What is City Logistics? Efficient, timely and accurate delivery is a necessity to retailers and logistics providers survival in an Amazon Prime world. Smart Cities goals of livability and sustainability means they want less trucks, congestion and pollution. For all stakeholders to achieve their goals, the only answer is to work together. If cities, retailers, […]
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The use of industrial automated machinery and control systems continues to grow as factories and plants implement sensors and actuators to monitor environments and the machines in these spaces. The adoption of technology in these environments has been coined the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). And, as hardware and software solutions continue to drop in price ($30-$300), industries […]
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There are two sides to the cybersecurity fence when addressing threats and other concerns. The first side is what we’re most familiar with in corporate IT or Information Technology (IT). The other side of the cybersecurity fence is the Operational Technology (OT). As ICS adopts solutions used within IT, OT environments are starting to resemble […]
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Jon Hallsten is an award-winning IoT thought leader, technology innovator and president of Hallsten Innovations which is a provider of custom designed IoT electronic products and engineering services with offices in Ohio and Chicago. Hallsten Innovations develops first-mile IoT solutions for our clients. First-mile means we design the electronic products (nodes, sensors, gateways, etc) that […]
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Sorin Grama is an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and the Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship where he brings experience of starting and scaling a hardware business in a developing economy. Sorin co-founded and served as CEO/CTO of Promethean Power Systems, a manufacturer of thermal energy storage systems for refrigeration […]
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Pablo Tomasi is a Senior Analyst covering Smart Cities and IoT at the research and consulting firm IHS Markit. Within the company, he is the Leading Analyst responsible for the Smart Cities IoT Intelligence Service, providing insight, data, and analysis on the current and future state of the smart city market. He produced research on […]
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Göran Appelquist, currently CTO at Crosser, has 20+ years of experience of different leading positions in high-tech companies. Crosser is a start-up that designs and delivers the industry’s first pure-play real-time software solution for Fog/Edge Computing architectures. Göran has a Ph.D. in physics from Stockholm University where he researched on data acquisition systems for large-scale […]
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Paul Vanslette is Chief Technology Officer at Industrial Video & Control, being responsible for planning and leading the initiative to design, develop, and implement industrial video software solutions for manufacturing, SCADA, and security applications that provide a sustained competitive advantage. IVC is the global market leader in industrial network video, driving the integration of digital video with SCADA […]
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Brian Ballard is the CEO and co-founder of Upskill (formerly APX Labs) where he is working on the next industrial revolution – using smart glasses to create powerful ways for the workforce to interact with the digital and physical world. Brian has been on the forefront of developing software solutions that enable revolutionary new scenarios for smart […]
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Matt Morris is an Industrial IoT and cyber security entrepreneur, executive and author. Matt is currently the Managing Director & Global Head for Burns & McDonnell’s Industrial Cyber Practice, where he leads all aspects of the business, from strategy and business development to sales and delivery. An industry luminary, Matt spearheaded some of the most […]
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Education Graduated in Mechanical Engineering with focus on Automation at the Polytechnic University of Milan. Professional career CEO at Comau – part of FCA Group – since 2015. Before that, he was General Director. From 2010 to 2012 he managed the Comau North America Division in Michigan. He also held management roles in other divisions, […]
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Jim Rock is CEO of Seegrid and is a progressive leader of growth-stage technology companies. Jim’s expertise spans 25+ years in hi-tech industries including artificial intelligence software, voice recognition technology, acoustic semiconductors for mobile devices, and enterprise-grade software. Jim developed his business acumen in a series of challenging career and entrepreneurial opportunities with companies, including serving […]
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