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

Amazon Web Services
joralext@amazon.com

Vijay Karthick Baskar

Sr. Manufacturing Partner Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services
vkbaskar@amazon.com

Andrew Dugenske

Andrew Dugenske

Director, Factory Information Systems Center
Principal Research Engineer

Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute
+1 (404) 323-0637
dugenske@gatech.edu

Steven Ferguson

Steven Ferguson

Executive Director, Manufacturing 4.0 Consortium
Managing Director, Georgia AIM
Principal Research Scientist

Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute
sferguson@gatech.edu

Avi Guha

Avidypta (Avi) Guha

Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics

Southwire

 Avi.guha@southwire.com 

James Henrydoss

NEX and Client Computing Group

Intel

james.henrydoss@intel.com
Branden Kappes

Branden Kappes

Founder and President

Contextualize, LLC
branden.kappes@contextualize.us.com

Dago Mata

Regional Director of Business Development – Consumer Business South Market

Tata Consultancy Services
dago.mata@tcs.com

Fatih Sen

Lead Scientist, Metallurgy and Modeling

Novelis
Fatih.Sen@novelis.adityabirla.com

Rob Taylor

Program Manager – Machine Tool Data Collection & Connectivity

FANUC America

rob.taylor@fanucamerica.com