POSTPONED 2019-04-15 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Wilderich is a Principal at the Boston Consulting Group. He is a core member of BCG's Innovation Center for Operations and very active in BCG's Industrial Goods and Consumer Products practice. His focus at BCG is on advanced manufacturing topics such as additive manufacturing/3D printing, digitalization and the Factory of the Future/Industry 4.0 as well as on manufacturing strategy and network optimization. He joined BCG in 2006 after graduating in from Darmstadt University of Technology with a masters degree in industrial/mechanical engineering. He holds a PhD in engineering from Technical University of Berlin.

Additive Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, Digitalization of Operations

Dr. Shibu John has completed his PhD from National Institute of management , Mumbai University, India. He is the Founder and CEO of 3D GRAPHY a platform designed innovatively for all the stakeholders to benefit with participation of clinicians, doctors, researchers, technology companies and come togerther to work in-confluence for prospective development in Digital Manufacturing with the core intent on Training, research, development, technology consultation & Medical services. He has promoted many platform and conducted 17 plus event in India for various sectors with a flagship event conducted every year title 3D PRINTING WORLD – Conference, Show & Awards. The Awards is a Customoer Responsive Awards where the Customer with their testimonials will participate to influence the decision making of the Award winners. He is the FOUNDER & CEO of the parent company TRINITY MEDIA & MARKETING SOLUTIONS. A company promoting new and upcoming technologies. Currently the main focus is AI, Block Chain and 3D PRINTING. He is the Founder of AI WORLD, BLOCK CHAIN WORLD & 3D PRINTING WORLD. A community of leaders, experts, sector representatives and 3D printing cos.

3D GRAPHY a global platform

Alexander V Manzhirov is a well-recognized scientist working in the field of Mechanics And Applied Mathematics. Currently he is the Deputy Director of the Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Head of the Department for Modeling in Solid Mechanics at the same institute. He is the author of more than 250 scientific publications, including 16 books and 4 textbooks. His main scientific activities concern mechanics of growing solids, additive manufacturing technologies, contact mechanics and tribology, viscoelasticity and creep theory. He is also universally known as an author of the world’s first fundamental handbooks on integral equations. He is mainly interested in the fundamentals of mechanical analysis for AM fabricated parts.

Additive Manufacturing Technologies, Solid Mechanics, Contact Mechanics and Tribology, Mechanics of Technological Processes, Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Modeling, Engineering Mathematics and Mechanics,

Professor Nicholas A. Vovos has more than 35 years of experience in the field of academia and research, specifically in the areas of electrical and computer engineering. He has been a member of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Patras University since 1981 and he was Head of the department in the period 2003-2007 and deputy Head in period 2001-2003. He is the Director of Power Systems Laboratory that was established in 1974. He has directed more than 20 research projects funded by industry and EU. He is a Professor at Patras University Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (Greece). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Journal of Automation and Power Engineering (IJAPE) and Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Electronic Research and Application (ERA). He is a Life senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE) and is active in a number of working groups. He is Councillor of World Certification Institute (WCI) and Associate Fellow of World Certification Institute (WCI). He was Visiting Professor at the Southern Illinois University (United States). He has served as Speaker, Session Chairman and Organizing Committee Member for many international conferences, as well as the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED). He is the author of seven books and he has more than 100 publications. He holds the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Power Systems from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (U.K.) and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras (Greece).

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Santosh Kumar Singh is a well-recognized scientist, working in the field of electrical power system engineering. He is currently working as R&D Coordinator and Associate Professor in EEE department of Rajeev Gandhi Memorial College of Engineering and Technology (RGMCET),India. His area of specialization is Power System Engineering, having a total experience of more than eight years in the academic and research field. He has published a total of 26 journals and conferences out of which 8 journals are under Science Citation Indexed. He has also served as Speaker, Session Chairman and Organizing Committee Member for many International and National Conferences.

Modeling, Measurement, Estimation and Mitigation of Power Quality Events (Transient, Harmonics and Voltage Sag/Swell) , Design of Various Types of Controllers and Converters for Power System and Power Electronics, Renewable Energy Integration with Grid to Minimize Power Losses along with Electrical Vehicle (EV) Co-ordination, Voltage and Frequency Control of Micro and Nano-Grid Applications of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Soft Computing Techniques (SCT) for Signal Parameter Estimation, Microphone Array Processing and Development of Intelligent Techniques for Bio-medical Application.

Professor Nicholas A. Vovos has more than 35 years of experience in the field of academia and research, specifically in the areas of electrical and computer engineering. He has been a member of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Patras University since 1981 and he was Head of the department in the period 2003-2007 and deputy Head in period 2001-2003. He is the Director of Power Systems Laboratory that was established in 1974. He has directed more than 20 research projects funded by industry and EU. He is a Professor at Patras University Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (Greece). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Journal of Automation and Power Engineering (IJAPE) and Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Electronic Research and Application (ERA). He is a Life senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE) and is active in a number of working groups. He is Councillor of World Certification Institute (WCI) and Associate Fellow of World Certification Institute (WCI). He was Visiting Professor at the Southern Illinois University (United States). He has served as Speaker, Session Chairman and Organizing Committee Member for many international conferences, as well as the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED). He is the author of seven books and he has more than 100 publications. He holds the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Power Systems from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (U.K.) and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras (Greece).

Applied and numerical mathematics and their applications in science and engineering

T.Theivasanthi of Kalasalingam University doing research in nanomaterials / nanotechnology; has 14 years of teaching experience; published many research articles/ books and h-index 9; life member of Indian Science Congress Association and Magnetics Society of India; member of International Association of Advanced Materials; serving as Editorial Board Member/ reviewer for some scientific journals; lead editor in JNNN special issue (SAGE Publications, UK); achieved many awards/ honours/ recognitions including - Madurai Women Achievers Award - 2013, Motivational Award - 2015 and 2015 Women’s Day Award of St.Annes College; achieved World Record in LIMCA Book of Records-2015 for nanotechnology invention “World’s first superparamagnetic plants materials” – named “Santhi Particles”, World Record– 2016 for innovative products "The World’s lowest priced graphene" & "World’s Smallest Particles of Vegetables" and World Record– 2017 for the invention "The World’s Smallest Anti-Viral Plant Particles". Other innovative products- Superparamagnetic lead nanoparticles, semiconducting lead Nanoparticles, Low cost-mass production of graphene, agricultural nanofertilisers, vegetable powder for diabetes, plants materials for diabetes & psoriasis and nanoparticles for treatment of EBOLA, DENGUE, HIV & H1N1 virus infection. Govt. of India shows interests to develop her inventions for the benefits of public; since Dec-2014, she has delivered lectures (more than 105) in International / National scientific conferences, foreign countries and renowned institutes like National Institute of Technology, Anna University, Central University of all over India; she delivered Motivational Lectures for women, students and staff of institutes / Multi-national corporate companies (Cognizant Technologies); Artha Nyana Academy (Malaysia), Intelligent Society of Malaysia etc. NanoDigest, Economic Times and Telegraph have published news about her research; Thanthi TV, All India Radio, Minnal FM (Malaysia) and Bernama TV (Malaysia) have broadcasted her interviews.

Advanced Materials, Superparamagnetic lead nanoparticles, semiconducting lead Nanoparticles, Low cost-mass production of graphene, agricultural nanofertilisers, vegetable powder for diabetes, plants materials for diabetes & psoriasis and nanoparticles for treatment of EBOLA, DENGUE, HIV & H1N1 virus infection

Nickolas S. Sapidis is a Professor of “Computational Design and Analysis of Machine Elements” with the University of Western Macedonia (Greece). He has also taught at the University of the Aegean, the National Technical University of Athens, and the Polytechnic University of Catalunya. N. Sapidis has published more than 70 papers on Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE). His industrial experience includes General Motors (USA) and the Marine Technology Development Co (Greece). N. Sapidis is a member of the Editorial board of many scientific journals, including CAD (Elsevier), Computer-Aided Design and Applications (Taylor & Francis), and 3D Research (Springer)

Mechanical Design, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE), Geometric & Solid Modeling, Virtual Engineering, and Computer Graphics

Graduated with BSc and MSc from Xian Jiaotong University in China, another two MSc degrees in USA and one Ph.D. degree in Canada, worked at Pratt & Whitney Aero Engine Company in USA for more than 12 years as technical leader at 7 different departments. Publishe over 70 papers and more than 50 patents. Currently a Chair professor in the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, leading a team to break through the bolt neck of aero engine with innovative technology and methodology, focusing on additive design and developing a new type of aero engine called Amphibious Relay Gas Turbine.

Additive Design and Manufacturing of Gas Turbine

Shreyashi Santra Mitra received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. in 2002 and 2004 respectively from the University of Calcutta, India. She also obtained the M.Sc. in Applied GIS & RS from the University of Southampton, UK. She earned her doctoral degree in water resource management from the University of Calcutta, India in 2011. She specializes in water resource modeling and climate change studies using geoinformatics. Dr. Santra Mitra is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Civil Engineering of Haldia Institute of Technology, India. She is experienced with numerous funded research projects. She is serving as reviewers of several reputed international journals and published more than 15 research publications.

Remote Sensing & GIS

Dr. Abhisek Santra has obtained the B.Sc. and M.Sc. in 2002 and 2004 respectively from the University of Calcutta. He also received the M.Sc. in Applied GIS & RS from the University of Southampton, UK. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in geostatistical river basin resource assessment from the University of Calcutta, India in 2010. He specializes in environmental modeling and urban planning using remote sensing and GIS. Dr. Santra is currently an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Geoinformatics Cell in the Dept. of Civil Engineering of Haldia Institute of Technology, India. He is involved in numerous Government funded research projects. He is acting as a trusted research project reviewer of the DST, Govt. of India and serving as editorial board member of many reputed international journals. He has produced more than 20 research publications in form of books, refereed journals and conference papers

Remote Sensing & GIS