Critical infrastructure cyberattack risk: from emerging concept to harsh reality
· Cybersecurity

Critical infrastructure cyberattack risk: from emerging concept to harsh reality

The current landscape  Cyberattacks targeting power grids and manufacturing plants in Europe over the past two years led me to believe that we would see the first major cyberattack on U.S. critical infrastructure in 2018. At the mid-year mark my prediction has already become a reality. The recent cyberattack in Atlanta destabilized municipal operations and […]

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Adi Dar, Chief Executive Officer
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Adi Dar, Chief Executive Officer

Adi Dar, CEO and founder, is an experienced cybersecurity leader and chief executive who has repeatedly lead the development and launch of successful products and services in highly competitive markets. Previously, as CEO of ELOP (Israel’s largest Electro Optics company), Dar led the company’s growth to over $500M annual revenues. During this 6 year period, Dar […]

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How Adaptive Cyber Security Can Enable Digital Health Adoption
· Smart Cities, Buildings & Infrastructure

How Adaptive Cyber Security Can Enable Digital Health Adoption

Digital health focuses on connecting the systems, tools, medical devices, and services together that deliver needed healthcare to each of us and gives critical data insights to each player across the healthcare delivery landscape that weren’t available before.  According to the recent 8th Annual Industry Pulse Report from Change Healthcare, security and privacy concerns are […]

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Karl Hawes
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Karl Hawes

Karl Hawes is a multi-sector business executive with experience in aerospace, satcom, defense, clean energy, and recreational products, just to name a few. His articles have been featured in such periodicals as Fast Company, the Institute for Defense & Government Advancement, and JEC Composites Magazine.  He has successfully managed the growth strategy for several enterprises […]

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How will smart manufacturing transform the supply chain?
· Smart Manufacturing

How will smart manufacturing transform the supply chain?

For manufacturers, managing the supply chain from beginning to end has been like traveling two superhighways interrupted by a long stretch of dirt road. Manufacturers have benefited from increasingly powerful tools for demand planning and logistics management – the first and last parts of their supply chains – but tracking the performance of manufacturing production […]

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How Do We Enhance Trust in Connected Things?
· Cybersecurity

How Do We Enhance Trust in Connected Things?

Is technology advancing and evolving faster than our collective mindset? It’s an interesting thought, and perhaps easy to confirm when you start considering connectivity. Today, we have the Internet of Things, and we enjoy the hyper-connectivity it provides if only we can get ourselves to trust it. Our security technology is lagging behind, so how […]

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Edge Computing Benefits – Key Drivers for Smart Manufacturing
· Smart Manufacturing

Edge Computing Benefits – Key Drivers for Smart Manufacturing

Edge computing has many beenefits; it means faster response times, increased reliability and security. A lot has been said about how the Internet of Things ( IoT ) is revolutionizing the manufacturing world. Many studies have already predicted more than 50 billion devices will be connected by 2020. It is also expected over 1.44 billion data […]

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Sudhir Arni, VP, Manufacturing Transformation
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Sudhir Arni, VP, Manufacturing Transformation

Sudhir is Vice President of Manufacturing Transformation at Sight Machine, category leader for AI in Manufacturing and manufacturing analytics. In this role Sudhir leads a team of transformation leaders responsible for on-boarding all new customers and customer success managers who ensure adoption of Sight Machine technology across the global enterprise customer base enabling business expansion […]

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New business models for manufacturers
· Connected Industry

New business models for manufacturers

The convergence of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) systems may help manufacturers embrace new service offerings using web-based business models. Many years ago one of my distributor partners took me to do an automation demo for a very large industrial OEM. Afterward we went into a stockroom, where she noted on a clipboard […]

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Legal Issues in Smart Manufacturing
· Connected Industry

Legal Issues in Smart Manufacturing

Two lawyers walk into a smart manufacturing conference. Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, right? Well, no, actually, it was the reality last month when lawyers Matt Pollins, partner and head of commercial/TMT at legal firm CMS Singapore, and Wong Hong Boon, manufacturing and supply chain legal counsel at 3M Singapore, joined a […]

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The railway predictive maintenance and the enabling role of the Internet of Things
· Predictive Analytics

The railway predictive maintenance and the enabling role of the Internet of Things

The availability of innovative technologies and the huge amount of data are the key factors able to revolutionizing maintenance in the 21st century. Leveraging deep engineering knowledge and data analytics capabilities, analysis of this data can be utilized to predict component failures and carry out root cause analysis when failures do occur, supporting continuous improving […]

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