Ilker Kalali (Past Speaker)

Ilker heads up 120 Industrial Engineering and 156 Pirelli Manufacturing Systems Professionals and a team of 7 in HQ, in 19 factories across 5 regions (Europe, China, Nafta, Russia and Latin America).His biggest success is Pirelli’s implementation of flexible factory and smart manufacturing programs, creating agility across the plants and beginning to yield financial results. He sees the biggest opportunity in manufacturing as digitalisation to encourage flexibility and tackle emerging complexities in factories.