World Manufacturing Forum 2026
22/10 - 23/10 | Palazzo Mezzanotte, Milano
Diego Andreis
President, World Manufacturing Foundation & Managing Director, Fluid-o-Tech Group, Italy
Marco Taisch
Scientific Chairman, World Manufacturing Foundation & Professor of Sustainable Manufacturing, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
David Romero
Scientific Vice-Chairman, World Manufacturing Foundation & Professor of Advanced Manufacturing, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Abe Eshkenazi
CEO, Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), USA
Andrian Candu
Managing Partner, BizMatters Consulting, Romania
Alberto Fornaro
CEO, IUVO - Wearable Robotics, Italy
Cristina Oyón
Deputy Director General, SPRI Group, Spain
Dominic Gorecky
Head of Swiss Smart Factory & Executive Board Member, Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Dominik Rohrmus
Chief Expert Software, Siemens, Germany & Chief Technology Officer, Labs Network Industrie 4.0, Germany
Duck Young Kim
Director, Factory Intelligence Laboratory, POSTECH, South Korea
Eline Boon
Senior Policy Manager, Shifting Policies for Systemic Change, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, UK
Evgeny Kharlamov
Senior AI Expert, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
Faizah Alaoui
Education Sector Expert, Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ICESCO), Morocco
Francois Bohuon
Managing Director, Palantir France & Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
Giacomo Sergio
CEO, WondersSys, Italy
Guido Gioioso
CEO and Co-Founder, WEART, Italy
Jeff Winter
Vice President, Commercial Strategy, Belden, USA
Jesmond Hong
Chief Operating Officer, International Centre for Industrial Transformation (INCIT), Singapore
Johan Stahre
Head of Division Production Systems & Director - Chalmers Upskilling Academy, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
John Dyck
CEO, CESMII - The Smart Manufacturing Institute, USA
Josh Bayly
Director of Sustainability, Consumers International, Switzerland
Kristine Mo
Vice President, Global Market and Ecosystem, AI² Robotics, China
Malgorzata Koszalkowska
Principal UX Strategist & Lead for Mobile & XR, Digital Technology Operations, Volvo Group, Sweden
Noriko Suzuki
Global Research Leader, Industrial Manufacturing, IBM Institute for Business Value, Japan
Omar Abouelmagd
IT Lead Consultant – Smart Manufacturing Service, Lenovo, Malaysia
Rafik Feki
UNIDO Representative & President, Alliance for Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing in Africa (AISMA), Senegal
Simon Jacobson
Vice President, Supply Chain Operations Research, Gartner, USA
Toni Purcaro
CEO, DEKRA, Italy
Vanya Manolova
Vice President, Europe Procurement – Global Supply Chain, Schneider Electric, France
Wolf Michael Kühne
Country Managing Partner, DLA Piper, Italy
Zeljko Pazin
Executive Director, European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA), BelgiumInstitutional Speakers
Attilio Fontana
President, Lombardy Region, Italy
Emanuele Orsini
President, Confindustria, Italy
Maciej Witucki
President, Business Europe, European Union
Alessandro Fermi
Minister for University, Research and Innovation, Lombardy Region, Italy
David Bahati
Ministry of State for Industry, Republic of Uganda
Ala Talabani
Advisor to the Prime Minister of Iraq for Women's Affairs, Iraq
Amal Alshareef
Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network (C4IR) - Saudi Arabia, General Manager for Operations, Acting Managing Director and Board Secretary
Giuseppe Pasini
President, Confindustria Lombardia & President, Feralpi Group, Italy
Cécile Huet
Head of Unit "Excellence in AI & Robotics", European Commission, Europe
Alvise Biffi
President, Assolombarda, Italy
Jaume Baró Torres
Secretary for Business and Competitiveness, Department of Business and Labour, Government of Catalonia, Spain
Joan Roget
Vice-President of Foment del Treball, Spain
Guido Guidesi
Regional Minister for Economic Development, Lombardy Region, Italy
Tobias Gotthardt
Vice Minister, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy of Bavaria, Germany
Thomas Koenen
Co-Director of Innovation, Security and Technology, Federation of German Industries (BDI), GermanyModerator
