Programme

Day 1: 29 January 2025

Introduction

08:30

Registration and Welcome coffee

09:00

EIGA Winter Summit

Opening by EIGA President

Adolf Walth
EIGA
President

Scale up the Future

Marcus Goddard
2050NOW La Maison
VP Intelligence

What is EIGA doing on "digital" ?

Philippe Cornille
EIGA
General Secretary

Welcome to the age of AI

Dado Van Peteghem
Imagin3-Studio
Founding partner

Q&A

10:25

Coffee break

10:55

Narrative of programme

Benedikt Grudda
Air Liquide
Senior Internal/Change Communication Specialist

Production

11:05

AI for Primary Production and Safety

Alessandro Giassi
Air Liquide
Data Acceleration Director

A birds-eye view: using drones to enable a HyCO turnaround

Mark van der Horst
Air Products
IVG Manager

Q&A

11:55

Lunch

13:20

Automation and robotics: opportunities to enhance safety in cylinder operations

Aleksejs Aleksejevs
Linde
Production Engineer, Northern Europe

Leonardo Archetti
SIAD
Automated Production Engineer

VR Training

Simon Müller
Linde
Product Manager for Digital Products & Artificial Intelligence

Davide Toppan
Nippon Gases
Management Engineer

A journey to smarter efficiency and safety

Giorgio Locatelli
SIAD
Process & Maintenance Engineer

Q&A

14:40

Coffee break

15:10

Cyber risks and ensuring business continuity

Mauro Perez
Air Liquide
Security Officer, Information Protection & Crisis and Business Continuity Coordinator for Europe

Steve Corner
Linde
SHEQ Systems and Safety Standards Manager

An outside perspective: critical success factors in digital implementation

Stuart Neumann
Verdantix
Vice President of advisory services

Harmonizing Digitalization

Emmanuel Garnier
Air Liquide
Director of Digital Fabs

Guy de Reals
Air Liquide
Director Regulation Codes & Standards for the Hydrogen World Business Line

Q&A

17:10

Closure Day 1

EIGA Summit Dinner

For those who have registered for this dinner

19:15

Meeting in the lobby

19:20

Group departure
2-minutes walk from Radisson Blu Hotel, Antwerp City Centre: just cross the main square in the direction of the Antwerp Central Station.
The Zoo main entrance is located left to Antwerp Central Station when coming from Radisson Blu Hotel, Antwerp City Centre.
Entrance via the Zoo main gate (Koningin Astridplein, Antwerp)

19:30 - 22:00

Summit Dinner at Zoo Antwerp
Cocktail: Ground-Floor
Dinner: Marble Hall (Ground-Floor)

Day 2: 30 January 2025

Logistics

08:00

Welcome coffee

08:30

Opening Day 2

Along the supply chain: digital tools to increase safety

Ken Rottiers
Messer
Digital Project Manager Western Europe

Julia Kryzstofiak
Messer
Head of Digitalization Europe

Digitalization & Vehicle Safety - Driver Monitoring & Coaching  

Dirk Wendt
Linde
Transport Safety Global SHEQ

Sheila Trujillo Oncina
Nippon Gases
Logistics Engineeer Europe

Oskar Persson
Börjes Transport AB
Dangerous Goods Truck Driver

Is a connected driver a safer driver?

Graham Hall
Air Products
European Logistics EH&S Manager - Industrial Gases

Q&A

10:00

Coffee break

Customers

10:30

Empowering Patients Through Digital Solutions

Daniele Pirovano
SOL
Head of Digital Transformation

Challenges of data management in the medical sector

Clara Iriarte
Nippon Gases
Legal Manager at Nippon Gases España

Justino Flores
Nippon Gases
Healthcare Operations Manager at Nippon Gases España

Jose Luis Cantarero
Nippon Gases
Eng. & Maintenance manager at Gregorio Maranon Hospital, Madrid

ROAD SAFETY: Building a Safety Culture through data driven driver coaching

Yves Engler
Air Liquide
Group Safety Director

I.C.E. App - Risk assessment and compliance analysis of Cryogenic customer installation

Lorenzo Beretta
SOL
Head of Corporate HSE

Alberto Tancini
SOL
Marketing Director for Bulk Applications

The weakest link in cyber security

Erik Steenhouwer
KeyTech
Secured Solutions Coordinator

Evolution of quality audits: From paper to digital

Cristina Fernandez
Air Products
Quality Manager IG SE Plant Production

Q&A

12:25

Lunch

Going beyond

13:40

How AI can enhance cybersecurity in Operations Technology

Cesar Callejo
Nippon Gases
CIO Nippon Gases

Elena García
Microsoft
Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft

Control of work at site – From papyrus to paper to touch screen

Christina Fry
Air Products
EU Behavioural Safety and Empowerment lead

How to steer big IT transformation to digitalize internal processes

Bruno Aïdan
Air Liquide
VP Digital & IT E&C

EU OSHA: digital safety agenda

Dietmar Elsler
EU OSHA
Senior Research Project Manager

Q&A

15:20

Wrap up of the Summit

15:25

End of the Summit