Jonathan Hou
Jonathan is President of Pleora Technologies, the world’s leading supplier of video interfaces for system manufacturers and camera companies serving the military, medical, and industrial automation sectors.
Jonathan is responsible for Pleora’s day-to-day operations, including the company’s expansion into embedded, AI, and machine learning solutions. Jonathan joined the company as CTO in 2018, and brings extensive experience from the quality inspection, machine vision, and sensor networking industries. He has a Bachelor of Applied Sciences in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Engineering from McGill University.
Shih-Chang Lin
Kristian Hulgard
Kristian is the General Manager of the Americas division at OnRobot – the One Stop Shop for collaborative and light industrial robot applications. He has been part of the collaborative robot market since its emergence and a thought leader in cobot applications and activation of robots in the collaborative space. Language skills: English, German, and the Nordic Languages.
ABOUT ONROBOT
Step into the Universe of Collaborative Robot Applications
OnRobot is a born-global, pioneer in automation, passionate about innovative and value
creating technologies. We provide a wide assortment of tools for collaborative and light
industrial robot applications including: electric and vacuum grippers, force/torque sensors, a
2.5D vision system, screwdriver, sander kits and tool changers.
The new combination of offerings from OnRobot makes it quicker and simpler to automate
tasks such as packaging, quality control, materials handling, machine tending, packaging,
assembly, and surface finishing. Headquartered in Odense, Denmark, OnRobot also has
offices in Los Angeles, Dallas, Soest (Germany), Barcelona, Warsaw, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul,
Singapore and Budapest.
Our vision to provide the One Stop Shop that enables easy and fast deployment of
collaborative and light industrial robot applications. OnRobot's out-of-the-box solutions are
easy to customize and can be seamlessly integrated with a wide range of major robot brands
through our One System, Zero Complexity.
Kai Yang
Juan Aparicio Ojea
Juan Aparicio is the VP of Product at READY Robotics. Prior to joining READY Robotics, he was the Head of Advanced Manufacturing Automation at Siemens Corporate Technology in Berkeley, CA. Juan has extensive experience managing complex projects, involving hardware and software; and bridging the technology gap between universities and businesses. His areas of interest include Advanced Manufacturing, Advanced Robotics, Connected Cars, Industry 4.0, and Cyber-Physical Systems. He is member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Advanced Robotics in Manufacturing (ARM) Institute in the US and the Project Manager of the Open Process Automation Forum. His work has been featured at NYTimes, MIT Tech Review and Medium.
Dr. Youngjun Choi
Christopher Nichols
Christopher Nichols is Director of IT/OT Resiliency & Support at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. He has been employed by the Fortune 500 manufacturer, Stanley Black & Decker for over seven years, and is currently Director of IT/OT Resiliency & Support. In this role, he is responsible for deploying Level 2/3 system architectures and connecting all other level systems to level2/3, while supporting them. Additionally, he manages remediation with Edge components, and deploys servers and connectivity for all OT-Related systems, plus Level 1 support of all OT-Related SW applications.
Gregory Brown
Vice President of the Global Advanced Technology Group focused on several emerging technology pillars (Data Driven Decisions, Robotics/Automation, Autonomous Vehicles, IoT & Sensor Technology, and Drones). The ATG is where our UPS emerging technology story starts, as we strategize on how we align technology to our internal and external customer needs. With emerging technology, UPS experience, and external talent my team is shaping UPS to help build out our Global Smart Logistics Network.
Dirk Slama
Dirk Slama is a Vice President at Robert Bosch GmbH. He is also the Director of the Steinbeis FSTI Co-innovation Hub. As conference chair of the Bosch ConnectedWorld, Dirk helps shaping the AIoT strategy of Bosch. As chairman (StC) of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), he helped creating the leading ecosystem for the Industrial Internet.
As current chairman of the AIoT User Group, he brings together practitioners from different industries to help advancing the adoption of AIoT.
Dirk has 25 years’ experience in very large-scale IT projects, distributed systems and IoT. His international work experience includes projects for Audi, Daimler, Lufthansa, Boeing, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, HBOS and others. Dirk is a frequent speaker at conferences, as well as co-author of these successful books: Enterprise BPM, Enterprise SOA, Enterprise CORBA, and Enterprise IoT. He holds an MBA from IMD Lausanne as well as a PhD in Information Systems and a Diploma (MSc equivalent) in Computer Science from TU Ber-lin.
Paul Lewis
Paul is CTO at Pythian. Prior to Pythian he was Global CTO at Hitachi Vantara responsible for the leading technology evangelism, client executive advocacy, and external delivery of the Hitachi vision and strategy especially related to Digital Transformation and Social Innovation. For the past 25+ years, Paul has focused on technology R&D and innovation, IT/business strategic plans and governance, security and risk management, software and infrastructure architecture as the CTO and Senior Executive Technologist of several financial services organizations from start-ups to large business services providers.