Dr Roberto Pérez is currently responsible of Digital Transformation Innovation activities at GF Machining Solutions. He received his PhD from the University of Geneva in 1997 and a MBA from The Open University (UK) in 2011. Formerly Head of Applied and Collaborative Research and Innovation, in the last years he focused on the development of smart modules for high quality and high performing manufacturing processes with academic partners and key customers worldwide, mainly in the mould and die, aerospace and medical segments, and in transversal coordination with the wider GF Machining Solutions business unit environment, covering Electric Discharge Machining, high speed milling, laser and automation technologies