Previous Invited Speakers
The researchers below were distinguished invited speakers at previous IN4PL conferences.
We are indebted to them for their contribution to heighten the conference level.
2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020
2025
Industrial Agents as a Key Enabler Technology Towards Smart, Digital and Sustainable Transition: Ultimate Driving-ForcesPaulo Leitão, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal Human, Cognition and Digital Twins: Shaping an Industry Where Humans and Machines CollaborateYannick Naudet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Engineering an Industry 4.0-Compliant Digital Product Passport Within a Circular Economy ContextArmando Walter Colombo, Institute I2AR, University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Germany
2024
Digital Transformation in Steel Industry 
Georg Weichhart, Digital Transformation, Primetals Technologies, Austria The Long Road Towards SMART Manufacturing: Challenges and Future Prospects José Barata, Universidade Nova De Lisboa - Uninova, Portugal Advancing Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainability Through Novel Metal Additive Manufacturing Fazleena Badurdeen, University of Kentucky, United States
2023
Digital Twins and Generative AI for 3D Printing Dimitris Mourtzis, University of Patras, Greece Resilience and Smart Sustainable Manufacturing Within the Human-centric Paradigm Michele Dassisti, DMMM, Polytechnical University of Bari, Italy Towards True Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Real-World ApplicationsHani Hagras, University of Essex, United Kingdom
2022
Digital Twin for Assembly Line Fitness Analytics Oleg Gusikhin, Ford Motor Company, United States Trends in Transportation and Logistics and the Role of Optimization Maria Grazia Speranza, University of Brescia, Italy Factories of the Future Through AI-driven Smart Manufacturing Lihui Wang, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
2021
Multi-stakeholder Digitalization: A Key to Building More Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chains? Joseph Sarkis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States Digital Twin: From Theory to PracticeFei Tao, Beihang University, China
2020
Digitalization at Festo: Our Way in Digital Transformation Andreas Oroszi, Festo AG & Co. KG, Germany Industry 4.0 and Beyond: Challenges and OpportunitiesLászló Monostori, Independent Researcher, Hungary