North West Aerospace Alliance

Martin Wright is a Chartered Engineer with over 30 years experience with major defence and aerospace companies. His experience includes the management of integrated production facilities for the manufacture of defence and aerospace systems and components, the management of major projects and business sectors within the industry.

He has been responsible for a wide range of business ventures with UK and overseas companies and Government organisations and has expertise and experience in international collaboration and multi-national, multi-cultural project teams. He has played a major role in the development and implementation of business transformation programmes including the implementation of integrated business teams.

He worked as a Regional Business Advisor for the aerospace sector in the North West prior to being appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the North West Aerospace Alliance in 2004. He is currently a Director of North of England Excellence, Chair of the Aerospace and Advanced Engineering Sector Skills Committee for the North West Region of England and a member of the University of Manchester Aerospace Research Institute.