Meet our expert speakers
Hosted by the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute, this year’s 10th annual symposium will feature more than a dozen speakers, plus the opportunity to network with other participants.

Jordan Alexander
Partner Solutions Architect TMEGS
joralext@amazon.com

Vijay Karthick Baskar
Sr. Manufacturing Partner Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
vkbaskar@amazon.com

Andrew Dugenske
Director, Factory Information Systems Center
Principal Research Engineer
Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute
+1 (404) 323-0637
dugenske@gatech.edu

Steven Ferguson
Executive Director, Manufacturing 4.0 Consortium
Managing Director, Georgia AIM
Principal Research Scientist
Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute
sferguson@gatech.edu

Avidypta (Avi) Guha
Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics
Southwire

James Henrydoss
NEX and Client Computing Group
Intel

Branden Kappes
Founder and President
Contextualize, LLC
branden.kappes@contextualize.us.com

Dago Mata
Regional Director of Business Development – Consumer Business South Market
dago.mata@tcs.com

Fatih Sen
Lead Scientist, Metallurgy and Modeling
Fatih.Sen@novelis.adityabirla.com

Rob Taylor
Program Manager – Machine Tool Data Collection & Connectivity
FANUC America
rob.taylor@fanucamerica.com