Our speaker in 2026
Annika Bahl
Director, Global Government & Public Affairs, WILO SE
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Bauernhansl
Fraunhofer IPA
Dennis Benfer
Head of Digital Processes / Production Planning, Rittal
Frank Göller
Program Lead Catena-X für Volkswagen Konzern und AUDI AG; Vorstandsmitglied Catena-X e.V
Dr.-Ing. Tobias Hallmann
Head of Global Industrial Engineering, egeplast international GmbH, Werk Greven
Gerhard Koblenzer
Managing Director, LPW Cleaning Systems GmbH
Jan Niklas Töws
Director of Operations and Supply Chain Management, JACOB Group
Michael Ranft
Regional CTO, Wilo Europe
Waqaas Rehman
Business Development Lead at InstaDeep Lt
Michael Scharfschwerdt
Senior Advisor Geopolitics, Kearney
Oliver Scholz
Ehem. Geschäftsführer, Eppendorf SE
Oswald Steinhauer
Werksleiter, MAPLAN GmbH
Daniel Stengel
Partner and Project Manager, FACTORY OF THE YEAR, Kearney
Georg Weber
Global CTO, Wilo Group
René Weber
Werkleiter / VP Operations, Eppendorf SE
Peter Wiedemann
Former Chief Operational Officer (COO), RATIONAL AG, Landsberg am Lech, and member of the Supervisory Board of Washtec AG, Augsburg
Our moderators
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Bauernhansl
Fraunhofer IPA
Franziska Blume
Senior Director Production Events, Ultimamedia Germany GmbH
Jörg Cwojdzinski
Former Vice President of Supply Chain Management, ASM Assembly Systems GmbH & Co. KG, Munich
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Ihlenfeldt
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology, IWU, Chemnitz
Dr. Barbara Mehner
Managing Partner XPRENEURS by UnternehmerTUM
Katrin Müller-Hohenstein
ZDF Presenter
Anja Ringel
Redakteurin Produktion,
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Daniel Stengel
Partner and Project Manager, FACTORY OF THE YEAR, Kearney
Peter Wiedemann
Former Chief Operational Officer (COO), RATIONAL AG, Landsberg am Lech, and member of the Supervisory Board of Washtec AG, Augsburg
Claus Wilk
Editor-in-chief, mi connect
