Stefan Henkel studied economics at the University of Bamberg, where he also received his PhD. After working as an assistant professor and as a freelance IT consultant, he started his Siemens career in 1996 at Siemens Management Consulting in Munich. In 1997, he became the Director of Supply Chain Consulting at Corporate Procurement and Logistics.

After filling further management positions in other departments, he joined Customer Services at the Healthcare Sector in 2006, where he was responsible for the global “Product Support” and “Siemens Remote Service”. In 2010, he led the Sector Transformation Management Office. In 2011, Stefan Henkel became the Head of Customer Relationship Management Operations. Since January 2014 he assumes the responsibility as Head of Information Technology within Siemens Healthineers. With the IPO of Siemens Healthineers in March 2018 Stefan Henkel has taken the accountability as CIO.

Siemens Healthineers AG is a leading medical technology company headquartered in Erlangen, Germany. Siemens Healthineers and its regional companies are continuously developing their product and service portfolio, with AI-supported applications and digital offerings that play an increasingly important role in the next generation of medical technology.

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Roman Rapoport has been since 2019 Group CIO at BPW, a global operating supplier to the commercial vehicle industry as well as a mobility service provider to the transport and logistics industry. Before joining BPW, he was driving bigger digitalization projects in the insurance area on the consulting side – as an IT executive at Accenture Strategy.

BPW is a partner to commercial vehicle operators and commercial vehicle manufacturers with 125 years of experience. The company thinks of transportation and logistics as a whole – and beyond. The goal is to make transport and logistics processes sustainably more efficient, safer and more predictable for the customers. And to open up completely new possibilities with electric drive solutions for city logistics and the digital networking of truck, trailer and freight.

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Konrad Westphal is Director of IT at German global mechanical and plant engineering firm Dürr Group.

Westphal’s key project in the last couple of years include setting up an IT competence centre with over 50 IT specialists in India. For 2023 onwards, his goal is setting up a powerful international IT organisation.

The Dürr Group is one of the world’s leading mechanical and plant engineering firms with extensive expertise in automation, digitalisation and energy efficiency. Its products, systems and services enable highly efficient and sustainable manufacturing processes in different industries.

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Karl Neumann is SVP Group IT, Managing Director at Constantia Business Services Austria.

Constantia Flexibles is the world’s third largest producer of flexible packaging.

Maik Schulz is Director Application Management at German manufacturer of machine joining components NORMA Group.

Thomas Reitz is CIO & Executive Vice President ICT at German manufacturer of machine joining components NORMA Group.

In his role, Reitz is responsible for the information and communication technology (ICT) as well as the business process management (BPM) at NORMA Group.

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Volker Kratzenstein is CIO Group IT Components at Volkswagen. Prior to this role, he was CIO of Bentley Motors in the UK and CTO of Volkswagen.