Oliver Fels
Technology Marketing, EtherCAT Technology Group

Oliver graduated from Furtwangen University at Schwenningen as a Medical Engineer (Dipl.-Ing. FH) and employed by Beckhoff Automation since 2007.
He is working full-time for the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) at the ETG Headquarters in Germany and as a member of the global ETG Marketing Committee.
One of his main tasks is serving as a speaker for the ETG at the EtherCAT seminar series worldwide, helping people to empower their applications and projects with EtherCAT.

Thomas Waggershauser
Managing Director, acontis technologies, Germany

After his graduation in Product Engineering, Thomas has been involved in sales, marketing, management and innovating industrial automation components for 20 years – starting from remote management, a long period in Field-Bus based systems, energy automation networks, via DIN-rail power supplies to EtherCAT Master & Realtime software solutions.
To successfully drive business, he keeps to his personal guidance-catchphrases: Understand customer and market needs; making technology understandable; trust the ones that trust you; making the world a bit better.