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.

João Queirós
Head of R&D, CONTROLAR

Started at Controlar as a project coordinator in 2011, then moved to the R&D department. He has been Director of Innovation since 2023, leading an innovation team. He has also been Aerospace and Defense Manager since 2025, managing and monitoring projects in this sector.