KiCon Europe 2025

Aleksander Sadowski has been an active member of the FreeCAD community for many years and is driving the adoption of FreeCAD in the industry.

With the founding of his company ALSADO, he is the first worldwide to offer FreeCAD support specifically for companies in manufacturing. In this role, Aleksander conducts seminars for users, integrates FreeCAD into existing company processes, and develops custom FreeCAD extensions (CAD, CAE, and PLM) to increase business efficiency.

He has compiled his practical experience and expertise in the FreeCAD Beginner’s Starter Kit, a handbook that makes it easy for newcomers to get started. Aleksander regularly shares his knowledge as a speaker at professional conferences, where he talks about the use of open-source software in product development processes.

During his time working at GROB, a machine tool manufacturer in Mindelheim, Germany, he gained in-depth experience in product safety and patent law. Aleksander Sadowski is also the inventor of an innovative safety screw designed for use in machine tools and production systems.

Currently, Aleksander is deepening his technical expertise by studying mechanical engineering at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.

Managing Director at Eilbek Research GmbH

Anton Montagne (Leiden, 1953) received his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1984 at the Delft University of Technology. In 1983, he joined Philips Semiconductors in Nijmegen, where he designed analog integrated circuits for audio and video applications. At Philips, he also set up training courses on analog electronics. In 1986, he cofounded the product development company Product Partners, where he carried out many analog designs in the field of instrumentation. In 1989, together with Catena Microelectronics, Delft University of Technology, and the Institute of Microelectronics in Stuttgart,
he cooperated in the development of an intensive training course, covering many topics of analog information processing. Since 1997, he has worked as an independent consultant, trainer, and designer in the field of analog electronics. Over the past 38 years, he has developed analog electronics for
instrumentation and communication systems for the industry, and carried out many training courses on analog electronics at, amongst others, Catena Microelectronics, Philips Semiconductors, Philips Medical Systems, NXP, Ericsson, Plessey, Texas Instruments, ASML, TNO, Bruco IC design, 3T, Carl Zeiss SMT, TMC, and ASMPT.

Anton Montagne is the inventor and co-inventor of patents in the fields of position sensors, imaging, charge-coupled devices, and high-stability crystal oscillators.

Since 2016, Anton Montagne has been coaching students and giving lectures and masterclasses on "Structured Electronic Design" at the Delft University of Technology.

Principal Engineer at Eilbek Research GmbH

Founder of the StepUp companies, building wearables. Following closely the AI revolution.

Retired as professor in electrical engineering from University Duisburg-Essen and as Deputy Director of Fraunhofer IMS Duisburg. Main topics: CMOS process development, MOEMS development.

Current affiliation:
Senior professor at University Duisburg Essen
Coordinating ngspice maintainer

Kliment is an electronics design consultant and a KiCad librarian

I am mainly an embedded software developer with some experience in hardware development. I like working on sensors and sensor related data processing, e.g. data cleanup, data processing, storage and data transmission. Previous work experience include medical devices, satellites and mining.
In my free time I like to do woodwork, if I have space, build or fix things.

Firstly I worked as a PCB Designer, I am now Head of Sales of the European Office of PCBWay located in France.

Mememe

Stephan is a researcher at the Department of Experimental Hadron Physics in Bochum.
There, he does his best to help design and build detectors for what might just be the world’s fanciest microscopes.

When he’s not chasing particles, he teams up with his friends Odin and Tabea to take on a different challenge: building the ultimate solution for live monitoring—whether it’s rivers across the continental US, critical infrastructure, nuclear power plants, cars, or high-precision production equipment. And because foresight isn’t just for humans, their work also aims at predicting downtime—after all, even machines deserve a little heads-up.

Tabea Röthemeyer is a software engineer and physicist at Auto-Intern GmbH, where she works on data visualization and embedded systems. She is passionate about clean, understandable code and sees refactoring as a way to capture growing insight in a codebase. Her master’s thesis explored extending Git with metadata for feature-oriented development, variant management, and localization workflows, combining research with practical software engineering.

I am the current KiCad project lead developer. I joined the project in 2007 and have been the lead developer since 2011.

KiCad Librarian
Has read some licenses and legal documents, not a lawyer!