Annemarie Breu leads Siemens’ New Portfolio Incubation program in the US. Annemarie is passionate about solving the most challenging customer problems at the intersection of OT and IT with innovative solutions. Throughout her 8 years with Siemens, she’s been shaping dynamic teams to address automation, Industrial Edge, Industrial AI, simulation, and data integration use cases and strategically shape the Siemens innovation roadmaps. She has a lot of energy to drive co-innovation partnerships and make things happen.

With more than 20 years of experience, first as a manufacturer and then with Siemens, Alastair Orchard has focused on the gains in operational efficiency that Advanced Automation, MES and MOM delivery. He now focuses on Industry 4.0 and the consumerization of manufacturing. Alastair currently leads a global team running the Digital Enterprise Project to help customers take advantage of the synergies possible between product ideation, realization and utilization through the digital transformation of their business processes. Alastair holds an engineering degree in chemical engineering from the Loughborough University of Technology in the U.K.