Speakers
Introducing our 2025 Smart Manufacturing Now! Conference Speakers
Nasser Ahmad
Director, Digitalization
Höganäs AB
Chris Andrassy
Founder & CEO
Astral Insights
David Ariens
Author
The IT/OT Insider
Jason Bassett
IT Manager
Madsen's Custom Cabinets
David Batet
CTO
DigiProces
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
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
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.
Jeremy Meegan
Channel Sales Manager
SmartSights
Naveen Mehata Kondamudi
Consulting Partner - Carbon & Energy - Sustainability Services Unit
TCS
Ayoub Mounaddam
Executive Director of IT & Digital
L-Acoustics
Swati Murthy, PhD
Director - Global Sustainability Solutions Practice
TCS
Dave Noller
Retired
Virginia Tech College of Engineering
Giorgos Petropoulos
IT Manager
Coffee Island
Brendan Walsh
IT Business Relationship Manager for Engineering, Supply Chain
Hypertherm
Kiran Kumar Reddy Velagala
Solutions Architect
HCL Technologies Limited
Trever White
Group Manager, Production Engineering
Toyota North America
Bill Rokos
CTO
Parsec Automation
Victor Venancio
Director of Digital Solutions LatAm
Samson Group