David McKnight, Smart Manufacturing Solutions, Hitachi Vantara
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David McKnight, Smart Manufacturing Solutions, Hitachi Vantara

David McKnight joined Hitachi in 2016 with an eye to broaden his work in Industrial IoT and Digital Manufacturing. At Hitachi Vantara, he is driving manufacturing operations excellence solutions with clients across various industries. Prior to his tenure with Hitachi, David has focused on providing industrial automation and SAP manufacturing solutions throughout the world. David […]

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Owen Keates, Industry Executive Manufacturing Practice, Hitachi Vantara
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Owen Keates, Industry Executive Manufacturing Practice, Hitachi Vantara

Owen is an Industry Advisor for Hitachi Vantara’s Manufacturing Practice. He started his career as a chemical engineer in the pulp and paper and industrial chemicals industries with various production and project management roles. Having commissioned new factories he learnt the critical importance of supply chains to manufacturing, which led to career in supply chain […]

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Ed Lane, Sr. Marketing Programs Manager at Hitachi Vantara
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Ed Lane, Sr. Marketing Programs Manager at Hitachi Vantara

Marketing professional with 15+ years experience managing online marketing efforts aimed at driving customer acquisition and retention for global audiences. I offer a unique blend of technical, creative, analytic, and project management expertise. I can optimize your marketing spend across multiple channels to cost-effectively identify new opportunities for growth and achieve goals for new customer […]

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Sa’d Kanan, SVP, Global Lead Automotive at Hitachi Vantara
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Sa’d Kanan, SVP, Global Lead Automotive at Hitachi Vantara

Sa’d is an IIoT expert at Practice development, Strategic planning, Business strategy, IT strategy, Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Cloud Computing, Agile and Iterative application development, Managed Services, Offshore application development, ecommerce and portals and has been at Hitachi for 14 years.

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James Destro, General Manager, Manufacturing Practice at Hitachi Vantara
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James Destro, General Manager, Manufacturing Practice at Hitachi Vantara

James Destro currently heads the Manufacturing Practice at Hitachi Vantara. His practice focuses on delivering high value outcomes through deep domain consulting and digital solutions that leverage advanced analytics to Hitachi’s manufacturing customers globally. James’ background includes more than 20 years of industrial digital solutions leadership in the manufacturing, oil and gas, chemicals, and aviation […]

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Shamik Mehta, Director
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Shamik Mehta, Director

Shamik Mehta, Director of Industry Solutions Marketing at Hitachi Vantara. Digital Transformation marketing professional with deep, hands-on experience in IT and OT: software for DataOps, governance and security, cloud and on-prem data storage, and AI and ML-based IoT applications. Vertical industry experiences include eMobility, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing, EVs and batteries, and semiconductors.

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Sid Verma
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Sid Verma

Specializing in the Oil/Gas, Power/Utilities and Industrials/Mfg/Aerospace industry, Sid Verma brings in more than 20+ years of strategic problem solving and delivery experience; advising C-Suite/ Senior Officials to help organizations transform their businesses, monetize new technologies and improve their bottom line. Sid is a GM of the Mfg Practice at Hitachi Vantara, focused on incubating and growing the services and solution footprint at our discrete  / process mfg customers along with Hitachi Front BUs. Prior to Hitachi, Sid lead the Innovation and Industrial IoT business for Siemens and was responsible for building the Industrial IoT services practice at Deloitte Digital. Sid specializes in Digital Manufacturing (Industry 4.0), Digital Supply Chain, Asset Performance Management, Analytics and Insights offering. Sid brings in extensive experience managing Business Strategy, IT Strategy, Enterprise / Solution Architecture, Agile Delivery and Operational/IT Transformation. Sid has expertise across various IoT / Big Data / ML+ AI + Data Science platforms.

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Bjorn Andersson, Senior Director, Global IoT Marketing
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Bjorn Andersson, Senior Director, Global IoT Marketing

Bjorn Andersson is a Senior Director, Global IoT Marketing at Hitachi Vantara. Bjorn is a leader in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industries Marketing, accelerating go-to-market (GTM) for innovative solutions that combine advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence, and IoT. Bjorn has a proven track record to build and execute strategies and plans to build a business and bring products & technologies to market. He can translate technology into customer benefits and communicate these to diverse audiences. Bjorn has deep expertise in High-Performance Computing (HPC), Visualization and Technical Computing - reaching into technologies and uses that have partly evolved from there, such as Cloud Computing&Storage, Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning and Virtualization He is also experienced in creating strategic partnerships and mergers&acquisitions (M&A). 

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Answers to your questions for the Data Lakes session at All Things IIoT Day
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Answers to your questions for the Data Lakes session at All Things IIoT Day

Data lakes are becoming increasingly popular as companies accumulate vast amounts of data, both structured and unstructured. These are the questions and their corresponding answers after Hitachi Vantara’s session on Data Lakes during the All Things IIoT Day. What are some examples of Unstructured time series data? Video is one type.  With CV techniques, anomalies […]

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