Joel Pekay, Partner – Marketing and Business Development
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Joel Pekay, Partner – Marketing and Business Development

Joel Pekay is the founding partner of Scuderia Partners LLC and responsible for marketing and business development. He is a customer-focused leader with a knack for building new revenue streams and forging long-lasting loyal relationships with clients, vendors, and business partners. Scuderia Partners provides businesses with an outsourced team of experts skilled in developing and […]

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After a Cybersecurity Attack Like SolarWinds: Rebuilding a Network
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After a Cybersecurity Attack Like SolarWinds: Rebuilding a Network

In a recent article in The Guardian regarding the SolarWinds cybersecurity attack, security technologist Bruce Schneier said, “We have a serious problem. We don’t know what networks they are in, how deep they are, what access they have, what tools they left,” Schneier said. The only way to be sure a network is clean is “to burn it down to […]

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Digital Transformation: A One-Two Punch to Empower Employees and Protect Data
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Digital Transformation: A One-Two Punch to Empower Employees and Protect Data

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact business and the economy worldwide, companies in every industry are using a critical eye to prioritize their operations amidst shrinking budgets and a catalog of unknowns. This includes exploring automation technologies that can protect and even future-proof essential operations in an environment of fewer people, social distancing and […]

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David Masson, Director of Enterprise Security
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David Masson, Director of Enterprise Security

David Masson is Darktrace’s Director of Enterprise Security, and has over two decades of experience working in fast moving security and intelligence environments in the UK, Canada and worldwide. With skills developed in the civilian, military and diplomatic worlds, he has been influential in the efficient and effective resolution of various unique national security issues. David is an operational solutions expert and has a solid reputation across the UK and Canada for delivery tailored to customer needs. At Darktrace, David advises strategic customers across North America and is also a regular contributor to major media outlets in Canada where he is based, included CBC and The Globe and Mail. He holds a master’s degree from Edinburgh University.

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Peter Zornio, CTO
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Peter Zornio, CTO

Peter Zornio is chief technology officer (CTO) for Emerson Automation Solutions and has been with Emerson for 12 years. As CTO, Zornio has responsibility for overall coordination of technology programs, product and portfolio direction, and industry standards across the Automation Solutions group. This includes Emerson’s digitization and Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) developments, such as […]

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Robert M. Lee, Founder and CEO
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Robert M. Lee, Founder and CEO

Robert M. Lee is a recognized pioneer in the industrial security incident response and threat intelligence community. He gained his start in security as a U.S. Air Force Cyber Warfare Operations Officer tasked to the National Security Agency where he built a first-of-its-kind mission identifying and analyzing national threats to industrial infrastructure. He went on […]

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Smart Manufacturing: A Machine Monitoring Success Story
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Smart Manufacturing: A Machine Monitoring Success Story

When pen-and-paper methods of tracking job efficiency left AccuRounds’ engineers and managers in the dark, the shop switched machine monitoring system. However, this brought morale challenges along with it.The data-driven practice quickly demonstrated the benefits of real-time monitoring. It also brought some tensions to the surface among shopfloor employees. AccuRounds’ story can serve as a case […]

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Fact vs Fiction vs Future: What’s Next For 5G And IoT
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Fact vs Fiction vs Future: What’s Next For 5G And IoT

I personally cannot remember another telecommunications rollout quite like 5G. For every article which heralds the next-generation capabilities of this network, there is another which warns of its dangerous potential. Meanwhile, for the rest of us, it is hard to know at what point between these two extremes lies the truth.So, as the new year […]

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Tony Garcia, CTO
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Tony Garcia, CTO

Tony Garcia, CTO of SBT Alliance. Mr. Garcia is a smart building technologist with over 25-years of application engineering experience and a holder of two US patents. Having worked with advanced wireless controls for more than two decades, Mr. Garcia is considered a pioneer as one of the first wireless controls developers at Daintree Networks in 2006. As a cornerstone engineer at Daintree, Mr. Garcia developed the fundamental hardware components, network design specifications and supported project deployments with hands-on commissioning and management of tens of millions of square feet of industrial and commercial spaces. Mr. Garcia is one of the founding partners and Chief Technology Officer of SBT Alliance, a leading IoT systems and solutions integration firm. In this position, Mr. Garcia oversees the company’s software development, system provisioning tools, and overall technology direction of SBT to foster greater adoption of IoT technologies and IoT solutions within industrial, manufacturing, and commercial spaces.

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Federico Walas Mateo, CEO
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Federico Walas Mateo, CEO

Co-Founder and Ceo of Chaska Analytics. Making Process Optimization by data driven solutions real. Working with Industry 4.0 strategies and tools to transform factories into smart facilities. Federico Walas Mateo received his MSc. in Advanced Manufacturing Systems from Kingston University, UK, he currently works as Industrial Engineering coordinator at the Institute of Engineering and Agronomy, Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche (UNAJ). Federico does research in in Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, Innovation ecosystems, Open Innovation, Technological Startups, Data driven models. The current project is 'Analysis of the approach in Local SMEs to Production 4.0 tools

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Airwall: Cybersecurity as a OT business innovator
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Airwall: Cybersecurity as a OT business innovator

Safe Industrial IoT and industrial networking can unlock entire new business, in addition to simplifying and streamlining existing processes.  However, cyber risk is a huge problem, and existing IT security solutions are difficult and expensive to retrofit into OT networks – if they work at all.  This virtual conference will cover common pain points when […]

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