Speakers information

Peter Rittgen

Associate Professor, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

Peter Rittgen received a Master of Science in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics from University Koblenz-Landau, Germany, and a PhD in Economics and Business Administration from Frankfurt University, Germany. He is currently Full Professor at the School of Business and Informatics of the University of Borås, Sweden, and Associate Professor at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. He has been doing research on business processes and information systems development since 1997, especially in the areas Business and IT Co-design & Collaborative Modeling, Business Network Governance and Business Process Simulation & Improvement. Dr. Rittgen is the Vice-Chair of the AIS Special Interest Group on Modeling and Simulation, SIGMAS (www.ModellingAndSimulation.org) and an Associate Editor of the Informing Science Journal. He is also a PC member in several international conferences and serves on numerous review committees for international journals and conferences. He published over 90 works including 2 edited books, 2 edited journal issues, 17 book chapters and 16 journal articles. For further details refer to http://www.adm.hb.se/~PRI/.

Wouter de Haan
Managing Director,

Stork Food & Dairy Systems, The Netherlands

Wouter de Haan is Managing Director at Stork Food & Dairy Systems, The Netherlands. The company is active in the development, production and supply of integrated processing and filling lines for the dairy, juice, food processing and pharmaceutical (neutraceutical) industries. After his Mechanical Engineering studies, Wouter started his career as management trainee at Stork Amsterdam where he worked on TQM and ISO projects. Afterwards, he accepted roles of IT & Facilities Manager and Production Manager. In 1999 he became Product Unit Manager and later Director Product Development & Engineering at Stork Food & Dairy Systems. Since 2004, he is managing director.