Take a look at our amazing speaker lineup for the Smart Manufacturing Week 2025! Loading Laura Giddings Operational Hub Lead, South Midlands Career Hub Lindsay Colton Digital Transformation Manager, Terex Lukas Morys CEO, Co-Founder, Scable linkedin Luke Corbeth Head of Sales, Cypher Robotics Luke Savage Head of EMEA, Factbird Malgorzata Samuel Operations Data Standards Manager, BAT Manojan Panchalingam Director of Solutions Engineering EMEA, BigCommerce Manojan Panchalingam Director of Solutions Engineering , EMEA Marco Chacin Manufacturing Automation Systems Expert, Airbus Maria Tareen Assistant Professor (Academic), CEES School of Engineering, Coventry University Mark Davies Senior Lean Coach, True North Excellence Mark Feathers Product Marketing Manager, Epicor Mark Howes Chief Revenue Officer, Service Geeni Mark Ireland Manufacturing Sector Director, PurpleSector linkedin Mark Schmidt Senior Director for Manufacturing and Automotive Industry Products, Salesforce Mark Schubert Managing Director, Coriolis linkedin Markus Hollermann Accounts Executive, Synera GmbH Matthew Gibson Predictive Maintenance Data Analyst (KTP Associate), Ailsa Reliability Solutions Ltd linkedin Megan Jackson-Lockyear Apprentice, Knorr Bremse Rail Systems Michael Jacobs Senior Business Transformation Consultant , Columbus Molly Cooper Nineteen Group Mubashar Sapru Manufacturing Account Executive, MuleSoft from Salesforce Neil Cooke Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA, Onshape, a PTC Technology Nevin Castellucci-Najar EMEA Sales Director, QAD Redzone Nicholas Lea-Trengrouse Head of Business Intelligence, Columbus Nick Elkin Chief Technology Officer, FLAGS Software Limited Nick Evans General Manager; Maintenance, Process Improvement & Innovation, BMW (UK) Nick Haase Co-Founder, MaintainX linkedin Nick Kemp Head of Design – X50, Brompton Bicycles Niels Cornel Sr. Enterprise Growth Manager, AG5 Skills Management Software Nik Tankard Head of Global Consulting, ITI Group linkedin Niklas Hambuechen Co-Founder, Benaco Ltd linkedin Octave Lapeyronie Co-founder, fabriq linkedin Oliver Curnick Professor, Associate Professor in Electrochemical Power Sources, Coventry University link Oliver Selby Head of Sales, FANUC UK / Chairman of BARA Owen Compton Senior Product Manager, HiveMQ link Paraic O’Lochlainn Head of Europe Sales , Fluke Reliability Paul Downey Head of Manufacturing Marketing, Enterprise Campus Edge, Nokia Paul Harvey Principal Solution Engineer, Epicor Paul Knight VP Information Technology & CISO, Turntide Technologies Paul Moss Customer Success & Partnerships Director , Intergage Marketing Engineers Ltd. Paul Newman Director, LUMA1 linkedin Penelope Chalk Growth Marketing Manager, Howden linkedin Peter Davis Sector Head of TouchstoneEnergy, Touchstone linkedin Peter Flinn Past President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers Peter Lunt Industrial Eco-Design eXpert, Airbus Commercial Aircraft Petra Velzeboer Mental Health Strategist Phil Lovell Chief Operating Officer, SmartParc Phil Ware Digitalisation Manager, Edwards Philip Dewson Manufacturing Director, Spacestor Pierre Knuchel Sales Manager Europe - Reliability Solutions, Emerson linkedin Prasad Manorathna Senior Director, Global Upstream Engineering & Innovation, Haleon Prof. Henrik von Scheel Industry 4.0 Originator I Strategist I Futurist Professor Tim Minshall Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation & Head of the Institute for Manufacturing Quentin Wylie Robotics & Automation Consultant, Schneider Electric linkedin Regina Andersson Senior Director, Head of Strategic Partnerships , Ericsson Roy Pearson NPI and Plant Engineering Manager, Gestamp Russell Watkins Co-founder of Sempai, Sempai Ruth Rollings Maintenance Engineering Manager, AETC Ryan Marshall Global Account Director, QAD Redzone Sam Burgess Founder and CEO, Partful Sam Byrnes Enterprise Solutions Architect, SafetyCulture linkedin Sam Swadling Head of Data Visualisation & Software Services, Coriolis linkedin Samia Mahmood Senior Lecturer, University of Wolverhampton Sandhya Mathur Site Director, Cider Operations, Heineken UK Sandra Gaspar Head of Recycling, Eurocell Sarah Badesha Head of Engineering, Chivas Brothers Scott McManus Programme Manager - UK Digital Factory, Leonardo Shane Taylor Sales account manager, ECI Software Solutions linkedin Shashank Sharma Senior Product Marketing Manager , HiveMQ Shobhit Sharma Sr. Client Partner, Solulever B.V. linkedin Simon Boyd Director of Membership and Programmes, Made In Britain Simon Johnson Principal Engineer, HiveMQ Sofia Karlén Smart Factory Product Management Lead, Mars Inc Petcare Steve Holland Director , Online Cleaning Steve Holland Director, Online Cleaning Technologies Steve Jemmott Sales and Marketing Director, Sicon linkedin Steven Nollett Operations manager, Pailton Engineering linkedin Sudhanshu Gaur Vice President of R&D, Hitachi America and Chief Architect, Hitachi Rail/Hitachi Americas Sultan Amin Head of Sales / Business Development Manager, Dynamics Consultants Tobin Harris Managing Director, Pocketworks Toby Mankertz Manufacturing Industry Director , Columbus linkedin Tom Nicholls Sales Engineering Manager, Exponential-e Tom StJohn Multimedia Editor, Nineteen Group Ltd Tom Swain Head of UK and Ireland, Samotics Tom Wilson Chief Commercial Officer, Paragraf Torsten Gruenzig VP Sales, Sparrow Networks GmbH link Trevor Dagg Head of Data, IOT & Software Automation, Envetec Sustainable Technologies Veronika Trukhan Director of Business Intelligence and Data Engineering, Itransition linkedin Victoria Jones Director of EMEA, Poka Vish Kolur Business Initiator, PCN Strategy Alliances , Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions Walid Hadid Integration & Automation Business Partner, Weir Group linkedin Zsuzsanna Farkas Strategic Industries Market Expert Manufacturing, Alcatel-Lucent Enteprise linkedin 1 2