Dr. Dimitris Kyritsis is Professor Emeritus of ICT for Sustainable Manufacturing at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Senior Advisor at SIRIUS labs of the Department of Informatics of the University of Oslo and Senior Advisor at Swiss Smart Factory, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. His research interests are Closed-Loop Lifecycle Management, Sustainable Manufacturing, Cognitive Digital Twins and Industrial Ontologies. He has more than 250 publications. Dimitris is co-founder of the Industrial Ontologies Foundry and, since 2019, he is actively involved in the WEF Platform on Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains.