Our Team
Rich Langston, Director of Product Management, Tempered
Rich Langston is the Director of Product Management at Tempered. He is an experienced product leader who has been creating products in the network and security spaces for two decades. After his first product job creating…
Owen Keates, Industry Executive Manufacturing Practice, Hitachi Vantara
Owen is an Industry Advisor for Hitachi Vantara’s Manufacturing Practice. He started his career as a chemical engineer in the pulp and paper and industrial chemicals industries with various production and project management roles. Having commissioned…
Nino Mazza, Managing Director
Nino Mazza is the General Manager at TraceParts Italia.He studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Parma.
Antonio Conati Barbaro, COO, Alleantia
Before joining Alleantia in mid-2011, Antonio spent 20+ years in telecommunication networks, services and management platforms industry around the world, from coding of communication stacks in Italy and in the U.S. at Bell Labs in Ohio,…
John Burton, CEO, UrsaLeo
Before founding UrsaLeo, John spent 30 years in the semiconductor industry working with industrial customers across Europe, North America and Japan. Seeing the vast quantities of data being gathered in IIoT environments he got together with…
Maxim Babarinow, Founder
My name is Maxim Babarinow, I'm a passionate creator and founder of RUBINLAKE. I have a proven track record in Industry 4.0, IoT, and Data Analytics. My strong IT professional background with an M.Sc. in IT…
Scott MacKenzie, Moderator
Scott MacKenzie, lives and breathes his passion for Industrial growth and success. His humble beginnings as a lathing contractor and certified journeyman/lineman gives him the field-cred needed to understand industrial challenges. His MBA and Post-Grad education…
Kevin Purdy, Vice President, Toyota Motor North America
Professional Summary: Kevin Purdy is vice president of Builders for Toyota Motor North America, overseeing Manufacturing, R&D, and Supply Chain Management for Vehicles and Parts. Purdy strives to provide innovative solutions that create efficiencies, productivity, and cost…
Chris Hobbs, Software Safety Specialist, BlackBerry QNX
Chris Hobbs is the author of the definitive book on functional safety, Embedded Software Development for Safety-Critical Systems, and as a kernel developer and functional safety course instructor at BlackBerry QNX, he has advised some of…
Sandy Lobenstein, GVP Information Systems, Experience Portfolios, Toyota
Sandy Lobenstein is group vice president and chief divisional information officer for Toyota Motor North America (TMNA). As Chief Divisional Information Officer, Lobenstein is responsible for IT Experiences, Experience Portfolio teams throughout the US, Canada,…
Fatih Abdel Kareim, Senior Asset Manager
Fatih is a Senior Asset Manager and leads the implementation of new technologies in power stations and Marubeni Asset Management. He has expertise in power stations, transmission and distribution (SCADA), and has been Involved in the…
Arlen Nipper, President and CTO
Arlen Nipper brings over 42 years of experience in the SCADA industry to Cirrus Link as President and CTO. He was one of the early architects of pervasive computing and the Internet of Things and co-invented…