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February 23, 2021 · Our Contributors

Ed Duda, Technical Consultant

Ed Duda is Technical Consultant for Des-Case Corporation in Goodlettsville (Nashville), TN. Prior to joining Des-Case, Ed was a Process Engineer for Freeport-McMoRan Inc. He has worked in several roles focused on change management, project management and operational excellence. Ed holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Michigan Technological University, holds ICML certifications (MLT I, MLA I and MLA II), is a Certified Reliability Leader (CRL) from ReliabilityWeb and is a certified maintenance and reliability professional (CMRP) from SMRP (Society for Maintenance and reliability professionals).

February 23, 2021 · Analytics

Deploying Analytics On The Shop Floor: How And Where To Start

Industrial Digital Transformation is happening, but the reality is that most companies are handling data on paper. To think about analytics on the shop floor, one of the first things to be done is to automate not only the process, but the data collection and transformation. This is a key step to think about Artificial Intelligence or other terms like Digital Twins and that […]

February 23, 2021 · Our Contributors

Ian Skerrett, Head Of Marketing

Senior marketing and product management executive with over 25 years experience in the software industry. I help companies build successful marketing and communication strategies for complex products. Specific focus on IoT and Open Source Software. Specialties: introducing new products, strategic planning, marketing execution, building online communities, press relations, open source software

February 23, 2021 · Our Contributors

Antonio Mosca, Digital Advisor, Owner

Innovation manager certified by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the National Body for Digital Transformation, Antonio Mosca spent over 20 years at the helm of digital innovation and business transformation initiatives, both in multinationals (Korber, Ericsson, Microsoft, EIT Digital) and consulting firm (Accenture, Ernst & Young). He recently founded New Digital Solutions, which offers consulting and solutions for Innovation and Digital Transformation. With in-depth ICT, Telco and Industry 4.0 skills, Antonio is an expert in technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data and Smart City. He contributes as a speaker to the MIP-Politecnico di Milano and collaborates with the “Digital Innovation Observatories”, a Think Tank of the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano. He publishes articles on business and technology topics, and novels.

February 22, 2021 · Our Contributors

Mario Ishikawa, CTO

Mario Ishikawa is the CTO of PackIOT. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Information Systems from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, one of the best universities in Latin America, and has been working as IIoT Engineer for the past 24 years, having worked with SCADA, PLCs, Manufacturing Execution Systems, Quality systems, Historians and Big Data Analytics for large global customers such as the power company ENGIE and automaker Fiat. Always focused on software, Mario decided to focus his career on entrepreneurship towards industrial automation, and one of his main goals right now is to help manufacturing companies to be more efficient reducing the technology gap on the shop floor.

February 22, 2021 · Connected Industry

Benefits of Industrial Equipment Monitoring

OEMS have the power to create new revenue streams and extend new services to customers by using IoT to monitor their equipment. Insights can lead to better parts and products, and provide an advantage over competitive offerings. The Losant Enterprise IoT Platform has already helped a number of OEMs implement cloud machine monitoring solutions, and […]

February 18, 2021 · Our Contributors

Lucian Niemeyer, CEO, Building Cyber Security

The Honorable Lucian Niemeyer was appointed on March 1, 2021 the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Building Cyber Security, a non-profit organization advancing physical security/safety in a smarter world. Prior to this appointment, Lucian served in the White House as the Deputy Program Associate. Director, National Security Programs, in the Office of […]

February 18, 2021 · Virtual Conference Partners

Building Cyber Security

February 18, 2021 · Virtual Conference Partners

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February 18, 2021 · Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity for Shared Cloud Environments

In its recent Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) research note, Gartner identified memory exploit protection as an essential component of any organization’s CWP strategy (Gartner, Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2020): “Exploit Prevention/Memory Protection–application control solutions are fallible and must be combined with exploit prevention and memory protection capabilities…”—Gartner CWPP 2020 Cybersecurity Considerations for the Cloud Cloud deployments […]

February 16, 2021 · Cybersecurity

Security Risks Are Slowing IT-OT Convergence

Fortinet has worked with Forrester Consulting for a third time to check in on security trends affecting those who manage and maintain critical infrastructure—including the industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that manage everything from factories to refineries to telecommunications infrastructure. Based on a global survey, the report identifies […]

February 15, 2021 · Cybersecurity

Protecting Traditional Stand Alone OT Systems As They Are Introduced To The IIoT

Re-Emagineering the CyberSecurity driven convergence of OT to IIOT The exploitation and sabotage of resources has been a concern to mission critical operations since the dawn of the industrial age. With the advancement of Information Technology (IT), opportunities to compromise, corrupt and disable networks and systems have exponentially grown, creating new development of malicious mechanisms. […]