The “Father of the Digital Twins” will headline a programme with more than 250 industry experts.
Michael Grieves, who is considered the father of the Digital Twins, has been announced as the headliner of the conference programmes at the IOT Solutions World Congress, an international event dedicated to industry transformation through disruptive technologies that will be held from 31st
January to 2nd February 2023 at Recinto Gran Via In Barcelona (Spain).
Organised by Fira de Barcelona in partnership with the Industry IOT Consortium® (IIC™), the event will feature over 400 exhibitors and 250 experts taking the stage to speak on disruptive technologies and solutions that are transforming industries. The conferences and sessions will feature top international speakers and will present use cases that provide clear examples of how disruptive technologies are radically transforming businesses.
The congress will be structured in six horizontal tracks aimed at providing a new cross-industry approach: Industry IOT, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Twins (DT), Edge Computing, Augmented Reality and 5G. Besides Dr. Michael Grieves, Executive Director and Chief Scientist at the Digital Twin Institute and international expert in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), the programme will feature several other speakers such as:
- Sean O’Regain, Deputy Head of Industry 5.0 at the European Commission;
- Lookman Fazal, Chief Information & Digital Officer at New Jersey Transit, Seonhi Ro, Manufacturing Industry 4.0 Specialist at Ford;
- Sandeep Shekhawat, Director of Engineering at WalmartLabs;
- Cristian Paun, Global Digital Leader at Dupont;
- Julien Bertolini, IoT expert at Volvo;
- Jesper Toubol, VP of Operations – Moulding Production at Lego Group.
Grieves is widely recognised as the father of Digital Twin after a conference he gave on PLM at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in Michigan in 2002. The idea originally dubbed doubleganger became known as the digital twin during Grieves’ collaboration with the NASA while developing a technological roadmap in 2010. Grieves has over five decades of extensive executive and deep technical experience in both global and entrepreneurial technology and manufacturing companies.
The IOT Solutions World Congress will be jointly held with Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress (BCC) and Integrated Systems Europe (ISE).