Michael Gardiner leads Microsoft’s digital transformation initiatives in the Canadian manufacturing industry. In his current role, he provides guidance on Industry 4.0 and helps manufacturers enhance engineering and production processes using Industrial IoT, Intelligent Cloud & Edge computing, and Artificial Intelligence. For over 20 years, Mr. Gardiner has served manufacturers of all sizes who compete in […]
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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).
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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