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IIOT WORLD ENERGY DAY 2023

20+ years experience in managing growth in both small (<$2M) and large (>$40M) product lines. 14+ years of experience leading teams of 6-15 business managers in both product development and technical sales. 240+ hours of training and coaching on strategic planning, team building, goal-oriented business alignment, and product development; several team members recognized for outstanding performance. 100+ hours of large forum public speaking. 15+ years of engineering and on-site construction management; projects from $30K to $11M in budget.

A career that spans field and corporate engineering, product development and design, sales and marketing, customer and vendor, and operations and maintenance.

With 20+ years experience, I serve Digital and Technology Executives in the next iteration of Digital Transformation. Web 3.0 and Digital Twin Strategy and Implementation. I lead the Energy vertical for Unity Technologies to help organizations think about data differently and move to a new way of working. Focusing on using solving complex business problems by putting great solutions into the hands of great people.

From underground asset protection to the early days of FAC-003 and 008 compliance, Brad has assisted utilities with leveraging a mixture of mature and emerging technologies to address the biggest challenges faced by energy companies around the globe. Today, Brad focusses on solving energy delivery challenges that utilities and their stakeholders face as global quality of life increasingly depends on reliable delivery of electricity.

I am a British and Swiss national, based in the Geneva-Lausanne area of Switzerland, married with two children. I am a technology industry business development professional, with over twenty years' international experience within the technology industry in EMEA and Asia Pacific. My focus has been on technical computing solutions in vertical markets with a strong emphasis on the energy industry, primarily upstream oil and gas and the transition to low or zero carbon energy sources.

I am currently responsible for Industry Business Development Oil & Gas Europe and Middle East at NVIDIA. I spent the previous twenty years with leading IT companies Silicon Graphics, Linux Networx, Hewlett-Packard and Bull, working on high-performance computing and visualization technologies in geoscience and geospatial domains.

I have proven competence in EMEA regional sales management (including P&L), partner and channel management, vertical industry business development and major account management, and have developed an extensive network of end-users and business partners worldwide.

English is my mother tongue, with fluent French, good German and Mandarin Chinese to BA degree level as secondary languages. I am accustomed to frequent international travel (40%+).

Specialties: High Performance Technical Computing solutions (computation, storage & visualization) for the international Oil & Gas industry.

Technology Evangelist. Bit of a story teller & influencer on #EnergyTransition technologies. An advisor, speaker, podcast host & technology consultant. A member of the Siemens Influencer Community #SIEx and #InnowattsInfluencer.

Being a bit of a storyteller, Kevin has been evangelizing how new technologies can transform the way we do things through-out his career. Kevin has a proven track record of ‘bridging the gap’ between the capabilities a new technology can bring and the practicalities of bringing that technology to market.

Kevin is the founder of the boutique technology consultancy company, A Bit of This & That, focused on the intersection of technology and the Energy Industry, delivering innovative technology consultations, sales advisory, speaker & B2B Influencer services.

He has held senior leadership Technical Sales & Sales Management roles at Compaq, HP and most recently at Intel, where he was Intel’s Worldwide Sales Director for the Energy Industry.

Director Strategic Initiative & Solution Architect. Mr. Baumann joined the Solution Architect team in the Secure Power division within Schneider Electric. He is helping clients with their Industrial IoT and Microgrid initiatives in the Commercial & Industrial and Data Center markets that allow to achieve greater resiliency, achieve sustainability objectives and create economic benefits. Prior, he supported the Consulting and Engineering community by advising on resource-optimized energy management solutions in the data center market. He offers nearly three decades of experience in the data center, broadcast, telecommunications, AV and IT industry. Prior to joining Schneider Electric, Baumann held senior management positions with Barco, Leitch, Inc. He started his engineering career at JVC Professional as a systems and maintenance engineer. His experience led to consulting positions with major corporations around the world, devising solutions to migrate and integrate their IT based digital infrastructures. His papers have been published in peer-reviewed journals and he frequently speaks on national and international venues.

Baumann, joined Schneider Electric in early 2012. He is an active member of iMasons and the Green G working group (Next G). Until 2018, he served as Treasurer and President on the board of AFCOM Southern California, was chairman for The Global Society for Asset Management (G-SAM). Baumann recently completed a program at MIT in Smart Manufacturing and holds an electrical engineering degree from the Theodor-Litt-Schule in Giessen, Germany.

Shash is the Global Presales Director for Cloud at AVEVA. Since joining as a graduate with AVEVA 13 years ago, Shash has held roles within Customer Support, R&D as a cloud architect and now with Presales helping drive growth within AVEVA’s cloud business and bring awareness of the benefits that cloud brings around Total cost of ownership, data security, business agility and remote working. Shash has bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (majors in Software) from Loughborough University, UK.

Hamish Mackenzie is the valuable difference champion.

Author, facilitator, advisor and coach, he helps international technology businesses identify new customer value and monetize it.

Working with business owners, CEOs and their senior executive teams, Hamish has over a decade’s worth of stunningly successful projects for startups, SMEs and large corporates across Europe, the US and Japan under his belt.

Product Management leader with extensive experience delivering high quality products and services that have generated revenues and cost savings of over $10B for companies such as Motorola, GE, Bosch and Weir. Successfully launches products, establishing branding, creating product advertisement and marketing campaigns working with global and regional business teams.

• My expertise includes Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Data Security, Product Marketing, Product Engineering, Cloud Platforms, SaaS/PaaS and Agile Methodologies.

• The industries that i have worked in includes Mining, O&G, Industrial Automation, Automotive, Mobile Devices, Enterprise communications, Automotive and Fleet Management.

• Led many data analytics-based products where I have established agile development methodologies, established data science discipline, established security best practices, led the software architecture and finalized data platform strategy for ingesting data from multiple sources, setting up data pipelines, doing data engineering, creating data storage solutions, making data visualizations, and performing data analytics/AI to deliver business value.

• I strongly believe in using analytics to support customer oriented business goals and I have proven success in the use cases such as predictive maintenance, supply chain inventory optimization, Smart Factory machine optimization/Factory process automation.

Jeremiah is a Professional Engineer and has over 15 years of experience in operational technology through various industries including energy, pipelines, refining, and electric utilities. He has helped organizations architect modern process control networks, execute large scale SCADA replacement projects, design, and implement scalable data acquisition.
Jeremiah works closely with organizations to understand and plan technology deficits in their OT environments and has sat on organizations cyber security committees as an OT subject matter expert. He is a champion of using OT assets and OT data to help businesses achieve transformation through smart, agile, and cost-effective solutions.
As partner and CTO of Streamline, he brings a wealth of knowledge, insight, and leadership to the organization.

Dave Tanguay is an experienced sales and product management professional with a diverse background in the construction and industrial sectors. He has consistently demonstrated strong leadership, strategic thinking, and relationship-building skills throughout his career. His years of field experience as an SME have helped to bridge the gap between technology and operations to create a simple solutions.

Joe Perino is an independent consultant and advisor focused on industrial transformation and operational excellence for the energy, process, and manufacturing industries. He is actively involved with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), DataOps, advanced analytics (AI/ML), Cloud and Edge computing, Digital Twins, robotic process automation, and blockchain. Perino founded PERTEX in 2015 to help industrial organizations drive business results. Today, he specializes in helping startups with strategy and market development.
Perino started his career as a process engineer in the refining, chemicals, and pipeline sectors, and then spent several years in sales and business development with process automation and technology suppliers before moving into product and industry marketing, strategy, corporate development, M&A, and management consulting. He has worked for operating companies (Phillips Petroleum, Diamond Shamrock, Northern Natural Gas) as well as automation and software firms (Emerson, Honeywell, Blue Yonder) and services firms (IBM, Schlumberger, CGI, and DXC). Before going independent, Perino was a principal analyst for LNS Research, where he was the lead analyst for asset performance management, operational excellence, advanced analytics, and data management.
Perino is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), the Professional Petroleum Data Management Association (PPDM), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and the International Society of Automation (ISA).
He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an MS in Finance from the University of Houston-Clear Lake, and has completed executive education programs at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and Harvard Business School.

Balaji Palani is InfluxData’s Vice President of Product Marketing, overseeing the company’s product messaging and technical marketing. Balaji has an extensive background in monitoring, observability and developer technologies and bringing them to market. He previously served as InfluxData’s Senior Director of Product Management, and before that, held Product Management and Engineering positions at BMC, HP, and Mercury.

Hamish Mackenzie is the valuable difference champion.

Author, facilitator, advisor and coach, he helps international technology businesses identify new customer value and monetize it.

Working with business owners, CEOs and their senior executive teams, Hamish has over a decade’s worth of stunningly successful projects for startups, SMEs and large corporates across Europe, the US and Japan under his belt.

Adrian Fielding is the General Manager of Emissions Monitoring & Reduction and works within Honeywell Process Solutions. Adrian has been part of the Global Industrial Safety & Security initiative with Honeywell since 2006 and transitioned into this new role in 2022 to support Honeywell’s sustainability initiatives. Adrian is responsible for the overall strategy of the continuous fugitive & process emissions. This includes driving development of Honeywell technologies and their integration to and coordination with Honeywell’s strategic partners that completement a broad Honeywell Sustainability portfolio. Key to the initiative is outcome-based programs to measure, monitor, report and reduce emissions using accurate, near real-time data at medium and large operations that are often enterprise wide. This includes, but is not limited to, refineries, pipelines, chemical plants plus on and off-shore upstream facilities.

Deexith Reddy is a Senior Data Engineer at Fidelity Investments, specializing in automating data engineering processes. With expertise in cloud technologies, he drives cost savings and operational efficiency through innovative automation solutions. Deexith's contributions have transformed data operations, streamlining processes and reducing manual effort. His focus on cost optimization and aligning technical solutions with business objectives has earned industry recognition. As a passionate mentor, Deexith shares insights and best practices to inspire the next generation of data engineers.

Technology Lead - Digital Transformation, Automation and Innovation at Office for National Statistics (UK Govt.)

After more than a decade as a control systems integrator, automation engineer, project manager, and marketer, Josh Eastburn now works as Director of Technical Marketing at EMQ. After studying Computer Science at Cal Poly, he began his career supporting process equipment for semiconductor giants like Intel, TSMC, and Samsung. Later projects included applications and end users in the petrochemical, food and beverage, and life sciences industries. As a marketer, he strives to represent the real-world concerns of technical decision-makers with respect and integrity.

Erick Ford is the President of the NJ energy Coalition and is Vice President for Stevens & Lee Public Affairs. He is a subject matter expert in the energy sector. He speaks on panels around the country on topics like energy resources, clean energy, infrastructure cybersecurity and much more. Erick worked the the NJ Board of Public Utilities. He went to George Mason University.

Rich Springer is the Director of Product Marketing for FortiGuard Services at Fortinet. In this role, Rich works alongside product management and threat researchers to promote Device Security, Web and Content services for Fortinet products. Previously, Rich was the Head of Industrial Cyber Strategy & Development for Tripwire managing the Industrial cyber product business. While evolving in the business of cyber security software and hardware development, Rich provides an operational background as a prior global head of SCADA in wind energy and across various roles in the semiconductor industry and the submarine nuclear Navy. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University and resides in Portland, Oregon. Rich is excited to lead, educate, and develop network and cyber security solutions for his customers and global cyber community.

Business focused leader with a strong technical background, driving an elevated ability to communicate at all levels and areas of an enterprise.

Over 15 years of diversified Information Technology background, 9+ years of direct Information Security experience, and over 7 years of management experience in positions of escalating responsibility.

Proven capabilities in establishing and directing a cost-effective, business focused security program responsible for reducing the specific cyber security risks facing a globally distributed Fortune 50 corporation.

Proven track record managing diverse portfolio of projects and initiatives across a strategically centralized, operationally decentralized, geographically varied corporation, delivering on time and at or below budget.

Operationally efficient and effective. Service delivery restructuring efforts have resulted in operational excellence while directly reducing yearly operating expenses by $1 million, and $2+ million in business productivity loss avoidance.

Respected leader, experienced with managing resources in an internally sourced, managed services, and hybrid staffing models, while consistently delivering at or above target.

I am passionate about high-tech solutions to solve the world's largest problems.

Extensive experience in XaaS, Cloud, IoT, and cybersecurity, creating industry digital solutions to drive business growth and creating a greener earth. Looking to be a strategic leader leveraging emerging technologies and data-driven decision making to drive product and business direction.

Larry brings in over 22 years of experience. He is currently the OT Solutions Evangelist at HCLTech. He is an experienced Senior Solutions Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the oil & energy industry. Skilled in Firewalls, Network Engineering, Network Security, Wireless Networking, and Cross-functional Team Leadership. Strong engineering professional with an AAS focused in Computer Science from Tampa Technical Institute.

Greg previously served as the CEO of Tangent Company, inventor of the Watercycle™, the only commercial residential direct potable reuse system in the country. Greg holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University, a Masters of Business Administration in International Business from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, and is a graduate of the Ivey Business School’s Executive Leadership Program at Western University.

Jose Razo is an OT/ICS Leader at Microsoft focused on helping Fortune 100 & 500 companies achieve compliance and risk reduction through the development of holistic and highly integrated OT & ICS security programs.
Jose also drives customer advocacy efforts to ensure Microsoft product security roadmaps are inclusive of customer needs across industry verticals, with a particular focus on oil and gas.

Danielle Jablanski is an OT cybersecurity strategist at Nozomi Networks, responsible for researching global cybersecurity topics and promoting operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity awareness throughout the industry. She is also a nonresident fellow at the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

Don Davidson is Director, Cyber-SCRM Programs at Synopsys. In 2019, he retired from US-DoD with over 44+ years of Federal Service, with his last 15 specialized in Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM).
He is active in the DHS/CISA-led public-private ICT-SCRM Task Force. He participates a variety of C-SCRM standards activities to include: CS1/ANSI and SC27/ISO, (where he co-leads of SCRM Expert Group and is co-editor of ISO/IEC 27036). He serves as a Cyber-SCRM Fellow at the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology In 2021, he was selected as a member of the DOC/BIS Information Systems Technology Advisory Committee (ISTAC).

Joyce Hunter is a strategic doer, philanthroprenuer and experienced executive, leveraging a diverse background in executive coaching, strategic management and information technology advisory services to industry, non-profit and all levels of government. This multi-dimensional experience offers “big picture” strategies to clients, combining knowledge of today’s business needs with expertise in applying a spectrum of technologies, standards and partners to meet local, national and global challenges.