Keynote Speakers

Michèle is Director of Emerson’s European Advanced Design Centre – facilitating access to technical expertise for European Business Units, assisting with innovation and new product development. Michèle has a particular interest in strategic technology management and the global dimension of innovation. Previously, as an independent technology management consultant, she worked with organisations across a broad range of industry sectors to implement practical tools to assist with innovation and solve strategic issues. While a Research Associate in the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing, Michèle developed tools to assist industry with technology-based emergence and innovation development. Michèle has an MSci in Physics with Electronics, a PhD in Microelectronics and an MBA in Technology Management. She is currently undertaking an Executive DBA at Cranfield University researching the potential for digitalisation of collaborative technology strategizing.

Vladimir works in TRIZ since 1972. He is a direct disciple of TRIZ creator, Mr. Genrich Altshuller. He helped to organize many TRIZ schools in Russia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Vietnam and Israel. He often conducted training seminars jointly with Mr. Genrich Altshuller. In total, he delivered more than 50000 hours of lectures on TRIZ and trained more than 6000 persons. Among his disciples there are leading specialists on TRIZ in different countries of the world. He also conducted TRIZ seminars in many cities of Russia, Israel and South Korea. Vladimir took part in solving more than 2000 inventive problems and fulfilled more than 500 projects on TRIZ for the largest companies of the world, such as, Samsung, Intel, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corp., Boeing, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, BMW, BOSCH, CompAir, Philips Semiconductors, HP, Applied Materials, etc. He introduced some notions to TRIZ, from which the important concept of “innovation resources”. He developed individual regularities and trends and created his own system of trends of technology evolution, forecasting, solving creative problems in business and promotion of business projects.  He deals with adapting TRIZ for information technologies. He created his own methodology for TRIZ training intended for people of any age and methodology of forming inventive thinking. Author of manuals, as well as of more than 400 printed works and 48 patents. Creator and leading specialist of the biggest TRIZ groups in social networks LinkedIn and Facebook, with more then 14 000 members.

Dr.-Ing. Johannes Daxenberger is a postdoctoral researcher and coordinator of the ArgumenText technology validation project. He holds an M.A. (Magister Artium) in Computational Linguistics, Spanish and General Linguistics from the Universität zu Köln. In October 2011, he was granted a 3-year PhD scholarship within the Hessian excellence program “Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz” (LOEWE). In July 2015, he successfully defended the PhD thesis about Online Mass Collaboration in Wikipedia. He currently coordinates the technology validation project “ArgumenText”. Previously, he has been working within the CEDIFOR eHumanities Center, supporting and coordinating various projects within Digital Humanities. Until end of 2014, Johannes was part of the LOEWE Research Center “Text as a Process”, with a focus on Wikipedia Revision History. His research interests are Machine Learning & Text Classification, Argumentation Mining, Digital Humanities and Online Mass Collaboration & Writing Processes.

Lin Kayser is a German technology entrepreneur and inventor. He is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperganic, a software company pioneering A.I.-driven engineering for the future of manufacturing. Hyperganic’s mission is to generate parts and entire machines completely from computer algorithms and Artificial Intelligence. Since 2015, Hyperganic has collaborated with partners globally on the production of radically new forms of products. Lin’s entrepreneurial journey stretches more than 25 years. He started his first company at the beginning of the 1990s. In 1993 he joined startup ARADEX to disrupt the world of industrial control systems with PC technology. In 2000 he created his next company, IRIDAS. For a decade, Lin’s team helped transform the global film industry from analog to digital though high-speed image processing technology. IRIDAS was acquired by Adobe in 2011. For three years, Lin held the position of Director of Engineering at Adobe. In 2014 Lin left Adobe to focus on his own ventures. Lin is a frequent speaker on the topics of entrepreneurship, sustainability and the future of humanity.

Bill is an organizational leader with more than 35 years of experience in research, development, commercialization, and all aspects of the patent lifecycle.  Bill is currently developing new analytics and workflows for IP.com, a software and services company providing Innovation tools for the Intellectual Property and Engineering communities.  Bill is a certified practitioner of TRIZ, Taguchi Methods for Robust Design, Six Sigma and statistics.  He is a co-author of Engineering Methods for Robust Product Design, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.  He is the inventor of 28 U.S. patents.  He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and was a participant of the very first SSBB Certification program, led by Mikel Harry, at Motorola.  Dr. Fowlkes then went on to help develop the first Black Belt program at the Eastman Kodak Company.  Bill has always had a passion for pushing the boundaries of process-driven innovation and quality improvement in his work.

Dimitri is Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board at DEIP – Blockchain Technologies, a San Francisco based startup focusing on the Open Innovation framework. Previously, as a CEO of NOKIA in Belarus and Moldova, he built a solid business presence of Nokia in the Cluster Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Dimitri also held a Global CTO position at Nokia and beforehand at Siemens enabling innovation products market introduction in regions AME, EMEA and APAC. While a Research and Teaching Doctorate position in the Ruhr-University in Bochum/Germany, Dimitri developed novel statistical methods for today’s AI/ML technology. Dimitri has an MS in Electrical Engineering and Informatics, a PhD in Statistics and an Executive MBA (Executive Transition Program) at ESMT Berlin.