Adrian has spent over 20 years in customer-facing positions ranging from sales and marketing, to fulfilment and account management. His career focus has been on problem solving and development within emerging and rapid growth segments to enable customer success across a wide range of industries from Hi Tech to Retail and Logistics and across multiple disciplines such as Supply Chain, Manufacturing Simulation and Analytics.
In his current role, Henri leverages innovative software solutions to help the Transportation & Mobility industries optimize their customer experiences.
In his career, Henri had various roles relating to prescriptive analytics software: Optimization Consulting director in IBM and ILOG, founder of TempoSoft for human resource planning optimization.
Finally, as a Quintiq director, Henri facilitated the adoption of advanced applications for Operations Planning and Optimization in the Transport & Mobility Industries.
Henri graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, France, and holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence.
Trained in mechanical engineering, Prashanth Mysore offers deep expertise and 23 years of experience in technical portfolio management, business transformation and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions consulting across a wide range of industrial sectors notably Transportation & Mobility, Aerospace & Defense, Construction, Cities and Territories, and Energy & Materials.
Based in Adelaide, Prashanth is working for Dassault Systèmes worldwide team with responsibilities including expanding technological capabilities in Digital Manufacturing & Manufacturing Operations Management and ensuring quality of the domain & market development. He has specialized in Productivity Improvements, Lean Manufacturing, Industry Renaissance, Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing technologies with Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, a collaborative business platform that brings together people, ideas, and knowledge on a common mission of innovation.
Prior to this, he has been a Methods Engineer & Production Manager in leading Automotive Companies in India and Japan.
Mr. Alex SHIMADA is the Group General Manager, Process Automation Business Division Manufacturing Process Solution Dept. of Panasonic Corporation Connected Solutions Company.
Graduated from ENSAM ParisTech, Bruno Demange has been working at Accenture within the Strategy & Operations Service Line during the first 10 years of his professional career. He was helping several customers coming from the diverse industries (CPG & Luxury, A&D, Mobility sectors, etc.) in shaping and setting up their strategic, operational or organizational transformations.
By joining Dassault Systèmes in 2012, Bruno pursued his industry transformation mission holding various positions within DELMIA Sales, Marketing and Excellence Center departments.
As a DELMIA Strategy Director, Bruno is currently leading new brand initiatives, leveraging innovative business approaches in order to best serve customers, ease their digital transformation and drive them towards the better industrial, social, and environmental performances in the context of Industry Renaissance.
Zdravko SMOLEJ is a systems engineer at Slovenian Steel Group. He joined the company as an engineering designer, soon after graduating from University of Maribor in 1985. He also held other positions in the company throughout the years, as a control and automation engineer and later as an MES system designer and developer. Due to his industry experience and extensive background of process knowledge, Zdravko took on the role of business consultant in the implementation of DELMIA Quintiq Company Planner.
After 15 years of Manufacturing experience in the Automotive industry in different countries, Richard is at Global Head of Industrial activities for Laboratories M&L, L'Occitane Group, in charge of the 2 Manufacturing plants & TPM sourcing. My new responsibilities include Lean, Investments, Industrialization & Safety.
Dassault Systèmes, Home & Lifestyle, Consumer Packaged Goods, Retail Solutions, Vice-President Graduated from French Aeronautics and Space Engineering School Sup’Aero, Patrick has started his career managing various positions within Dassault Systemes (3DS) R&D with continuous passion for Innovation and Technology. In the 2000’s, Patrick joined the 3DS DELMIA brand in charge of Manufacturing & Production where he led the Numerical Control and Process Planning domains. Since 2011, Patrick has been leading various leadership positions in the 3DS CPG-Retail and Home & Lifestyle Industries organisation working with key leader customers helping them to transfom to a higher level of Value Creation from Consumer to Science to Innovation to Manufacturing. Patrick is currently leading the WW Manufacturing Domain for those Industries.
Leandro BALENA has 25 years of experience in Industrial Management (Manufacturing, Maintenance, Costs and Quality) and Process and Project Engineering.
Graduated in Chemical Engineering with Specialization in Administration, Management with Emphasis on Industries, Environmental Management in Industry and PMD - Program For Management Development training. Participated in Business Development Programs in China, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Austria and Argentina.
He has extensive experience in managing large, multidisciplinary teams; Start up of new businesses, developing processes and structuring production and logistics operations; Effective asset management generating world-class production volumes, quality, costs and security; large industrial construction and assembly; Acquisition, commissioning and qualification of new equipment; Implementation of projects focused on Production Efficiency, Safety and Environmental Management; Automation and Control of Production and Industrial Costs.
In addition to being an advisor to Instituto Boticário Group, he is the current Industrial Director, Member of the Sustainability Committee and Sponsor of the Race and Ethnicity Affinity Group.
Geoff has over 20 years of advanced planning solution design, development & deployment experience in various global geographies across multiple Food and Beverage industries including fresh produce, dairy, packaged ingredients, snacks and meals, sauces, protein, canned goods, brewing for on and off-trade, soft drinks distribution and other associated industries.
Fred THOMAS is the Strategic Business Development Director for the DELMIA brand of Dassault Systèmes specifically covering the Transportation & Mobility and Industrial Equipment industries.
Mr. THOMAS focuses on industrial operations strategies and solutions to support global, complex discrete manufacturers. Mr. THOMAS spent 12 years with Volkswagen of America as part of the IT leadership team, responsible for manufacturing, distribution, finance and dealership management systems.
As Vice President of IT for Ross Roy Communications, his organization was responsible for developing many of Chrysler Corporation’s original web sites and interactive advertising programs. THOMAS has also held senior management positions with BRAIN NA and Descartes Systems and industry positions with Baan and Novell.
Innovation in the nuclear industry is accelerating as the push for sustainability and agility drive companies to strive for ever greater differentiation, efficiency and safety. By breaking down the silos between people, processes, and data, the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform is a key catalyst in enabling this business transformation.
Thomas GRAND became Vice President, Energy & Materials Industry, Dassault Systèmes, in 2016.
He drives industry adoption of a new digital perspective of the full business lifecycle – innovation to recycling – to deliver sustainable life for the 21st century. Thomas helps companies in power, metals and minerals, chemicals, mining, and oil and gas create efficient and sustainable materials, processes, and facilities using Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
Thomas began his career with British Energy as a systems engineer at Sizewell B nuclear power plant and then specialized in energy consulting and project management for IBM Business Consulting Services and AREVA. He joined corporate marketing at AREVA for the market analysis of nuclear and renewables, and later was vice president of strategic marketing.
Thomas has a master’s degree in energy management from the joint program of BI Norwegian Business School, IFP School in France, and ESCP Europe Business School, a bachelor’s degree in digital systems engineering from the University of West of England, and an associate’s degree in power engineering and industrial automation from Claude Bernard University in France.
Frank LEVERING is Senior Manager of New Technologies & IT at Geico Taikisha.
Throughout his career, Frank has developed his knowledge and expertise at major tech players in Europe and Asia Pacific, including Microsoft, O2 (British Telecom) and IDC. By taking on serious responsibilities over the end-to-end customer experience across various products and services worldwide in his previous roles and industries, he now applies his vision and skillset to the automotive industry. His main focus for external customers is Industry 4.0, which encompasses all the products and services of a Smart Paintshop.
Koert is an experienced consulting professional with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. He is an expert within Supply Chain Planning, Business Process, Business Intelligence, Operations Research, and Integration areas. Koert has a Master of Science (MSc) focused on Knowledge Technology from CIBIT.
Being a Technical Cybernetics Engineer with a history in research on Autonomous Systems, Simulation and Human-Machine Interaction, Bruno has more than 30 years of experience on many facets of Digital Manufacturing, working mainly with Automotive, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering OEMs.
Bruno is an Expert Architect in the DELMIA Center of Excellence, with a strong focus on Digital Continuity on the Enterprise Level.