Marc Fleischmann

KUKA, Chief Software and AI Officer

Speaker Bio

Marc Fleischmann is the Chief Software & AI Officer at KUKA, a leading global automation company, where he is scaling robot intelligence in the real world, replatforming to an AI SaaS that generalizes Physical AI, and driving the transformation to a Robot-as-a-Service business. He is also CEO of the KUKA Digital segment and Chairman of Visual Components, a leading digital twin.


Prior to joining KUKA, Marc Fleischmann served as SVP/GM of Intelligent Cloud Operations at NetApp, where he drove the company’s strategic initiatives in cloud innovation. Earlier, Marc served as Cloud CTO at VMware, where he was responsible for overseeing compute, storage, and management across all verticals. VMware had acquired his company Datera, a pioneering company in autonomic, AWS-like elastic block storage and data services for tier-1 clouds, where he was the CEO & Founder.


Earlier in his career, Marc held executive positions at Microsoft, Pixelworks, and Transmeta, where he contributed to significant advancements in technology and product development. He began his career at Hewlett-Packard Labs, focusing on autonomic, distributed operating and storage systems.


Marc holds both B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and is an inventor with numerous patents in AI, software and microprocessor technologies.

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