CTO IDEALworks GmbH, Subsidiary of BMW Group

Title of the intervention: How synthetic data is going to revolutionize the industrial Metaverse“.

IT Manager and IoT expert at BMW Group with more than 15 years of experience in automotive engineering. Led for many years the AI and Digitization lab within BMW Group Logistics division, leveraging innovative solutions in field of IoT and solving real-world problems in manufacturing and distribution. Recent research focuses on understanding impact of digitization and virtualization on logistic planning, pushing towards accelerated rollout and development cycles within the industry. Current Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at IDEALworks GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of BMW Group. IDEALworks is leveraging the latest technology and its steadfast software first approach to build the most intelligent, flexible, and collaborative robotics ecosystem. From hardware to software, everything IDEALworks does is validated in real production environments, and is centered around supporting their customers to improve efficiency, safety and reliability across their facilities. Jimmy is also the founder of SORDI.ai. SORDI stands for Synthetic Object Recognition Dataset for Industries.