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The Digital Transformation of Manufacturing Industries | New York, 2018

AgendaThe Digital Transformation of Manufacturing IndustriesMarch 6th, 2018 - 12:30pm - 6:00pm | The Consulate General of Germany, NYC

Registration & Light Lunch12:30 - 01:00pm

Welcome Remarks01:00 - 01:10pm

Jens Janik | Deputy Consul GeneralConsulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, New YorkDietmar Rieg | President & CEOGerman American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. New York

Keynote Speech: Second Wave of Digitalization

01:10- 01:35pmProf. Dr. Henning Kagermann | President acatechGlobal Representative and Advisor Plattform Industrie 4.0

Session 1: The Future of Key Technologies

Artificial Intelligence for Industrie 4.0Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster | Scientific Director and CEO German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Member Scientific Council Plattform Industrie 4.0Additive Manufacturing & Cybersecurity: Risk & StrategyDr. Nikhil Gupta| Associate Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Panel Discussion02:15 - 03:15pm

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster

Panelists:Livio Dalloro| Head of Research Group, Director of R&D EngineeringSiemens Corp.Knudt Flor | President & CEO BMW Manufacturing Co., LLCDr. Nikhil Gupta| Associate Professor Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringNYU Tandon School of EngineeringSean Monahan | Partner A.T. Kearney, Inc.Don O’Toole | Senior Business Development ExecutiveIBM - Watson Internet of Things Business Unit

Coffee Break & Refreshments03:15 - 03:45pm

Session 2: Future Business Models

Business Models for Industrie 4.0Prof. Dr. Michael Dowling | Member of acatech andChairman of the MÜNCHNER KREIS

03:45 - 04:05pm

01:35 - 01:55pm

01:55 - 02:15pm

Panel Discussion04:05 - 05:05pm

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Michael Dowling

Panelists:Jackson Bond | Co-founder, Chief Industry Evangelist & New BusinessRelayr GmbH BerlinAndrew Campbell | President & Owner Eastern Millwork, Inc.Dr. Rahild Neuburger | Senior Lecturer Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichMarco Schnabl | CEO & Co-Founder Automotive Mastermind, Inc.Dr. Hans Jörg Stotz | SVP, Head of IoT & Digital Supply Chain Global Strategy SAP SE Member Steering Committee Plattform Industrie 4.0

Networking and End of Event05:05 - 06:00pm

From Industrie 4.0 to Data-Driven Business

The Digital Transformation of Manufacturing Industries | New York, 2018

Knudt Flor President & CEO, BMW Manufacturing Co., LLCKnudt Flor is President and CEO of BMW Manufacturing Co. He has 29 years of experience within the BMW Group Global Production Network. Mr. Flor, 58, began his career with BMW in 1988 at the Engine Plant in Munich as an Engineer of Production. He then served in several roles in Quality Assurance and Quality Management at the Munich plant. From 1996-2000, he worked at the Spartanburg plant as Quality Assurance of Car Assembly and Purchased Parts. He has also been Vice President of Production at BMW Plant Munich, Director of BMW Plant Rosslyn in South Africa, and Senior Vice President of Manufacturing at BMW Brilliance Automotive Joint Venture in Shenyang, China. Most recently, Mr. Flor served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Quality for the BMW Group.

Session 1

Keynote Speaker

Henning Kagermann has been President of acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering since 2009. acatech provides independent and science-based advice to policymakers and civil society. In 2017, Henning Kagermann was appointed “Global Representative and Advisor of the Plattform Industrie 4.0” by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. He holds the chair of the Steering Committee of the Innovation Dialogue between the German government and the scientific and business communities. As a former member of the German Federal Government’s HighTech Forum and the Industry-Science Research Alliance, he plays a key role in the promotion of strategic projects such as Industrie 4.0, web-based service innovations (Smart Services) and autonomous systems. Mr. Kagermann holds a post-doctoral thesis in physics and is former CEO of SAP.

Prof. Dr. Henning Kagermann President, acatech Global Representative and Advisor Plattform Industrie 4.0

Nikhil Gupta is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He directs the Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory. His additive manufacturing research is focused on developing security and product authentication methods for 3D printing. He is also serving as the Chief Technology Officer of a startup company 3DPSecurity, Inc., which was founded in 2016 to develop cybersecurity tools for additive manufacturing industry. Mr. Gupta’s research has been supported by The Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, Army Research Laboratory, National Institute of Health and industry. He has three issued patents, authored over 155 journal papers and book chapters and four books. His work has been featured on PBS TV, Discovery Channel, Scientific American, National Geographic and other news media.

Dr. Nikhil Gupta Associate Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Don O’Toole is Senior Business Development Executive in IBM’s Watson Internet of Things

Business Unit. Mr. O’Toole has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry including a variety of product management and business development roles. Mr. O’Toole began his IBM career as part of the IBM SNA software development team in Research Triangle Park, NC. He later became a Brand Manager for IBM’s TCP/IP software products. Mr. O’Toole was a leading member of the team that developed IBM’s e-business strategy and worked with IBM WebSphere in establishing IBM’s SOA strategy. More recently, he spent two years in Shanghai as Director of Ecosystem Technical Enablement for IBM’s Systems Group.

Don O’Toole Senior Business Development Executive, IBM - Watson Internet of Things Business Unit

Wolfgang Wahlster is the CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, the world’s largest PPP research center focusing on AI technologies for industry with more than 500 scientists. Among the shareholders of DFKI are major German companies like BMW, Bosch, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP but also US companies like Intel, Google, and Microsoft. In 2001, the President of Germany presented the Future Prize to Mr. Wahlster, the highest personal scientific award in Germany. He helped to shape the German future project Industrie 4.0, after he had coined this term in 2011 together with his colleagues Kagermann and Lukas. Mr. Wahlster serves on the Executive Board of the International Computer Science Institute at UC Berkeley.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang WahlsterScientific Director and CEO, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)Member Scientific Council Plattform Industrie 4.0

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Sean MonahanPartner, A.T. Kearney, Inc.Sean Monahan has over 30 years of industry and management consulting experience specializing in Supply Chain Management (Plan, Source, Make, Deliver) strategy and execution. Mr. Monahan was Vice President of Operations for Moorman Manufacturing, a privately held diversified agri-business. Mr. Monahan leads A.T. Kearney’s Operations and Performance Transformation Practice for the Americas, is member of the firm’s Board of Directors and spearheads the firm’s efforts on digital supply chain and the future of production.

Livio Dalloro heads the Product Modeling and Simulation research group at Siemens Corporate Technology. Being born and raised in Milan, he spent a few years with Siemens, developing a software for large building automation systems, after which he moved to the company’s research facility in Princeton to build a new team focusing on the discovery and creation of the next generation cognitive algorithms for design, simulation and manufacturing. Mr. Dalloro received two DARPA grants and several of Siemens’ strategic innovation projects for Digital Twin. He now runs the largest and fastest growing Siemens research team in the U.S.

Livio Dalloro Head of Research Group, Director of R&D Engineering, Siemens Corp.

The Digital Transformation of Manufacturing Industries | New York, 2018

Session 2

Marco Schnabl is CEO and co-Founder of automotiveMastermind (aM), the leading provider of predictive analytics and marketing automation technology for the automotive industry. Mr. Schnabl leads sales, service and operations for aM. He co-founded aM with Johannes Gnauck in 2012. They recognized the need for a more sophisticated technology that leveraged data and improved the automotive retail experience for both buyers and sellers. aM empowers sales teams with key insights and valuable information on its top prospects by utilizing its proprietary algorithm to generate a Behavior Prediction Score® (BPS). As a result, aM is now a leading predictive analytics and marketing automation technology for over 800 dealer partners including : Acura, Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Honda, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, MINI and Toyota. Mr. Schnabl was with Mercedes-Benz both in Germany and at its flagship location in Manhattan for more than ten years. During that time, he held a variety of roles, including: Sales Consultant, Sales Manager and Manager for Strategic Retail Development.

Marco SchnablCEO & Co-Founder, Automotive Mastermind, Inc.

Michael Dowling is a Professor for Innovation and Technology Management in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Regensburg, Germany.He received a Master of Science Degree from Harvard University in 1983, and received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. He worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria and with McKinsey & Company in Düsseldorf Germany. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board and a member of the Research Committee of the MÜNCHNER KREIS, a non-profit association providing orientation for decision makers in the digital world.Mr. Dowling was elected a member of acatech – the German National Academy of Science and Engineering in 2015 and installed in 2016.

Prof. Dr. Michael Dowling Member of acatech and Chairman of the MÜNCHNER KREIS

Hans Jörg Stotz is leading strategy and innovation in SAP’s IoT & Digital Supply Chain division. In this function, he is responsible for strategy development for the Internet of Things (IoT) & Industrie 4.0, for prototyping, seed innovation and the advanced development of new IoT solutions, as well as for International Standards & Open Source. As Sherpa for Bernd Leukert, Member of the SAP Executive Board, he coordinates the external, political activities of SAP in the area of Industrie 4.0, Internet of Things and Digitization.He is a member of the Steering Committee of the German Plattform Industrie 4.0 and the Allianz Industrie 4.0.Mr. Stotz has been with SAP since 2005 and has held leading positions in the areas of SAP Corporate Strategy, Product Management, Innovation Management and Development Operations. Prior to that, he was responsible for strategic initiatives, analytical CRM and Financial Management solutions at SAS Institute Germany.

Dr. Hans Jörg Stotz SVP, Head of IoT & Digital Supply Chain Global Strategy, SAP SEMember Steering Committee Plattform Industrie 4.0

Jackson Bond is Chief Product Officer and a Co-Founder of relayr. Definitely not a newcomer to the start-up scene, he previously co-founded MONOQI, Europe’s premier store for discovering new designer products, and 8hertz, a speech-recognition application company (sold to VoxGen in 2007). He is also an advisor to JOBSPOTTING and previously built businesses and products for both XING and Holtzbrinck.

Jackson Bond Co-founder, Chief Industry Evangelist & New Business, Relayr GmbH Berlin

Andrew Campbell is the founder and president of Eastern Millwork Inc. (EMI), one of the nation’s top manufacturers of architectural woodwork for commercial, institutional, and corporate projects. He has achieved success by leveraging manufacturing automation and aggressive information management systems to reduce the labor hours needed per part produced. Additionally, Mr. Campbell has recruited European trained personnel to provide the most technologically advanced engineering and technology available, and international partners to provide customers with innovative product at the most competitive price. Notable projects include: Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy Airport; MTA offices at 2 Broadway; Continental Airlines Newark Airport expansion; The New Your Stock Exchange; Madison Square Garden; Rockefeller University NYC and many more.

Andrew Campbell President & Owner, Eastern Millwork, Inc.

Rahild Neuburger, Senior Lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, studied economics, before she made her doctoral thesis about Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Since 1994 she has worked at the university of Munich teaching and researching about implications of new technological developments for organization structures, leadership, work and education. In addition to that she is general manager oft the MÜNCHNER KREIS.

Dr. Rahild NeuburgerSenior Lecturer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich