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Event details

Date: November 16 – 17, 2015
Location: Chateau Jemeppe, Brussels, Belgium

Event overview

Infosys is a Gold partner at the IDC Pan-European Manufacturing Executive Summit. The event is a focused networking platform for key executives from the European manufacturing industry. The main theme of this year’s summit will be ‘Protect Tomorrow’s Future – Plan your Transformation Journey Today!’

This summit will bring together a select group of Europe's leading manufacturing professionals to discuss how to implement this transformation by increasing collaboration levels, opening lines of communication, improving decision-making, speeding up business processes, and rapidly adapting processes to market changes. Manufacturers will have to restructure the way they manage their businesses to make it data-driven and ultimately, digitally executable.

Why attend

This event will give you an opportunity to share experiences and discuss ways to overcome challenges with a select group of peers from leading European manufacturers during facilitated roundtables and one-to-one networking sessions. Attendees also stand to gain on not just insights into the future of manufacturing in Europe, but also into the challenges and opportunities that new technology offers.

Connect with Infosys:

At the summit, Infosys experts will discuss various topics that help decision-makers amongst leading European manufacturers understand and take advantage of this ongoing transformation.

Session One:
Topic: Your business transformation journey
Date: November 16, 2015
Time: 4:40 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. CET
Speakers: Christopher Holmes, Managing Director, IDC Insights
Karsten Ötschmann, Consulting Segment Head, Manufacturing Europe, Infosys Consulting

Session Two:
Topic: Industry 4.0 – how far or near?
Date: November 16, 2015
Time: 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. CET
Speakers: Marc Van Herreweghe, Associate Vice President, IDC Manufacturing Insights
Nampuraja Enose, Principal Consultant, Advanced Engineering Group, Infosys

Session Three:
Topic: Digital impact of big data and analytics reshaping the manufacturing industry
Date: November 17, 2015
Time: 10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. CET
Speakers: Lorenzo Veronesi, Senior Research Analyst, IDC Manufacturing Insights
Sourish Chatterjee, Associate Practice Engagement Manager, Infosys

Session Four:
Topic: The impact of big data on the shop floor
Date: November 17, 2015
Time: 11:55 a.m. – 12:35 p.m. CET
Speaker: Andrea Roero, Business Partner, Aftersales, CNH Industrial

Speaker details

Karsten ÖtschmannKarsten Ötschmann | Consulting Segment Head, Manufacturing Europe, Infosys Consulting

Karsten Ötschmann has more than 20 years’ of experience in Management Consulting and IT Consulting especially within the Manufacturing Industry. Over the last 4 years he managed the substantial growth of Infosys Consulting Germany in his role as Managing Director. Since November 2015 he took over the Consulting Segment Head role for Manufacturing in Europe within Infosys Consulting. He is acting as trusted Advisor for global Business and IT Transformation programmes as well as Operational Excellence and LEAN Enterprise journeys.

Sourish Chatterjee Sourish Chatterjee | Associate Practice Engagement Manager, Infosys

Sourish Chatterjee has 17 plus years of industry experience spread across plant management and supply chain operations in large multinational Manufacturing corporations and then in IT across both product and consulting services companies in the area of Business Intelligence, Analytics and Big DATA.

Sourish has experience in BI Applications product management, creating BI strategy and Roadmaps for clients, running large BI and reporting customer programs and supporting early adopter Analytics and Big DATA proof of concepts. He is a passionate believer that Data can become a competitive advantage in the manufacturing world and brings together his manufacturing domain and analytics technical knowledge to stitch together new innovative use cases for unlocking value from Data.

Currently Sourish is responsible for the sales of the “Data and Analytics” (DNA) service line for the core manufacturing vertical for Infosys in continental Europe and UK. He is based out of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Nampuraja Enose Nampuraja Enose | Principal Consultant, Advanced Engineering Group, Infosys

Nampu manages the innovation initiatives focusing on the adoption of emerging technologies in the asset-intensive industries, which involves co-creation engagements with the clients and the academia. He is responsible for the Industry 4.0 initiatives, enabled by the convergence of IT and OT (operation technology) in cyber-physical systems, where Infosys has strategically partnered with the FIR (Institute for Industrial Management) at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. He brings 15 years of research and industry experience. Prior to Infosys, he was an Engineering and Design manager with ABB Limited. He is an active participant in conferences and forums, and focusing on efficient management of assets and their associated performance.

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