Certificate: MES/MOM Awareness

Thomas Halfmann is an advocate of digitalization in Life Sciences Production and Supply Chain with more than 25 years of experience in manufacturing IT and automation in the life sciences industry. After various management positions at Novartis, including Head Global Project Office, Global MES Program Manager and Global Head Biopharmaceutical Operations IT, Thomas co-founded the international life sciences consulting group HGP in 2008. Since HGP was acquired by NNIT in 2019, Thomas is the Global Head Production & Laboratory for NNIT. He is a frequent speaker at international life sciences conferences, author of various publications and active member of various industry associations. As process efficiency and quality improvement in pharmaceutical production by process automation and digitalization has been Thomas’s passion throughout his entire career in the life sciences industry, he is always looking for innovative ideas and solutions.

Chairman EMEA

Uwe is a keynote speaker, digital futurist, Chairman of MESA EMEA, innovation advisor and digital consultant.
Uwe has more than 25 years’ experience in the manufacturing environment and with industrial software and automation products. He educated in a major manufacturer machine tool builder before he started to be involved of developing the first Industrial pc´s. Uwe joined Wonderware in 1994 as regional sale manager in the west part of Germany. 1995 he moved to the head quarter in the US to develop the OEM program. In this timeframe Uwe gained also international experience in Asia. Since 1997 he was leading the sales organization of the German operation including the ERP and Maintenance sales which came through Wonderware in 1999. January 2001, he took over the position as managing director in Scandinavia with a clear focus on adding value to their customers business. In 2003 Uwe became the additional responsibility of the German operation as Managing Director. April 2005, he excepted the position as Director Business Development and Marketing EMEA. Together with his Marketing manager he developed the marketing strategies for Wonderware in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In April 2006 he opened his company Incuity Systems GmbH representing Incuity Software Inc. in Europe in the area of Business Intelligence for Manufacturing with it´s product Incuity EMI. Since the acquisition of Incuity by Rockwell automation Uwe was responsible as Director of Software for the EMEA region for Information solution and since 2012 he has focused as a senior Business Consultant on the CPG and Discrete segment within EMEA. Since October 2020 Uwe is now a Manager of Kalypso , a Business Unit and the digital service arm of Rockwell Automation Company.

Since Jan 2014 Uwe was also appointed to the Chairman of the EMEA board of MESA Uwe Kueppers is married and has a son and a daughter.