Jane Arnold is the Vice President of Global SPS Strategy and Industry 4.0 Execution at Stanley Black and Decker. Her focus is to improve Digitalization in Manufacturing with a special emphasis on emerging technologies including Additive Manufacturing. Arnold is a graduate of Oxford University’s Business Economic Program and has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Houston. Arnold has over 30 years of experience in manufacturing technology and operations. She joined Stanley Black and Decker in February of 2021. FOR THOSE WHO MAKE THE WORLD™ Stanley Black & Decker became the global leader in tools by building innovative solutions and tools for more than 175 years.

Floyd Baker is the Vice President for Antea USA. With over 39 years of experience, Floyd provides valuable insight and perspective on digital transformation and the industrial internet of things (IIoT). He is an asset integrity and digital strategies advisor in global communities. He is a revered global keynote speaker on topics of asset integrity management (AIM), risk based inspection (RBI), digital twin, IIoT, and digitalization.
Prior to joining Antea, Floyd served at senior levels for end users of AIM platforms. He has also served about half of his career at executive levels as a strategist/technology driver at companies providing AIM/RBI/Technology services. His background and education are focused on emerging technologies in inspection, mechanical engineering, and materials science.

Mike Berryman is the Director of Technical Services for Advantech IIoT Group in North America. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, his major responsibility is to promote, consult, architect, and deliver on IIoT and AI technologies for clients from various industries. In prior roles over his 20 years with Advantech IIoT, Mike directed the Smart Manufacturing sales sector, Product Management department, and Application Engineering team. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and has over 30 years of experience in the fields of process control, batch automation, discrete manufacturing, and IoT solutions.

David is a Project Engineer with Lonza and is a member of the Manufacturing Process Optimization (MPO) group which supports Lonza Specialty Ingredients (LSI). Prior to joining Lonza, David spent time in multiple positions with companies such as W.R. Grace and Akzo Nobel. Over his career he has worked with automation of printed circuit board imaging, automatic control of NOx emissions from mixed acid pickling and automated online analysis of hydrogen peroxide in bleaching systems. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

Matt Buck joined EPRI in 2015 after more than 16 years of operational experience in the power industry.
Matt is a currently a Senior Technical Leader in EPRI’s Operations and Maintenance (O&M) research group in the Generation sector. He oversees R&D that supports plant O&M excellence.
Matt’s work include O&M performance assessments, work planning, equipment reliability, and changing mission profiles for plants; but his passion is the Digital Worker concept. This work focuses on the use of advanced mobile technology to make the O&M field worker smarter, safer, and more effective.

Lloyd F. Colegrove retired after a 29-year career at Dow, as the Director of Data Services and the Director of Fundamental Problem Solving within Manufacturing and Engineering. He was also the Analytics Platform Director for Dow’s Manufacturing and Engineering’s Industry 4.0 program. Lloyd’s background is in Chemical Physics where he obtained a B.S. and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. He spent 7 years in Polymer Research in Dow (R&D and TS&D) before moving into Manufacturing in an analytical measurement improvement role for plant quality assurance activities and then as a global quality leader for five Dow businesses. He then moved on to establish a new capability called Fundamental Problem Solving, where top chemists and engineers work on complex, often multi-effect, plant problems. With this established, he refocused his efforts working to establish the Data Services group that has developed and deployed novel analytics applications to improve data-based decision making in chemical operations. These efforts have been recognized with many industry awards. Lloyd consults on real time analytics, artificial intelligence in the chemical industry, and process improvement strategies He is married with two daughters and is an avid cyclist, wilderness backpacker and landscaper.

David DeBari is an Innovator and a Process Control Engineer for the ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company. He has many years of automation experience in both continuous and batch processes and has built, migrated, or replaced control systems on numerous projects. David is the Lead Engineer and one of the original members of ExxonMobil’s Open Process Automation Program Team. He has provided technical leadership for the proof of concept and pilot unit prototype projects, and leads the current Test Bed and Field Trial activities for the ExxonMobil Program.

Nicholas Gigliotti is a Customer Success Manager at Seeq. He supports Seeq customers on global deployments of Seeq to ensure that they are successful in meeting their Digital Transformation goals. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech and worked at Eastman Chemical Company prior to joining Seeq in 2020.

As the Connected Worker Team Leader within bp’s Intelligent Operations team, Marty Gonzalez leads Digital Twin strategic solution development in support of bp’s Production and Operations organization.

In his 25-year career with Amoco and bp, Marty has held positions in R&D, refinery operations, process design, capital projects, and refinery commercial optimization. He has been developing data analytics, machine learning, and AI-based applications for bp’s downstream operations since 2016.

Marty holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.

Jonas Hellgren is CEO of Aperio Systems. Jonas has a computer science background with over 30 years of experience in software development. Aperio is the leader in industrial data integrity solutions. We help customers drive profitability and sustainability goals while mitigating risk in their industrial operations. Aperio AI automatically validates operational data at scale to improve data accuracy, security, and value, allowing for better, smarter business decisions based on real-time, trusted, superior data

Is Principal Design Engineer at Cyient Limited, Hyderabad in Turbo Machinery Group. He received a Bachelor of Technology Degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi in the year 2001. He has around 18 years of engineering design & management experience in Green Field & Brown Field projects while working with OEMs like Hitachi Mitsubishi Hydro, Japan; Voith Hydro, Austria; Alstom Power, India & BHEL, India with particular focus on Hydro Generators. Apart from core mechanical engineering experiences, he is an Optimization, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning enthusiast.

Stephen Kwan is Director of Product Management for Power Generation/Grid Management at Beyond Limits, an industrial-grade AI company that builds advanced software solutions for the most demanding sectors, including energy, utilities and healthcare. Stephen has over 25 years of experience in product management and engineering, holding previous positions in the product organizations at OSIsoft and GE Energy. Stephen holds a BS in Engineering Chemistry from SUNY Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in Materials from Pennsylvania State University.

Francois runs Cognite's operations in North America, including offices in Houston and Austin, Texas. Previously, he managed Cognite’s overall marketing activities as Chief Marketing Officer. He spent the preceding 11 years with software company Vizrt, where he served as COO and CCO, responsible for all commercial and operational activities. Laborie has a Ph.D. from the Toulouse Computer Science Research Institute.

In his role as Machine Learning (ML) Specialist in the Customer Engineering division at Google, Michael supports cloud customers in innovative projects with the goal to build novel software solutions within months or even weeks. In his projects, Michael focuses on challenges in the space of big data and machine learning.
Before becoming a Googler, Michael worked in similar roles at Amazon Web Services and in a Predictive Maintenance team at SAP. After his studies in computer science, Michael spent several years in academia to focus on research in cloud compute services, distributed databases & systems at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and obtained a PhD degree in engineering from the Technical University (TU) Berlin.

Leslie Rittenberg is the Refinery & Process Manufacturing Product Manager for Beyond Limits, an industrial-grade artificial intelligence technology company built for demanding sectors including energy and utilities. Leslie has over 30-years of experience in the Power and Oil & Gas industries. Prior to joining Beyond Limits, Leslie held leadership positions with a major O&G company for multiple refining assets as well as their Corporate Downstream Technology Center, where she led the development of their downstream manufacturing digital strategy. Leslie recently joined the Beyond Limits team that brings in a unique brand of Cognitive AI to solve complex business and operational problems in manufacturing settings such as refineries. Beyond Limits’ use cases go beyond conventional AI by incorporating and encoding human business reasoning in combination with live plant data to impact operational frontline decision making. Leslie holds an MBA and a degree in Chemical Engineering.

Yves Gorat Stommel is currently working as the head of the Cognitive Solutions team, with a strong focus on setting-up and implementing a comprehensive, company-wide Artificial Intelligence and data analysis strategy.
In his current function, Yves’ motivation stems from bringing together people, technology and positive change. By continuously questioning, improving and re-imagining operational and business processes – amongst others by looking at the company through the new “lens” of enabling and disruptive Artificial Intelligence – value is created for both the company and its employees. This does not only require identifying, benchmarking and implementing best practices, but more importantly targeted communication, linking knowledge and an emphasis on global instead of local mindsets and approaches.

Misbah has worked on applications of Advanced Process Controls and Machine Learning based predictive models in the chemical manufacturing industry. With background in Chemical Engineering, he augments theoretical process engineering with modern data driven approaches to optimize production processes.

I’ve been involved in some fantastic projects over the years. They tend to be bleeding edge technologies, which is a blast! Wired networks, wireless networks, servers, and everything in between are my modus operandi. My goals in life include solving problems with new technologies, and using technology to make a difference in the lives of those around me.

Specialties: My specialties include engineering solutions, and translating between those who speak technology and those who need it. I love to build strong/passionate teams that can reach the moon and beyond. Come to us with your problems, and we will solve them.

Recent Projects: Industrial sensors (IIoT), non-ip based wireless communications, machine learning, AI, robotics, hybrid manufacturing, and changing the world bits at a time.

Putting the techy stuff aside for a bit, my other passion is developing leadership and making connections between amazing people. Taking advantage of my experiences from a broad range of fields, I have been able to leverage my time around some very different thinkers. I like to share those thinking styles to others over discussions and sessions while we develop ideas and solutions. I cannot think of anything that is more fun than that at work.