Paul Viorel
IoT in Oil & Gas: Exploring the New Digital Frontier
· Connected Industry

IoT in Oil & Gas: Exploring the New Digital Frontier

IoT in Oil & Gas brings the same challenges and opportunities as in other industrial sectors. However, organizations seeking to drive better business outcomes in this segment with new digital strategies and tools face an additional set of problems, matched with the potential for even greater benefits. Certainly many aspects of IoT already exist across the […]

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Expo 2020 Dubai: Is this what the city of the future looks like?
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Expo 2020 Dubai: Is this what the city of the future looks like?

Eiffel Tower and the Atomium, color TV and the zipper: a World Expo is about spectacular structures and ingenious inventions. Architecture and innovative technology have never been as closely linked as they’re going to be at Expo 2020 Dubai. More than 130 buildings at the site will be connected via Internet of Things or IoT […]

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Case Study: First Steps Toward IIoT in a SME Environment

IIoT and Industry 4.0 are omnipresent topics in today’s industry tradeshows and blog posts. A lot of products promise to help you achieve vertical integration of production flow and data and enterprise software like ERP. But usually, there’s also a catch: either you get very complex products with a similarly shocking price tag – or […]

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David Immerman, Business Analyst
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David Immerman, Business Analyst

David Immerman is a business analyst on PTC’s Corporate Marketing team providing thought leadership on technologies, trends, markets, and other topics. Previously David was an industry analyst in 451 Research’s Internet of Things channel primarily covering the smart transportation space and automotive technology markets, including fleet telematics, connected cars, and autonomous vehicles. He also spent […]

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Kris Brannock, Executive Vice President, VSI
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Kris Brannock, Executive Vice President, VSI

Kris Brannock is an Executive Vice President at VSI, a transformative technology company that focuses on Actionable IoT™ and service. A corporate growth strategy influencer, Kris focuses her attention on disruptive innovation in IIoT and asset-intensive service. With experience on issues surrounding complex serviceable, asset-based environments, including patent pending IIoT solutions in Alarm Response Automation, she provides tangible insight for executives looking to monetize on IoT investments.

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Giving Human Relevance to Digital Transformation
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Giving Human Relevance to Digital Transformation

Digital transformation does not start with technology, but with the people and processes it enables. Envision the enormous possibilities and high impact that digital transformation can have in the production process by enabling you and your workforce. Giving human relevance to digital transformation allows technology to be successfully adopted and fully realize the benefits. As […]

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Ripal Vyas, Founder and President
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Ripal Vyas, Founder and President

Ripal Vyas is the Founder and President of Softweb Solutions Inc – An Avnet Company. He has been instrumental in bringing the latest technologies to the Midwest over the last 12 years with his firm in Chicago. Vyas is now raising awareness on the importance of IoT, deep learning, AI, advance data analytics, and digital […]

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Alba Contreras Rodriguez, President
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Alba Contreras Rodriguez, President

Recognized as a strategic Global Operations and Management Executive with a proven history of building high-performance teams and leading sophisticated manufacturing and service organizations. Successful at coaching global executives on navigating corporate culture and processes as well as cross generational leadership and multi-cultural organizations. She has a reputation as a visionary leader with a clear […]

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Where gas and data flow

Equinor’s LNG facility on Norway’s Melkøya Island cools natural gas from the Barents Sea to minus 160 degrees Celsius, fills it into special tanks, and delivers it to ports around the world. To do this work, it particularly also uses digitalization tools from Siemens. Whether competing in swimming, gymnastics or track and field, athletes have […]

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Securing our Energy Future
· Cybersecurity

Securing our Energy Future

ENERGY! – It’s the most vital, indispensable resource for sustaining and advancing humankind. Much as Oxygen is essential for all life on earth, Electricity – the foremost and primary useful energy form – is the core enabler of all technology development since the industrial revolution, and key to the sustainability of modern civilization. The future […]

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The Digital Cybersecurity Paradox
· Cybersecurity

The Digital Cybersecurity Paradox

In 5 years there will be 75 billion devices connected to the internet, perhaps a few billion insecure and unpatchable. An estimated 2 billion run VxWorks and perhaps a couple hundred million of those will not be patched in any reasonable length of time. About 200 million Internet-connected devices—some that may be controlling elevators, medical […]

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In Security, Process is as Reliable as Luck
· Cybersecurity

In Security, Process is as Reliable as Luck

Lately, I have seen two common themes whenever IoT security is brought up; 1) complete acceptance that IoTs pose unique security challenges, and 2) how they have an IT/OT collaboration process to address them. Everybody knows what IT is, but as a reminder, OT, or operationalized technologies, are network/Internet-connected technologies whose primary function is not […]

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