Peter Rudberg: Conference Chairman is President of the European Six Sigma Club. General Manager of Rudberg Sistemas Empresariales S.L. Previously Manager at ABB in Spain, implementing Six Sigma. MsC Aeronautical Engineering and PDD in Business Administration.

Alfredo José Ferreira Pedro: TAP Air Portugal Master Black Belt in charge with corporate Six Sigma deployment. He has a background of 24 years in the airline business including business Process re-engineering and Quality Management functions.

José Miguel Pinto Mendes: Quality Director for ISO9001 and Six Sigma projects, GE Capital and Avis Fleet Service also in charge of maintenance, customer service and operational development with partners and suppliers.

Leszek Biskup-Köstner: Senior Six Sigma Consultant, previously Six Sigma consultant at GE, Six Sigma Key Account Manager at Siemens and Master Black Belt and Six Sigma Coordinator of Bombardier Transportation.

Mats Emanuelsson: Six Sigma Champion of Alfa Laval AB, Lund, Sweden.

José Miguel Pérez: Six Sigma Deployment Manager of Schneider Electric Iberian Zone (Spain & Portugal). Black Belt and MsC Industrial Engineering.

Mikael Bourdon: Senior consultant & MBB at Siemens Mobile, Germany. Mikael is currently pioneering the introduction of DFSS within the product creation process at Siemens mobile phones. He also led in 2003 the first DFSS pilot project at the Shanghai - China - development centre of Siemens Mobile Phones. The pilot project was awarded the second best DFSS project at the European IQ Six Sigma Awards 2004, and will serve as content for a whole chapter in the coming book from the INSEAD Business School: "Global Innovation: Leveraging Knowledge Divers ity" (Wilson K., 2004, INSEAD series in Management Science ) Previously Mikael was responsible for the deployment of Six Sigma at the Ericsson factory for mobile phones in Linköping, Sweden. Mikael holds a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (France) and a M.Sc. In Industrial Engineering & Management (Sweden).

Josef Sauer: Knorr Bremse.

Dag Kroslid: Is vice president manufacturing of NorDan AS . NorDan is a leading manufacturer of wooden windows and doors in Scandinavia, with around 800 employees. Previously Senior Manager within the Business Risk Services of Ernst & Young. PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management, specializing in Quality Technology and Management, and member of the industry faculty at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Co-author of the book: “Six Sigma – The Pragmatic Approach”. The first (2000) and second (2003) editions were published in Chinese, English and German.

Peter Häyhänen: Is Six Sigma Manager for Ericsson Group and Assistant Manager Product Industrialisation in Business unit Transmission & Transport Systems. He is one of Ericssons first four Black Belts who were trained in 1996, since then he has been training Black Belts and coaching Six Sigma deployment within Ericsson for different functions and organizational units. Today Peter works part time in Stockholm as responsible for Ericsson Corporate Six Sigma management and the other part in Boras as Product Industrialization Manager.

José Miguel Quintana: Is MBB in Atlantic Copper, responsible for Six Sigma Deployment. Previously Master Black Belt in GE Plastics.

Stefan Berg: Is a member of the global Master Black Belt Team at Tenneco Automotive. Located in Edenkoben, Germany, Stefan is the regional responsible Master Black Belt for the Six Sigma Deployment at the Emission Control group in Europe, focusing on Manufacturing, Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering.

Enrique Garcia: Is a member of the Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing teams at Tenneco Automotive. Regional responsible of the Six Sigma deployment at the Emission Control group in Spain and Portugal. Enrique is in contact with Lean Manufacturing activities since 1999 and has done Lean Training with the University of Michigan.

Manuel Villena: Is a member of the Six Sigma & Lean Manufacturing emission control teams at Tenneco Automotive located in Valencia, Spain he develops improvement projects focused on processes on the shop floor. Trained at the University of Michigan.

Anna Nowak: Is a member of the global Master Black Belt Team at Tenneco Automotive. Located in Rybnik, Poland, Anna is the responsible Master Black Belt for Six Sigma Deployment in Transactional Areas of Tenneco Automotive such as HR, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Distribution, IT, Global Supply Chain Management, Logistics and deployment at Tenneco Automotive Europe Suppliers. She is th e Lead Trainer for the Black Belts in Europe.

Andy Lidle: Is the Dupont Teijin Films Global Six Sigma Champion leading the implementation worldwide. Andy has several different positions in a range of industries and technologies within ICI, Dupont and more recently Dupont Teijin Films. These have been mainly at the chemical processing and manufacturing interfaces and have included Plastics, Advanced Materials, Composites and Films.

Pedro Moreno: Manufacturing & Technology Manager, Six Sigma deployment responsible in 3M Madrid.

Jürgen Illaert: Reckitt Benckiser, Process Director Europe. Background Chemical Engineer. Quality manger in Ladenburg Germany. Global QA Manager for Dishwashing Products. His role today across the European sites is the optimi zation of Production processes regarding efficiency, quality, wa ste and energy. The Six Sigma project started in 2003 its main objective being to build a network of Six Sigma experts in the companies eight large European sites.

Silvia Boaoin: Is an Electrical Engineer, Master in Business Administration and a Specialist in Production Engineering and Advanced Mathematics, presently taking a PHD course at the University of São Paulo in Production Engineering. She has been working as a Production Engineer for 14 years and as a Professor at FECAP University for 13 years. Also coordinate the Business Administration Course in the same Academic Institution.

Enric Barba: Senior Vice President of Quality and Customer Satisfaction and responsible of the Six Sigma initiative in Terra Lycos, the Internet portal of Telefónica. Previously he was Manufacturing General Manager and Master Black Belt in the Consumer Electronics Plant of Sony Spain. He has a PhD in Telecommunication Engineering and a Master in Organization and Business Management. He is co-author of the book ( in Spanish) Six Sigma; an initiative of Total Quality (2001 ).

Dieter Szemkus: Six Sigma Traîner. Extensive business and leadership qualification gained during 19 years of service (1982 – 2001) for several international companies, with management responsibilities in the areas of development, process engineering and quality management. Chemical Engineer and Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Jose Costas: Six Sigma Master Black Belt at Johnson Controls in Spain and Portugal area. Previously IT manager. Teaches “business administration” at Valladolid University. Has published several articles in magazines such as “Capital Humano”, “Manutención y Almacenaje”, "Calidad" and has participated in several teaching activities in logistics and software.