Dr. Michael Gellner pursues the goal of optimally bringing people and systems together in various roles. As a computer scientist and communication scientist, he has been moving confidently in the interface areas of software quality, functional safety/SOTIF, cybersecurity and requirements management for over 20 years. As an FMEA moderator, risk and quality manager, he assists the makers worldwide - but as an auditor, expert and consultant to customers, he also knows their views and interests.

Carneios GmbH
https://www.carneios.de/

Jan Oberländer is a software development engineer at Carneios GmbH, a development service provider for hardware-related software systems and general software applications.
His focus is on the systematic development of complex technical systems, particularly at the interface between software development, system requirements, and system architecture.
He is currently supporting a renowned supplier to the automotive industry in the further development of a rechargeable energy storage system (REESS) for heavy-duty applications. There, he is responsible for contributing to the specification of system requirements and the design of the system architecture, taking functional safety into account, and plays a key role in defining and establishing suitable development processes.

Datapetal GmbH
https://datapetal.ai/

Patrick Reissner is co-founder and CEO of Datapetal, a start-up that integrates generative AI into the failure analysis creation process. With a PhD in physics from ETH Zurich, he combines many years of experience in the development of sensor systems with global innovation management at leading automation companies. With this dual perspective of technical expertise and management, he is shaping the future of FMEA with less effort, higher quality, and better use of corporate knowledge. To this end, Datapetal develops scalable, workflow-integrated AI solutions that enable organizations to mitigate risks more quickly and effectively. With Datapetal, he is shaping a future in which AI-supported FMEA not only reduces risks, but also accelerates decision-making processes and makes organizations more resilient.

Dietz Consultants GmbH
www.dietz-consultants.com

Winfried Dietz is the founder and managing partner of DIETZ Consultants GmbH, an international consulting company with subsidiaries in China and India. Under his leadership, the company group has developed into a leading provider in the field of quality and risk management. DIETZ Consultants supports leading OEMs and Tier-1s in the automotive industry worldwide as well as clients in the aerospace, defense, engineering and manufacturing technology sectors. DIETZ Consultants' FMEA forums are important events in the annual cycle for a global community of experts to exchange expertise and further develop methods.

Festo SE & Co. KG
www.festo.com

Serdar Cakmak has over 15 years of international experience in quality management and production planning. In his current role at FESTO SE & Co. KG, he works as a quality management consultant in a global governance function. His focus is on the development and integration of quality management systems, the global moderation of FMEA processes, and the optimization of production processes according to lean principles. He has supported international location projects in Turkey, China, the USA, Hungary, and many other countries, established sustainable problem-solving processes (including 8D methodology), and designed and implemented extensive training programs.
His professional career includes both operational and strategic tasks in various industries, from mechanical engineering to the automotive sector.

Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung
https://www.ipa.fraunhofer.de/

Oliver Mannuß heads the Sustainable Product and Process Development research team in the Sustainable Value Creation Systems research area at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA).
A central component of the research team's scientific work is the application of FMEA and its integration into the product development process, as well as its application to different types of companies. Another focus is the adaptation of FMEA to different target requirements, e.g., using KV-FMEA to predict the availability of machines and systems in production systems, or using eFPM to estimate quality costs and the impact on the CO2 footprint in process development.
In addition, as CE coordinator, he oversees the safety of machines and systems that are placed on the market as part of research and industrial projects, including risk assessments in accordance with EN 12000.

Hermes Sicherheits- & Qualitätsmanagement
https://www.hsq.de/

Jörg Hermes is the founder of Hermes Safety & Quality Management and the Hermes Functional Safety Academy, an internationally active freelance engineering firm specializing in functional safety.
He supports automotive, industrial, and defense companies in the development, evaluation, and validation of safety-related systems—from conception and pre-assessments to targeted preparation for functional safety assessments.
He places particular emphasis on practical, auditable methods and the sustainable qualification of organizations and development projects.
As the organizer and moderator of the FS Barcamp, Jörg Hermes has established a fixed annual event with the Hermes Functional Safety Academy for professional exchange and methodological development within the functional safety community.

IQZ - Institut für Qualitäts- und Zuverlässigkeitsmanagement GmbH
https://iqz-wuppertal.de/

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Braasch is managing partner at the Institute for Quality and Reliability Management. There, he is primarily concerned with liability issues of technical systems as well as the safety and reliability of autonomous systems. He is on the road worldwide as an expert witness in product liability cases and helps automotive suppliers in particular to establish "equality of arms" with the supposedly overpowering OEMs. Since 2020, Andreas Braasch has also been a professor of safety and reliability management at the Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences (HRW) and is pleased to be able to pass on his knowledge to future engineers.

KernKompete.nz GmbH
https://kernkompete.nz/

Dipl.-Ing. Albrecht Kern is a Functional Safety expert and DGQ-certified FMEA moderator (P/FMOD//1805-370). He studied electrical engineering and information technology at the University of Stuttgart.Albrecht Kern has extensive knowledge in the application and communication of FMEA methodology. As a software-independent moderator, he uses various software solutions such as Apis IQ-FMEA or Babtec and is also happy to impart this knowledge in method or software user training courses. Under the slogan ‘FMEA 2040’, he wants to make the method fit for the future.He also specialises in Functional Safety, e.g. in accordance with ISO 26262, and advises companies on setting up and implementing the safety lifecycle and creating individual work packages.

PeakAvenue GmbH
https://www.peakavenue.de/

Thiemo Zambanini is the managing director of PeakAvenue GmbH, an international software manufacturer specializing in risk/quality management and engineering. As a merger of PLATO (FMEA), Apis (FMEA), iqs (CAQ), isograph (FTA, Reliability, Availability), and Osseno (requirements management), PeakAvenue GmbH brings together the market leaders in their respective fields to develop a new type of eQMS (enhanced Quality Management System), the PeakAvenue platform. As an integrated, open, state-of-the-art SaaS platform, it combines the depth of well-known specialist tools with the breadth of an eQMS system. All this along the entire product lifecycle, the digital thread, to take our customers' quality to a new level. True to our motto: We make quality champions.