Conference “Lifts and Escalators in a Digital World”
14thMay2019
Auditorium 1st floor, Leonardo Royal Hotel London City, London, United Kingdom
09:30-09:50 Welcome and Opening of the Conference
Roberto ZAPPA,President of ELA
09:50 – 10:00 World Elevator Federation
Zhang LEXIANG, Secretary General of the Chinese Elevator Association
10:00 – 10:30 Drivers of digitalization
Carine LUCAS, Lead Expert Innovation, AGORIA
10:30–11:00 How digitalization changes the buildings
Kari SUIHKONEN, Chairman of the ELA Digitalization & Cybersecurity Committee
11:00 – 11.15 Coffee break
11:15 – 11:45 The lift book in a digital era
Harold BUSSING, VLR President
Jeroen BAZUIN, VLR Member
11:45 – 12:05 Traceability of Safety Components
Jan KÖNIG, Dipl.-Ing., Technical Officer at VFA-Interlift
12:05 – 12:25 Digitalization (smartification) of existing lifts
Prof. Paolo RIVA, University of Bergamo
12:25 – 12:30 Questions & Answers (morning session)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Artificial Intelligence
Jonathan BERTE, General Manager, Robovision
14:00 – 14:30 What is a smart building and the smart readiness indicator?
Paul WAIDE, Ph. D., Director, Waide Strategic Efficiency
14:30 – 14.45 Coffee break
14:45 – 15.45 Skilled workforce for the future?
Prof. Stefan KACZMARCZYK, University of Northampton
Dan CHARLESWORTH, LEIA
Achim HÜTTER, VFA-Interlift
Tadeusz POPIELAS, PALM
15:45 – 16.15 Perspectives on Brexit and its implications for the lift industry
Onelia ANGELOSANTO, Director, Global Trade Team, Ernst & Young
Nick MELLOR, Managing Director, LEIA
16:15 – 16:30 Questions & Answers (afternoon session)