Pugal Janakiraman, Industry Field CTO for Manufacturing, Snowflake
Pugal Janakiraman is the Industry Field CTO for Manufacturing at Snowflake, focused on driving the solution vision for manufacturing by mapping technology components from Snowflake and the partner ecosystem to build higher order solutions within the…
Jim Wetzel, Co-Founder, NxGen Group
Jim’s career has centered around innovation and improving things. He is known as a visionary in Smart Manufacturing and was one of the early champions nationally. Jim spent most of his career at General Mills and…
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…