Meet the Speakers of the VDMA European Summit 2026 in Rome:

Luis Cachón

Head of Legal Metrology
Mettler Toledo and CECIP
Switzerland

Ambrogio Castiglioni

EMEA Senior VP Sales Motion Control
Siemens
Italy

Andreas Evertz

CEO
Flender International GmbH
Germany

Prof. Dr. Gabriel Felbermayr

Director
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
Austria

Britta Jacob

Government Relations Lead
ARX Robotics GmbH
Germany

Bertram Kawlath

President
VDMA e.V.
Europe

Gerhard Keller

Head of Manufacturing Industry
Google
Germany

Ben Kokx

Director standardization product security
Philips
Netherlands

Dr. Andreas Lackner

Executive Board Member
PLANSEE SE
Austria

Dr Apostolos Malatras

Head of Unit Market, Technology and Product Security,
Head of Unit Cybersecurity Certification
European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)
Greece

Dr. Christine Payer

Lead Counsel IIoT
Duerr Group
Germany

Fabio Puglia

Founder & President
Oversonic Robotics
Italy

Colonel Matthias Puschnig

Federal Ministry of Defence
Berlin, Gemany

Sergio Rizzi

CEO
RENK ITALIA Srl
Italy

Giorgio Santandrea

OEM & Machine Builder Director Europe
TXOne Networks Europe B.V.
Netherlands

Thomas Schiemann

Managing Director of
VDMA Security Systems
Germany

Dr. Joachim Schönbeck

CEO
Andritz
Austria

Dr. Erwin Schuster

CIO
MAPAL
Germany

Dr. Sebastian Werner

Director of Data & AI Solutions
Thoughtworks
Germany

Toby Walsh

Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales

Steffen Zimmermann

Head of Competence Center Industrial Security
VDMA e.V. Informatics
Germany