Catalin Batrinu is Lead Technology and Solution Development at the Oerlikon Digital Hub in the Greater Munich area, where he advises business units on AI and IIoT strategies, predictive maintenance, and digital ecosystems. He designs and implements industrial digital frameworks that integrate sensors, digital twins, augmented reality, and scalable software architectures for big data and real-time analytics. His responsibilities include data staging for predictive and descriptive applications, ensuring global data security and regulatory compliance, and leading cross-functional development teams across frontend, backend, cloud, data science, RPA, and IIoT domains.

With a strong background in cloud architecture and over 20 years of software engineering experience, Catalin has worked on complex, high-performance systems in telecommunications, automotive, and semiconductor industries. He is also the author of an IoT book and has developed multiple IoT and cloud-based solutions, combining deep technical expertise with strategic digital transformation capabilities.

Oerlikon (SIX: OERL) is a global innovation powerhouse for surface engineering, polymer processing and additive manufacturing. The Group’s solutions and comprehensive services, together with its advanced materials, empower customers by improving and maximizing the performance, function, design and sustainability of customers’ products and manufacturing processes in key industries. Pioneering technology for decades, everything Oerlikon invents and does is guided by its passion to support customers’ goals and foster a sustainable world. Headquartered in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland, the Group operates its business in two Divisions – Surface Solutions and Polymer Processing Solutions. It has a global footprint of more than 12 600 employees at 207 locations in 38 countries and generated sales of CHF 2.7 billion in 2023.