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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS AT AUTOMOTIVE LOGISTICS & SUPPLY CHAIN DIGITAL STRATEGIES:







MICHAEL STRÖBEL

Vice-President of Process Management, Digitalisation in Production

BMW GROUP


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Since summer 2023, Michael Ströbel is vice-president for process management and
digitalisation in the production division of the BMW Group. He oversees digital
and IT support across production and logistics, including responsibility for the
development and global rollout of a new SAP S/4 Hana logistics template and a
new digital shopfloor initiative for all manufacturing sites. He returned to
BMW’s headquarters in Munich after five years heading up BMW Group IT in the
Americas Region, based in Plant Spartanburg, South Carolina. In his 20 years at
the BMW Group, Michael Ströbel also headed the in-house production and
purchasing function for reinforced carbon fibre plastics, was responsible
globally for painted body logistics planning, and served as the IT Manager for
the UK manufacturing operations. Prior to joining BMW, Michael was an IT
consultant for Accenture in Germany and a staff member at the IBM Research
Zurich Labs in Switzerland. He graduated from the University of St. Gallen in
Switzerland with a Ph.D. in Information Management.






PAULINA CHMIELARZ

Industrial Operations Digital and Innovation Director JLR

JLR


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Since summer 2023, Paulina Chmielarz is responsible for driving technology and
process transformation across JLR’s Industrial Operations (IO) department, which
includes manufacturing, supply chain and procurement. In the new role, which
reports directly to executive director of IO Barbara Bergmeier, Chmielarz leads
a workstream focused on accelerating technological, connectivity and automation
across processes, from cloud systems to business process automation to product
lifecycle management. She most recently was Manufacturing Business Office
Director at JLR, where she has played leading roles in industrial strategy,
systems and planning, make/buy decisions, and in-plant logistics operations. She
has been instrumental in JLR’s digital manufacturing strategy, including the
implementation this year of a cloud-based ERP, with the rollout of SAP S/4Hana
across all UK operations. She has been with JLR since 2016, during which time
she has played key roles in Jaguar Land Rover’s global production and logistics
processes, systems and engineering. She was essential in developing JLR’s
material and logistics flows for its plant in Nitra, Slovakia, and later held
roles in defining business processes and manufacturing systems. She has
previously worked in a variety of industries including machining, medical
equipment, electronics and automotive, including for a tier-1 suppliers and
Chinese OEM Qoros. She graduated from Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland,
in 2008 with a double Master’s Degree in mechanical engineering.






DR RENÉ DEIST

Chief Digital Officer

ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN


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Dr. René Deist studied Mathematics and Economics as well as Computer Science at
the Ruhr University of Bochum. He did his diploma in Mathematics and doctorate
research in Computer Science. From 2001 to 2020, he held various positions as
chief information officer (CIO) and chief digital officer (CDO) in different
global enterprises to lead digital transformation, including senior roles at
major automotive suppliers, including Bosch and Faurecia. Since 2021, he has
been CDO, Senior Vice President at ZF Friedrichshafen AG. With more than 20
years’ experience, Dr. Deist is competent in all business IT aspects. He manage
worldwide organisation’s across ZF’s global footprint, focusing on strategy and
business value of IT, and driving digital transformation.






DR GISELA LINGE

Vice President Global Logistics


AUTOLIV


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Dr Gisela Ling is currently leading the transformation to a more digital and
resilient supply chain at Autoliv, a world leading tier-1 supplier in automotive
safety systems. She is responsible for driving digitalisation, aligning
standards and logistics processes globally as well as driving the Scope 2 and 3
emission reduction activities and targets across the entire supply chain. Prior
to joining Autoliv in 2023, she gained extensive experience during 15 years in
top international companies such as McKinsey, Deloitte, Webasto and BMW. Dr Ling
has led large cross-functional projects and has a passion for strategies and
transformations, and as an experienced automotive SCM leader, she continues to
combine strategic expertise with operational excellence to drive digital
transformations.






ADRIAN JENNINGS

Chief Product Officer


COGNOSOS


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As the Head of Logistics, Supply Chain & Sales Operations in GM Europe, Danniel
is responsible for end to end (E2E) supply chain, including demand planning,
purchasing and daily operations for the finished vehicle shipments to all EU
regions and D2C stores, as well as managing the logistics operations.
Adrian Jennings has over 20 years experience in developing and bringing to
market real-time location systems for industrial use. During the last 10 years
his particular focus has been on developing digital solutions to help optimize
and error-proof complex manual processes. In that time he has consulted with all
major automotive OEMs globally, helping them to transform their operations for
the digital age as they execute their Industry 4.0 strategies. For the last 2
years he has held the role of Chief Product Officer at Cognosos, leading their
product strategy and the commercialization of a new generation of
easy-to-install, easy-to-own location intelligence solutions. Jennings has a
Masters degree in Physics from Oxford University, and spent 10 years with the
UK's Ministry of Defense as a ground-to-air weapons expert, where he was also
engaged in finding things, but for entirely different reasons. He describes
himself as a recovering rocket-scientist."






FRANK GÖLLER

Head of Digital Production & Processes and Vice-President Internationalisation,
Catena-X

VOLKSWAGEN GROUP


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Since 2019, Frank Göller been entrusted with the main task of designing and
controlling group-wide digitisation activities in production and logistics. The
overarching goal is orchestrating the conversion of IT architecture and the
value-added processes towards achieving autonomous, continuously networked and
digitally planned production. Before joining Volkswagen Group in 2019, Frank
Göller held various management positions in industry and consulting and set up
his own start-up in the field of ‘green energy’. For him, digital change in
companies is essential and, above all, can only be implemented in the triad of
people, processes and products.
Since May 2021, he has also been an active member of Catena-X Association, the
shared data group for the automotive industry, currently serving as
vice-president internationalisation, as a representative of Volkswagen Group to
support the automotive industry's shared vision of end-to-end data chains and a
collaboratively used data ecosystem.






JEAN-CHRISTOPHE DEVILLE

Vice President of Supply Chain

TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE


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Since summer 2023, Jean-Christophe (JC) Deville has been vice-president of
supply chain for Toyota across Europe, responsible for inbound, vehicle
logistics and service parts logistics, along with production control and supply
chain planning and engineering processes, as well as digitalisation strategy
across TME. JC was previously responsible for production parts and vehicle
logistics, and he led vehicle logistics for the carmaker since 2021, taking the
reins at a time of strong sales growth for Toyota. JC started his career in the
mid 1990s at an automotive Tier-1 supplier, with positions in Europe and China.
He joined Toyota in 1999, holding positions in purchasing, product planning and
manufacturing. He strives to bring Toyota lean manufacturing methods across
supply chain and logistics and to make the supply chain a competitive
differentiator for Toyota.






DANNIEL GONZALEZ

Head of Logistics and Supply Chain


GENERAL MOTORS EUROPE


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As the Head of Logistics, Supply Chain & Sales Operations in GM Europe, Danniel
is responsible for end to end (E2E) supply chain, including demand planning,
purchasing and daily operations for the finished vehicle shipments to all EU
regions and D2C stores, as well as managing the logistics operations.
Danniel joins GM Europe with extensive experience in supply chain management,
working as Supply Chain Specialist, Head of Supply Chain and Global Supply Chain
Excellence Manager for McKinsey & Company (Sweden), Outokumpu (Sweden), Sandvik
(France), Epiroc (Sweden), Rolls-Royce (Norway), and others. In his previous
positions, he achieved formidable results such as best EBITDA performance in the
last 3 years at Outokumpu. Danniel holds an MBA from Edinburgh Business School
(Scotland), and a Master of Applied Science in Supply Chain Management from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT (USA).






LARS BÄUMANN

Ambassador China

INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES ASSOCIATION


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Lars Bäumann is an industry veteran with more than 40 years’ experience in the
automotive industry in Germany, Mexico and the Slovak Republic, mostly in
leading roles for the Volkswagen Group in production, logistics and IT. This
included the IT responsibility for production, logistics and plants worldwide.
Since the end of 2021 Lars Bäumann is located in Shanghai, where he is
ambassador for the International Dataspaces Association (IDSA) – a users
association dedicated to gaining value from data – and the chapter chairperson
of BVL, the German Logistics Association (Bundesvereinigung für Logistik).
Recently, he has also become closely involved in activities for China for
Catena-X, the shared data ecosystem initiative for the automotive industry.






GABRIEL WERNER

Vice-President of Manufacturing


BLUE YONDER


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DR BIRGIT BOSS

Senior Expert Digital Twins and Standardization

BOSCH


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Dr. Birgit Boss is a driving force in many committee and standardization
activities around Platform Industry 4.0, digital twins and Industrial IoT. She
is a Board Member of the Industrial Digital Twin Association (IDTA) and chairs
the Working Group on "Open Technology". Since open source is getting more and
more important, she is also a member of the Project Management Committee of the
Eclipse Digital Twin Top Level Project. Additionally, Dr Boss was the Product
Owner and is currently the Working Group Lead in Catena-X, the first
collaborative, open data ecosystem for the automotive industry - for the topic
of semantics, digital twins and data modelling. Her areas of expertise include
Digital Twins and Industry 4.0/Smart Manufacturing, Software Architecture,
Software Product Line Development, Software Ecosystems, Industrial Internet of
Things (IIoT), Connected Industry, Continuous Refactoring, Process Development,
Standardization, Open Source and AUTOSAR.








MANFRED SCHRAUDER

Manager of transport strategy and digitalisation, supply chain & worldwide
transportation

MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP


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Manfred Schrauder plays a key role in Mercedes-Benz Group’s global logistics
digitalisation and sustainability strategies. Since 2021, he has led on
digitalisation process for finished vehicle logistics from customer order to
final delivery, with focus on improving data exchange and transparency in the
outbound process. He is also responsible for CO2 reduction for inbound and
outbound logistics, helping to build a framework where carbon emissions play a
critical role in logistics decisions. Schrauder has been with the carmaker for
20 years working in procurement, including for electronics and electric
powertrain systems, and production and logistics ramp up projects for models
like the E-Class and CLS. From 2015-2021 he was responsible for part-by-part
supply across global Mercedes-Benz production plants. Manfred Schrauder has a
degree in Industrial Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and
an MSc from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a guest lecturer at the
DHBW (Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University).






RONALD KLEIJWEGT

CEO


VINTURAS


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Ronald Kleijwegt has served as Vinturas’ CEO since May 2021. Previously Ronald
served as GVP Sales and MD for EMEA at Blume Global, a Silicon Valey based IT
Solution company. Before that he had several senior executive positions at Jusda
SCM (a division of Hon Hai/Foxconn corporation), Hewlett Packard, Hon
Hai-Foxconn and Compaq Computer Corporation.
Ronald relocated to the USA 1996-1999. Besides EMEA and USA, he also has
extensive working experience in Latin America and Asia, including China. Ronald
graduated in Logistics Management at HES/NEA in The Netherlands, while he also
concluded additional business education at Harvard Business School, a.o.






ABHISHEK GUPTA

Lead, Supply Chain and Transportation

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM


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Abhishek is Lead, Supply Chain and Transport Industry at the World Economic
Forum (WEF), based in Geneva Switzerland. He has 15+ years’ experience across
automotive, industrial manufacturing and supply chain sectors. Abhishek has a
proven track record of orchestrating large multi stakeholder programs, building
networks, driving partnerships and delivering strategic value propositions in
collaboration with C suite executives. An active contributor to thought
leadership (published in NY Times, EURACTIV etc.), he is passionate about the
topics of supply chain resilience, advance digital tech, data ecosystems,
sustainability and circular economy. Prior to WEF, Abhishek worked at Accenture
Growth and Strategy for 10 years.






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