After 15 years in the chemical industry, Melanie Weber joined Microsoft Germany in 2019 as a Sen. Industry Advisor for LifeSciences and Chemicals. Before joining Microsoft, Melanie was COO of Kisling Germany, an adhesive company of the Würth group. Before this she spent several years in business development, innovation and business transformation at 3M and leading a technology incubator at Henkel. As an industry expert at Microsoft she is now consulting key account customers in the process industry on their digital transformation journey towards more efficiency, resilience and sustainability along their value chain. Beside this she is representing Microsoft at associations and dedicated industry events.
The Pop in My Job:
Having worked in chemical industry companies for a long time before joining Microsoft, I understand how challenging transformation processes and the current disruptions in the ecosystem we are facing can be – from a technology and organization point of view. Being part of Microsoft now, what drives me every day is the opportunity to be a partner for our industry customers, enabling them on their transformational journey. To solve big challenges like sustainability or worker shortages, I see technology going hand in hand with a change of mindset, organizational and cultural transformation. Cloud computing, AI, IoT, mixed reality and digital twins are the enabling layer for consistent improvements and key in shaping the future of R&D, production, customer engagements and the way we collaborate and work within our ecosystems to achieve more with less.
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