[Blended Event | China wide webinar] Automotive Executive Talk

Christoph Weber is leading the AutoForm China team, counting all major carmakers as customers. He has over ten years of experience working with China in the high-tech plant engineering and automotive industry. Christoph is frequently invited to speak in automotive engineering conferences. He is a founding member of the International Coalition of Intelligent Manufacturing to promote international best practices in China and beyond.

Starting from Volkswagen South Africa, David Powels has served in VW Group for more than 30 years, assigned to Germany, Brazil and now China successively during his career.

With almost 30 years of management experience and more than 10 years being CEO and President functions, not only is he proficient in corporate operating and managing, but also has a keen insight into economic environment of automobile industry, market trends, new technologies such as NEV , Autonomous Driving, Artificial Intelligence and new business areas such as Mobility, Digitalization Transformation etc.

Peter holds engineering degrees from Germany and the UK and originally started his career in Quality Management in China. He joined BMW corporate R&D 2006 in Germany and held several management positions in Chassis, Electric Powertrain and Electronics Division, heading the development of high-power electronics and overall vehicle E/E architecture. He was responsible for all phases of vehicle development from concept to architecture and series development. As Head of the BMW Technology Office China he is developing concepts for future mobility, growing an innovation ecosystem with strong partners and is driving innovations from China for China and for the world.