Trends and Prospects of Digital and Intelligent Transformation in Global Manufacturing
Keynote, Mobile World Congress, MWC Barcelona 2026, Barcelona, Spain
Keynote presentation of a session as part of the Mobile World Congress, MWC Barcelona 2026.
Talks and presentations
Innovation for Life Sciences and Advanced Manufacturing
Panel Presentation, Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart, Germany, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Panel discussion about success stories for advanced manufacturing research collaborations in Boston, hosted by Baden-Württemberg International (BostonInnovationCamp BW 2025) and Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Tourismus Baden-Württemberg.
SME Welding Technology Adoption – A Comparative Study Between Ohio, USA and Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Panel Presentation, Industry Studies Association Annual Conference 2023, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Panel presentation at the Industry Studies Association Annual Conference 2023 at the Ohio State University.
Lean Production Systems 4.0
Impulse Presentation, Knorr Bremse Global Production Meeting, Berlin, Germany
Impuls presentation on “Lean Production Systems 4.0” at the Knorr Bremse Global Production Meeting 2023, with over 30 experts attending. The presentation was held in an online format with an interactive Q&A session after the presentation.
Human-Centered Assistance Systems in Manufacturing
Panel Presentation, Industry Studies Association Annual Conference 2022, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Panel presentation at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Who Codes the Cobots?: An Automation Typology for Task Repeatability and Shop Floor Expertise
Workshop, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2022, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Workshop paper presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshop on Collaborative Robots and the Work of the Future.
Lean Production Systems 4.0
Impulse Presentation, Volkswagen Business Excellence Days, Wolfsburg, Germany
Impuls presentation on “Lean Production Systems 4.0” at the Volkswagen Business Excellence Days 2021, with over 40 attending head of production systems at plants of the Volkswagen Group. The presentation was held in an online format with an interactive Q&A session after the presentation.
Ganzheitliche Produktionssysteme 4.0
Presentation, Volkswagen Group Production System Meeting, Wolfsburg, Germany
Presentation on “Ganzheitliche Produktionssysteme 4.0” at a meeting with the heads of the production systems of all brands of the Volkswagen Group, i.e. VW, VW Nutzfahrzeuge, Audi, Porsche, Skoda, Seat, Cupra, Lamborghini, Bentley, Ducati. The presentation was held in an online format with an interactive Q&A session after the presentation.
FutureWork360
Lightning Talk, Transatlantic Sync Conference, Mountain View, California, USA
At Transatlantic Sync, Simon Schumacher gave insights into the existing lab infrastructure of Future Work Lab with more than 50 live use cases on future work scenarios. Next year, the transfer project FutureWork360 will bring the existing content to the world via three different communication streams: print, online and live events. Especially a virtual representation of the use cases in a 360-degree experience will open the lab to new target groups.
Characterization of Autonomous Production by a Stage Model
Conference proceedings talk, 52nd CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Paper presentation at the 52nd CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Panel: Are humans still at the center of Industry 4.0?
Panel Discussion, Wagenhallen, Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Panel Discussion, Future of Production Stage, Expo Day 5, Startup Autobahn by PlugandPlay.
Digital Technologies and Assistance Systems in the Workplace of the Future
Keynote, Hotel Novotel Luxembourg Kirchberg, Kirchberg, Luxembourg
Keynote, Ministry of Labour, Employment, and the Social and Solidarity Economy, Luxembourg.
Regional Workshop: Connected Factories
Workshop, ARENA 2036, Stuttgart, Germany
Regional workshop as part of the Connected Factories project under the Factories for the Future PPP, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Open Innovation in the Workplace: Future Work Lab as a Living Lab
Conference proceedings talk, 51st CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, Stockholm, Sweden
Paper presentation at the 51st CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems in Stockholm, Sweden.
Industrie 4.0 - wie wir in Zukunft arbeiten
Workshop, Merz Akademie, Z2X - Zeit Online, Stuttgart, Germany
I held a workshop on the work of the future with a wonderful crowd of young thinkers at the Zeit Online Z2X event in Stuttgart. Throughout the workshop, the participants developed very interesting and valuable ideas for technological solutions benefitting future work scenarios.