Praveen Kannan

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Head of Asia Pacific Market Product Management @ SICK Sensor Intelligence
Melbourne, VIC, AU
Praveen Kannan's Location
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Australia
About Praveen Kannan

With 1/4 century of experience in digital transformation and adoption, I am a revenue generation leader and industry influencer who creates value through digitalization, solution selling, and customer engagement. I hold a Masters in Technology and Management and multiple credentials in Revenue Generation, Business Development, and Solutions/Product Sales.As the Head of Market Product Management for Australia and New Zealand, and the Business Development Leader for the APAC Engineering Hub at SICK Sensor Intelligence, I lead a team of Revenue Generation specialists and managers to drive growth in digital transformation, safety, and clean energy solutions across various industries and regions. I’ve launched and implemented hundreds of innovative products and solutions in IIoT, cloud, data management, digital twin, big data analytics, VR, and deep learning. Additionally, I’ve contributed to the development of IoT technology and standards in Australia, collaborating with regulators, standards bodies, and cross-industry partners. My mission is to empower our customers and partners with smart and sustainable sensor solutions that optimize their processes, enhance productivity, and improve quality of life.I practice Bulls Eye leadership principles, honed over many years. In this process, I lead teams to focus on growth and revenue generation in the VUCA world. I have experience managing P&L with double-digit growth targets, cost optimization, and process improvement.Having worked across multiple markets in Australia, New Zealand, United States, and India, I’ve been part of several delegations and industry committees in ISO standards development. As a LinkedIn influencer with over 19,000 followers, I frequently contribute through Tech Talks, podcasts, and interviews.My vision is to lead businesses that focus on revenue generation and customer value creation in the technology and automation domain. I pride myself on being a change agent and market influencer with extreme ownership. I maintain calm and control amidst chaos, utilizing data for insights while relying on experience and market knowledge to make decisions. Known for making timely decisions and embracing risk while maintaining market position, I’ve mentored several leaders who now head international teams around the world.In summary, my business personality is characterized by extreme empathy, high ownership, timely decision-making, quick steering, adaptability to risks, and compassion towards people.

Praveen Kannan's Current Company Details
SICK Sensor Intelligence

Sick Sensor Intelligence

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Head of Asia Pacific Market Product Management
Melbourne, VIC, AU
Praveen Kannan Work Experience Details
  • Sick Sensor Intelligence
    Head Of Asia Pacific Market Product Management
    Sick Sensor Intelligence
    Melbourne, Vic, Au
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  • Sick Sensor Intelligence
    Head Of Market Product Management & Member Of The Senior Leadership Team: Australia & New Zealand
    Sick Sensor Intelligence Jan 2023 - Present
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    As the leader of the Market Product Management team responsible for Australia and New Zealand, I drive digital transformation, safety, and clean energy solutions to our customers. My role involves achieving revenue targets while balancing new product introductions and change management. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, I contribute to organizational strategy, growth planning, and customer excellence. Working closely with customers across both countries, I gather their needs and collaborate with internal teams to create compelling value propositions. Leveraging my background in Software Development and Automation, I employ software tools and automation tactics to ensure faster customer success.The flexibility of my role allows me to be a hands-on leader while continuously improving our strategic focus in the VUCA environment. I thrive in challenging situations, including negotiating customer contracts and setting targets for product growth. My team is responsible for delivering growth campaigns, with specific targets for lead generation and opportunity identification. We also develop and deliver events and exhibitions, conduct competitive analysis, and create localization strategies to enhance customer value. My role involves:1. Directing and managing the company marketing operations.2. Providing strategic inputs to the board.Ensuring the company achieves its mission and objectives.3. Managing resources, and retention of product management team while achieving high GPT work score.4. Monitoring progress against corporate and annual marketing and business development plans.5. Establishing links with stakeholders and Industry agencies.6, Maintaining research and development programs.7. Overseeing product performance and budget implementation.8. Developing marketing and public relations strategies.9. Representing the company in customer negotiations.10. Support in implementation board and managing directors directives and ensure compliance
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  • Sick Sensor Intelligence
    Business Development Leader - Apac Engineering Hub
    Sick Sensor Intelligence Jan 2023 - Present
    Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area
    I am the member of the leadership team to delivery Digital Transformation and Machine Vision solutions to customers in Asia Pacific.
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  • Sick Sensor Intelligence
    National Product Manager
    Sick Sensor Intelligence Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
    Melbourne, Australia
    I am the Product owner for SICK Appspace and SICK IntegrationSpace for Australia and New Zealand and cluster leader for Digital Integration for Asia Pacific. I am responsible for Australia & New Zealand Vision sensors, smart cameras, distance sensors, 2D, 3D & Solid State LiDAR sensors (laser ranging scanners), RFID, and bar-code readers. I am also responsible for Track and Trace, Quality Control, Autonomous Mobile Platforms, Profiling & Anti-Collision Systems and Services. In addition, I am responsible for Industry 4.0 Industrial Integration offering around SICK Cloud, Appspace, Analytics Solutions, Sensor Integration Machine, and Industrial Computing and connectivity.I manage a team of product managers, application engineers and software developers. We create customer solutions such as IIoT Work-in-Process tracking for meat industry, Digital Twin Solutions for Machine Manufacturing and Food sector, Anti-Collision safety system for Mining, Data Integration layers for Warehouse and logistics providers. I am also the chair and moderator for the BI-weekly triage forum across APAC which includes sales, product, applications and software support teams. As a product manager - I work on marketing and product campaigns, product launch, certification of the products in local markets such Radio approval from ACMA and Legal for Trade certification from National Measurement Institute.As a Industry 4.0 specialist for the APAC cluster - I am directly involved in Pre-sales solution engineering, proposal development, pricing approval. and customer sales negotiation process. I fully practice pragmatic marketing framework and sales power framework to create maximum customer success.I developed numerous software solutions using the SICK Appspace framework for Digital Integration such as EDI/ XML Webservices interface, operator interface and asset management solutions.Everyday, I strive to create customer value through SICK Digital solutions.
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  • Standards Australia
    Committee Member Joint Australia & New Zealand Standards Development For Auto Id & Data Capture
    Standards Australia Feb 2024 - Present
    Australia
    As a standards development committee member I play a crucial role in shaping industry standards. Here are my key responsibilities:1. Drafting and Advising: I draft and advise on the content of new standards. I also propose amendments to existing standards.International 2. Standards Adoption: I consider whether internationally developed standards should be adopted in Australia.
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  • Mr I4
    Technology Evangelist
    Mr I4 Jan 2016 - Present
    Australia
    A visionary and dynamic Industry 4.0 Evangelist, I have over two decades of experience driving the integration of digital transformation in manufacturing. With a robust background in IoT, AI, and smart automation, Praveen is a sought-after speaker known as “Mr Industry 4.0” to demystify complex technologies and align them with business strategies for enhanced productivity and innovation.
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  • Impinj
    Sr. Manager Digital Twins Platform
    Impinj Jul 2017 - Aug 2018
    Greater Seattle Area
    I was the Senior Product Manager for ItemSense platform Software.During my time at Impinj - I launched one major releases and two minor release of the ItemSense platform. This include preparation of the MRD/ PRD, product launch presentations, early customer access, API portal and testing, post launch feedback and features prioritisation. The platform is being used by major Automotive and Healthcare IoT users. I have traveled to most of the major US metros, France, China and Japan to provide full Systems training for Impinj customers including the ItemSense and Gateway products. During my time at Impinj I have been directly responsible for putting to together customer proposal for large Retail and Supply chain organisations.I have nurtured a highly talented technical team through regular participation as a scrum master in daily stand ups, biweekly sprint meetings, testing plans, customer solution validation and regular issue resolution meetings.I setup a steady product feature backlog structure where all new customer issues/ request were triaged regularly under my leadership.
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  • Iron Mountain
    Sr. Manager Cloud & Iiot Platform
    Iron Mountain Jun 2014 - Jul 2017
    Greater Atlanta Area
    I was the Global Sr. Product Manager for Cloud Data Protection Services.Technology Evaluation and implementation for Data Protection Services (DPS) and Document Management Service (DMS) business lines. Reporting into the global strategic marketing directors for DPS and DMS business unit. Responsible for goto market strategy for RFID solutions across the globe.During my time we implemented the worlds largest RFID based asset tracking system with our 100 Millions assets tagged covering 50 odd record center facilities worldwide. This was world first system to provide and automated audit service at this scale.I have developed partnership with some of the major Disaster Recover vendors such as Datto, EMC, HP and Seagate. I led the launch of Iron Cloud Disaster Recover as a Service (DRaas) and Cloud Data Replication services. One of the early customer is a multi National Vaccine manufacturer utilising the DRaaS service to protect their IT and OT infrastructure across four major manufacturing facilities.I oversaw a team of project managers, sales enablement and partner managers for effective delivery and lifecycle of all Data Management solutions. I chaired the weekly product lifecycle and enhancement meeting which resulted in greater customer success.I was the Chair of Cloud Services issue resolution team and facilitated weekly triage with sales, solutions engineering, project management and data center teams.
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  • Brambles
    Sr. Manager - Material Intelligence, Iot Platform
    Brambles Dec 2009 - Jun 2014
    Sydney, Australia
    Responsbile for sales and technical delivery of Material Intelligence solutions across the global. Manager for Unique Identification and Emerging technology strategy reporting to CIO.Automotive data management strategy for Asia and responsible for OEM sales. Market strategy reporting into Asia Pacific Strategy Director and India country head. Development of RFD enabled tracking solution for OEM packaging containers (FLCs, Crates and Dunnages).I was responsible for developing Automotive Digital strategy and program engineering for the Asia region which included India, China and Thailand.I managed as a client technical partner and solution architect - outsourcing contract with Tata Consulting Services with 50 member located in offshore development centres in India.I created the CHEP automative value creation model which looked at Automotive T2/T1 suppliers and OEM product flows and provided a detailed value analysis for investment into Digital and Sustainable packaging.
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  • Gs1
    Development Manager - Iot
    Gs1 Jun 2006 - Dec 2009
    Melbourne, Australia
    Standard Development and Implementation for GS1 and ISO standards for EPC/RFID applications. Lead mobile commerce development initiative reporting into CIOhttp://www.gs1au.org/assets/documents/products/epcglobal/advisory_group/epc_adgroup_epcis_0309.pdfI created the Australia first Magic Mirror system in partnership with NEC. This was the draw card for boutique retailers. This lead to several rfid implemented. I worked as technical Project Manager for National Demonstration Pilot Phase 1 and Phase2 with the likes of Unilever and CHEP participating in the pilot program. I led a team of Standards developers and my team was responsible for issuing scientific licenses for increased power RFID device. This eventually lead us to work with Australian Communication and Media Authority to allow for higher power RFID readers in Australia. I completed the testing requirements and standards development as required by ACMA and senate committee for spectrum.I co-chaired the local Electronic Product Code standards development and participated in various Standards Australia and ISO standards development initiatives for the further development t of IoT RFID standards.
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  • Wipro
    Software Engineer
    Wipro Dec 2003 - Jun 2006
    India
    Software development engineer for RFID applications. Travelled to Microsoft RFID labs in Redmond, WA working on biztalk Rfid framework.I was the primary developer for the world first RFID smart shelf system at an Indian Retail store. I implemented the usecases for Over or Under stock notification, misplaced items and potential shrinkage.I also travelled to Savannah Georgia to implement a large cross docking solution to comply with Walmart RFID mandate for rfid tags at pallet and carton level.I mentored new software developer and worked with the team to develop enterprise software solution using IBM Websphere and Edge computing services.
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Praveen Kannan works for Sick Sensor Intelligence

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Praveen Kannan's current role is Head of Asia Pacific Market Product Management.

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Praveen Kannan attended University Of Adelaide, University Of Madras, University Of Madras.

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