Andreas Brandauer, born in 1965, has been with Siemens Industry Software GmbH for more than 17 years. As Senior PreSales Consultant, he has experience in the areas of mechatronic development in mechanical engineering, virtual commissioning and early real-time simulation.

Dipl. Ing. Peter Zander is in charge of organization, care and advancement of CAD-and PDM systems onsite KUKA Systems Assembly & Test. He is responsible for the unification of CAD, PDM, ERP and standard parts management.

Marcel Nagel has been at SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG since finishing his Bachelors in mechanical engineering in 2002. Throughout his career at SCHUNK, he has been focused in the areas of development automation along with product and portfolio management. Since 2013 he has been the Head of Central Product and Portfolio Management.

Tobias Wild is working as a Development Engineer for mechanical components at the Swiss company Stadler Rail. In the year 2017 Tobias Wild was responsible for the integration of CADENAS PARTsolutions at Stadler.

A Mechanical Engineer with over 20 years’ experience in industrial lifting & positioning solutions for client projects worldwide. Specialist linear motion and power transmission skills gained in a variety of roles at Power Jacks including engineering, production, sales and marketing. A flair for product marketing sees Bruce Hamper Head the Marketing Team that has seen Power Jacks enter and expand in new markets globally including offices in Germany and China.

Thorsten Müller has been working for I*Center CER, the presales organization of PTC, for 9 years. His key areas are, the industrial customer sector and plant engineering. As presales technical account manager he is focused on technical questions, presentations and benchmarks with focus on PLM, Integrations and IoT.

Steve started his career as a Mechanical Design Engineer in 1983 designing automation systems. While in this area Steve developed several software methods that would increase productivity for Mechanical Engineers. In 1994 he joined PHD, Inc. serving various roles in Marketing, Finance and Information Technology where he is responsible for the creation and distribution of engineering software including Customer CAD, sizing software, animations, and web sites including all other Information Technology responsibilities for PHD, Inc and its subsidiaries.

Catriona manages WARR Hyperloop’s inventory and leads the levitation and contactless propulsion teams. She is a Master student in engineering physics at TU Munich and is developing the next generation of particle detectors for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Working both in the massive international collaboration that is CERN and in the small, dynamic Hyperloop team gives insights into how organizations of different sizes manage design and development processes.

Since July 2016, Anthea Waidele has been the Marketing Assistant for the Afag Group. Her focus is on online marketing and the production of print documents. Among other things, she is responsible for maintaining the Afag website and social media channels.

Jakob Prechtl is an Industrial Master in Metal and Mechanical Engineering. After working for several years in the machine tool industry, he set up his own business in 1990 with an engineering office in the area of development and design and gradually expanded it. Since 2009 he is Partner and Managing Director of Prechtl Engineering GmbH with main focus on machine tools, special equipment, automotive, wind energy and medical technology. The resulting self made product "Portable surgical microscope for developing countries" was spun off in 2016 into a separate company "Prechtl TechSolutions", whose sole owner is Jakob Prechtl.

Since 2000, Stefan Waldner has been working for CADENAS GmbH in the CAD/PDM interfaces area. Since 2008, he has been Head of Web Development and is responsible for further developments of PARTcommunity.

Sergio Salsedo has many years’ experience in Software Development in high tech environments. He has also been responsible for PLM consulting services in his career. Mr. Salsedo is not only the Co-founder of Focus PLM, an Aras Gold Partner, but also the companies CEO and provides CAD connectors amongst other integrated solutions.

Luca Borghi, CEO of CADENAS Italiana S.r.l., has been a member of CADENAS since 2009. Since then he has held various positions, including technical manager for the pre- and post-sales activities PARTsolutions/PARTwarehouse for Italy and Spain. Since 2014 he has been CEO of the Italian subsidiary of CADENAS.

After completing his studies in industrial engineering, Axel Weber started his career as Area Sales Manager at Wehrle GmbH. After working as a product manager at fischerwerke and Siemens VDO Automotive, he has been working as a Marketing Manager at Otto Ganter since 2007.

Lars Fredenlund is the CEO of coBuilder AS and the company's co-founder. Since starting coBuilder in 1997 Lars has been using his in-depth knowledge of the practical needs of the construction sector to develop expert solutions aimed at lifting the performance of the construction industry through the use of structured, standard-based data. In recent years, he has been the technical leader of two EU projects: ChemXchange and ProductInfoX and is a leading figure within the buildingSMART International Data Dictionary working group. Lars Fredenlund currently advices Governments and National/European associations on data aggregation and exploitation.

Matthias Bruhnke studied Civil Engineering at the University of Stuttgart and later received his Doctorate from the Institute for Urban Development and Construction at the University of Leipzig. In 2011, Mr. Bruhnke started working in the Technical Office Service at the Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG and looks after engineers, planners and architects in technical matters. In 2015, he took over the Management of the Technical Field Service in Germany for the area of engineers, planners and architects as District Manager. Since 2017, Matthias Bruhnke has been the Building Information Modeling Officer (BIM) at Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG for the entire Group and thus responsible for this topic worldwide.

Christoph Blessing successfully completed his studies of Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences Munich in 2000. Afterwards he found his job at Steidle Architekten GmbH Munich, where he dealt with the planning and execution of building construction projects. In 2012, he began working for OBERMEYER Planen + Beraten GmbH as Head of the Department. He has been an Authorized Officer since 2016 and manages the branch in Stuttgart.

Mr. Dipl.-Ing. Nikolai D'Agostino studied mechanical engineering at the University of Hanover and then worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Production Engineering and Cutting Machine Tools for five years. In 1999, he joined CENIT AG in the Digital Factory Solutions (DFS) division, where he held various positions in consulting, sales and business development. Since 2015, he leads a research department of DFS, developing innovative solutions in the area of Industry 4.0 and hybrid manufacturing based on the company's own Fastsuite Edition2 platform.

Christopher Lind, born in 1988, is a master metalworker and has been with TENADO for more than 2 years. As team leader of the consulting department, he is responsible for new products and innovations. In his function as a trainer and contact person for customers, he knows exactly the requirements of the market.

Jürgen Heimbach, born in 1966, is one of the founders of CADENAS GmbH. Already during his academic studies at the Technical College in Augsburg he impressed with his dedication in the area of standard and purchased parts. Even his diploma thesis dealt with this topic and showed a clear movement towards a career in this area. Today Mr. Heimbach is CEO of CADENAS GmbH.

Robert Weitlaner, building physicist, is Head of HELLA´s R&D department. He was the initial driving force in HELLA´s BIM ambitions and is in charge of the challenging project “xD-Productconfiguration in solar shading”.

Dr.-Ing. habil. Arndt Lüder has studied mathematics at Magdeburg University, Germany. From 1995 to 2000 he worked as research engineer at the universities of Magdeburg and Halle-Wittenberg. Since 2001 he is with Institute of Ergonomics, Manufacturing Systems and Automation, where he is the head of the “Center Distributed Systems”.

The main focus of his work is on application of innovative technologies in areas of industrial automation as object-, agent-, and service-oriented concepts for control and communication as well as the engineering processes required establishing these architectures. Within this scope he is involved in several research and development projects.

Frank Epple has been working at CADENAS GmbH since 1997. Since 2000 he has been the Head of Software Development and thus responsible for the technical side of PARTsolutions and eCATALOGsolutions.