Prof. Dr. Dimitris Kyritsis (Kiritsis) is leading the ICT for Sustainable Manufacturing group at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of EPFL, Switzerland. His research interests are Closed Loop PLM, Sustainable Manufacturing, Industrial Ontologies and Industrial Data Analytics. He has more than 220 publications. From 2013 to 2019 Dimitris was the Chair of IFIP WG5.7-Advances in Production Management Systems. He is founding member of the International Society for Engineering Asset Management and co-founder of the Industrial Ontologies Foundry. Since 2019 Dimitris is member of the WEF Global Future Council on Advanced Manufacturing and Value Chains and since January 2022 Editor-in-Chief of the journal Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology.