Professor for Supply Chain Management at the SRH University Berlin since 2021. Supply Chain implementation and strategy consulting work at PRTM (director) and BESTgroup (managing director) for over 25 years in automotive, high-tech, chemical, pharmaceutical and capital equipment industries. Head of the Kiel plant of AEG for low voltage switch gear, project manager at AEG Frankfurt for operations projects, managing director of BOGEN Electronic GmbH. Work in operations management at WZL RWTH Aachen and study of mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen.

Conrad Edgren serves as the Chief Logistics Officer (CLO) at Motatos / Matsmart, an impact food tech company. He has more than 19 years experience in leadership and management in retail and e-commerce. During his three years with Motatos / Matsmart the company has increased its revenue by 280%, expanded operations to five countries, and opened a new Nordic warehouse with automation (AutoStore).

Aristides is a Professor of Supply Chain Design at Cranfield University and also Visiting Professor at the University of Lille (France) and at the Vietnam Maritime University. Previously, he was Associate Professor and Head of the Engineering Systems & Supply Chain Management at Aston University. His research focuses on topic of Design for Supply Chain/Logistics looking at to how to design the supply chain based on strategic and logistical assessments. He has been involved in several research (FP6, FP7, Horizon 2020, ERDF) and consulting projects as a freelance consultant particularly in manufacturing, automotive, food, and healthcare. In 2019 he was appointed a Royal Society Short Industry Fellow to collaborate with Williams Advanced Engineering a world-class technical innovation, engineering and specialist low volume manufacturing services provider to develop a tool for the automotive industry to assess suppliers’ ability to upscale production in order to raise the competitiveness of suppliers in the UK. Aristides’ industrial research collaborators include also Rolls-Royce, Jaguar Land Rover, Saietta Group, MCT Reman, Microcab, Goodfloo, Marks & Spencer, AB Vassilopoulos, and many SMEs.

Volker Schmitz has been working for HP for more than 28 years. During that time he has held several leadership positions within HP such as Director Supply Chain Development and Director Supply Chain Operation within the EMEA region. He served for more than 5 years as the Vice-President of EMEA Supply Chain before taking on the role of Global Head of Logistics. In 2020 Volker was promoted to become the Senior Vice-President - Global Head of Supply Chain Operations at HP. In this role he has global responsibility for Supply Chain Operations for HP’s computing, printer and supplies business with more than 60B$ revenues. He oversees a team of more than 1800 employees spread across all continents. In addition he is the lead of the supply chain sustainability impact team driving sustainability within the SC forward at HP.

Study: Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen (Industrial Engineering) at TU Darmstadt
Professional Career:
1995: Start as management Trainee at BOSCH Group
From 1997 – 2016 in various leading positions in Purchasing in Germany and Mexico
From 2016 till today VP Corporate Supply Chain Management - Inbound

Martin McKie is a Principal Advisory Consultant at Amazon Web Services (AWS), specializing in Supply Chain, Transportation and Logistics. Martin has been with AWS since November 2021 and works with Customers across multiple industries, providing guidance and seeking to solve supply chain business challenges through digital innovation and data-based transformations. Prior to joining AWS, Martin spent 20+ years in the Telecom equipment supply industry, having a variety of senior Supply Chain roles at Motorola, ARRIS and CommScope. Martin is based in the UK.

Dr. Amin Kaboli serves as the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Lagrange.AI. He has extensive experience in change, transformation, and operational excellence. He has supported many organizations ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to entrepreneurial firms and industries as diverse as Luxury Goods, MedTech, Pharma, Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, and other industries. He is a lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), where he obtained his Ph.D. in Manufacturing Systems & Robotics. He also coaches and advises tech founders and senior business executives at IMD Business School, Switzerland.

Steffen started his career in IBM in 1990. Until 1998 he worked as a specialist for UNIX/AIX in the area of internationalization. He then moved to Tivoli in technical sales and worked as a service management solution architect for complex system and service management environments. With the beginning of the millennium, the topics Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure became increasingly the focus of his work.

Since 2014, Steffen has been working in the area of Internet of Things in combination with Asset and Service Management to realize added values of digitalization and artificial intelligence in maintenance.

Steffen holds a degree in business administration (BA) in business informatics from the Verwaltungs und Wirtschaftsakademie Stuttgart.

David is dedicated to creating optimal supply chain solutions for clients across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). His passion is applying over 25 years of experience in working clients in a variety of industry sectors including Retail, Consumer Products, Distribution, Telco, Manufacturing and Financial Services to create intelligent, resilient and sustainable supply chain solutions.

David's inspiration is driven by working with leading customers and IBM experts on addressing supply chain disruptions, and leveraging the latest technologies from the fields of AI, environmental and business intelligence.