Dr. Cesim Demir

Dr. Demir joined the Huawei Enterprise Business Group in October 2017 and leading within Western Europe Automotive and Manufacturing solutions portfolio and business development as CTO. Before joining Huawei Dr. Demir has held begin 2015 until October 2017 Director Manufacturing & Quality IT role for all Asia & Pacific plants of General Motors to do digital transformation and transformation from IT outsourced model into an IT insourced model of the Asian/Pacific plants and later in 2017 assigned to lead the transition of Opel Manufacturing & Quality IT into the Groupe PSA. Dr. Demir has started his career in 2000 at Daimler and worked in total 15 years at Daimler, including 3 years in India and 4 years in China. He started as development engineer for ECU (electronic control units) development, InCar diagnosis applications and ECU embedded software. He worked after that within Daimler at several technical and managerial positions, like component & process development lead at Daimler Busses, engineering process development lead at Daimler Trucks, R&D and Manufacturing IT lead at Daimler India and Manufacturing & Quality IT lead at Daimler China. After graduating with a master's Degree from the electrical engineering at University Ulm/Germany, Dr. Demir also acquired a PhD at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg in cooperation with BMW in the area of modelling and simulation of vehicle and driver behavior within traffic flow. Besides, he also acted as the robot software engineer at FAW Ulm (Science institute for applied knowledge).