Michael Flynn, currently the Global Product Creation IT Director for Nike, Inc. has spent the past twenty-five years working to deliver Computer Aided Design & Engineering, and Product Information Management solutions to a broad range of industries.<Br> Product Life Cycle Management has been a passion of his since joining Nike in 1995. At Nike, Michael has been instrumental in moving the company from 2D Design and Engineering, to 3D, and from basic product information management systems, to role based Product Lifecycle Management solutions. Recently recognized for his vision, Michael was awarded the Nike IT Maxim Award in honor of Nike’s co-founder Bill Bowerman, for innovation and coaching. Michael’s message has always been consistently simple — it’s as much about the people and how they work, as it is the technologies they employ.

As Product and Planning IT Programme manager, Warren is responsible for developing and managing the strategic initiatives that impact the core process of product development, forecasting and supply planning. Timberland is in the process of implementing a materials database and integrated Bill of Materials for its Footwear division. This is a key strategic initiative that will have an impact on Timberland’s global operations. This initiative will be the foundation for subsequent efforts that will improve supply planning, financial reporting and enhanced Timberland’s ability to manage complexity. Prior to joining Timberland, Warren worked at the consulting firms of Ernst & Young and Capgemini in Supply Chain Management practices. As a consultant Warren assisted a broad range of companies with defining strategy and implementing Supply Chain solutions. Warren graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the Drew University and from Michigan State University with a Masters of Business Administration in Finance and Supply Chain.

Avi Pinhas has 20+ years of senior IT management experience in a global fashion company, with a thorough knowledge of textile and apparel manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, distribution, and retail. He formed the corporate IT strategy and has set IT standards. leading many enterprise projects including PLM, PDM, ERP, BI, and B2B.<Br> Avi headed the recent corporate PLM initiative through the goal setting, solution search, vendor selection, project definition, project execution, and first phase go live.

Mike Burkett is regarded as the leading expert in product lifecycle management (PLM), having co-authored the first industry publication that defined the market. As the vice president of AMR Research’s Industry Value Chain Strategies team, Mike draws on more than 15 years of experience introducing and supporting products from concept to end-of-life.<Br> Over the past nine years at AMR Research, Mike, a Six Sigma Master Blackbelt, has conducted a variety of research on software developments and business issues. He currently focuses on product management and innovation, and specializes in value chain issues that are specific to aerospace and defense companies.

Dr Amaury Soubeyran joined EADS at the end 2001, where he became Head of the “Electromagnetic Applications” Service. In 2005 he joined the Corporate Technical Office, in charge of economic intelligence and support of the EADS Research Foundation.<Br> In 2007 he was appointed Senior Manager Deputy for the EADS PLM Harmonization program PHENIX with the EADS CTO “Innovation Operations & Network”.

Within BAE SYSTEMS Military Air Solutions Business Unit Graham is responsible for the definition and delivery of strategic I.T. projects being deployed to support the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft.<Br> Of note is the current implementation of the Siemens Product Life Cycle Management application which is being deployed on the division’s key air platforms. The programme involves deployment to over 5,000 users at multi locations across the United Kingdom encompassing BAE SYSTEMS, supplier and customer sites, developing in excess of 20 system interfaces and the replacement of a number of legacy applications.

Mahmoud Mansour has been the PLM European Program Manager at Lear Corporation for the last 6 years. He started the rollout in Europe from scratch, hiring and coaching 5 strong PLM managers and devising training and support strategies ensuring a successful rollout, spanning many European engineering centres and plants with hundreds of users. Mahmoud also is a steering committee member participating in directing the future of PLM at Lear with the objective of continuously enhancing the system functionality and ensuring user satisfaction.<Br>Mahmoud's passion is change management and believes that one of the biggest benefits of PLM is to improve change management and enhance collaboration.

Claes-Göran Andersson moved from IT to business at the end of 2003 to be responsible for Mölnlycke's DCS “Develop Customer Solutions” and related systems as PDM, LIMS and CAD. DCS is Mölnlycke's methodology to perform new development and changes of existing assortment from idea to launch in a process and cross-functional project “toll gate” model.<Br> This is also reflected in Mölnlycke's scope and design of the PDM system it uses today. Claes-Göran will discuss his journey and how he configured a system that supports a process “with a lot of regulatory and business rules” that apply to MDD “Medical Device Directive” and FDA rules.

Antoon Laane is responsible for the Programmable Automation Controllers product marketing for Rockwell Automation in EMEA. He spent the last 21 years at Rockwell Automation in various engineering and marketing roles involving industrial automation applications in a wide range of industries in EMEA and the USA. Design and Production Engineering optimization and ease of use are key parts of the competitive edge Rockwell Automation provides its customers, and PLM fits seamlessly into those objectives.

BG Srinivas heads the Business unit for Industry Vertical – Manufacturing. He is also the member of the Board of Infosys BPO. Prior to this he was head of European Operations for Infosys Technologies: Under his leadership the European operations scaled significantly increasing the footprint in several European countries and across multiple industry segments. He has 22 years of operations and consulting experience across multiple geographies and industry sectors. He has setup the enterprise solutions practice on Infosys which is today the largest practice globally for Infosys. Before joining Infosys, BG led corporate process and systems for the process automation and power transmission multinational, ABB. He was instrumental in streamlining the company's supply chain through a BPR initiative using cellular technology in modeling conventional manufacturing into cross-functional, customer-focused teams.

Valmeeka Nathan is Vice President and Head of Product Lifecycle and Engineering Solutions (PLES) at Infosys Technologies Ltd -US$4 billion IT services and consulting firm. His team focuses on delivering high value global engineering transformation solutions leveraging PLM that result in lean, agility and innovation benefits for clients. Val has about 24 years of experience in providing Engineering and PLM Solutions to the product engineering value-chain with regional and global clients. Prior to joining Infosys, he has led the South East Asia operations for a Japanese company specializing in engineering solutions, right from its inception.

Amit Sharma is PLM Head, Europe at Infosys. He will be discussing how your PLM journey involves refinements and changes to existing people, process and technology. This means introduction of new or refined tools, processes, operational and organisational structures alongside a critical need of ensuring minimal disruption in current ways of working and operating. Each organisation has its unique fingerprints around its PLM journey. At the top most level a well planned PLM initiative depends on its alignment with your business strategy, vision, processes and core competencies. The next level relates to your inter and intra enterprise processes and related tools, people and operations enabled via IT Innovation, new PLM tools and Innovative product development processes.

Born in 1966, doctor in Management Engineering, Mario works with the company since 1993 and has led World Class Operation Management projects for multinational companies and medium sized factories, from Product Development to Supply Chain domain. His experience encompasses many industrial sectors, from Automotive to Food, Personal Care, Mechanical and Engineering and Public Administration. The most relevant experiences fall into the field of Product and Process Development. He has been supporting the development of Efeso Knowledge Management system collecting many experiences of our international experts into the WCOM Toolkit.

Dario joined HP Consulting & Integration in March 2007 as project/program manager for the manufacturing and distribution industries. His role consists of proposing, defining and implementing innovation for information systems and processes for the core operations of manufacturing companies. His specific interests are in new product development methodologies, PLM, project/program management, knowledge management and CMMI practices. Before joining HP Dario worked as a solution consultant and project/program Manager at primary system integration and consulting organizations, implementing enterprise and Product Lifecycle Management systems.<Br> Dario is a PMP certified project manager and active member of the Project Management Institute – Northern Italy Chapter.