Sandy Lobenstein, GVP Information Systems, Experience Portfolios, Toyota
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Sandy Lobenstein, GVP Information Systems, Experience Portfolios, Toyota

Sandy Lobenstein is group vice president and chief divisional information officer for Toyota Motor North America (TMNA).   As Chief Divisional Information Officer, Lobenstein is responsible for IT Experiences, Experience Portfolio teams throughout the US, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.  ITx Experience Portfolio engages with the enterprise across sales, manufacturing, logistics, R&D and corporate services […]

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Fatih Abdel Kareim, Senior Asset Manager
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Fatih Abdel Kareim, Senior Asset Manager

Fatih is a Senior Asset Manager and leads the implementation of new technologies in power stations and Marubeni Asset Management. He has expertise in power stations, transmission and distribution (SCADA), and has been Involved in the evolution and implementation of automation technologies in the power industry for the last 20 years.  His engineering and asset […]

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Data readiness: ensuring a solid base for predictive operations and condition monitoring
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Data readiness: ensuring a solid base for predictive operations and condition monitoring

Digital manufacturing is forecasted to bring out massive changes to the industrial world. Today, regardless of the maturity level of digitization projects in each company, the main motivation is staying competitive, boosting revenues, and enhancing profits, while reducing costs and being agile. There are several ways through which an industry can engage in Industry 4.0, […]

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[White Paper] Speed Product Development With a Scalable Platform Architecture
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[White Paper] Speed Product Development With a Scalable Platform Architecture

Sponsored by BlackBerry QNX OEMs in nearly every industry are becoming software-driven. But while software can provide differentiation, inefficiencies in internal development teams can throttle product innovation and lengthen time to market. These inefficiencies are often based on a growing array of one-off design decisions, each leading to different hardware and software technology choices that […]

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Arlen Nipper, President and CTO
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Arlen Nipper, President and CTO

Arlen Nipper brings over 42 years of experience in the SCADA industry to Cirrus Link as President and CTO. He was one of the early architects of pervasive computing and the Internet of Things and co-invented MQTT, a publish-subscribe network protocol that has become the dominant messaging standard in IoT. He has worked for Amoco and Koch Oil, and served as President and CTO of Arcom Control Systems and Eurotech Inc. His experience covers a broad range of technology from the design and manufacturing of embedded systems to SCADA system infrastructure implementations. Arlen holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (BSEE) from Oklahoma State University.

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Dominik Obermaier, CTO
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Dominik Obermaier, CTO

Dominik Obermaier is the CTO at HiveMQ. He is the lead architect of the HiveMQ Enterprise MQTT Broker, which is used in the largest commercial IoT deployments in the world with multiple millions of connected devices. Dominik is co-author of the book "The Technical Foundations of IoT" and is a technical expert for IoT protocols and highly scalable cloud software. He is a member of the OASIS Technical Committee and standardized MQTT 3.1.1 and MQTT 5 and a frequent speaker on IoT and Java topics.

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Modernizing the Manufacturing Industry with MQTT
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Modernizing the Manufacturing Industry with MQTT

IIoT is driving the manufacturing industry to modernize its software infrastructure. Whether you call it Industry 4.0 or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), manufacturing is in the midst of a significant transformation. A key motivation in this push to modernize is that real-time data and dynamic decision making yield meaningful performance improvements for businesses.  […]

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How to transition to a Smart Factory with Siemens and AWS
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How to transition to a Smart Factory with Siemens and AWS

Making a factory smart means taking advantage of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) – technologies that collect and centralize mass amounts of machine data gathered from industrial environments and create value from that data. Solutions built on IIoT platforms collect, aggregate, analyze, and provide insight to enable you to quickly act on the data to boost operational efficiency and […]

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[On-demand Webinar] Transforming Industrial Footprint and Supply Chain Network
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[On-demand Webinar] Transforming Industrial Footprint and Supply Chain Network

The past five to ten years brought dramatic advances in sophisticated global supply networks. The latest generation of end-to-end supply chains were designed for “pull” rather than “push,” enabling the high efficiencies.  Entire value streams now operate with advanced software and are governed by “control towers,” which continuously optimize the supply-production-distribution flow. The result: significant […]

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Megan Samford, VP, Chief Product Security Officer
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Megan Samford, VP, Chief Product Security Officer

Megan Samford, VP, Chief Product Security Officer for Energy Management at Schneider Electric, is a security executive with focus on industrial control systems security, critical infrastructure protection, and risk analysis. In her role at Schneider Electric, Megan is responsible for driving the product security strategy and program for Schneider Electric’s Energy Management business. In taking […]

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