
Speakers
Introducing our 2025 Smart Manufacturing Now! Conference Speakers

Nasser Ahmad
Director, Digitalization
Höganäs AB

David Ariens
Author
The IT/OT Insider

Jason Bassett
IT Manager
Madsen's Custom Cabinets

David Batet
CTO
DigiProces

Mike Carroll
Strategic Advisor
LNS Research

Julie Fraser
VP Research for Operations and
Manufacturing and facilitator of the MESA Smart
Manufacturing Community Smart Connected Supply Chain Group
Tech-Clarity

Joanne Friendman
CEO, Principal, Smart Manufacturing
Connektedminds Inc.

Jeremy Gibbs
Senior Manager, Digital Solutions and Data Centers
ATS Global

Luis Gólcher
Senior MES Consultant
IPG

Ankur Gupta
Manufacturing Technology & Automation Program Manager
SLB

Jennifer Heckmann
Sr. Manager, North America Sustainability Promotion
DENSO International America, Inc.

Doris Hill
Engineering Group Manager, Vehicle Chemical Regulatory Compliance and Certification (VCRC)
General Motors

David Hinkler
Executive Director, Global Professional Services
On Time Edge

Chris Ironhill
Systems Engineering Manager
AeroVironment

Thibaut Jouanin
Executive Director of Industry
L-Acoustics

Scott King
Director of Manufacturing IT
Ford Motor Company

Nikhil Makhija
Sr. Manufacturing Systems Analyst
FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.

Philip Maud
Senior Operations Manager
McElroy

Ryan McMartin
Director of Product Marketing
Parsec Automation

Jeremy Meegan
Channel Sales Manager
SmartSights

Naveen Mehata Kondamudi
Consulting Partner - Carbon & Energy - Sustainability Services Unit
TCS

Giorgos Petropoulos
IT Manager
Coffee Island

Ayoub Mounaddam
Executive Director of IT & Digital
L-Acoustics

Kiran Kumar Reddy Velagala
Solutions Architect
HCLTech

Swati Murthy, PhD
Director - Global Sustainability Solutions Practice
TCS

Victor Venancio
Director of Digital Solutions LatAm
Samson Group

Dave Noller
Retired
IBM

Brendan Walsh
IT Business Relationship Manager for Engineering, Supply Chain
Hypertherm