Dirk Slama
VP, Co-Innovation & IT/IoT Alliances
Bosch
Dirk Slama is a Vice President at Robert Bosch GmbH. He is also the Director of the Steinbeis FSTI Co-innovation Hub. As conference chair of the Bosch ConnectedWorld, Dirk helps shaping the AIoT strategy of Bosch. As chairman (StC) of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), he helped creating the leading ecosystem for the Industrial Internet.
As current chairman of the AIoT User Group, he brings together practitioners from different industries to help advancing the adoption of AIoT.
Dirk has 25 years’ experience in very large-scale IT projects, distributed systems and IoT. His international work experience includes projects for Audi, Daimler, Lufthansa, Boeing, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, HBOS and others. Dirk is a frequent speaker at conferences, as well as co-author of these successful books: Enterprise BPM, Enterprise SOA, Enterprise CORBA, and Enterprise IoT. He holds an MBA from IMD Lausanne as well as a PhD in Information Systems and a Diploma (MSc equivalent) in Computer Science from TU Ber-lin.
Paul Lewis
CTO
Pythian
Paul is CTO at Pythian. Prior to Pythian he was Global CTO at Hitachi Vantara responsible for the leading technology evangelism, client executive advocacy, and external delivery of the Hitachi vision and strategy especially related to Digital Transformation and Social Innovation. For the past 25+ years, Paul has focused on technology R&D and innovation, IT/business strategic plans and governance, security and risk management, software and infrastructure architecture as the CTO and Senior Executive Technologist of several financial services organizations from start-ups to large business services providers.
Aravind Rajendra Kumar
Senior Solutions Architect
Meritor
Simon Bornschein
Founder & CEO
coding.bio
Bruno Figueroa
Global Head of Genomic Medicine Unit CMC
Sanofi
Jeremy Roberson
Technical Director and AI Inference Software Architect
Flex Logix
BSEE, MSEE, and EE PhD from UC Davis specializing in Signal Processing Algorithms. Jeremy has worked on algorithms and hardware accelerator architectures for machine learning and signal processing in domains such as automatic speech recognition, object detection for biomedicine, capacitive sensing systems, and more. He has several patents and publications within these areas.
Jaimee Holmes
VP Beauty and Wellness
goop
Jaimee Holmes is an accomplished beauty executive whose progressive leadership vision has propelled growth for brands across multiple categories over the last 15 years. Her credits include leading category innovation and expansion strategies and launching top-ranking global sku’s with Too Faced Cosmetics, and building a complete rebranding and global expansion strategy with Ole Henriksen Skincare. In her current role at goop, she leads global merchandising and distribution strategies for the beauty and wellness categories.
Kristin Taylor
CEO
Radical Plastics
Kristin Taylor has a Masters Degree in Plastics Engineering and over 25 years’ experience in the plastics industry. She has served in technical, business development and management roles in several multinational organizations including ExxonMobil Chemical, Metabolix, Sabic and Huntsman Corporation. She has extensive experience in market development for biobased / biodegradable plastics and has worked with major brand owners such as P&G, Colgate Palmolive, Unilever, Kimberly Clark and Nike to bring award-winning products to market. In her spare time, Ms. Taylor enjoys long distance running and has completed 18 marathons including the six World Marathon Majors. Ms. Taylor was recently name to the Forbes Next 1000 List of start-up entrepreneurs redefining the American Dream.