ISA IIoT & SMART MANUFACTURING VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Sujata Tilak is a thought leader in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and convergence of IT and OT. An Instrumentation & Control engineer from College of Engineering, Pune; Sujata has more than 30 years of experience. She has worked with Alfa Laval and KPIT before founding Ascent Intellimation. She has ably led the company to a niche position as a supplier of software solutions in industrial automation and IIoT space. Sujata has wide ranging experience in areas like environmental monitoring, smart manufacturing, digital transformation etc.

As an evangelist of her chosen field, Sujata’s focus is to help organizations recognize and embrace diverse ways in which manufacturing data can be beneficially used by various stake holders. Sujata is a recognized expert in IIoT field and is invited to various conferences as a speaker. She also regularly writes in various technical magazines.

Sujata is active in organizations like International Society of Automation, TiE and CII. She is founder and first director of ISA Smart Manufacturing and IIoT Division. She is a charter member of TiE and actively participates in various TiE initiatives including mentoring startups. She is associated with various engineering colleges in Pune and guides them in IoT initiatives.

Indranil Sircar is CTO for Manufacturing and Supply Chain Industry and is focused on shaping Microsoft’s industry solutions by driving full value of product innovation and roadmap to accelerate digital transformation and value to customers and partners. Indranil joined Microsoft in 2012 and has been responsible for establishing and driving Microsoft’s strategy for high-tech and semiconductor industry, manufacturing, and supply chain. Indranil brings with him more than 35 years of experience at strategy and technology leadership in developing industry solutions and processes.

Jane Arnold is the Vice President of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 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, control engineering and operations. She joined Stanley Black and Decker in February of 2021. 

Samip Mutha is currently VP and Group Head – Digital Transformation and Innovation at RPG Group responsible for driving these areas across diversified businesses of RPG from rubber and tires to life sciences, EPC and IT. He has 17 years of experience in management consulting, digital transformation and innovation in various industries and across the world.  Samip is on the Panel of Future of Technology, IET since 2018 whose focus is accelerating the digital growth of India by helping stakeholders across the value chain from students to governments to SMEs.  During his tenure at RPG Group, he has won prestigious awards including EY Mint Digital Award for AI projects and the Golden Peacock Innovation Award.  Samip is also an avid fan of learning from nature and sustainable living, and he does Himalayan treks every year.

Will Healy III is enthusiastic about manufacturing, technology & workforce development. A Purdue University mechanical engineer who loves to share his passion for automation, Will is a leader at Balluff Worldwide and with the Advanced Manufacturing Industry Partnership (AMIP) in Cincinnati. He speaks from personal experience about the industrial revolution, managing culture change in organizations, bridging the manufacturing skills-gap, and creating value through automation. He has more than 15 years of experience in a variety of discrete production industries including assembly, food & beverage, packaging, welding, and stamping. Will is published in various trade magazines and he regularly presents at industry conferences across North America. Be sure to follow Will on LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter & Tiktok with the handle WillAutomate.

Jane Arnold is the Vice President of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 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, control engineering and operations. She joined Stanley Black and Decker in February of 2021. 

Vivek Gupta is Joint Vice President & Head-Instrument & Digital for DCM Shriram Limited-Kota/India. He has over thirty three years of experience in the field of control & instrumentation (C&I). Initially, he served M/s. Instrumentation Limited, a Government of India Enterprise from 1988 to 2006. Since 2006, he has been serving M/s. DCM Shriram Limited at Kota-Rajasthan/India and now holds the position of Joint Vice President & Head of Instrument & Digital.  His responsibilities include looking after automation & digitalization of power, fertilizer, chlor alkali, PVC, calcium carbide plants & fenesta building systems. He has chaired various national/international seminars & conferences, and has also authored articles in various publications. He was awarded the 2016 Distinguished Instrumentation Professional designation by ISA District 14. He currently serves as a member of the Steering Committee of Digital Transformation Council of ARC, USA, as well as ISA-Delhi/ India, and is a member of the Working Group of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

Jake Hall, The Manufacturing Millennial and Business Development Manager at Feyen Zylstra. With more than 32k followers, Jake is part of the LinkedIn Creator Accelerator Program in 2022.

Howard Tang is the Director of Industrial Engineering 4.0 from ST Microelectronics based in Malta. He is Industrial Engineering Professional with more than 15 years of experience in delivering multiple projects and solution for ST Microelectronics, ams OSRAM, Infineon, STATS ChipPAC and Global Foundries across multiple factories and sites (Malta, Germany, Hungary, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Indonesia and Mexico).

Robbert Brand is a Dutchman who founded AIVHY Ltd, a company that provides holistic expert services and consultancy in the field of Operational Technology (OT). AIVHY leads organizations to new business value, found in OT Management, OT Cyber Security, Performance Improvement, IIoT & Industry 4.0.

Robbert worked most of his career at the very largest and highly automated container terminals, from where he grew into the field of industrial innovation. His career allowed him to gain broad experience in Engineering, Advanced Problem Solving & RCA, Solution Design & Implementation, OT management, Performance Improvement, (OT) Cyber Security, Industry 4.0, IIoT, Data Science, Consultancy, Project Management, and Entrepreneurship. This broad experience enabled him to easily adapt to new environments, communicate efficiently with any discipline, and provide significant value within minimal time after introduction to a new challenge.

Robbert identified major opportunities in the world of Operational Technology. This insight, combined with his passion for technology and undepletable energy reserves, motivated him to found AIVHY Ltd.

Clint Bodungen is a world-renowned industrial cybersecurity expert, public speaker, published author, and cybersecurity gamification pioneer. He is the lead author of Hacking Exposed: Industrial Control Systems, and creator of the ThreatGEN® Red vs. Blue cybersecurity gamification platform. He is a United States Air Force veteran, has been a cybersecurity professional for more than 25 years, and is an active part of the cybersecurity community, especially in ICS/OT (BEER-ISAC #046). Focusing exclusively on ICS/OT cybersecurity since 2003, he has helped many of the world's largest energy companies, worked for cybersecurity companies such as Symantec, Kaspersky Lab, and Industrial Defender, and has published multiple technical papers and training courses on ICS/OT cybersecurity vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and risk management. Clint hopes to revolutionize the industry approach to cybersecurity education, and help usher in the next generation of cybersecurity professionals, using gamification. His flagship product, ThreatGEN® Red vs. Blue, is the world’s first online multiplayer cybersecurity computer game, designed to teach real-world cybersecurity.

Miriam Coladonato serves as Senior Product Marketing Specialist, Cybersecurity for Phoenix Contact.  She has 10+ years of experience with a dedicated focus around networking and cybersecurity topics at the ICS/OT level.  She is the technical liaison for all things cybersecurity within an industrial manufacturer and main point of contact for technical support, pre-post sales cybersecurity opportunities and conversations where the needs for basic assessments, secure network design, recommendations and best practices are required either by following industry standards or design and development of internal security policies.

Eric Cosman has been heavily engaged in various areas of industrial information systems security for over 20 years. He is a founding member of the Chemical Sector Cybersecurity Program of the American Chemistry Council (ACC), and one of the authors of the first U.S. Chemical Sector cybersecurity strategy. He is a founding member and co-chair of the ISA99 committee on industrial automation and control systems security, which is responsible for the development of the IEC/ISA62443 standards. He is a respected ISA technical expert and leader, and has held positions of Vice President of Standards and Practices, Executive Board member, and served as its 2020 President, and holds the deserved recognition as a Society Life Fellow.

Patrick Bangert heads the AI Division at Samsung SDSA. On the side of AI Engineering, he is responsible for Brightics AI Accelerator, a distributed ML training and automated ML product, and AutoLabel, an automatic image data annotation and modeling tool primarily targeted at the medical imaging community. On the side of AI Sciences, he leads the consulting group that makes AI models for our customers for many diverse use cases. Among his other responsibilities is to act as a visionary for the future of AI at Samsung.

Before joining Samsung, Patrick spent 15 years as CEO at Algorithmica Technologies, a machine learning software company serving the chemicals and oil and gas industries. Prior to that, he was assistant professor of applied mathematics at Jacobs University in Germany, as well as a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Patrick obtained his machine learning PhD in mathematics and his Masters in theoretical physics from University College London.

A German native, Patrick grew up in Malaysia and the Philippines, and later lived in the UK, Austria, Nepal and USA. He has done business in many countries and believes that AI must serve humanity beyond mere automation of routine tasks. An avid reader of books, Patrick lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.

Ryan Kershaw currently serves as Enterprise Account Executive for Litmus, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  Litmus is an Industrial IoT Edge platform that provides the critical machine connectivity, data intelligence and application enablement needed to power Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation. He also serves as Board Member and Newsletter Editor for the ISA SMIIoT Division, member of the Board and Industrial Relations Committee of the Canadian Process Control Association (CPCA), with past service to ISA District 13 as District VP.  Prior to his current position. Ryan worked as National Sales Manager for Mettler-Toledo Process Analytics.

Mitesh Agrawal is COO and founding member at Lambda (lambdalabs.com), an AI infrastructure company, providing computation to accelerate human progress. His multi-faceted role includes:
Establishing and driving organizational vision, operational strategy, and forecasting growth needs in collaboration with the Chief Executive Officer; Leading the business development and sales team to achieve high revenue, margins and customer growth; Designing and launching New Products and Product Management for optimized AI/ML use case; Establishing lean and efficient supply chain and manufacturing operations; and, performing financial analysis to perform predictive metrics on company’s growth and revenue numbers.  His past roles include Financial Analyst, Software Consultant and water technologies start-up focused on atmospheric water harvesting.

Ryan Treece currently serves as the Business Development Manager of IIoT at Telit for their IoT Software Platform division.  He leverages his diverse industrial field experience to help manufacturers deploy practical AI strategies to improve Quality, Operational Efficiency, and Asset Utilization rates. 

Dr Joshua Ellul is the director of the Centre for Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and a senior lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the University of Malta. The Centre for DLT developed and runs a world-first multidisciplinary Masters in Blockchain and DLT which takes in students having backgrounds in computer science, law, finance and economics.

He is also Chairperson of the Malta Digital Innovation Authority which regulates technology aspects of blockchain and safety-critical systems such including those that may make use of Artificial Intelligence sector.  The Malta Digital Innovation Authority is the World's first technology regulator that has put into place a technology assurance regulatory framework for Blockchain, DLT and Smart Contracts.

His areas of research focus around the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain domains including: enabling ease of software development; technology regulation; virtual machines and techniques for reducing mistakes in smart contracts.