The 28th Annual ARC Industry Leadership Forum 2024 | ARC Advisory Group | 4 February 2024 | TBA, Orlando, FL, USA

For industrial sectors, it is a time of uncertainty. Market disruption abounds, and change is inevitable. For companies that can make fast, effective decisions, change presents significant opportunity and not just existential risk. Industrial leaders deal with this by leveraging transformational technologies such as generative AI to evolve business models, focusing on competitive and operating excellence, anticipating changes to the workforce and work itself, establishing cyber-resilient operations, and driving energy transition and sustainability into core business strategies.

Join us to learn more about how transforming factories, plants, and infrastructure will benefit technology end users and suppliers alike. Discover what your peers and industry leaders are doing today and what steps they are taking to prepare for the future.

2024 Speakers

Alejandro Burgana
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Brickell Energy

Kevin McClusky
Chief Technology Architect, Inductive Automation

Travis Cox
Chief Technology Evangelist, Inductive Automation

Justin Piwetz
Service Portfolio Owner - Geospatial, Digital Twin, & IoT, BP

Bryan Saunders
Global Head of Industry Consulting, IoT, SAS

Lin Gu
Sr. IT Strategy & Delivery Manager, Smithfield Foods

Jorge Eduardo Gutierrez
Sr. Reliability Professional, Control Systems, OCENSA

Keith Dicharry
Director, Technical Expertise Automation, Process Control, & Electrical, BASF

Brian White
Chief Technologist IEM, HPE Aruba

Carlos Buenaño
CTO for OT, Armis

Richard Eckhart
Industrial IT Cybersecurity Manager, ExxonMobil

Mark Sen Gupta
Director of Research, ARC Advisory Group

Jacob Marzloff
President & Co-Founder, Armexa

Steve Seiler
Modeling & Analytics Engineer, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions

Brent Erb
Data Engineer, Phillips

Shirley Ike
Global Director of Data Management Consulting, Wood

Ravi Shukla
Process Automation and Manufacturing Support Lead, Sanofi

Don Bartusiak
President, Collaborative Systems Integration

Katie Hanley
Global Head of Omnivise Performance, Siemens Energy

Ty Bell
Industrial Cybersecurity Architect, ExxonMobil

Greg Gorbach
Vice President of Digital Transformation, ARC Advisory Group

Glenn Cook
Founder & CEO, EVTransports

Ron Norris
Director of Innovation, Georgia-Pacific

Morgan Bowling
Director of Industry, Seeq

Mark Pietryka
Senior Analytics Engineer, Seeq

Ben Bishop
Director of Strategic Growth, Enterprise Analytics & AI, Seeq

Ravi Subramanyan
Director of Industry Solutions Manufacturing, HiveMQ

Wade Maxwell
Vice President of Engineering, ExxonMobil

David DeBari
Process Control Engineer, ExxonMobil

Renato Pacheco Silva
CEO, Aimirim

Brad Mozisek
OPA Program Manager, Wood

Jacco Opmeer
Principal Automation Engineer, Shell

Chris Leingang
Global Business Development Manager, Siemens

Michael Clark
Director North America, OPC Foundation

Eddy Yap
Technology Director for PA, IP and Digital, Dow

Josh Thomason
Executive Director, Ethos Insights

Derek Wilson
Dean of Technology & Innovation, Ethos Insights

Graham Provost
VP Strategy & Business Development, CORYS

Katelyn DuBois
Mobility Platform Lead, Dow

Inderpreet Shoker
Director of Research, ARC Advisory Group

Jane Buchanan
Sr. VP Automation & Digital, Burrow Global

Gary Hopewell
Cybersecurity Advisor, Security Agency CISA

Chris Roach
President, Renewables Division, Roeslein & Associates

Mark Duck
Principal Technical Expert - Operational Technology Security, Shell

Matt Kirchner
Chief Product Officer, Prometheus Group

Jason Andersen
Founding Partner, Daruma Advisors

Ron Oudenaarden
Director of Optimization, Georgia-Pacific

Michael Hotaling
Operations Excellence Digital Manager, ExxonMobil

Gabriel da Silva Albuquerque
Instrumentation and Automation Design Manager, Petrobras

Matt Wiseman
Sr. Product Manager, OPSWAT

Timur Yaprak
Project Engagement Manager - Industrial AI Innovation

Mathias Oppelt
VP Customer Driven Innovation

Bill Hendricks
Vice President Manufacturing, Cognite

Ben Skal
Senior Director of Product Marketing, Cognite

Ibrahim Al Syed
Director of Digital Transformation, Manufacturing, Celanese

Christine Boles
VP Network & Edge Group, Intel

Taylor Zwick
Customer Success Director, Cognite

Thomas Lier-Nilsen
Head of OT/EICT Manager, QuantaFuel

Anthony Sebastian
Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Flexware Innovation

Wayne Lewandowski
SVP Sales, Americas & Europe, Xage Security

Jayant Kalagnanam
Director, AI Applications, IBM

Nathalie Marcotte
SVP and President Process Automation, Schneider Electric

Tricia Bordner
Senior Technology Director IT/OT, Dow

Andrew Obin
Managing Director, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Equity Research

Martha Miranda
Cyber Business Response COE Manager, ExxonMobil

Blake Gilson
Industrial Cybersecurity Expertise Manager, ExxonMobil

Sandeep Chandran
Managing Director, Accenture

Colin Masson
Director of Research, ARC Advisory Group

Kevin Price
Vice President, Digital Assets Strategic Advisor, Hexagon

Brian Recatto
President and CEO, Heritage-Crystal Clean

JC Harrison
VP Product and Operational, Roeslein and Associates

Rahul Razden
CEO, Razdan Research Institute

Chris Cunnane
Research Director, ARC Advisory Group

Philippe Daroux
Operation Technology Product Line Manager, Chevron

Sam Chanoski
Technical Relationship Manager, Cybercore Integration Center, Idaho National Laboratory

Larry Megan
Head of Digital, Baldwin Richardson Foods

Mike Ehlers
Global Senior Security Manager, Engineering and Operations, Olin

Sid Snitkin
VP Cybersecurity Services, ARC Advisory Group

Andy Chatha
President, ARC Advisory Group

Harry Forbes
Director of Research, ARC Advisory Group

Michael Carroll
Vice President of Innovation, Georgia-Pacific

Stuart Johnson
Manager Planning and Scheduling, Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline

John Cusimano
VP OT Cybersecurity, Armexa

Gary Bruns
VP, IT Architecture & Emerging Technologies, Prologis

Chris Cantone
Chief Revenue Officer, Scale

Darren Blue
Director: Industrial Ecosystem and Strategic Alliances, Intel

Chris Evanich
Program Director, Energy as a Service, Schneider Electric

Rod Locke
Sr. Director of Product Management - OT, Fortinet

Pamela Hamblin
CEO, NuEnergy Solutions

Glenn Aydell
Regional Lead – Industrial Networking & Automation Security, BASF

Robert Whitaker
Principle Technical Expert, Instrumentation, Control & Electrical, Shell

Kurt Krieg
Director Digitalization, Systems and Data Expertise, BASF

Athicha Dhanormchitphong
Digital & Extended Realities Architect, ExxonMobil

Ron Harrison
President & Founder, Conperio Technology Solutions

Ryan Smeltzer
Open Process Automation Program Lead, ExxonMobil

Sharul Rashid
Head of Technical Excellence, Petronas

John Kirkman
Managing Director, Enterprise Transformation Partners

Ed Agis
Next Generation Standards Technology Engineering Director, Intel

Dave Emerson
VP U.S. Technology Center, Yokogawa

Steve Smith
Project Manager, Eastman Chemical

Dan White
Director of Technical Marketing, Opto22

Jan Pingel
Product Leader, Digital Solutions, Ingersoll Rand

Matthew Wells
Chief Customer Success Officer, Digital Manufacturing, GE Vernova

Jamie Hansen
Sr. Director of IT, Post Consumer Brands

Janice Abel
Principal Consultant, ARC Advisory Group

Stuart McCoy
OT Data and Connectivity Engineer, WestRock

Mike Tomasco
Former VP Digital Manufacturing, Pfizer

Timothy McJunkin
Distinguished Researcher, Power & Energy System, Idaho National Laboratory

Tad Piper
SVP Corporate Strategy and Development, AutoGrid

Chris Muench
Sr. Director, Enapter US

Micah Casteel
Sr. Research Mechanical Design Engineer, Idaho National Laboratory

Jordan Brown
Director of Sustainable Development, RunBrook

Nathan Faith
Global Sr. Manager, Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Olin Corp.

Charles Blackburn
OT Cybersecurity Leader, HFSinclair

Gretchen Johnson
CEO, DaVinciSKY Group

Stuart Madnick
Professor of Information Technologies, MIT Sloan School of Management

Ryan Davis
Senior Director, Enterprise Sales, Acronis

Pedro Vieira
ERP Manager, Petrobras

George Kalavantis
COO, industrial Defender

Simon Floyd
GM Manufacturing & Mobility Industries, Microsoft

Anne Emberson
Area VP Digital, Nalco Water

Kipchirchir Boit
Digital Operations Center Leader, Dow

Axel Lorenz
CEO Process Automation, Siemens

Kence Anderson
CEO & Co-Founder, Composabl

Karl Rufener
Commercial Licensing Manager Americas, LyondellBasell

Jim Frazer
VP Infrastructure and Smart Cities, ARC Advisory Group

Jeremi Arena Smith
Senior Reliability Engineer, Saudi Aramco

Katheryn Scott
Market Analysis Engineer, Office of Technology Transitions, U.S. DOE

Michael Guilfoyle
Vice President, ARC Advisory Group

Peter Reynolds
Contributing Analyst, ARC Advisory Group

Peter Manos
Director of Research, ARC Advisory Group

Mark Viehman
Principal, Hydrogen & Clean Fuels, Capgemini

Benjamin Lampe
ICS Cybersecurity Professional, Idaho National Laboratory

NIcholas Peterson
3D Product Owner, Digital Reality Ecosystem, ExxonMobil

Arnold “Marty” Martin
Director, Process Control Technology, Air Liquide

Craig Sutton
Vice President for Industry 4.0, Eaton

Ted Kerkam
Sr. Director Product Strategy, Kepware

John Dyck
CEO, CESMII

Josh Pitts
Co-Founder and CTO, Floodlight

Steve Pullins
Sr. Vice President, CTO, AlphaStruxure

Larry Jones
Technical Product Owner, Flowers Bakeries

Krish Sridhar
Cybersecurity Specialist, Kenvue

Michael Elliott
Sr. Manager, Global Automation & OT Cybersecurity, Kenvue

Leo Provido
Principal Test Consultant, Enterprise Transformation Partners

Rashesh Mody
Exec. VP, Business Strategy and Realization, AVEVA

Rich Springer
Marketing Director of OT Solutions, Fortinet

Maulik Patel
Global Operations Director for IT/OT, Dow

Hung Bui
Solution Architect Industrial IT, ExxonMobil

Kenny Luebbert
Sr. Director of Generation Engineering, Evergy

Chase Weir
CEO, truCurrent

Todd Anslinger
IIoT & Automation Specialist, Chevron

Doug Poole
IT/OT Architect, Church & Dwight

Don Wingate
Vice President Sales, Microgrid Solutions and Strategic Partners, Schneider Electric

Joel Messina
Business Development Manager- Automotive, Phoenix Contact

Mark French
Director of Design Consultation, Sepasoft

John Oskin
President and CEO, Sage Clarity

Craig Resnick
Vice President of Consulting, ARC Advisory Group

Tim Scott
Building Automation Controls Engineer, Ford Motor

Khalid Alamri
Instrumentation Engineer, Saudi Aramco

Jeff Erwin
VP, Manufacturing & Quality, G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers

Terry Fetsko
Sr. Chief Engineer, JLG Industries, Oshkosh

Doug Hill
Sr. Manager, Digital Operations, JLG Industries, Oshkosh

Sarah Myers
Operations Enablement Manager, ExxonMobil

Ryan Goltz
Chief Architect, Chesapeake Energy

Kevin Clark
Vice President, Time Series AI, Falkonry

Eric Cosman
Contributing Consultant, ARC Advisory Group

Eduardo Marsola do Nascimento
Telecommunication Engineer, Petrobras

James Newman
Head of Product and Portfolio Marketing, Augury

Patrick Arnold
Research Analyst, ARC Advisory Group

Larry O'Brien
Vice President of Research, ARC Advisory Group

Rick Rys
Senior Consultant, ARC Advisory Group

Jason Burt
Regional Cybersecurity Advisor, Security Agency CISA

2024 Sponsors

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Cognite
• Fortinet
• Hexagon
• Honeywell
• Inductive Automation
• OPC
• Opswat
• Red Hat
• Rockwell Automation
• Schneider Electric
• Seeq
• ZEDEDA

SILVER SPONSORS:
• ABB
• Acronis
• Armis
• Bentley
• CESMII
• Codesys
• COPA
• Corys
• Cyolo
• Endress + Hauser
• Hitachi
• Hivemq
• HPE aruba
• Industrial Defender
• Intel
• Litmus
• MPact2wo
• OTbase
• Phoenix Contact
• Pinnacle
• Prevu3D
• Prometheus Group
• Smar
• Ve3rum
• Verve
• Wood
• Xage

ENERGY TRANSITION WORKSHOP SPONSOR:
• Siemens Energy

MEDIA SPONSORS:
• Automation.com
• Automation World
• Chemical Processing
• Control
• Control Design
• Control Engineering
• CPGNext
• CTS
• Efficient Plant
• Hydrocarbon Processing
• IIoT World
• Industrial Cybersecurity Pulse
• Industry Week
• InTech
• ISS Source
• Machine Design
• Manufacturing Connection
• Offshore
• Oil & Gas Journal
• Pharma Manufacturing
• Plant Engineering
• Plant Services
• Power
• Processing
• Smart Industry
• Wastewater Digest
• WaterWorld

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION SPONSORS:
• AIChE
• ACC
• API
• CSIA
• Eclipse Foundation
• FDT Group
• ISA
• Namur
• NCS
• ODVA
• OMAC
• Profibus
• PLCopen
• VDMA