Tuesday, March 2

Registration

Executive Roundtable with Dinner
(by invitation only)

Wednesday, March 3

Opening Speech
Building the Future: The Road to Operational Excellence
Dr. Valentijn de Leeuw, Director of Consulting, ARC Advisory Group

Lunch

Trends in Plant Asset Management
Wil Chin, Director of Field Devices, ARC Advisory Group

The Future of Process Control

Panel Discussion and Q&A Session

Dinner

Thursday, March 4

Process Improvements with Wireless HART
Jean-Luc Griessmann, Manager, HCF Europe Operations, HART Communication Foundation Europe

Wil Chin
Research Director, ARC Advisory Group
Wil leads the field device consulting team at ARC, focusing on pressure flow, level, temperature, field device communication protocols, plant asset management, and laboratory information management systems.  He has nearly 30 years experience in sales management, product marketing, and engineering for industrial field instruments with Krohne, Foxboro, BIF, and Stone & Webster.

Dr. Christian Czauderna
Head of Global Efficiency Programs, Bayer MaterialScience
Christian joined Bayer in 2001.  Prior to his present assignment, which he started in October 2008, he was Head of the Asset Management and Network Economics department of CURRENTA, a joint venture of Bayer and Lanxess.  He also has experience as Head of Electricity Supply of Bayer Chempark Dormagen at Bayer Industry Services, as well as staff employee at the Energy Department of Bayer.  Christian served as a research assistant at the Institute of Power Systems from 1996 to 2001.

Dr. Valentijn de Leeuw
Director of Consulting, ARC Advisory Group
Valentijn's responsibilities include research and consulting in process industries, with emphasis on clients in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).  His technology focus is on manufacturing operations management. Valentijn’s focus areas include organizational change and effectiveness, business process improvement, value-based performance management, governance, project management, knowledge management, operations management, asset management, innovation and engineering, and manufacturing IT.  Valentijn is also the focal point for ARC's Benchmarking Consortium in EMEA.

Ruben Gil
Director of Business Consulting - EMEA, AspenTech
Ruben has more than 25 years experience providing consulting services related to manufacturing operations IT strategy to executive level clients across the process industry.  In this present role, Ruben assists companies to improve engineering, production, and business performance through the best use of IT solutions.  He has extensive experience in many different process industry segments, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, petrochemicals, and consumer goods.  Prior to joining AspenTech, Gil spent 14 years at Honeywell in a range of different roles, primarily focused on implementing, developing, and marketing manufacturing execution systems.  During this period, Gil was active in several manufacturing IT standardization committees including ISA S88 and S95.  He is also a co-founder of the European Batch Forum Association.

Jean-Luc Griessmann
Head, HART Communication Foundation Europe
Jean-Luc has 15 years of experience with a major process instrumentation manufacturer in Switzerland.  Since 1999, he has been Head of HART Communication Foundation Europe in Basle, Switzerland.

Victor Lough
Decision Support Systems Technical Consultant, Invensys Operations Management
Victor has over 25 year experience in providing holistic performance improvement solutions for operator driven processes, these have included refinery-wide process optimization, enterprise loop management and alarm management solutions, and the business development of mobile workflow with predictive machinery health solutions.  He joined Invensys Operations Management from VG Gas Analysis Systems where he served process industries as a strategic analyzer solutions consultant and EMEA regional sales management.  Prior to joining VG GAS, Lough held technical lead and operator supervisor role with Western Geophysical.

Charles Mohrmann
Vice President Sales, Wonderware Mobile Solutions
Charles serves Wonderware Mobile Solutions (formerly SAT Corporation) as Vice President of Sales.  He has over 25 years experience in business development, marketing, management consulting, and sales management.  He joined SAT Corporation from McKinsey & Company where he served Fortune 100 clients in the process industries as a management consultant.  Prior to joining McKinsey, Mohrmann held senior management positions with SAIC, Gensym, Honeywell, and Compressor Engineering.

Dr. Jochen Müller
Marketing Manager Digital Communication Systems, Endress+Hauser Process Solutions
Working Group Leader "Process Automation", PROFIBUS & PROFINET International
Jochen wrote his Doctorate on Fieldbus Technology and Asset Management in Process Automation.  He has been working for end users and manufacturers in process automation since 1991 and is involved in standardization activities in working groups in VDMA, NAMUR, and PROFIBUS & PROFINET International.  At Endress+Hauser Process Solutions he is the marketing manager for digital communication systems (PROFIBUS).

Rolf Panzke
Director Marketing Sensors and Communication, Siemens
Rolf manages global market development for Siemens Sensors and Communication in the chemical/petrochemical, oil & gas, and shipbuilding industries.  As a specialist in products for these applications, he consults with industry officials and plant operators to gather input on global trends and to coordinate development of Siemens’ portfolio of sensors and communication to meet customer needs.  He first joined Milltronics in Peterborough, Canada, as General Manager for Microwave Technologies (Radar).  After the acquisition of Milltronics by Siemens, he was appointed Director, Marketing Process Instrumentation Technologies and Industry Director for Chemical Industries.  Rolf has many years of experience in industrial process industries, including assignments as General Manager of Level Technologies with Krohne Measurement Technologies and R&D Manager at Eastman Christensen.

Jürgen Potthoff
Manager Sales Asset Management, Bayer Technology Services
Jürgen has 16 years experience with globally operating Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) companies working on projects in Europe, Americas, Asia, MENA, and Australia servicing the petrochemical, refineries, and chemical process industry.  His responsibilities included Feasibility Study Leader for world scale petrochemical plants, Sales and Project Manager for lump sum turnkey EPC projects including a 4 year business development assignment to Australia, and establishment and management of maintenance management and contracting services based on risk-based maintenance concept.  Prior to joining Bayer he spent 3 years as Manager of Reliability Engineering with a major chemical company, responsible for the development and global implementation of risk based maintenance.

Bart Schaminée
Global Sourcing Manager Process Automation, Electrical & Instrumentation, SABIC
Bart has 15 years of experience in managing process automation strategies, projects, and sourcing.  He is currently responsible for the global integration and sourcing strategy for process automation of 140 plants, producing 65 million metric tons per year.

Bernard Scherrer
Head of EDF Group Innovation Sourcing & Transfer, EDF R&D
Bernard has been Deputy Vice President for R&D Power Generation Sector at EDF R&D since January 2007.  Formerly, he was Strategy Corporate Manager in the Corporate Strategy Division for five years.  He also has five years of experience as manager in EDF’s nuclear power plants (Fessenheim and Cattenom).  Bernard began his carreer in civil works for the French Navy and Aéroports de Paris, and joined EDF in 1994.

Glenn Schulz
Managing Director, FDT Group AISBL
Glenn joined the FDT Group as Managing Director in July of 2009.  Most recently, he was the General Manager and Vice President of Engineering at Dorner.  For thirteen years prior, Glenn was an executive at Rockwell Automation.  During his tenure there he served as a Vice President and Secretary of the Board of FDT Group.  Glenn’s diverse technology career has spanned leadership roles in engineering, marketing, sales, business management, and senior management. He has numerous design credits, articles, and patents in industrial and process automation as well as cryptography.

Werner Setzwein
Vice President Automation & Electrical Engineering, BASF
Werner has been with BASF for over 20 years.  He is responsible for the technical expertise of automation and electrical engineering for BASF projects worldwide.  This includes all areas of process control, automation technology, process analytical technology, field device technologies, and electrical technologies.  Werner began his business career as a design engineer, commissioning engineer, and construction manager for power plants. He has over 30 years of experience in project engineering and project execution.

Johann Ströbl
Head Electrical Engineering and Building Services Department, Field Office Fuel and Heat Technology, TÜV Süd Industrie Service, Branch Regensburg
Johann joined TÜV Süd Industrie Service in 1980.  After being responsible for controllers in safety applications at the department of fuel technology and heat engineering, he built up the department of fuel technology and heat engineering in the branch Regensburg.  Since 2000 he has been head of the department of electrical engineering and building services engineering and head of the field office fuel technology and heat engineering at the branch Regensburg.

Dr. Alex van Delft
Competence Manager Process Control, Royal DSM
Alex has a background in Engineering Physics, a PhD in Process Control and Optimization, and has worked in DSM in different manufacturing roles.  He was program manager for the reorganization of the central engineering department and was involved in outsourcing and insourcing of activities in this area.  Currently he is responsible for global process control in DSM.  The main activities of his group include competence management, opportunity surveys and project support, choice of tools and suppliers, and improving the skills of the people in the competence.

Herman Van Roost
General Manager Industrial Organization and Competences Project, Total Petrochemicals
Herman worked in the Antwerp petrochemical industry for Exxon Chemical and Fina from 1980 to 1996 in several engineering and maintenance functions, and as Maintenance Manager and Plant Manager.  Between 1996 and 2006 he occupied several business management positions within Petrofina and its successor companies Atofina and Total Petrochemicals, as Application Manager, General Director Elastomers, and General Manager Industrial Coordination and Joint Ventures.  In 2007 Herman returned to the industrial branch of Total Petrochemicals as General Manager of the corporate project ‘Industrial Organisation and Competencies’.

Dr. Peter Zgorzelski
Office Manager, PROLIST INTERNATIONAL
Peter joined Bayer AG in 1989 and led numerous projects at the Uerdingen site.  Afterwards he was responsible for the procurement of process control equipment in the central technical purchasing department in Leverkusen.  Peter now works as Manager in Process Management Control at Bayer Technology Services. He serves as Office Manager of PROLIST INTERNATIONAL.  He is a member of various working groups of NAMUR, eCl@ss, DIN, DKE, IEC, and PROLIST.