8:00-8:40
Breakfast
8:45-9:30
Opening keynote:
The Software Defined Factory: From Features to Scale
Dr. Josef Waltl, Thomas Mühlegger & Robin Braumann, Software Defined Automation
9:35-10:05
AI-native Factories With AWS: Modernizing End-to-End With Industrial DevOps, Intelligent Robotics, and the Data Fabric
Dr. Srinivas Nidamarthi, Amazon Web Services
10:10-10:25
Break
10:30-11:00
Tariff Strategies for Software-defined Automation in the Current Economic Climate
Richard J. Albert, EY Tax & Samuel Greising, FLECS Technologies
11:05-11:35
Industrial DevOps in Practice: Learnings From a Software Engineering Perspective
Michael Dürgner, GROPYUS
11:40-12:10
Insights Into Global Dev Team Collaboration Through SDA: A Machine Builder’s Perspective
David Tabacco, Clevertech
12:15-13:15
Lunch
13:20-13:50
How to Enable Robotic Systems to Perform Human-Like Tasks in the Factory
Dr. Tilman Buchner, Boston Consulting Group
13:55-14:35
42Q & SDA: A Joint Approach to Factory Modernization
Wellington Giolo and Klaus Mueller, 42Q
14:35-14:50
Break
14:50-15:30
Expert Workshop:
From Device to Dashboard: Rapid Onboarding of Industrial Assets and Teams to SDA
Amir Javanshir, Thomas Mühlegger, Robin Braumann & Michael Frey, Software Defined Automation
Software-defined Automation: Making Machines Connected & Software-defined
Christian Kessler, SEW-EURODRIVE
15:35-16:15
Expert Workshop:
From OT Vulnerable to Cyber-Ready in 45 Minutes
Amir Javanshir, Thomas Mühlegger, Robin Braumann & Michael Frey, Software Defined Automation
From Requirements to Code
Reinhard Haslauer, Selmo Technology
16:20-16:30
Wrap-up/Final Remarks
Reception to follow at Oktoberfest.
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