Prof. Dr. Martin Eigner 
Germany

Prof Dr Martin Eigner is a globally acknowledged thought leader in PLM and a well known PLM speaker and writer. He is Professor at the Technische Universität  Kaiserslautern  specializing in Virtual Product Development. Prof Eigner has a vast experience from strategic implementation of PLM at large organisations and was the founder of the company Eigner and Partner that was acquired by Agile and now by ORACLE.

Olaf Tellefsen
Director, Group Coordinator PD and PLM, Volvo Group
Sweden
 
Mr Tellefsen works for IT Governance at Volvo Group. He presented the PLM strategy at PDT Europe in 2005 and will now share the PLM experience made in Volvo Group during the last years. PLM at Volvo AB is very much about architecture work and PLM needs to be linked with business goals as well as core competence. We will hear about the need for a PLM platform with components that can be exchanged and how to manage a complex programme such as PLM in a complex and changing organization. Mr Tellefsen is Director, Group Coordinator PD and PLM, IT Governance, Applications, Volvo AB. He has a financial as well as technical background and has previously held positions in management consulting firms.

Dr. Steven Vettermann ProSTEP iViP
Germany

Dr. Vettermann is Manager Technical Program ProSTEP iViP Association. He will present the changing scope for using product data standards, the shift from geometry and assembly data to business process support. No single vendor solution is able to fulfill all the needs across engineering domains and across company borders. The focus has to be on processes and enabling collaboration based on standards. This presentation will cover the OMG PLM Services, the first standard comprising current XML and Web Services technologies with a STEP model. The ProSTEP iViP Association has started to standardize reference processes concerning engineering change management (ECM) and collaborative project management (CPM) based on the OMG PLM Services. The presentation will include opportunities and business values of applying these standards.

Jean-Jacques Urban-Galindo
France

Mr Urban-Galindo will summarize PSA's involvement in the STEP AP214 development and the standard's cornerstone position in the IT architecture. He will also present report on the daily usage to support the multiple cooperations. Before his retirement in September 2005, Mr Urban-Galindo developed his entire thirty-eight years career working in Information Technology for the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group. He now shares his industrial experience in digital engineering through a consultancy activity. In his career Mr Urban-Galindo covered a large spectrum of different company responsibilities. The most recent were:  

1998-2004 appointed Director of PSA Group digital engineering projects embracing product and process development. This program is known as INGENUM. He was responsible for the deployment of the digital mock-up and the implementation of a new generation of information systems in the areas of new vehicle and engine design.

Howard Mason, Corporate IT Office, BAE Systems
United Kingdom

Mr Mason is the Chair of ISO TC 184/SC 4 on Industrial data and works in the Corporate IT Office of BAE Systems, with responsibility for information standards across the entire company. In the spring of 2008, the US Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) Engineering Data Interoperability Group (EDIG) published the recommendation that AIA member companies and suppliers transition to a standards-based interoperability solution utilizing PLCS (ISO 10303-239) and its associated DEXs. Across the aerospace industry, the need for efficient data exchange has never been greater. Aerospace companies have increasingly focused on the role of systems integrator, relying on partners and suppliers to provide significant portions of their aircraft designs. Meeting the requirement for integration and collaboration through life, however, has been costly and time-consuming given the disparate set of applications and methods typically employed across a complex supply network..  Mr Mason will elaborate on the business drivers behind the recommendation and give his view of the usability of product data standards across the life cycle of products.

Nigel Shaw, Eurostep
United Kingdom

Mr Nigel Shaw was in the core development team of PLCS! Nigel is an internationally respected expert in the area of product data and related standardization. He has been involved with the STEP standard since 1986 and is recognized as a technical leader within the STEP development. For five years he represented British Aerospace in the PDES, Inc. Consortium, working with major US companies and he was for a number of years moderating the Round Table for CAD Vendors at Prostep. Nigel was the lead developer of the NATO Product Data Model that integrates standards for logistics, initial procurement and technical publications with STEP. Nigel was the lead technical resource for the development of PLCS, a major effort to standardize Product Life Cycle Support information within ISO. 

Sylvia Schwab, Senior Systems Engineer and Project Manager, Corena AS
Norway

Sylvia Schwab has twelve years experience working with customers and partners to solve business problems using structured information standards such as SGML, XML and Topic Maps.

Prior to joining Corena Sylvia worked as a Senior Information Architect and Project Manager for the IQM (Information Quality Management) department at Det Norske Veritas (DNV), where she led projects related to the product data standard PLCS, including data exchange studies between PLCS and the documentation standard S1000D.Previously Sylvia worked as an Information Architect in the Professional Services department of STEP GmbH (now Empolis GmbH), first in Germany and later in Norway.

Sylvia trained as a computer scientist at the University of Applied Science in Würzburg, Germany.

Klare Volker, IBM - Software Group PLM
Germany

Mr Klare is also IBM Executive IT Specialist and Member of the Technical Expert Council (TEC) Global PLM Automotive Industry Leader.  Mr Volker will present together with Bernd Sartor, IBM Germany.

Per Brorson, Eurostep 
Sweden 

Mr Brorson was working for Volvo between 1995 and 1999 in the area of collaboration, responsible for Volvo’s participation in the development of AP214. During this period Mr. Brorson held a number of positions within organizations like Odette, SASIG, Prostep and the Swedish STEP standardization organization. Mr Brorson has been with Eurostep since 2000 and is currently responsible for Eurostep’s office in Gothenburg.

Niklas Adamsson, PLM Business Consultant High tech & Electronics, Technia
Sweden

He has worked as consultant within aftermarket operations in both the aerospace and automotive industries.