Siemens Solid Edge University 2024

As the Director of Business Development for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, I spearhead our digitalization initiatives, engaging with diverse customers and markets to foster international business growth. My extensive experience in business development is marked by the successful implementation of strategies that drive growth and ensure sustainability across various ecosystems.
My accomplishments include the development and execution of management change strategies aimed at digital transformation, as well as the orchestration of multi-channel and multi-level business execution programs. My engagement at the senior management level has been instrumental in driving business expansion, profitability, and meticulous due diligence processes. I excel in identifying and capitalizing on new market opportunities, both geographical and digital, within the enterprise business applications and services domain.

Before my tenure with Siemens, I held various management, sales, and business development roles at leading companies such as Microsoft, HP, Lexmark, and Unisys. My focus has always been on delivering exceptional value to our customers and stakeholders, both at the international and national levels, with a keen eye on leveraging partner ecosystems when beneficial.

Portfolio Development Executive Mainstream Engineering taking responsibility for countries of Central, Eastern Europe and Turkiye. Most of my business career is connected with Siemens DISW portfolio including Solid Edge, Tecnomatix and Advanced planning and Scheduling portfolio. Working closely with business partners across various projects including digitalization of Engineering processes. Currently, finalizing my PhD Study at Technical University of Kosice with focus on Manufacturing planning . 

Rok Koren graduated at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana in the field of automation, specifically robotics, and continued his education in the field of management. Most of his business career he is in contact with the process and discrete industry, and is responsible for marketing and sales. Over the past few years within Siemens he has expanded the activities into the field of digitalization and Industry 4. 0 in the Adriatic region.

Rok Koren has more than 25 years of experience in domestic and foreign industry in the fields of automation, robotization, in the discrete and process industries, digitalization and Inddustry 4. 0 implementation, as well as management. He participates in international companies in the preparation of digital strategies and the implementation of strategic and inovative projects.

Kevin joined Siemens in 2018, and is the Global Technical Enablement Manager for Solid Edge. Kevin has been involved in design, engineering, and manufacturing for the past 25 years. A large amount of Kevin's time has been spent working in the CAD/PLM industry. This has been a combination of working for channel Partners and at vendor level. Kevin has also worked within the additive manufacturing industry for a number of years.

An expert at the intersection of marketing and sales with 15 years of experience in B2B, digital and social selling, business development, marketing, and customer experience. She is a guest lecturer at universities and the author of the book 'Digital Interaction Hubs for B2B Customer Interactions.' She holds a computer science degree from the Ukrainian 'Dniproer Polytechnicum,' an economics degree from TU Munich, and a PhD in Marketing from the University of St.Gallen.

His resposibility is the Solid Edge product line. He has more than25 years expirience in the Mechanical CAD industry, including key roles at Intergraph, SenAble Technologies, and UGS. Dan was intrumental in defining the original vision for the Solid Edge product line and managing its deployment and evolution. More recently, he has beem involved in defining a vision for Next Generation Design and building out the Solid Edge Portfolio of products. Dan holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Vanderbilt University.

Siemens Technical Account Manager for Tier 1 Automotive and Linebuilders in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Specializing in digitalization, production standardization, and IT/OT integration. Over 10 years of experience implementing PLM solutions and driving continuous improvement in production companies. Proficient in industrial robot programming, project management, and solution architecture.

Marek Wdowicz - Sales Director Central Eastern Europe at Siemens Industry Software.
A graduate of the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw, where he obtained an MA degree. His master's thesis titled "Poland's technological delay as a result of export control policy in CoCom's activities" was submitted and won the 3rd prize in the competition for the best master's thesis in the field of international economics announced by Poland’s Ministry of International Economic Cooperation in 1995.
He started his adventure with the software industry in 1998 at Oracle Poland, where he took up the position of Applications Sales Representative. Quickly promoted to Account Manager and then to Senior Account Manager he was responsible for selling technology (Oracle database and middleware) and business applications (ERP and HR) to the Named Accounts from Telecommunications and Media industries. He standardized Oracle as database platform at all 3 Polish wireless telco operators and wireline Polish Telecom, and sold the 1st ever Oracle HRMS & Payroll system in Poland.
In 2004 hired by SAP Poland as Software Sales Director for Utilities, and later promoted to Software Sales Director. In 2 consecutive years (2006 and 2007) SAP Poland achieved the record high license sales results.  
After 4 years he returned to Oracle Poland as Applications Sales Director Poland & Baltics, and in 2013 moved to technology sales department to take the position Technology General Business Sales Director Poland. He successfully introduced Oracle SaaS solutions (e.g. the 1st sales of Marketing on Demand, BI Apps and Demantra) and Oracle technology cloud solutions (IaaS and PaaS) to Polish market.
During his professional career he was responsible for the sale of both business applications and technologies. Gained many years of experience in managing direct sales and through the partner channel, as well as in managing multi-person sales & pre-sales teams.
He joined Siemens Industry Software in 2019.

Currently, I work as a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Eli-ALPS Nonprofit Ltd., where my responsibilities include maintaining continuous communication and planning with partners and researchers. I have gained extensive experience in vacuum technology systems, with my main tasks revolving around creating 3D designs and 2D drawings tailored to the needs of researchers. Education is important to me so I am a lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering - University of Szeged.

I was introduced to 2d CAD during my university studies. Then I learned about Solid Edge, so after my studies I designed gambling machines until 2007. After that I continued my career as a Solid Edge application engineer. I have been leading the Solid Edge customer support team at Enterprise Group since 2015. I am responsible for professional coordination of my colleagues, supporting the sales process, giving presentations, exploring and implementing new technologies, and professional collaboration with developers.

Bálint Balassa is a software developer at graphIT, a Hungarian Siemens Partner company. With over five years of relevant experience, Bálint has honed his expertise developing solutions for PLM, CAD, MES, and APS technologies. His passion lies in streamlining production processes, facilitating seamless data transfer, and pushing the boundaries of software capabilities, empowering businesses to achieve greater efficiency and productivity.

Gyula Horváth is the managing director of Ecomatic Ltd., a company which specializes in the design and production of welding fixtures, manufacturing small or medium series product and trading/producing bus parts.

As a Co-Owner of CAD Subscription, Adrian has over 18 years of experience in using and implementing Siemens PLM technologies, such as Solid Edge, NX, Tecnomatix, and Teamcenter.
He is delivering professional services and technical support tocompanies from various industries and sectors.
He also authored two books on Product Lifecycle Management and Finite Element Analysis, and obtained multiple certifications from Siemens.

Mr. Ciprian Imbrescu is the Support Center Manager of Dexion for 13 years, building his theam from ground up. His main responsabilities are:
• To organize and manage all design work within group
• Clarification of technical details with the customers
• To ensure the implementation of customer requirements in projects, considering the deadlines, with a pemanentely concern for cost reduction
• establishes and monitors the compliance of design details, in acording with the current standards of tehnics
• Processes / way of working standardization

I am Radoslav Radev and I am the co-founder and manager organisation in SRS Composite. We are extremely proud to be at the cutting edge of re-thinking high-end carbon components and the manufacturing process behind them. Completely tailored to my needs, Soltec services and products met our highest expectations. The integration of CAD/CAM products have minimised machine errors and ensured precise simulation and accurate predictable machine times.

My name is Velko Velkov and I am Sales Expert in Soltec Ltd since 2022. My main motivation is to reach a broad audience of engineers and executives who aim to use digitalization in order to save engineering time and optimize their production processes. My good communication skils and bright personality together with the vast advangates of the Siemens software solutions formed into a problem solving tool for providing complete solutions to the market.

20+ years with SOVA Digital in the business of Siemens PLM Solutions
Developing end-to-end digital solutions for small and medium companies in manufacturing industries. Expertise in managing data in pre-production processes.
Strongly focused on customer’s needs and goals.

French, double engineering diploma in Micromechanics  and Acousto-Optic, start as consultant mainly in automotive for Renault, Honeywell Garret or Stellantis.
Based in Slovakia since 2005, took opportunities from 2010 to co-found and co-own 5 companies focused on automation, industrial transfer or building industry.
Believes in team and people connection, supporting direct communication.
Co-Founder of SKARTEK which is strategically oriented on international customers, driven by R&D, focused on proficiency and flexibility. A SME company dedicated to support big players with high-level processes, management, and quality.
Ecology oriented, SKARTEK delivers key solutions for special machines, automatic lines, camera systems or robot cells from specification to installation, certification and training.
Co-owner of a patent with FORVIA since 2023, SKARTEK targets to develop a full range of standard tools to ensure a worldwide growth.

Dr. Patrik Künzler got his medical doctorate at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He worked in Hospitals in Switzerland and in Jamaica. Afterwards he joined Nobel laureate Dr. Susumu Tonegawa at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT to do post-doctoral research on Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex, both part of the Limbic System.