.Speaker Group: Smart Manufacturing for Automotive Europe 2025 Speakers

Nasar Jockey

A Digital Manufacturing Visionary Leader, proficient at orchestrating strategic futures, capable of transforming traditional factories, delivering smart capabilities and technologies for manufacturing next generation products within Automotive, Aerospace and Defence sectors. Co-led a multisite cross functional team for development and deployment of an AI platform integrating with Home grown MES, ERP and other sources of… Read more »

Dr. Paulina Prantl

Dr. Paulina Prantl conducts research with her department, Analytics, and specifically with the group “Data Efficient Automated Learning,” focusing on the applications of Machine Learning (ML) in industrial contexts. In industrial environments and production, ML-based process optimizations or decision support systems are often difficult to implement. This is either because there are too few large,… Read more »

Florian Lechner

Florian Lechner is responsible at Volkswagen passenger cars for digitalization of production and logistics. He has over 20 years of experience in the automotive industry with stations at SAIC Volkswagen Shanghai, AUDI AG Ingolstadt and Daimler AG Stuttgart. His main field of expertise is creating value in production by means of digitalization and information technology…. Read more »

Lucy Hawker

An engineer, project manager and business improvement and digitalisation leader with 12 years experience in the manufacturing industry, currently working as Digitalisation Leader in the Jaguar Land Rover Global Manufacturing Engineering division. A manufacturing engineer who came to specialise in automated process control and lean improvement in an Industry 4.0 manufacturing context, before taking on… Read more »

Ehab Abdelaziz

‘With over 16 years of international experience across industries like FMCG, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, and Automotive, Ehab Abdelaziz is a seasoned expert in global supply chain and procurement. Currently serving as Senior Supply Chain & Purchasing Manager for Automotive Mobility Solutions at Bosch, he is based in Germany while managing operations across worldwide plants…. Read more »

Diana Filimon

Data Governance Specialist enthusiast, with over 9 years of Jaguar Land Rover Limited working experience in fields such as Electronic Engineering, Engine Calibration, Procurement and Supply Chain Planning. She is a former IT trainer with a passion for everything data and problem-solving activities.

Muhammad Anas

Muhammad Anas is a Digital Transformation Engineer with 6+ years of experience in Automation and Software development. He has a Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Muhammad is an enthusiast developer of industry 4.0 applications and IIoT solutions for Smart Manufacturing and Digital Transformation. He is in pursuit of excellence in Software Engineering, Data… Read more »

Sandeep Dinkale

Sandeep Dinkale is currently working with Tata Technologies Europe UK as a Manufacturing PLM Operations Lead for Jaguar Land Rover. With a background in mechanical engineering, Sandeep has 16 years of experience in the aerospace and automotive OEM sectors, primarily focusing on digital manufacturing and new product introduction. Sandeep also has expertise in Product Lifecycle… Read more »

Thomas Fischer

Thomas serves as the Smart Connected Factory Program Lead for John Deere. This program is aimed at driving all John Deere Manufacturing Units to a common Tech Stack of manufacturing tools. In collaboration with John Deere Global IT for Manufacturing, the Product Management Teams, and the manufacturing units, Thomas guides the program to evaluate technologies,… Read more »