The first official release of the XMANAI Platform, namely Alpha Version, has been successfully delivered for early assessment by the XMANAI stakeholders on July 2022 (M21) as planned.

Name: Enrica Bosani Job title: Manufacturing R&D manager Organization: Whirlpool management EMEA Bio: Enrica Bosani, electronic engineer in Whirlpool since 1994, started her careers in the factory automation supporting shop floor monitoring and control systems deployment in EMEA factories.

To ensure that the XMANAI Platform meets the requirements of the different stakeholders (Data Scientist, Data Engineer and Business Expert) an agile methodology is implemented for requirements elicitation, promoting interactive sessions with the XMANAI partners.

Name: Theodore Dalamagas Job title: Research Director Organization: Athena Research Center Bio: Theodore Dalamagas is Research Director, Vice Director of Information Management Systems Institute at Athena Research Center, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Symbiolabs (spinoff of Athena R.C.).

The provenance of data is of high relevance due to the massive increase of data generated these days. Provenance not only plays a proper role for the web and its data, but the topic has also arrived at the analogue world.

Name: Óscar Lázaro Job title: Managing Director Organization: Innovalia Association Bio: Dr. Oscar Lazaro is the Managing Director of Innovalia Association. Dr Oscar Lazaro has more than 15 years of experience in the ICT field and is leading research and product development activities of Innovalia for Smart Cities and Factories of the Future domains.