Carlo van de Weijer boasts a distinguished career in the automotive industry, marked by executive roles at Siemens and TomTom. Holding a master's degree in mechanical engineering from TU Eindhoven and a PhD with honors from TU in Graz, his expertise spans engineering and technology.Currently, Carlo serves as the Managing Director of the newly established Eindhoven AI System Institute (EAISI) at Eindhoven University of Technology. Simultaneously, he is a Fellow for the future of mobility and transport at the Deloitte Center for the Edge. His counsel is sought globally, advising ministries and industries on mobility's future. With a strong governance acumen, he contributes to several high-tech companies and startups as a member of their supervisory boards.Carlo's insights also find expression in his weekly column for a leading Dutch national newspaper. His multifaceted roles and strategic guidance underscore his commitment to shaping the trajectory of mobility and technology, making a substantial impact on industries, academia and public discourse alike.
Digital Manufacturing, Machine Learning, Digital Transformation, Change Management, Corporate Innovation
Automation seems to be sweeping through companies relentlessly, canceling out obsolete jobs and creating new types of jobs. Some future predictions show “lights-out”-factories where resources flow in on the one side and products come out on the other side, costing marginally more than the resources themselves. Will Artificial Intelligence create a similar wave of job replacement in the knowledge industry and, unlike earlier waves, create massive unemployment? Or will this fear again come untrue and will we again find new jobs that today haven't even been invented yet?How can we prepare for that and how should we educate the future generation for such an indistinct future? In any case, technological development will also directly affect the way we lead organizations. In a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world, traditional control-and-command management appears to be replaced by more value- and purpose-driven leadership. With a high level of empowerment and self-steering where the factors that matter most are the hardest to measure. For managerial professionals at every level of their career, this session will help to get insight in the different way that human resources will function in an organization where artificial intelligence resources are essential co-workers, and what leadership is required for such a new reality.