Willem Sundblad Talks Digital Transformation at NAMES 2019

Great interview from our CEO Willem Sundblad on digital transformation and where the manufacturing industry is heading!

Watch the interview here.


At North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit 2019 in Chicago we had a chance to speak with Willem Sundblad, the founder and CEO of Oden Technologies, an Industrial Internet of Things company offering wireless and cloud-based tools for manufacturers to analyze and optimize production.

Willem studied Industrial Engineering specialized in production at Lund University and Ecole Centrale Paris. Most recently, Willem was named as one of Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe for his work in transforming the manufacturing industry and is a contributor for Forbes.com, where he writes on the future of manufacturing. Willem is also the 2018 winner of the Anders Wall Award for Exceptional Entrepreneurship.

In this interview, Willem shares some of his thoughts on the manufacturing sector’s digital transformation into Industry 4.0, and the crucial role data plays in making these new abilities possible.