Dr. Youngjun Choi

Christopher Nichols

Christopher Nichols is Director of IT/OT Resiliency & Support at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. He has been employed by the Fortune 500 manufacturer, Stanley Black & Decker for over seven years, and is currently Director of IT/OT Resiliency & Support. In this role, he is responsible for deploying Level 2/3 system architectures and connecting all other level systems to level2/3, while supporting them. Additionally, he manages remediation with Edge components, and deploys servers and connectivity for all OT-Related systems, plus Level 1 support of all OT-Related SW applications.

Gregory Brown

Vice President of the Global Advanced Technology Group focused on several emerging technology pillars (Data Driven Decisions, Robotics/Automation, Autonomous Vehicles, IoT & Sensor Technology, and Drones). The ATG is where our UPS emerging technology story starts, as we strategize on how we align technology to our internal and external customer needs. With emerging technology, UPS experience, and external talent my team is shaping UPS to help build out our Global Smart Logistics Network.

Dirk Slama

 Dirk Slama is a Vice President at Robert Bosch GmbH. He is also the Director of the Steinbeis FSTI Co-innovation Hub. As conference chair of the Bosch ConnectedWorld, Dirk helps shaping the AIoT strategy of Bosch. As chairman (StC) of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), he helped creating the leading ecosystem for the Industrial Internet.

As current chairman of the AIoT User Group, he brings together practitioners from different industries to help advancing the adoption of AIoT.

Dirk has 25 years’ experience in very large-scale IT projects, distributed systems and IoT. His international work experience includes projects for Audi, Daimler, Lufthansa, Boeing, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, HBOS and others. Dirk is a frequent speaker at conferences, as well as co-author of these successful books: Enterprise BPM, Enterprise SOA, Enterprise CORBA, and Enterprise IoT. He holds an MBA from IMD Lausanne as well as a PhD in Information Systems and a Diploma (MSc equivalent) in Computer Science from TU Ber-lin.

Paul Lewis

Paul is CTO at Pythian. Prior to Pythian he was Global CTO at Hitachi Vantara responsible for the leading technology evangelism, client executive advocacy, and external delivery of the Hitachi vision and strategy especially related to Digital Transformation and Social Innovation.  For the past 25+ years, Paul has focused on technology R&D and innovation, IT/business strategic plans and governance, security and risk management, software and infrastructure architecture as the CTO and Senior Executive Technologist of several financial services organizations from start-ups to large business services providers.

Aravind Rajendra Kumar

Simon Bornschein

Bruno Figueroa