Franco CavadiniDr. Franco Cavadini has a PhD in aerospace engineering on the subject of artificial intelligence applied to robotic manipulation tasks at Politecnico di Milano. He is Chief Technical Officer at Synesis, a small Italian company whose missin is the technology transfer of advanced automation solutions from the research to the market. With a specific focus on the research and development of technologies for the optimization of production systems and control under the constraints of high-energy efficiency and low environmental impact, he has guided Synesis technical department throughout several Horizon 2020 and industrial projects, providing both technical and project managementcontributions.Dr.Cavadiniisanexpertinthefieldofdistributed real-time automation and on the design of complex control architectures. He is currently the project coordinator for the European Daedalus initiative for Industry 4.0 (www.daedalus.eu) and technical coordinator of the DEMETO project (www.demeto.eu). Read More Read Less