Panel Discussion
Monday, September 30
06:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Live in Berlin
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We live in a world where everything is in motion – and also the long-standing manufacturing industries feel a growing to change their traditional business models. As new standards arise, and new players have entered the field the need to digitalize products and production grows in order to stay competitive. At the same time the demand for more sustainability grows as well. In this panel discussion the panelits explore how IIoT and other technologies can help to realize a more sustainable production from a business need perspective.
Tobias Trunk is a manager in the Factory Automation division at John Deere, based at the tractor plant in Mannheim and responsible for 4 plants in Germany.
Alessio Preti, Director Industrial Strategy & SAM at Philip Morris International, is a leader that has built his 20+ years career in the areas of Engineering, Manufacturing and Business, both in the automotive (Ferrari S.p.A) and tobacco industries. Among several milestones, he has delivered the construction and start-up of a greenfield with more than 2.000 employees, development of Digital Transformation roadmap in a multinational environment with more than 40 production centers and design and deployment of operations processes and organization for a new commercial category of products.
Alessio holds a degree in Management Engineering from University of Bologna, and a Lean Manufacturing Management certification from CUOA Business School. He is a certified coach of Total Productive Maintenance by Japanese of Institute of Planned Maintenance.
What motivates me every day is to be part of a global community willing to challenge the status quo and improve the world we live in.
I love challenging contexts, where conditions are changing daily and where our analytical thinking and out-of-the-box mindset can make the difference.
What moves me is the passion to have an objective to achieve, but the way to get it is not yet clear: designing the road of success gives me the energy to go and push beyond the limits and, in the end, deliver results.
Rene Wolf has been Director Manufacturing Vehicle Operations at Ford of Europe since 2017 and a member of the Management Board of Ford-Werke GmbH since October 2021, responsible for the Manufacturing division1. His career at Ford began in 1991 in the Quality department at Ford of Europe1.
Born in Thuringia, he studied electrical engineering/electronics at the Technical University of Dresden. Over the course of his career, he has worked in various areas of manufacturing, quality and production start-ups at the Ford plants in Cologne, Saarlouis, Kocaeli (Turkey), Craiova (Romania), England and South Africa2. From 2015 to 2017, he was Vice President Manufacturing at Ford Sollers in Russia before returning to Cologne.