Join Dave and Vlad as we talk about all things #automate2023. From the Engineer's perspective, from the business perspective, and the content. A huge thanks to Siemens, Festo, Phoenix Contact USA, and CESMII (amongst others) for helping us capture and bring all these fun conversations to you!

We're going live from Automate 2023 in Detroit Michigan to talk to Bernd Bergner from Siemens and to learn more about some of the technologies that are paving the way for integrators of the future, their approach to engineering efficiency, and how they're tackling some of the challenges of Industry 4.0, IIoT, and more.

Software Defined Automation (SDA) was founded by cloud, industrial software, and manufacturing experts to empower Automation Engineers with a PLC management and code versioning platform to become more productive and efficient in their heterogeneous PLC environments.

Nick is the CTO and Founder of FlowForge Inc, where he is leading the OpenJS Node-RED project and building a low-code development platform. Before starting FlowForge, he was at IBM for over 19 years working across a wide range of technologies. He spends his time playing with IoT technologies, having worked on projects ranging from smart meter energy monitoring to retrofitting sensors to industrial manufacturing lines with Raspberry Pis and Arduinos. With a background in pervasive messaging, he is a contributor to the Eclipse Paho project and sits on the OASIS MQTT Technical Committee and on the OpenJS Cross Project Council.

Double compétence en Informatique et Finance (+18 ans dans l’industrie, +16 ans en gestion de projet). Orienté résultats, capable de discuter avec tous profils de l'opérateur au top management. Rija shares his journey on how delivering high-impact solutions only matters if they become used on the plant floor. Through a combination of IT, Finance, and OT experience across the globe, Rija has seen many different situations. Listen to how we talk about overcoming adversity and finding ways to deliver solutions. A special thanks to Litmus for sponsoring this theme and for your continued support of the community.

High-Energy Technologist and Internet of Things and Connected Industry veteran, having worked for most of the last decade designing, developing, and deploying IoT Solutions. I have worked across the Connected Industry ecosystem from early-stage start-ups through multi-national enterprises, providing insight, guidance, and hands-on implementation assistance with Connection Product solutions. I am currently focused on helping Google Customers achieve their vision of a Connected future through my work on the GCP team. If you are interested in chatting about IoT in general or my work with ThingWorx, Google, and Microsoft, please message me!

Headquartered in San Jose, California., Litmus is the leading provider of unified Edge to Cloud platforms for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). With LoopEdge, users can collect data from any industrial system and manage and analyze it within milliseconds to make critical decisions right at the edge - next to industrial assets. This technology is disrupting the speed of analytics and how decisions are made with the convergence of vast data and AI.

Learn how Phoenix Contact USA is walking its talk regarding sustainability. We have two special guests this week: Clinton Hommel and Russell Kolacek. Russell is in charge of deploying solutions at the US facilities - including some really awesome robotic lawnmowers and a slew of #PLCnext products.

Ryan Cahalane and Rebecca Gillespie join us this week to continue talking about how to run a sustainable facility. We will talk a lot about energy. Monitoring. Analytics. Solar. We'll explore some advanced analytic options and expand on the examples we've discussed. Be sure to watch as we might even get into how we use some of this technology in our personal lives. A special thank you to Phoenix Contact USA for sponsoring this theme and your continued support of the community.