Martin Rostan
Executive Director, EtherCAT Technology Group

Martin Rostan studied aerospace engineering in Germany and in the United Kingdom and received his diploma degree in 1992. Subsequently he managed the international research project that developed the initial CANopen technology. From 1996 until 1998 he was marketing manager and authorized officer at Selectron. Since 1998 he is with Beckhoff, first as senior product manager for Ethernet and fieldbus systems and since 2006 as head of technology marketing. Martin serves the fieldbus community in various committees: he is the executive director of the EtherCAT Technology Group, chairs the CANopen groups inside CAN in Automation and represents Beckhoff in ODVA and in several conference program committees. He also is technical expert in ISO and IEC standardization committees for industrial communication. With publications in magazines, text books, conferences and symposia he contributes to the dissemination of fieldbus and Ethernet technologies.

Alan Tai
Product Manager, ICOP Technology

Application Engineer with a marketing background. Merging technical and commercial expertise to drive innovative solutions, He is dedicated to establishing ICOP as a leader in automation solutions.

Josh Hsieh
Field Application Engineer, APAC, IntervalZero

Josh joined IntervalZero in 2017, starting his career as a software quality assurance engineer and later transitioning to a field engineer role, where he assisted customers with EtherCAT communications and PLC programming applications. He also has extensive experience in the application of EtherCAT devices. As a sales representative in the Asia-Pacific region, Josh focuses on promoting IntervalZero real-time systems and EtherCAT Master to provide customers with more diverse solutions.