CESMII is The Smart Manufacturing Institute, sponsored by the Department of Energy and is 1 of 15 Institutes of Manufacturing USA. CESMII aims to radically accelerate the development and adoption of USA Smart Manufacturing — including advanced sensors, controls, platforms, and models — to help companies of all sizes across a variety of manufacturing industries realize the benefits of Smart Manufacturing. Every industrial oriented company, and automation vendor should ultimately be a CESMII Member. That is my goal. I am a Smart Manufacturing Evangelist.

Founded in 2004, Ocean Data Systems develops software solutions for industrial analytics and reporting. Dream Report, first introduced in 2006, is now the leading technology for automated report generation, with thousands of installations. Dream Report delivers connectivity to all major HMI/SCADA and Historian data sources through either proprietary or industry standard drivers. Dream Report’s markets include process, hybrid and discrete, with special functionality for Life Sciences (Pharmaceutical and Biotech), Water, Wastewater, Heat Treating, Building Automation, Energy Management and Manufacturing Operations.

In addition to my day job, I'm proud to be a part of the OPC Foundation and assisting with the growth and adoption of OPC technologies, delivering interoperability for all things automation, IIOT (Industrial Internet of Things) and IOT (Internet of Things).

ARC is the leading Market Research and Strategic Consulting company for Industry and Infrastructure. As the VP of Marketing, I'm part of a team that manages our research marketing, website content and positioning, social media, product marketing, advertising, industry forums, etc. on a global basis.

Sales and Marketing professional with 30+ years experience, offering high tech strategic sales and marketing services with-in the automation marketplace

Aware Technology delivers “Automation Confidence through System Awareness,” by offering automated learning technology based on a combination of NASA Pattern Recognition and Data Clustering algorithms and automation industry specific Intellectual Property.Founded in 2011, Aware Technology delivers PDM (Process Data Monitor), with an assortment of supporting products and technology, delivered as an Enterprise Appliance, or as a SaaS (Software as a Service) Private Cloud hosted application. PDM learns from the day to day operation of your systems and automatically generates an experience database. It then generates confidence metrics for usual behavior and delivers notification on unusual behavior.

Responsible for all Sales and Marketing for the company. Developed and managed strategic partners and influenced technical product direction.