Juergen Maier CBE

Chair, Digital Catapult

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Juergen Maier is Chair of the Digital Catapult, co-Chairs Made Smarter and serves on the Industrial Strategy Council which advises Government on Industrial Strategy. Juergen argues strongly for the modern re-industrialisation of the North of England and is a board member of both the Greater Manchester LEP and the Northern Powerhouse Partnership.

Juergen is the former Chief Executive of Siemens UK. A position he held from July 2014 to December 2019. Over his 33 year career with Siemens he held a number of senior roles within Siemens in the UK and Germany. This included Managing Director of Industrial activities for the UK and Manufacturing Director of the award-winning Drives factory in Congleton (where he started his career as a Production Engineer)

Juergen joined Siemens in 1986 with a BSc in production engineering from Nottingham Trent University, on a Siemens-sponsored graduate programme. He was made an honorary professor of Engineering at the University of Manchester in March 2014 and became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in September 2017. Juergen has also received honorary doctorates for his services to UK Science and Engineering from the Universities of Lincoln, Nottingham Trent, Salford Manchester, Cranfield, Sheffield and Manchester Metropolitan. Juergen was awarded a CBE in the New Years honours list 2019.

Juergen is a passionate advocate of rebalancing the UK economy and has supported many UK-wide initiatives championing manufacturing and engineering skills. In 2017 he was asked by the Government to lead a review into how to increase the digitalization of the UK manufacturing sector. The subsequent report led to the creation of the joint industry/government ‘Made Smarter’ Commission, which Juergen co-chairs with the BEIS Business Secretary.

Stephen Phipson CBE

Chief Executive

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Stephen Phipson is the Chief Executive of Make UK, the manufacturers’ organisation. Make UK is the representative voice of UK manufacturing, with offices in London, Brussels, every English region and Wales.

Stephen previously held the position of Head of the Defence and Security Organisation within the Department for International trade delivering support to UK defence and security businesses seeking to export and develop joint ventures and partnerships overseas, as well as to overseas defence and security businesses seeking to invest in the UK. Prior to this Stephen held the position of Director for Security Industry Engagement within the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism at the Home Office where he was the Senior Responsible Owner within Government for the UK security industry and had responsibility for securing a new generation of G2G security agreements with priority overseas partner nations.

In addition to senior roles within the UK Government, Stephen has spent 35 years in Industry and has held senior roles within the Electronics, Defence and Security industries. He was Chief Executive of Stadium Group plc and prior to this spent 15 years with Smiths Group plc latterly as President of Smiths Detection, one of the world’s leading threat detection businesses, exporting to more than 100 Government agencies around the World. This followed several years as Group Managing Director of Smiths Interconnect, manufacturing electronics subsystems and components for the Global Defence, Communications and Security markets. Stephen has also held senior management positions with Radiall, Philips and Plessey. Stephen served as the inaugural Chairman of RISC, VP Security for ADS and Chairman of the Security Commission of ASD.

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"The UK has first class innovation, many start-ups are the envy of the world. But where we differ from our competitors is that they have digital strategies, the UK is falling behind without co-ordinated leadership. We need to create a digital eco-system to allow our experts to flourish and transfer their cutting edge technology to a wider audience. Today the UK is on a precipice, politically certainly, but also economically. So now more than ever we need to work together on our strengths. This event will give us an opportunity to discuss, but also find real, practical solutions to help businesses prosper."

Alexandra Smyth

Senior Programme Manager

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Alex is a Senior Programme Manager at the Royal Academy of Engineering leading on the Academy’s COVID-19 response, providing engineering advice to government on topics such as PPE manufacturing, ventilation and supply chain resilience.

Working within the policy team she is part of the secretariat for the Made Smarter Expert Stakeholder Panel where the Academy has brought together stakeholders to map the industrial digitalisation ecosystem making recommendations to support the transition from a programme to a national movement and investigating how digital technologies can help manufacturing meet net-zero.

Charlotte Horobin

Region Director - Midlands & East

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Make UK is the largest voice supporting UK manufacturing, Charlotte’s role as Region Director is to engage Make UK’s members and assist them in advancing as a manufacturer by providing bespoke introductions, providing industry insight, attendance at events & networking, promoting their business and ensuring their views are heard. Another key part of her role is to engage with regional stakeholders ensuring manufacturers’ interests are represented to LEPs, the West Midlands Combined Authority, Midlands Engine and the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Combined Authority.

Charlotte also is a Trustee of the WMG Academy for Young Engineers, business led schools for 14-19 year olds who are interested in STEM career and she is also a Careers and Enterprise Advisor in Lincolnshire. She gained her undergraduate degree from The University of Leeds in Biomedical Science before completing her Masters at The University of Nottingham. Before joining Make UK (formerly EEF) in 2013, Charlotte worked in food manufacturing where she focused on business development and food safety management.

Clare Porter

Head of Manufacturing

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Clare has led the cross-cutting manufacturing policy team for the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy since 2015. Priorities include developing the UK’s position as a leader of the 4th Industrial Revolution through the Made Smarter the UK’s Industrial Digitalisation programme; Strengthening UK Supply Chain Capability and progressing international engagement on advanced manufacturing policy to identify opportunities for collaboration. Clare worked with industry to produce the Made Smarter Review, published in 2017 and leads work for the department on how to deliver its ambitions through government policy.

Clare’s team works with a range of stakeholders including industry, trade bodies, technology institutions, local partners and academics to ensure that government policy meets business need. Clare started working in BEIS in 2011 has led on Growth Deal policy; worked on the Heseltine Review and with LEPs. Clare joined the civil service in 2002 and has worked across a number of government departments and policy areas including counter terrorism, community cohesion, 2012 Olympics and UK drug policy.

Clive Hickman

Chief Executive Officer

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Clive Hickman was born in Dudley in the West Midlands, and studied at the University of Wolverhampton, Aston University and Loughborough University holding a BSc, PhD in mechanical engineering and a MBA.

During his career, he has been Chief Executive of Tata Motors European Technical Centre, Head of Engineering for Tata Motors India, Managing Director of Ricardo UK, Engineering Director at MIRA and Executive Engineer with Rover Group. He has also been responsible for highly significant automotive industry contributions at a local, national and international level and has led several vehicle programmes in throughout his career.

Currently, he is Chief Executive of the Manufacturing Technology Centre Coventry, where he is responsible for manufacturing innovation and creating a cohesive link between academia and industry. As an extension of his contribution to Great British engineering, he is also Vice President of the IMechE.

Clive was recently appointed the Chair of the Midlands Manufacturing Resilience Commission, which will review how the Midlands has performed as a region through the COVID-19 crisis and explore how the region can build its' manufacturing resilience and cultural heritage to become truly world-class.

The Commission is sponsored by the Mayor of the West Midlands and has brought together a number of regional stakeholders from across academia, industry and government to inspire confidence back into Midlands manufacturing.

Günter Korder

Managing Director

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Guenter Korder is Managing director of it's OWL Clustermanagment Ltd., an industry led leading edge cluster in North Rhine-Westphalia with focus on digitisation of industrial enterprises. More than 200 partners develop cutting edge innovation in joint projects with academia partners and along their respective value chains. it's OWL is seen to be benchmark for successful transformation formats for small and very small companies in Europe.

Günter was a Member of the Management Board of Siemens Information and Services Ltd. in Germany before he joined the Clustermanagement organisation in 2012. He spent more than 20 years in ICT Industry and has a solid background in business model transformation and complex project businesses. Main Focus nowadays is on innovation for intelligent technical products and production methodologies, helping industrial partners to transform their businesses into future oriented, robust business models, making use of all opportunities being provided by digital technologies. During the ongoing CORONA crisis it's OWL became a driver for change and co-operation for rapid business transformation. Successful new formats e.g. a MAKEATHON were lauched right in the middle of the crises. Günter sees success to be a good basis for additional efforts.

Hayaatun Sillem

Chief Executive

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Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering Hayaatun has extensive leadership experience in UK and international engineering, innovation, and diversity and inclusion activities.

She is chair of the government’s Innovation Expert Group and the St. Andrews Prize for the Environment; trustee of EngineeringUK and Foundation for Science & Technology; member of the Made Smarter Commission; director of Festival 2022 Ltd; and advisor to accelerateHER and Lloyd’s Register Foundation.

She has been named as one of the ‘Inspiring 50 Women in Tech’ and one of the most influential women in engineering and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology and Honorary Professor at UCL. Hayaatun was awarded a CBE for services to International Engineering in the 2020 New Year’s Honours.

Kadine James

Creative Tech Lead

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Creative Technologist, Artist, Activist, Digital Curator, Immersive XR producer, Digitalmaker, innovator & emerging technology enthusiast, Kadine James is a prominent Tech Evangelist. Combining 10+ years’ experience in 3D Printing, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, XR and immersive technology, she’s driven by big ideas, a global mindset and empowering the use of VR/AR/XR & AI across the arts and creative tech industries. Kadine is especially committed to the next generation industry 5.0 #VR #AR #Immersive storytellers #DigitalMakers #artists #architects #gamers at Hobs3D's digital foundry, Immersive studios and 3D skills Academy.

Kadine is listed as one of the top most influential women in UK technology (computer weekly). She collaborates with world leading XR artists, academics, architects, designers, creative technologist and galleries and institutions around the world. Kadine is the Founder of The Immersive Kind, an Arts and Advanced Technology Organisation and multidisciplinary global collective of artists, designers and creative technologists. Kadine sits on the international advisory board at None in Three a research and policy centre which is using gaming technology to tackle gender based violence around the world.

Marcus Burton

Non-executive Director

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After gaining a first class honours degree in Production Engineering and a Masters degree in Machine Tool Technology from the University of Birmingham, Marcus Burton entered the metrology industry, including 15 years with Brown and Sharpe (USA) as a General Manager and Director of a number of European subsidiary companies. Mr Burton has extensive operations management and board level experience in Business Development and Strategy including international acquisitions and post merger integration and has also worked as an independent consultant in strategic management. Marcus Burton joined Yamazaki Mazak* as Group Business Development Director for Europe in October 2005. He was appointed Managing Director of Yamazaki Mazak U.K. Ltd in October 2007 and European Group Managing Director in January 2010 responsible to Japan for all Mazak’s European operations including Manufacturing, Engineering and the European Sales and Service subsidiary companies.

In April 2017 Mr Burton took on the new role of non-executive Director of Yamazaki Mazak UK Ltd, with specific interest in future business direction and external relations which has taken on more significance since the decision of the UK to leave the European Union. In addition to his on-going role with Mazak Mr Burton is also President of the Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) and serves as Chairman of the Economic Committee of CECIMO, the European Association representing the common interests of the Machine Tool Industry.

Mark Enzer

Digital Director

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Mark is a keen champion of innovation in the context of collaborative delivery models and he is particularly interested in transformational change in the infrastructure industry (including: digital transformation, Smart Infrastructure, low-carbon sustainable solutions, platform-based delivery and design for manufacture and assembly).

As Mott MacDonald’s Chief Technical Officer, he is accountable to the Executive Board for technical excellence across the Group. As the Chair of CDBB’s Digital Framework Task Group, Mark is contributing to the leadership of the National Digital Twin Programme.

Mark was the Digital Transformation workstream lead on “Project 13” for the Infrastructure Client Group, which represents the UK’s major infrastructure client organisations and he was the Lead Author of the Infrastructure Carbon Review, published by HM Treasury.

Mark Mathieson

Lead Partner - Technical Services

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In his role as Lead Partner for Technical Services, Mark is responsible for the application of technologies developed from within McLaren Racing to opportunities that sit outside of the McLaren Group, often via establishing collaborative relationships within McLaren's partner ecosystem. The technical scope of his role includes modelling and simulation, design and development, data analytics, electrification, operational performance management, control and edge computing.

Prior to this, Mark lead innovative, forward-thinking technical and commercial teams within McLaren Applied Technologies as Director of Innovation and spent ten years with McLaren Automotive from start-up to successful car manufacturer, where he was the Chief Engineer for Powertrain, defining and delivering the world renown M838T engine plus the next generation of world class powertrain and vehicle technology for high performance road cars. Mark holds a BEng (hons) in Mechanical Engineering and an MPhil in engine design from the University of Bath and completed the Manufacturing Leaders course at Cambridge University. Mark also sits on the UK Automotive Council as the Industry leader of the Digital workstream.

Mike Hughes

Zone President UK & Ireland

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During his more than 20 years with Schneider Electric Mike has had a diverse international career. He currently heads up the Schneider Electric business in the UK and Ireland zone with responsibility for the operations of the group within the Zone.

In his previous roles he led the global strategic accounts, commercial organization of the group and prior to that he managed the secure power and datacenter business in EMEA. Earlier in his career he led the Industrial automation business Unit in China and headed up the Schneider Electric business in Taiwan.

Mike started his career in the Industrial motion control and automation business out of the black forest in Germany. Mike studied Electronics and Telecommunications at DIT in Dublin and holds an MBA from Kingston University in London. He speaks English, German, Mandarin and French and lives in London.

Nick Wright

Head of Manufacturing Industries

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As Digital Catapult’s Head of Manufacturing Industries, Nick Wright combines his domain expertise and passion for engineering and manufacturing with advanced digital technology to develop partnerships and commercial relationships that help accelerate the UK's manufacturing sector.

In the role, he specialises in new product development and launch, business process design and engineering research and innovation. He brings over 12 years industry experience, split between engineering and technology consulting, including working with some of the most significant companies in UK manufacturing such as Jaguar Land Rover, Ford Motor Company, B/E Aerospace, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Hexcel and BAE Systems.

Nick has an engineering doctorate from the University of Manchester, a degree in engineering from the University of Nottingham.

Oliver Conger

Managing Director

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Oliver Conger is the owner and Managing Director of Rototherm Group, a 170 year old manufacturer of precision instrumentation. He acquired the business with his brother eight years ago and embarked on a restructuring and growth strategy investing heavily in people, equipment, R&D and most importantly in transforming the culture of the business through lean thinking.

Just over 3 years ago, the business saw the opportunities opening up through digitalisation, and how it can apply to improving and adapting to its’ changing customer needs. The business took the leap in this new space, brought in the necessary skills and investment to design and digitalise its products, and following their launch in 2019, has seen rapid growth and uptake and provide new revenue streams that have become increasingly important in the new world we find ourselves in.

Paul Clarke CBE

Chief Technology Officer

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Paul Clarke is Chief Technology Officer at Ocado - a world leader in smart fulfilment and logistics.

After joining Ocado in 2006, Paul initially worked on warehouse control systems and then joined the team designing Ocado’s next highly automated fulfilment centre. After establishing new teams for Simulation and Mobile development, Paul then co-wrote the first of Ocado’s award winning mobile apps.

Ocado Technology, with its 2000+ engineers, is responsible for building all the technology that powers Ocado's end-to-end e-commerce, fulfilment and logistics platforms.

Ocado are now busy signing deals with large bricks & mortar grocery retailers around the world who wish to use the Ocado Smart Platform to operate online grocery scalably, sustainably and profitably.

Having handed over the leadership of Ocado Technology in April 2018, Paul now leads the Office of the CTO whose mission includes exploring opportunities to use Ocado's technologies and competencies to disrupt other sectors, research activities and the technology vision and future proofing of the business.

Paul read Physics at Oxford University, before then entering the computer industry. He has worked in software engineering, consultancy, interim management and a number of software start-ups.

Paul sits on a number of government and industry advisory boards including the AI Council, Robotics Growth Partnership (co-chair), Future Flight Advisory Board and National Food Strategy Advisory Board.

In what little spare time he has alongside his work and family, Paul loves to invent and build stuff, design PCBs, write software and generally tinker.

Paul Holt

Technical Director

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Paul Holt has a degree in maths, but never uses it. He worked in finance in the City, trading Eurobonds for a number of years, but only because it over-paid him for the limited value he created to the bank and humanity in general.

He started Photocentric in a small, window-less room in Peterborough in 2002. Having had to do every role in the business when it was forming, he has now managed to do only the role he likes doing, overseeing technical strategy. It is not known whether he does it well.

He occupies himself with how he can develop LCD based 3D printing, the technology he invented, intending to make manufacturing better. He probably overestimates the potential this has for its ability to change the world.

Robert Stiles

Founder

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Rob Stiles is an award winning chartered architect with extensive experience in high end residential and domestic projects. He founded Future Joinery Systems (FJS) in 2017 as a vehicle to deliver an Innovate UK funded R&D project looking into the feasibility of push button manufacturing from architectural BIM environments.

Rob has always had a strong digital bias in his working methods, not just in BIM, but in 3D modelling, computer rendering, scripting and digital fabrication. This is coupled with an empirical understanding of tectonics and craft; and he always looks to deliver practical, buildable solutions. Rob teaches architecture at the University of Bath, and has been a visiting critic at other architecture schools.

FJS has now been awarded a 2nd innovation grant to progress their technology platform. They are an active member of the Construction Innovation Hub and have recently been selected for the Wood Awards 2020.

Sam Turner

Chief Technology Officer

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Professor Sam Turner is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult. Sam works across the HVM Catapult centres and stakeholders, including government, to develop manufacturing strategy for the UK. He is part of the Made Smarter strategy implementation group led by Juergen Maier and was part of the review team. In this role Sam has chaired the D4I digital industry group, the Through Life Engineering Services (TES) Council and the IMechE Manufacturing Industries Division.

He joined the HVM Catapult team in 2017 from his role as CTO of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, where he worked on a range of projects and capabilities including the flagship digital facility Factory 2050, machining, casting and composites technology. As a founding member of the AMRC, Sam led the growth of the AMRC’s Machining Group, with successes in delivering impact to UK industry, before moving into the CTO role. Sam has over 20 years’ experience in manufacturing working across the aerospace, steel, defence, automotive sectors.

Steve Evans

Director of Research

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Professor Steve Evans is Director of Research in Industrial Sustainability at Cambridge University. He leads research that seeks to deliver knowledge concerning sustainable change at scale, including programmes in sustainable business model innovation, system transformation, the limits of efficiency and sustainable policy making in developing countries. He spent 15 years in industry and has over 30 years of academic experience which includes working collaboratively around the globe. In 2019, Steve was recognised by his peers for academic excellence by his election as Member of Academia Europaea. He has been Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords and is a serial clean-tech start-up founder. Steve has been a millionaire and lost it. Twice. Financial advice will not be offered.

It is not clever or profound to point out that these are times of change. We have had 60 years of global industrial stability, and the future is unlikely to be as stable. We need to learn how to be resilient to disruption while learning how to tread lightly on the planet. We look forward to exploring this opportunity together, and to showing how others are tackling this.

Tim Minshall

Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation and Head of Institute for Manufacturing

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Tim is the inaugural Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation at the University of Cambridge, Head of the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) and Head of the IfM’s Centre for Technology Management (CTM). His research, teaching and engagement activities are focused on the links between manufacturing, innovation, and skills.

Tim was appointed as Head of the IfM in 2017 and is a member of the board of directors for IfM Education and Consultancy Services Ltd and St John’s Innovation Centre Ltd, and a member of the UK Made Smarter Commission’s Expert Panel. Tim is also a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.

He is a recipient of a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence and a Royal Academy of Engineering/ExxonMobil Excellence in Teaching Award. He is also actively involved in outreach activities to raise awareness of engineering and manufacturing among primary and secondary school children and their teachers.

He has BEng from Aston University and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering.

He is Chairman of the charity Young People’s Mental Health (https://www.ypmh.org/).

Tullio Tolio

President of the Scientific Technical Committe; Full Professor

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Tullio TOLIO is Full Professor of “Manufacturing and Production Systems” at Politecnico di Milano. He has been the Director of the Institute ITIA-CNR in the period 2008-2018. He has been member of the National Habilitation Board of MUR for University professors in “Manufacturing and Production Systems”. He is President of AITEM (the Italian Association for Manufacturing) and “Fellow” of CIRP (the International Academy for Production Engineering).

He has been member of the HLG on KETs and member of the Steering Committee of the program “Industry 4.0” of MISE (Italian Ministry of Economic Development). He is member of the MANUFUTURE HLG and member of the Partnership Board of EFFRA (European Factories of the Future Research Association).

He is President of the Scientific Technical Committee of the Italian Cluster “Intelligent Factories” CFI endorsed by MUR (Italian Ministry of University and Research) and President of the Scientific Technical Committee of the Cluster Intelligent Factories Lombardy AFIL endorsed by the Lombardy Region.

His research interests are in the area of circular economy, zero defect manufacturing, resilient manufacturing, configuration and reconfiguration of production systems, performance evaluation of production systems. He is the author of two books and more than 170 publications on international journals and conferences. He is Editor in Chief of the “CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering”. He is member of the Editorial Board of the “CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology (CIRP-JMST)”. He has been the Director of the Italian Flagship Project “Factories of the Future-Italy” launched and funded by MUR.

Verity Davidge

Director of Policy

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Verity is the Director of Policy at Make UK, representing and championing manufacturing in the UK and supporting businesses around the country. She leads in directing the organisation’s policy work, raising the profile of manufacturing and ensuring that the views of Make UK’s members are heard by the Government and wider policy makers. She regularly represents Make UK in the media and in Parliament, appearing before Select Committees and All Party Parliamentary Groups, as well as sitting on Government led boards and advisory groups.

Verity works closely with Make UK’s membership team and leads Make UK’s National Membership Board ensuring all policy work is mandated and representative. She also oversees Make UK’s information and research work, including its annual survey programme and accompanying reports.

Prior to this role, Verity led on Make UK’s influential education and skills policy. Previous to working at Make UK, Verity worked at the London Chamber of Commerce and in a public affairs agency. She has a BA (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics as well as an MSc in Public Affairs and Lobbying.

Barry Maybank

Chief Digital Officer

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Responsible for the MTC digital manufacturing strategy to industry.

Driving the adoption and digitalization of manufacturing deriving value and enabling impact on UK PLC.

Prior to joining the MTC Barry has occupied a number of leadership positions in market making and strategic transformation roles, including: Chief Digital Officer, Manufacturing Industry Leader, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Professional Services.

Enabling organisations to explore and create business impact through digital transformation, delivered at pace and scale.

Lina Huertas

Chief Technologist

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Dr. Lina Huertas is Chief Technologist for Technology Strategy at the Manufacturing Technology Centre.

A mechanical engineer by training and system’s engineer by trade, with 10 years’ experience in defining, framing, developing and demonstrating informatics systems and the business models around them. Her experience includes a PhD in the application of informatics solutions to support quality improvement in manufacturing. In the past 5 years, she has been involved in participating in, forming and managing teams to deliver solutions that generate business benefits on the back of digital solutions for manufacturing, including: operational simulation, embedded prognostics systems and self-adaptive machines. This work has supported projects that have led to multimillion pound savings in industry. Currently, she is leading the Digital Manufacturing Strategy at the MTC, offering unique capabilities to develop and mature technological solutions for the UK and EU manufacturing sector.

Nandini Chakravorti

Chief Engineer, Digital Engineering

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Dr Nandini Chakravorti leads the Digital Engineering Group at the MTC.

She has PhD on novel methodologies to implement complex multi-modal sensor based systems and machine learning to support real-time performance monitoring for elite athletes in the UK. 10 years industrial experience with many companies such as Samsung, Motorola and Huawei Technologies working on middleware software applications.