Frank Williams, CEO
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Frank Williams, CEO

Frank holds a BSEE, augmented by many post graduate courses in management, leadership and technology. Widely respected in the industrial instrumentation and automation business, Williams has given many speeches, authored thought-leadership white papers, published articles on a variety of technology, marketing and sales topics; and introduced new technology at industrial trade shows and business forums. […]

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Geof Wheelwright, IIoT World Contributor and Longtime Technology Journalist and Author
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Geof Wheelwright, IIoT World Contributor and Longtime Technology Journalist and Author

Geof Wheelwright has been a technology journalist for more than 25 years (including work for The Times of London, the Financial Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, The Guardian and trade publications such as Computerworld and Geekwire). He has written eBooks for Atheer about the use of AR in industry, covering the aviation, automotive and manufacturing sectors.

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Mike Speck, Partner & President
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Mike Speck, Partner & President

Mike Speck is a founding partner of nuboHEALTH and serves as the President. Mike provides leadership in positioning the company at the forefront of the healthcare technology industry and sets the direction for future technology development. Mike’s healthcare IT experience was acquired over 20 years with the Cleveland Clinic, leading strategic technology projects and working […]

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The ICS Security considerations checklist
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The ICS Security considerations checklist

As you evaluate ICS cyber security solutions to protect your critical infrastructure from threats, there are a few criteria your team must consider throughout the process. We’ve compiled a checklist to help you select a solution that will enable both your ICS engineers and security personnel to secure and control your critical networks. The technology […]

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Pawel Sasik, CEO
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Pawel Sasik, CEO

Pawel Sasik, the CEO of Wearaboutsinc, consults on various multi-million dollar technology/company development projects ranging in scope from entertainment / social media to professional practice facilitation tools. Some of his projects include, Valarm LLC, an industry focused Internet of Things company, the enterprise grade litigation and transactional tools from RealPractice, Reuters mobile computing applications, and various […]

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Your Network – The foundation for any Industrial IoT Initiative
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Your Network – The foundation for any Industrial IoT Initiative

Industrie 4.0, or the Industrial IoT, offers great promise for manufacturers to optimize business operations. The key to any successful Industrial IoT project lies in the factory data. Without data, extracted from a myriad of sources, delivered to the right application, at the right time – little optimization can happen. There is a considerable amount […]

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Hacking Level 0,1 devices can be more significant than Stuxnet
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Hacking Level 0,1 devices can be more significant than Stuxnet

Last week, the cyber security focus was on the four natural gas pipeline companies that had their electronic data interfaces, not control systems, hacked. However, from a control and safety system perspective, I believe the more important disclosure was the ICS CERT vulnerability disclosure of the Moxa serial-to-Ethernet convertors (gateways). This is because these types […]

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Eight priorities of Smart City Builders
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Eight priorities of Smart City Builders

What is a smart city? In a previous article, we described it as a city that uses technology extensively to achieve key outcomes for its various stakeholders, including residents, businesses, municipal organizations and visitors. We also described the Smart City Ecosystem Framework, a model for building and planning smart cities. In this article, we will […]

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Scot Wlodarczak, Global Marketing Lead, Manufacturing
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Scot Wlodarczak, Global Marketing Lead, Manufacturing

Scot is Global Marketing Lead – Manufacturing at Amazon Web Services. He joined Cisco in early 2016, where he now manages the industrial marketing team, focused in the manufacturing, oil & gas, and utilities space. He and his team are responsible for developing strategy and content for Cisco offers in the industrial space, specifically around helping […]

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John Younes, Co-founder & COO
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John Younes, Co-founder & COO

John Younes is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Litmus. He is in charge of operations and growth for the company and draws on considerable experience working with start-ups and early stage companies. He has a Bachelors in Management from University of Western Ontario and a Masters in Management with specialization in Global Entrepreneurship […]

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Clouds, Fog and the IoT – Isolation or Collaboration?
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Clouds, Fog and the IoT – Isolation or Collaboration?

IoT = Internet of Connected Things? The idea of transmitting sensor data over the Internet is becoming quite popular – we call it the “Internet of Things”. But the quality of Internet connectivity is not the same across all locations. To have maximum impact on improving business processes, sensor data granularity is important to ensure […]

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How to deliver a competitive Industrial IoT Edge?
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How to deliver a competitive Industrial IoT Edge?

Modern machines tend to be smart. You’ve got a piece of industrial equipment, possibly with an OS, a sensor bus, and drivers talking to I/O systems enabling local monitoring and operation. Now you want to monitor, control, and update that equipment from the cloud. This can be accomplished, but only after you’ve deployed data management components to […]

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