Juergen Maier CBE

Chair, Digital Catapult

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

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.

"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."

Mark Enzer

Digital Director

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.

Paul Clarke CBE

Chief Technology Officer

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.

Sam Turner

Chief Technology Officer

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

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

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

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.

Barry Maybank

Chief Digital Officer

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

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.