Mbang Sama

Lecturer, Digital Engineering and Industry 4.0, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mbang is with over 25 years of cumulative experience Manager and has been responsible for several Digitalization teams and projects along the product creation process (R&D, IT, production planning, manufacturing and Quality management) at Mercedes-Benz. He is also lecturer in Digital engineering and Industry 4.0 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) and Technical Institute in Sofia (Bulgaria). He is expert in industry 4.0, Manufacturing engineering, digitalization technologies (Big Data, AI, IoT, VR/AR, etc.) and their applications such as Robotics, Digital Twin, Agile Production, MES, etc. As a Game Changer, Prof. Mbang is a passionate Coach in the area of digital leadership, digital transformation and agile organization forms covering agile mindset and agile working methods. He is founding promoter of the NGO “Digital-Transformation Alliance”, which goal is to accelerate the transformation and industrialization in Africa through fast adoption of digital technologies for an inclusive and sustainable digital economy. He is one of the promoters of the new initiative AISMA (Alliance for Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing for Africa), driven by UNIDO and other international Experts.