Speakers

Pratima Singh is a Principal with Economist Enterprise's Policy and Insights team in New York. She is an expert in sustainability, digital technology, infrastructure, circular economy and climate. Pratima works with foundations, corporates, governments and non-profits seeking evidence-based analysis and policy recommendations. At Economist Enterprise, she leads several of the organisation’s global research programmes and has been moderating roundtables and panel discussions for several partners including SAS, Cargill, IOM, UNEP, Duke University, World Food Prize and large-scale events by Economist Enterprise.

Ben Armstrong is the executive director of MIT’s Industrial Performance Center, where he co-leads the Work of the Future initiative. His research examines how manufacturers compete in the U.S. and around the world. He is particularly interested in the role of automation technologies, skilled workers, and supplier-buyer relations in shaping industrial productivity. He co-leads the research program at MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing and serves on the executive committee of HAND, a NSF Engineering Research Center focused on dexterous robotics. Ben’s work has been published or featured in academic and popular outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Financial Times, and Harvard Business Review. He received his PhD from MIT and formerly worked at Google Inc.

Graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Ph. D. in Aeronautics, Guillaume started his career in Engineering and R&D in the Transport sector, from aerospace as R&D engineer to Advanced project Director to various position in Engineering and R&D. In 2016, Guillaume joined DS to lead the DELMIA Brand, DS industrial solutions portfolio to continue supporting all industries in the digital revolution to come.