Thinking Machines Ahead

Timo is the EMEA Industry Lead for Manufacturing and Industrial at NVIDIA based in Munich. In this role, Timo drives NVIDIA’s business with companies in this sector, including, e.g., semiconductor, industrial automation and aerospace. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Timo was leading Manufacturing Solutions at Google Cloud in EMEA. Before that, Timo was a Partner at Siemens Management Consulting in Munich and Beijing with a focus on discrete and process manufacturing. Timo holds a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the University of Karlsruhe.

Erik is Programme Manager Vision + Robot at Wageningen University and Research. He started is career as Mechanical Engineer at a Philips production plant and moved from there via a horti-tech branch organization to Wageningen. As programme manager he manages the Vision + Robotics project portfolio with a team op 60 researchers at the applied side of V+R solutions in B2B and Public Private Partnerships. Next to his daily word he is also: chair of the topicgroup on Agricultural Robotics at EU Robotics; Chair of topicgroup Greenhouse Horticultuire at the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Techniek in de Landbouw (Dutch Society of Technology in Agriculture), network coordinator at the European agROBOfood network and project leader of the Dutch NXTGEN Hightech Agrifood program.

Director and head of research area Human-Technology Interaction at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO. His interdisciplinary teams work on solutions that enable efficient interaction between people and intelligent technology. His work focuses on adaptive systems, future work environments and the design of positive user experiences. He coordinates the AI Innovation Center "Learning Systems and Cognitive Robotics", the applied branch of the Cyber Valley ecosystem to transfer machine learning technologies into commercial use. For the human-oriented design of future work with AI, he is involved in Germany’s "Plattform Lernende Systeme" and the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI).