Automate Preview Series: Digital Transformation & The Future of Industrial Production

Ville Lehtonen, VP Product, Realtime Robotics

Ville Lehtonen is a robotics and AI leader with a track record of taking automation from concept to large-scale deployment. As Head of Product at Pickle Robot, he helped scale the company from early-stage development to unloading over 1 million packages with AI-powered robotic automation.

His expertise spans Life Sciences, Logistics, and Manufacturing, having founded LabMinds, where his team pioneered Federated Learning in Life Sciences as early as 2012—well ahead of the curve. Now at Realtime Robotics, Ville is driving the next evolution of real-time motion planning and adaptive robot automation for high-mix manufacturing.

Corwin Carson, President and CCO, Acieta

Corwin Carson is a driving force in industrial automation and robotics. As President and Chief Commercial Officer at Acieta, he combines a passion for innovation with a results-driven approach, propelling the company’s organic growth and strategic expansion. Under his leadership, Acieta has successfully executed M&A initiatives, ensuring seamless integrations and fostering a collaborative culture that accelerates success. Believing that 'the factory of the future isn’t a distant vision—it’s happening now,' Carson champions AI-driven robotics as the key to smarter, more adaptive production environments, positioning companies that embrace automation today as the industry leaders of tomorrow.

Greg Tink, Director of Industrial Digital Transformation, Schneider Electric

Gregory Tink is an Operations Transformation and Technology specialist with over 20 years of industry and leadership experience primarily in oil and gas and mining. Over his career, Gregory has owned 4 businesses focused on operational excellence, technology enablement, and organizational transformation. In these businesses, he worked with a variety of clients to transform operations digitally. This included standing up operations and control centers, the implementation of operations, asset optimization, and maintenance platforms, the rollout of cyber security and risk strategies, the integration of OT/IT, and the integration of business functions supporting value chain alignment and the digital thread across the asset lifecycle.