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Christoph Attila Kun joined BASF SE Ludwigshafen in 2011 as a maintenance engineer. After various optimization projects in maintenance, he took over the development and management of the SAP Plant Maintenance Services unit in 2013. In 2018, he moved to the Digitalization unit, where he took over the management of the Global Digital Asset MasterRead more

Joachim Gorzel is Vice President Digital Cement Operations at Heidelberg Materials. He joined the company in 1993 as an Automation and Electrical Engineer. Since then, working on various positions and in various responsible roles at Heidelberg Cement company, (today: Heidelberg Materials). Starting from an engineer position in a maintenance department at a cement plant. BetweenRead more

Enterprise leader who has brought value to organizations by helping them implement solutions that solve actual problems they face in their day-to-day operations. Benjamin has helped customers all over the work, in Asia Pacific, North and South America, and now in Europe. Benjamin is based in Berlin Germany and has many years of experience inRead more

Daniel Bochnitschek is Co-Founder and CEO of AllocNow. Together with his team he supports chemical companies in driving the transformation towards sustainable and circular business models. Prior to co-founding AllocNow, he spent eight years in management consulting, focusing on strategic and operational issues in the chemical industry and related sectors. The Pop in My Job:Read more

I am a Mechanical Engineer by training. My previous work includes providing consulting services to companies ranging from start-ups and SMEs to Fortune 20 on implications and implementations of Industrie 4.0, Smart Services, Artificial Intelligence, and Internet of Things. I still work as a lecturer in this field.Read more

Daniel Sliz is heading and developing ROC Ropice since its beginning in 2008 by the agile leadership of highly specialized team inside the global company. At this position he also utilizes the previous experience in the optimization and mathematical modelling of production processes combined with the production plant management. Via the ROC team he drivesRead more

Rob Smeets is COO at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges. He joined the executive committee in August 2017. Rob Smeets previously served as manager of the towage company within the Port of Antwerp Authority. Rob Smeets is responsible for all operational services. His Operations department consists of three subdivisions: Nautical (Nautical Operations), Assets (Asset management, includingRead more

After 15+ years in the petrochemical and manufacturing industry, my role at Cognite is simple; help and enable others: – help companies remove the complexity of their underlying IT/OT/ET source systems, – directly enable customers to take better business decisions with the help of meaningful and scalable use cases powered by instant access to trustworthyRead more

Dominik Auer has a background on silicone chemistry and works within WACKER’s Corporate Sustainability team with focus on life cycle assessment and carbon accounting. He co-heads the implementation project of WACKER’s automated PCF solution. The tool is based on the TfS PCF Guideline, which he also helped to shape as WACKER participant. The Pop inRead more

Accomplished operations and supply chain management professional with demonstrated success in retail, manufacturing and information technology environments. I led the SAP deployment of largest and most complex manufacturing campus to date for Caterpillar. Led SAP technical architects for our global information services division. Reverse engineered and re-deployed SAP in our manufacturing plants in Mexico. DeployingRead more