Uribe-Gutiérrez, Sergio

Director of the Center for Innovation in Design and Technology at TEC de Monterrey, where he has the mission to articulate the efforts of research groups converging in the innovation and development of new products and solutions using the state of the art in science and technology yielded from the groups, the core disciplines in focus are advanced materials, intelligent manufacturing, nanotechnology, sensors and devices, micro-fluidics, Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation. He has 22 years of experience working in global companies in areas such Manufacturing Engineering, Product Development, Strategic Marketing, R&D and Innovation. During nine years he was Sr. Director for Innovation&Technology in Danfoss Denmark where he designed and implemented an agile innovation framework to identify disruptive ideas and accomplish tested functional prototypes in 12 weeks. He was also responsible to develop and implement the strategy to adopt Additive Design and Manufacturing aiming product differentiation and faster Time-to-Market. He developed effective tools for monitoring and scouting of disruptive technologies and he implemented the strategy for Open Innovation involving the design and execution of competitions with internal company stakeholders and external partners such universities, lead suppliers and lead users He has a M.Sc. degree in Control Engineering and he is Ph.D. candidate in Artificial Intelligence for TEC de Monterrey. He has obtained executive certificates in Innovation and Strategy from MIT Sloan School of Management and IMD business school for management. Areas of Interest: Innovation and Technology Management, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Mechatronics, New Product Development Management, Open Innovation, Business Strategy, Business models