sponsors:
Corena
Cieltum
Variantum
Confirmed 2011 speakers
Below is the list of confirmed major speakers for the 20th Annual PDT Europe conference.

Peter Bilello, President, CIMdata 
Mr. Bilello has more than 22 years of experience in the development of information technology solutions for research, engineering, and manufacturing organizations worldwide. He has held various positions in Product Lifecycle Management strategic direction, analysis, selection, and implementation, CAD/CAM/CAE/CIM implementation, synchronous and lean manufacturing consulting, and software engineering.

Dr. Marc Halpern Vice President, Research Manufacturing Advisory Services Engineering, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management at Gartner.


Dr. Michael Grieves
Mr. Grieves has authored several books and numerous papers on the topic of PLM and LEAN. Dr Grieves is affiliated with a number of universities in the US. He works with PLM users and suppliers to organizations such as NASA, Department of Defense, Ford, and Toyota on PLM strategies and implementations.


Kari Penttinen, Senior Technology Adviser, Tekes.

Kari Penttinen is working in the area of Products, Production Systems and Manufacturing Technologies mainly for Mechanical Engineering Industry. He is the program manager of the Digital Product Process program, initiated by Tekes in 2008. Before joining Tekes he worked as Engineering manager in manufacturing industry and has been in charge of implementation of global CAD and PDM solutions. 

Torbjörn Holm, Eurostep.
Mr Holm has more than 30 years experience from specifi-cations and implementations of standards based product models and PLM. He is a member of the Project Planning Committee of ISO TC184 SC4 (STEP). He is one of the founders of Eurostep.


Mr. Rob Leibrandt 
Mr. Rob Leibrandt, U.S. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Procurement and Acqui-sition Policy (DPAP) and Chairman of NATO Allied Committee 327, Working Group 5 Unique Identification (UID) of Items.