| Pietro Boggia Principal Consultant Frost & Sullivan •Senior strategic management consultant, with 20 years’ experience in automotive business. Industry experience forged at OEM side, in new product development and strategic planning. Consulting specialization in market analysis and competitive benchmarking in fields such as new mobility business models, vehicle electrification, digital transformation in retail & aftersales, supply chain. •Broad international exposure in different industry verticals, including automotive and transportation, energy, smart cities. | |
| Mavis Cournane European Standards Advisor Ford Motor Company Advisor on the impact of European legislation on Vehicle Manufacturers. Development of European Standards for Vehicle Repair; Maintenance and Diagnostics. | |
| Jitka Darch Customer Relationship Manager – Automotive Panasonic Computer Product Solutions Jitka is taking care of repeat business with established automotive customers in the UK, Italy, France and Benelux. Jitka joined Panasonic Consumer Group in 2001, supervising the AVC Central Planning team. In 2006 she moved to B2B/Computer Product Solutions and managed Demand Planning and Tier1 partners in the Automotive team. | |
| Johannes Deichmann Associate Partner McKinsey Johannes Deichmann is an Associate Partner in the Stuttgart Office of McKinsey and part of Digital McKinsey. His work is focused on topics around digitalization of automotive and the impact of technology trends on companies in the automotive industry, namely autonomous driving, connectivity, electrification, and diverse mobility. He supports clients from within and beyond the automotive industry to prepare themselves for those upcoming trends, especially on digital and software strategy, new business models, and technological questions, e.g. changes in automotive software and E/E architecture, on which he has published articles through McKinsey. | |
| Peter Gollob Business Development Manager AVL DiTest GMBH Responsible for e-Mobility with more than 30 years of experience in design and test of electronic systems in different industrial fields. The past 12 years dealing with electrified vehicles and different drivetrain concepts. Focus on design, test, reliability, safety and service of tractions batteries and further components of the high voltage drivetrain. Now Business Development Manager in the relatively new field of service equipment and processes for e-Mobility. | |
| Jonas Nietschke Founder Business Attack Jonas Nietschke is founder of Business Attack. Business Attack is an specialized consultancy for business model development with focus on the mobility branch . Prior to Business Attack, Jonas Nietschke was senior consultant and digital evangelist at Consulting4Drive, where he and his colleagues were responsible for several long-term digital transformation projects with OEMs and suppliers. His major experiences including digital business modelling, innovation management and strategic foresight. | |
| Dr Thomas Raith Consultant Raith Consulting Thomas Raith reached its diploma and PhD degree at University of Stuttgart in Electrical Engineering in 1981, 1987 respectively. He joined Daimler in 1987 and works over 20 years as director in research, engineering and after-sales in the area of Vehicle Electronics, Diagnostics and Telematics. In 2013 he left Daimler, and is currently working as an independent automotive consultant and senior expert in the technology fields “Diagnostics” and “Telematics”. Currently, beside dedicated customer projects he is involved in different international standardization activities e.g. Convenor of ISO/TC22/SC31 Working Group 7 (ePTI, ISO 20730) as well as project leader of Extended vehicle (ExVe) web services (ISO 20078). | |
| Berthold Rauchbauer Sales Engineer Panasonic Computer Product Solutions I am as Technical Sales Engineer for the DACH Region and working for more than 7 years in Panasonic. My main focus is Windows Operating Systems on all our Toughbook brands. My career has always been in a Server and Notebook background and I am responsible for customers like Daimler, VW, BMW and Audi. | |
| Chris Royce Solutions Division Manager Cognitran I am a division manager at Cognitran Limited, a software house specialising in multi-lingual vehicle publication and diagnostic management. In this role I lead the division’s software development and consultancy, overseeing a team of professionals in both England, Poland and North America. | |
| Florian Thurnwald Technical Product Manager Microsoft Florian joined Microsoft in 2014 to support the introduction of new technologies like Cognitive Services or HoloLens in the corporate environment. First working on Microsoft Azure cloud services as a Software Engineer at Microsoft AI & Research, he then joined the Windows Mixed Reality team in 2017 as an advisor for all technical aspects of Mixed Reality & HoloLens, starting with integrating those devices into existing infrastructures to content creation. In addition, Florian is researching the technical potential of Mixed Reality for people with physical disabilities including the regulation of muscular tone for stroke patients. If you are interested, you can get in touch via LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/florianthurnwald). | |
| Lorenzo Veronesi Research Manager IDC As Research Manager within IDC from more than 10 years, Lorenzo Veronesi leads IDC Manufacturing Insights' "Worldwide Smart Manufacturing" and "European Digital Transformation Strategies" advisory services. His research specialties range across manufacturing operations, supply chain, product lifecycle, and IT strategies. | |
| Cornelia Wilke General Manager Sales Automotive Panasonic Computer Product Solutions Cornelia Wilke joined Panasonic in 2001 as European Sales Business Development Manager for the Automotive Industry. With an extensive knowledge of OEMs and Tier1 suppliers, Connie has excellent customer relationship & customer management skills within the automotive sector. Today, she manages the European Team as General Manager Sales Automotive, driving the company into the forthcoming Automotive Digital revolution. | |
