Ken Forster

Executive Director

Momenta

Digital Industry veteran building ‘connected’ products, services, and businesses for over 30 years with senior leadership roles at ThingWorx, Syngenta, Coca-Cola and Philip Morris. He founded Momenta and several industrial automation companies. Ken resides in Switzerland and maintains an office in the 'cloud'.

Sessions in which Ken Forster attends

Monday 30 August, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels

10:30 AM

Survival to Breakthrough: How do IoT & DeepTech Startups Become Unicorns?

1 hour, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Panel

Mr Thomas Waldmann, Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co. KG (Speaker)

Andrea Basilova, Sensoneo (Speaker)

Markus Vogt, EBV Elektronik (Speaker)

Pavel Konečný, Neuron Soundware (Speaker)

David Richardson (Speaker)

Peter Düking, Wearable Technologies AG (Moderator)

Ground-breaking innovators, corporate tech experts and investors with vast experience in scaling tech start-ups in the Industry 4.0, Agriculture...

5:45 PM

IoT Evolutionary Computing Concepts

1 hour, 5:45 PM - 6:45 PM

Panel

Ovidiu Vermesan, SINTEF (Moderator)

Mr Valerio Frascolla, Intel Deutschland GmbH (Speaker)

Panagiotis Demestichas, WINGS ICT Solutions (Speaker)

Jafar Mohammadi, Nokia Bell Labs (Speaker)

Thomas Krousarlis, Inlecom Innovation (Speaker)

Internet of things (IoT) and edge computing are advancing, allowing the computing to be performed closer to where the data is produced and apply...

Tuesday 31 August, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels

2:00 PM

From Cloud to Edge to IoT for European Data

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Panel

Rolf Riemenschneider, European Commission (Moderator)

Max Lemke, European Commission (Speaker)

Haydn Thompson, THHINK (Speaker)

As data becomes the new oil of the economy and a key asset to address societal challenges like mobility, energy, carbon-neutral cities and manuf...

4:30 PM

IoT BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION AT THE EDGE

1 hour, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Mirko Presser, Aarhus University (Moderator)

Ms. Annabeth Aagaard, Aarhus University (Speaker)

John Soldatos, INTRASOFT International (Speaker)

Tanya Suarez, BlueSpecs/AIOTI (Speaker)

Digital technologies are unlocking new business opportunities and with that new business models. For example, we have seenservitization as a key co...

Wednesday 1 September, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels

10:30 AM

EDGE INTELLIGENCE AND INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS

1 hour, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

John Soldatos, INTRASOFT International (Moderator)

Martin Schneider, Fraunhofer FOKUS (Speaker)

Terpsi Velivassaki, Synelixis Solutions SA (Speaker)

Bernhard Moser, Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH) (Speaker)

This session will explore different aspects of edge intelligence for industrial internet of things applications, including AI at the edge, human...

2:00 PM

DIGITAL AGRICULTURE

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Kevin Doolin, Walton Institute (Moderator)

Srdjan Krco, DunavNET (Speaker)

George Beers, SmartAgriHubs (Speaker)

Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum (Speaker)

Digital technologies are both defining the present and the future of agriculture. The extensive deployment of IoT devices provides access to an imp...

5:45 PM

SMART WATER MANAGEMENT

1 hour, 5:45 PM - 6:45 PM

Mr. Juan Manuel Fernández Montenegro, AIMEN (Speaker)

Mr. Nicolas Caradot, Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin gGmbH (Speaker)

Mr. Anastasios Karakostas, ITI-CERTH (Speaker)

Ms Lydia Vamvakeridou, FIWARE4Water (Speaker)

Anna Brékine, Mandat International (Moderator)

Andreas Englund, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute. (Speaker)

Water is the source of life. While some parts of the world can access water easily and at an economical rate, others pray for water consumption ...

Friday 3 September, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels

9:00 AM

INDUSTRIAL IoT: TOWARDS THE INDUSTRY 5.0 REVOLUTION

1 hour 15 minutes, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Pedro Maló, UNPARALLEL (Moderator)

Mr Alessandro Liani, Video Systems (Speaker)

Roberto Siagri (Keynote speaker)

Sean O´Reagain, European Commission (Speaker)

Natalie Samovich, ENERCOUTIM (Speaker)

Disclosing the key role of IoT in the so-called 4.0 revolution and how it is intertwined with other technologies that are going to fundamentally tr...

10:30 AM

NEXT GENERATION IIoT FOR RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING

1 hour, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Angelo Marguglio, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SPA (Speaker)

Kostas Kalaboukas, Gruppo Maggioli (Speaker)

Ulrich Ahle, FIWARE Foundation (Speaker)

Oscar Lazaro, Innovalia (Moderator)

Stefano Ierace, Intellimech (Speaker)

Eur3ka Use Case on Repurposing, INTELLIMECH // Sergio Gusmeroli POLIMI (OpenDEI) (15 mins)Manufacturing Global Response (DFA) - Expand Ra...