Simon Levinson
Global Digital Manufacturing Innovation Lead
Simon brings experience in digital manufacturing and innovation, with a focus on how emerging technologies can be applied to improve real-world industrial performance. His work centres on connecting new digital capabilities with operational delivery across manufacturing environments.
He is actively engaged in industry discussions around digital transformation, collaborating with peers to explore how manufacturers can adopt and scale new technologies to drive efficiency, resilience, and long-term value.
AI & Smart Factory Digital Platform Leader
Harman brings a background in software engineering, with a strong focus on AI systems, LLMs, and observability in production environments. His work explores the challenges of deploying and managing intelligent systems at scale — particularly the gap between development workflows and operational reliability.
He has been actively engaged in topics such as AI-driven systems, DevOps, and platform engineering, with a focus on improving system transparency, incident response, and alignment between engineering and operations teams.
Senior Manager - Supply Chain & Network Operations
Sven brings over 10 years of experience in strategy and operations consulting across automotive, supplier, and industrial goods sectors to the DMS Summit.
With a focus on production strategy, operational excellence, and manufacturing network optimisation, he supports organisations in improving efficiency and performance across global operations — delivering measurable impact across complex manufacturing environments. He has delivered projects internationally across Europe, China, Brazil, and Mexico.
Shashank Sharma
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Shashank Sharma is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at HiveMQ. With over a decade of experience spanning product marketing, engineering, and software development at firms such as Docker, MathWorks, and BMW, he specializes in making complex technology easy to understand. Shashank holds an M.Sc in Computational Sciences from the Technical University of Munich.
Bruno Capelas
DT Infrastructure Director
Bruno brings extensive experience in digital transformation, IT strategy, and technology-driven change across industrial environments. His work focuses on bridging the gap between IT and operations, ensuring digital technologies effectively support real-world industrial performance.
Currently leading digital technology initiatives within Solvay, he has been actively involved in driving collaboration between architecture, infrastructure, and plant teams — helping translate digital strategy into practical, on-site impact across manufacturing operations.
Stefan Hoppe
President
Stefan Hoppe is President and Executive Director of the OPC Foundation, a global standards organisation that drives secure, interoperable data exchange across industrial and energy ecosystems. He has led the expansion of OPC UA — the open communication and information modelling standard — into IoT and Industry 4.0 environments, supporting seamless connectivity from asset-level devices to cloud and enterprise systems.
Stefan combines deep expertise in industrial automation and data interoperability with a strong focus on enabling digital transformation, data-driven operations, and scalable, secure industrial architectures.
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