Mr Gintaras Vilda is CEO of Manufacturing Innovation Valley DIH, a digital innovation hub, located in Vilnius (Lithuania). He is an international innovation expert of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists and a Board member of the Lithuanian Engineering and Technology Industry Association LINPRA. He is one of the pioneers of the “Industry 4.0” movement in Lithuania. On the European level, Gintaras is a Member of the high-level group of the Manufuture technology platform and a Board member of the “Made in Europe” partnership, which is coordinated by the EFFRA (European Factories of the Future Research Association). Areas of expertise include science, technology and innovation policy, industrial digitization, industrial transformation, internationalization of innovations, European industrial strategy and vocational education and training, etc. Earlier G.Vilda also worked as Vice-Minister of the Economy and Innovation, Director of the Lithuanian Engineering Industry Association (LINPRA), Chairman of the Board of “Intechcentras” and Coordinator of the Lithuanian Plastics Cluster.