Interviews

Maria Torrisi

Maria Torrisi

Business Development Manager

JMartans Automation Ltd

One of our company objectives is an ambitious 100% customer satisfaction. Competition is fierce and it?s important to stand out from the mass by the quality of the products that we sell but also by the attitude that we adopt towards our customers

Maria Torrisi is a Business Development Manager at JMartans Automation Ltd, a leader in Automation solutions in Malta for industrial and building applications. Her professional career started in the United Kingdom and has recently led her to the fast-growing market of Malta. She is an obsolete spares specialist for electronic automation who has developed long-lasting relationships with customers and suppliers all over the world.

Raj Shah

Raj Shah

CEO and Founder

Coherent Market Insights

We aim to cater to 80% of fortune 2000 companies across all verticals, globally, in the span of next 5 years, and act as a strategic market intelligence service provider for them

Raj Shah is a seasoned strategy professional with global experience, from strategy to on-the- ground operational improvements. He focuses on the automation, consumer electronics, and especially digital/ consumer-internet leading multiple long-term engagements towards mobilizing and executing on break-through strategy - leading to tangible sales results. Raj is also acting as a strategy consultant for one of the leading online hyper local service providers in India, contributing to their growth through critical strategic decisions. Raj usually spends time after office in talking to the passionate entrepreneurs, regardless of their funding status.

Mr. Stefan Prasse

Mr. Stefan Prasse

Head of Membership Management

VDMA

Our task is to increase the competitiveness of our members and thus ensure the future viability of mechanical and plant engineering. Connect for success & Envision the future

Stefan Prasse is the Head of Membership Management VDMA, the largest network organization for mechanical engineering in Europe. He strives to increase the competitiveness of VDMA members and thus ensure the future viability of mechanical and plant engineering.

Teresa Escrig

Teresa Escrig

Managing Director - AI Global lead

Accenture

The best customer experience comes from smart technologies that know our needs as they are happening and are proactively offering solutions to enhance our productivity, not only at work but also in daily tasks.

Dr. Teresa Escrig is an AI expert with over 25 years of distinguished accomplishments in the field. She has been a professor on AI related topics at several universities in Europe and the US, founded a couple of AI startups and is an AI global lead at a large consulting corporation. A visionary, out-of-the-box thinker, passionate and effective leader and speaker, Dr. Escrig?s mission is to make sure that we develop transparent, unbiased, safe and responsible AI.

Franziska Lehmann

Franziska Lehmann

Social Media Manager

SICK AG

By sharing success stories through our contents, our goal is to position SICK as an expert and valuable business partner to our customer, regardless of the stage they are at in the buying cycle.

Franziska Lehmann is the Social Media Manager at SICK AG, one of the world?s leading producers of sensors and sensor solutions for industrial applications. Her area of expertise lies in applying successful social media strategies to increase and build brand awareness, generate leads, and create conversations for SICK AG. She plays a key role in implementing a content marketing strategy via targeted campaigns on social channels, to ensure customers are receiving content that fits their specific interests and business needs.

Matthew E. Boyer

Matthew E. Boyer

Co-Founder & COO

Zylter

Zylter works with market leaders and innovative product developers to turn unmanned systems and other emerging technologies into practical capabilities for logistics, engineering, energy and defense applications.

Matthew E. Boyer is the Co-founder and COO of Zylter. He is a recognized expert & speaker on the integration of autonomous vehicles in operations. He leads development and integration of emerging worksite technologies to improve operations in engineering, logistics, and energy. Boyer?s areas of expertise include applied technologies and innovative products for engineering, logistics, onshore exploratory operations, special operations, and related off-highway commercial applications. He brings 18+ years of experience in managing operations and leading cross-functional teams for cooperative innovation and technology implementation in a range of areas?logistics, transportation, engineering, intelligence, special operations.

Charles Wemyss

Charles Wemyss

CEO

Litre Meter

Our purpose is to provide flow measurement solutions to enable our customers to control their usage of fluids, materials ultimately to reduce costs and environmental impact.

Charles Wemyss is the CEO of Litre Meter Limited, the flowmeter experts in supplying Mass, Water, and Chemical Injection Flowmeters worldwide. He holds the Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree from The University of Sheffield. His area of expertise lies in Oil & gas flow measurement and especially chemical injection measurement for positive displacement meters and Coriolis mass meters, over the last twenty- five years. Charles Wemyss plays a key role in launching a bespoke range of customisable flowmeters, growing the organization?s reach worldwide.

Martin Kefer

Martin Kefer

Founder

Motus Operandi

What we have developed is a novel optimization tool that takes any existing robot application, optimizes it, and generates a new application file with updated motion instructions. The keyword here is path-planning.

Martin is an accomplished robotics engineer who has worked several years as a researcher for ABB, the largest robot manufacturer in the world. With ABB he was part of several robot projects, building entirely new robot prototypes, resulting in several patents along the way. Martin worked on robot vision applications for the industry, as well as algorithm design for various technical applications. He has published several IEEE papers and patents. After leaving ABB in late 2016, Martin founded Motus Operandi, which is set to revolutionize robot motion as we know it. Motus Operandi is about optimizing robot applications, intelligent planning, and usage of robots in the industry, to reduce their energy consumption and increase their productivity. Their intelligent solution allows programming a robot?s motion with no effort, with just one click.

Carlos Uraga Pastor

Carlos Uraga Pastor

CEO

Acutronic Robotics

H-ROS is the only standard taking into account not only mechanical or software aspects but also computational, communication aspects, etc. both software and hardware-wise

Carlos Uraga Pastor is the CEO of Acutronic Robotics, a company that he co-founded in 2016. Acutronic Robotics is invested by SONY, Acutronic Holding. He served as the investor and CEO of Erle Robotics in 2015 and received funds from DARPA and three rounds of investment. Having startup co-founder with business profile, engineering background, Carlos Uraga Pastor focused on new technologies from idea generation to product placement in the market. His major motto is ?creating the next generation of standard tools for robotics.? He had acquired international experiences developing skills on engineering, business strategy, financials, entrepreneurship, business development and new technologies research and development. He developed technical know-how in robotics, improving knowledge in the whole process from the scientific research and development until market implementation from the perspective of the financial analysis and market strategy.

Marcus Langeheine

Marcus Langeheine

Head of Sales

AKO Armaturen & Separationstechnik GmbH

Our constantly increasing sales worldwide in recent years has shown us that more and more plant construction companies, engineering offices and plant operators are convinced of the advantages of our pinch valves.

Marcus Langeheine is Head of Sales of the world?s leading manufacturer of pinch valve solutions, AKO Armaturen, located in Germany. In the last decades, he worked for different industrial manufacturers in France, Belgium, and Germany and joined AKO Armaturen at the end of 2017.