Manufacturing Summit at MWC Barcelona 2022

Cédric Foray has over 25 years’ experience in strategy consulting, serving global and mid-size companies mainly in the Technologies, Telecommunications and Medias sector.

Cédric is the Managing Partner for EY Parthenon in France which is the Strategy practice of EY. He is also leading our digital transformation offering to CxO with the Business Transformation team.

Cedric is the Global Consulting and Strategy leader for a large international telecom operator which had been his client for almost 15 years, with projects delivered in many countries in Europe and in Africa.

Prior to joining EY in 2013, Cédric worked for Alcatel Nokia and was one of the co-founders of Greenwich Consulting, a strategy boutique dedicated to the TMT sector which was acquired by EY in 2013.

Cédric love working with entrepreneurs, in large and mid-size companies, who are facing some major transformations of their industries or activities. He has some successful experience in several sectors (TMT, Life Sciences, Lottery, Consumer products)

Cédric is graduated from CentraleSupelec (Engineering school) in Radiocommunications.

Cédric lives in Paris with his wife and his two children.

Jordi Artigas is currently Chief Engineer for Mobile Robots and Global Technology Manager for Consumer Segments and Service Robotics with ABB, driving innovation and technology across segments like logistics, retail, packaging and foodservice. Jordi holds a PhD in robotics and control. His scientific background in space robotics and healthcare built at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) combined with various roles of increasing responsibility in the Business Unit of ABB gives him a unique perspective in robotics, innovation and technology ventures.

Kevin is a US Air Force Veteran with 14+ years of experience in Technology Consulting with a strong focus on IoT, Mobile Wireless, and Innovation in the Communication Service Provider Industry.

His experience spans across resources and energy industries (e.g., Oil and Gas, Mining, Agriculture, Utilities). He has a proven track record leading wireless engagements that include solutions delivery of Private LTE/5G, Transport, Edge, IoT, and Cloud capabilities in an industrial setting.

Currently, Kevin is part of the Cloud First Network Business Group. He leads Private Wireless Network initiatives within Accenture North America, helping Accenture’s clients improve their networks strategies to transform enterprises.

Kevin lives in Colorado, with his wife, three boys and two dogs, and he is an avid skier.

Kim Krogh Andersen joined Telstra in January 2020 as Group Executive, Product & Technology.

In this role, he leads Telstra’s Product & Technology function, responsible for delivering Telstra’s product and technology roadmap, including creating and delivering products and solutions for all of Telstra’s customers, as well as driving profitable growth. He has accountability for Telstra’s product strategy and lifecycle, and technology and innovation where products are incubated and brought to scale.

Before joining Telstra, Kim was Senior Vice President, Head of Global Technology Strategy with the Telenor Group, a leading telecommunications company with operations across Scandinavia and Asia. He had responsibility for defining global technology roadmaps as well as leading Telenor’s Global 5G Execution Program as it prepares for the launch of 5G across all of Telenor’s markets.

Previous to this role, Mr Krogh Andersen held a very broad range of roles with Telenor including Director Customer Services Denmark with end to end responsibility for customer service and Chief Marketing Officer for Telenor Global Services with responsibility for product development and management.

Prior to joining Telenor in 2008, Mr Krogh Andersen served as an officer in the Danish Army for 13 years.

Kim is a father of three and is living in the beautiful city of Sydney with his wife and children.

Lan Guan is a Senior Managing Director at Accenture and currently leads the Global Industry Applied Intelligence Network within Accenture’s Strategy & Consulting domain. In this role she is responsible for working with clients to develop and implement data and AI strategies for their organizations. Lan has spent the last 18 years at Accenture working with Fortune 100 and large multinational clients across industries.

As an experienced Strategy & Consulting professional, Lan brings deep expertise in transforming all forms of data into actionable strategies and plans to maximize market opportunities for clients. She specializes in data strategy, cloud architecture, and artificial intelligence and machine learning. Lan has led an array of transformative initiatives focusing on customer segmentation and profiling, target marketing, predictive modeling, and business forecasting to enhance client’s growth potential and provide the business and strategic decision support to improve their bottom lines.

Lan has published many industry white papers and journal articles about the growing impact of AI on corporate transformation, and also co-authored a management handbook: Selling Through Someone Else: How to Use Agile Sales Networks and Partners to Sell More. She is a sought-after industry speaker on data and AI, as well as on topics ranging from the leadership skills needed in the digital economy to the future of work in an AI-enabled digital world. A distinguished inventor, Lan has been granted more than 20 international patents in areas including digital content recommendations, and digital marketing and sales optimization.

Nadine Manjaro is currently working as a Director, Industry Consultant in Telecommunications and IoT at Teradata for the past two and a half years. Prior to joining Teradata, Ms. Manjaro was an independent consultant for her own company Beyond Machine to Machine Communications LLC where she provided Internet of Things (IoT) business development and guidance on the IoT market to clients. Ms. Manjaro is also co-taught graduate level class in IoT at Columbia University in New York City. Recent Publications include “Artificial Intelligence Driving Innovation in Tech” and AI Chipset A-List Index, both published by Compass Intelligence. In addition, Ms. Manjaro developed an Internet of Things Training program for high school students and started delivering this training in late 2016. Prior to starting her own consulting practice, Ms. Manjaro was Director of IoT Programs for Tech Mahindra and prior to that was an IoT consultant for Verizon. She also worked as a Telecom Industry Analyst covering wireless infrastructure for ABI Research and held multiple technical roles at Sprint for over seven years. She worked in telecommunications for over 20 years and spoke at multiple telecommunications conferences.

Ms. Manjaro holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from the University of Kansas, School of Engineering. She has undergraduate degrees including a (B.Sc.) Industrial Engineering and (BA) Economics/Statistics, both from Rutgers University in New Brunswick NJ.

Stephane has worked in the high-tech industry for multi-national companies in Europe and in Asia. He is now EVP Strategic Innovation, smart data & partnership at LACROIX Group : Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT), new technologies, electronics, smart mobility and smart city are some of his favorite’s topics.

Stéphane holds a Doctorate degree (Ph. D) in Electronics from the University of Bordeaux (France) and an MBA degree from Newcastle University, Australia.

Jo Gilbert is a Technical Director at the GSMA. She leads the GSMA Digital Industries activities which brings together mobile network operators, enterprises, and the wider ecosystem to connect the benefits of 5G in the industrial sector.  With a career spanning 20 years in the telecom sector, Jo has supported organisations to harness new and emerging technologies such as identity, IoT, big data, artificial intelligence and 5G.