Conference Chairman Dr Lars RoseDr Lars Rose works as Maintenance Manager for DowDuPont Germany in the photopolymer printing plate business. He previously worked in Mechanical Integrity and Quality Assurance, as a Corrosion Engineer, as Internal and External Auditor, and in Production and Product Sponsoring. He previously worked in R&D and QA positions at the National Research Council, Max Planck Institutes for Polymers and Physics and at the Haldor Topsøe Risø facilities. He currently co-chairs the Materials Technology Institute EMEA division and leads a couple of industry spanning projects to advance process safety through improvements in alloys and heat treatments in the chemical, food, and pharmaceutical industry.