Dr. Henning Loeser has studied physics as a fellow of the „Studienstiftung des deutschenVolkes“ at the Philipps Universität Marburg and the UIUC in Urbana-Champaign in Illinois, USA and made his PhD on the topic of high temperature diffusion on single crystal surfaces at the university in Marburg. In 2004 he joined AUDI AG, starting in the area of car development superstructure and changed later on into the production development. He is member of the senior management since 2012. Since November 2014 Henning is working on Audis future vision of the Smart Factory and is the head of the Audi Production-Lab as of January 2016. In the P-Lab he and his team work on the smart factory, developing new technologies and production concepts and by trying them out evaluating them in a real production environment. Henning is member of two fields of action of the Audi production functional strategy: “Innovation” and “Digital Production” He has given several Keynotes on the subject of the Audi Smart Factory, for example 2016 at the “Industrial Analytics & Big Data” congress in Berlin, 2017 at the LG M&PRI “Production, today and tomorrow” forum in Pyeongtaek, Korea. Henning was born in Germany, lived 5 years during his childhood in Chile and 2 years in the USA. He speaks German, English and Spanish.