Getting Ready for Industry 4.0: Transformations Needed, 2017
The German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce (AHK), Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK) and the Engineering Industries Association of Lithuania (LINPRA) would like to thank all of our almost 400 participants of the 2nd Industry 4.0 Conference, held on May 11, 2017. It was an inspiration to discuss the latest developments and ideas for cooperation between both countries. This years’ meeting provided not only first-hand reports of international experts on the newest developments and innovations, it also reported about what has happened in Lithuania since the inauguration of a national working group „Industry 4.0“. Here you find photo's of the conference, the presentations of our experts and profound information on the topic and future events. Please feel free to contact us with questions about market entry and collaborative projects. See you next time!
PRESENTATIONS:
PROGRAM:
| 09:30 – 10:00 / REGISTRATION |
| 10:00 – 10:20 / WELCOME ADDRESS |
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| 10:20– 11:00 / KEY-NOTE SPEECHES |
Digitising European Industry – the New Policy for Upgrading, Improving and Adapting EU Industry to Digital Era.
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| 11:00 – 12:00 / OPENING SESSION AND Q&A SESSIONS |
National Strategies to Support Digitization of Industry.
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| 12:00 – 13:30 / BUSINESS LUNCH / VISIT OF EXHIBITION 'BALTTECHNIKA' |
| 13:30 – 14:30 / PARALLEL SESSIONS |
SESSION 1 (HALL 5.2) "Effective Security for Manufacturing in the Industry 4.0 Era"Dr. Virginijus Valevičius, Business Area Manager Industry Management and Automation, Phoenix Contact JSC.Mr. Remigijus Dambrauskas, Business Area Manager Industrial Components and Electronics, Phoenix Contact JSC.SESSION 2 (HALL 5.3) "Industry 4.0 - the Challenges in IT Security"Mr. Donatas Zaveckas, CEO, BTT Group JSC. |
| 14:30 – 15:30 / NETWORKING COFFEE |
| 15:30 – 16:30 / PARALLEL SESSIONS |
SESSION 3 (HALL 5.2) "Education and Labour for Digital Manufacturing"Mr. Hans Manzke, Representative, Association of Metal and Electrical Industry NORDMETALL "Insights on Labour and Industry 4.0 Referring Skills and Education Subjects"Mr. David B. Meinhard, Vocational Education and Training Cologne Institute for Economic Research. SESSION 4 (HALL 5.3) "Digitalization of the Entire Industrial Value Chain"Mr. Teemu Pajala, Director of Plant Data Services for Nordic and Baltic Countries, SIEMENS Osakeyhtiö. |
| 16:30 / VISIT OF EXHIBITION 'BALTTECHNIKA' |
REMIGIJUS DAMBRAUSKAS  Business Area Manager Industrial Components and Electronics, Phoenix Contact JSC www.phoenixcontact.lt MBA, Vilnius University, International Business with solid technical
background. Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) - Kaunas University of
Technology (KTU). Nine years of experience in industrial products and
international projects management. Expertise - industrial electronics.Phoenix
Contact Vilnius Office serves the customers in the Baltic States and
Belarus. The company has one clear mission: to offer you the best
possible solution for your electrical engineering tasks. With its expert
personal consultation service, our subsidiary ensures that you and your
requirements always come first.Tailored to different markets and
their needs, at the heart of the company lies an extensive product
portfolio: device and PCB connection technology, industrial components
for electrical engineering and electronics, as well as industry-specific
automation solutions. |
VIRGINIJUS VALEVIČIUS  Business Area Manager Industrial Components and Electronics, Phoenix Contact JSC
www.phoenixcontact.lt PhD, Physics, Vilnius University. More than thirty years experience in industrial solutions engineering and advanced problem solving. Phoenix Contact Vilnius Office serves the customers in the Baltic States and Belarus. The company has one clear mission: to offer you the best possible solution for your electrical engineering tasks. With its expert personal consultation service, our subsidiary ensures that you and your requirements always come first. Tailored to different markets and their needs, at the heart of the company lies an extensive product portfolio: device and PCB connection technology, industrial components for electrical engineering and electronics, as well as industry-specific automation solutions. |
DONATAS ZAVECKAS  "BTT Group" is a successfully operating information technology company
which has been in service for 10 years. During this time the company has
managed to form a team of professionals with profound experience and to
establish itself as a partner offering trusted IT services and Cloud
solutions in the Baltics and Scandinavia. The company works with one of
the most effective Tier III data centres and is oriented to quality
services to enterprise companies. |
HANS MANZKE Director, Department of International Relations, Employers Association of the Metal and Electronics Industry NORDMETALLwww.nordmetall.de Mr. Manzke works for
a task-force of employers organization in North Germany for "work
4.0" and "digitalisation". He served 16 years as officer
in the army, obtained a higher education degree in education and psychology. He
has 26 years of working experience working in employer organizations and its
institutes for education and research. Responsible for international relations
- in cooperation with employer organizations in Germany on different levels and
branches |
TEEMU PAJALA  Teemu Pajala has more than 15 years of professional experience in
industrial services. In the current role he is responsible for the Plant
Data Services and MindSphere open IoT operating system in Siemens
Nordics. Teemu Pajala is a member of global focus country group of Plant
Data Services. |
YVES PAINDAVEINE  Yves Paindaveine has been working in the policy
fields to foster the uptake of digital technologies since the Digital
Agenda for Europe and is now driving the Digitising European Industry
initiative. A microelectronics and computer science engineer by
education. He joined the European Commission as a scientific officer for
R&I projects dealing with health informatics, later with network
security and dependability. Prior to this, he led, among others,
distributed systems and security projects at the Open Software
Foundation Research Institute. |
MR. DAVID B. MEINHARD David B. Meinhard - Economist at the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, Germany), focused on Digitization, Digital Education and E-Learning. He has 6 years of professional experience in Technology Enhanced Learning on higher educational level and Academic Staff Development. |
Vocational Education and Training, Cologne Institute for Economic ResearchSPEAKERS:
MINDAUGAS SINKEVIČIUS Minister of Economy of the Republic of Lithuaniawww.ukmin.lrv.lt Mindaugas Sinkevičius
is a Lithuanian politician, Minister of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania
(from 13.12.2016) and Former Mayor of Jonava District municipality
(2011-2016)
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ROBERTAS DARGIS Robertas Dargis is a President of the Lithuanian Confederation of
Industrialists (LPK), largest business associated organization
representing interests of industrialists and employers, President of the
Lithuanian Real Estate Development Association, Founder and Chairman of
the Board at real estate development and investment company group
“Eika”, Member of the Board of Trustees in Vilnius University, Institute
of International Relations and Political Science. One of the
initiators of the project “Ambersail" millennium Odyssey around the
world dedicated for the commemoration of the millennium of Lithuania's
name, Author of the project "Give a Vision for Lithuania". |
GINTAUTAS KVIETKAUSKAS  Gintautas Kvietkauskas is a President of Engineering Industries
Association of Lithuania LINPRA, Vice-President of Lithuanian
Confederation of Industrialists (LPK), Director at „Arginta Group" JSC,
Member of the Board of Chamber of Vilnius Industry, Trade and Crafts,
Member of the Presidents Board of European Engineering Industries
Association ORGALIME. |
FLORIAN SCHRÖDER CEO of German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce (AHK)www.ahk-balt.org In March 2016, Florian Schröder took over the position of CEO of the AHK
Baltic States. During the previous twelve years, the economist had
worked extensively on Azerbaijan's economic cooperation with Germany,
first as an economic expert at the German Association for International
Cooperation (GIZ), and from 2006 on as CEO of the German-Azerbaijan
Economic Association. |
MARKUS BEYRER Director General, BusinessEuropewww.businesseurope.eu Markus J. Beyrer has been Director General of Business Europe since late
2012. Prior to this he held the positions of CEO of the Austrian
Industry Holding ÖIAG, Director General of the Federation of Austrian
Industries (IV) and Director for Economic Affairs of the Austrian
Federal Economic Chamber. Before this Mr Beyrer served as Chief Economic
Advisor to the Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria, Dr.
Wolfgang Schüssel. In addition to his executive positions, Mr Beyrer
held a number of non-executive board functions in various Austrian
industrial companies and was a member of the non-executive board of the
Austrian Central Bank.Mr Beyrer read Law and Commercial Sciences in
Vienna, graduating in law at the University of Vienna. Later he
completed postgraduate studies in European Law at the Danube University
in Krems (Austria) and the Stanford Executive Program at the Graduate
School of Business at Stanford University. |
MR. DR. CARSTEN POLENZ Vice President,
Industry 4.0 & IoT Strategy, SAPwww.sap.com PRESENTATION FILES Dr. Carsten Polenz is
responsible for the external, political activities of SAP within the areas of
Industrie 4.0, Internet of Things and Digitization of Industry, supporting
directly the Executive Board Member Bernd Leukert. In this role, he works
closely with the German Ministries for Economics (BMWi) and Research (BMBF) to
steer the Plattform Industrie 4.0 as well as with the DG Connect of the EU and
other national initiatives for Digitization around Europe, e.g. Industrie du
Futur.
Dr. Carsten Polenz works at SAP since 1999 and
has held several executive positions in the areas of Corporate Strategy,
Product Development, Design and Service and Support. Besides this he was
program lead for a variety of strategic projects (e.g. acquisitions) reporting
directly to the Executive Board of SAP. Before working at SAP, he was
researcher at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Energy and Resources,
working in the area of sustainable energy consumption. |
ADRIAN HARRIS Director General, Orgalimewww.orgalime.org Before joining
Orgalime in 1996, Adrian Harris worked for 20 years for a number of general
contractors for the construction of complete plants, essentially in the
agro-industrial and beverage area. Orgalime is a member of the Alliance for a
Competitive European Industry (ACEI), of which Adrian Harris was Chairman
(2012-2013) and at present he is a Board member of the Federation of European
and International Associations established in Belgium (FAIB).
Orgalime, the European Engineering Industries
Association, speaks for 40 trade federations representing the mechanical,
electrical, electronic, metalworking & metal articles industries of 23
European countries. The industry employs some 10.9 million people in the EU and
in 2015 accounted for more than €1,900 billion of annual output. The industry accounts
for over a quarter of manufacturing output and a third of the manufactured
exports of the European Union.
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MERETE NØRBY International Senior Consultant, MADEwww.made.dk Merete Nørby is responsible for the international activities at MADE and presently primary involved in EUREKA SMART cluster, IMPACT GROWTH and DIGITAL HUB initiation. She played a key role in the Advanced Manufacturing KIC proposal (2016) and is after the relaunch active in this field again. Doctor Nørby has a deep knowledge of manufacturing optimization incl. technology transfer, Lean methods, ambidextrous approaches and SCM in global environment. Prior she worked at Technical University of Denmark with focus on innovation activities and setting up projects between researchers and SMEs. She has also as Head of Center for Production at DTI been initiating and coordinating several manufacturing projects and international study missions incl. supply chain and risk management themes. Merete Nørby has a PhD in Organization from Tsukuba University, Japan and Copenhagen Business School. |
PAULIUS VERTELKA Managing Director, Association INFOBALTwww.infobalt.lt Mr. Vertelka is a Managing Director at INFOBALT. Founded in 1994, INFOBALT is a locally and internationally recognized representative of Lithuanian ICT industry. Its mission is to promote the use of Information and Communication Technologies to benefit society, businesses and public sector. Previously he was the Head of Governmental Program JPP “Kurk Lietuvai” and worked as an expert on improving investment climate at "Invest Lithuania". Paulius has graduated high school in the U.S. and later acquired a double major degree (B.A.) in Economics and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. During his student years, Paulius co-founded the Lithuanian Student Association of North America and presided over it until his graduation. Also, for over two years, Paulius was Managing director at the Lithuanian American Council – an organization with the task of advocating the interests of the Lithuanian-American community to the United States government. |
President of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK)
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