Our 2018 committee of experts committed to spread the word of the leading IoT event worldwide. Members of this committee include industry visionaries, technology experts and executives who are dedicated to accelerating the awareness and deployment of Internet of Things technologies.
Jonathan Ballon
Vice President
Prith Banerjee
Senior Client Partner
Prith Banerjee is Senior Client Partner for IOT and Digital Transformation in the Global Industrial Practice of Korn Ferry. In this role, he is responsible for helping our clients in their IOT and Digital Transformation Organization and People Strategy. Previously he was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Schneider Electric.
Formerly, he was Managing Director of Global Technology Research and Development at Accenture. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of ABB, a power and automation company in Zurich, Switzerland. Earlier, he was Senior Vice President of Research at HP and Director of HP Labs. Formerly, he was Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Formerly, he was the Walter P. Murphy Professor and Chairman of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University. Prior to that, he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has founded two companies, AccelChip in 2000 and BINACHIP in 2005.
Banerjee is the author of about 350 research papers in journals and conferences. He has also supervised 37 Ph.D. students. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cray, and the Technical Advisory Boards of Ingram Micro, Candi Controls and Virsec. He was listed in the FastCompany list of 100 top business leaders in 2009. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM and IEEE, and a recipient of the 1996 ASEE Terman Award and the 1987 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. He received a B.Tech. (President’s Gold Medalist) in electronics engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana.
Roger Bou
IOTS World Congress Director
Roger Bou is the International Innovation Director at Fira de Barcelona, leading the global reference event: IoT Solutions World Congress. Mr. Bou is specialized in the development of new business and marketing strategies, leading change and managing international sales teams.
Tony Guerion
Global Head Sales of IoT
Tim Hanley
Global Leader, Consumer & Industrial Products
James Kirkland
Chief Architect, Internet of Things
Jason Mann
Director, Industry Solutions Product Management and IoT Strategy
Mann leads the product development direction for SAS’ solutions in Manufacturing, Energy, Retail and Health and Life Sciences. He coordinates forward-looking solution development and consistent delivery of the SAS brand across the company’s 14,000 employees in over 400 offices worldwide.
Rob Massoudi
Global Vice President, Digital Transformation
Rob is the global head for Digital Transformation ABB Ability™ leading
a team responsible for acceleration of ABB’s digital businesses, acceleration
of the digital adoption of customers, and incubation of strategic
group-wide digital businesses.
With over 25 years in information technology, Rob is an innovative executive
and entrepreneur with experience ranging from founding
startups to executive management of global enterprises. His background
spans software and systems product development, strategic
partnerships, technology led business strategy consulting for the Fortune
500, general management and corporate development.
Jayraj Nair
Global Head IoT, VP
Jayraj Nair is VP, Global Head of IoT for Wipro. He is responsible for building and strengthening Wipro’s presence in IoT by driving its revenue growth, setting its strategic & technology direction and building its team to capitalize on Wipro’s significant investment in the digital space. Jayraj also enables Wipro’s leadership in the broader IoT & Industry 4.0 ecosystem and is based out of Wipro’s Mountain View California office.
Jayraj is passionate about building solutions that add genuine value to end-users. He is a Computer Engineer by profession with over twenty years of experience in Information Technology. He received Master in Business Administration from Iowa State University (ISU) and Master of Science in Engineering & Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Yasuyuki Nishioka
President
Derek O'Halloran
Head of the Future of Digital Economy and Society
Stan Schneider
CEO
Stan Schneider is CEO of Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the Industrial Internet of Things connectivity platform company. RTI is the largest embedded middleware vendor, with an extensive footprint in all areas of the Industrial Internet of Things, including Energy, Medical, Automotive, Transportation, Defense, and Industrial Control. Appinions recently named RTI the “most influential” company in the Industrial Internet of Things.
Stan serves on the Steering Committee of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC, www.iiconsortium.org). With over 250 companies, the goal of the IIC is to develop, test, and promote the architecture for the next industrial revolution. RTI co-chairs the IIC connectivity, data management, interoperability, and security teams. RTI also co-leads testbeds in smartgrid, healthcare, and edge computing.
Stan also serves on the advisory boards for Smart Industry and IoT Solutions World Congress. Embedded Computing Design Magazine presented Stan the Top Embedded Innovator Award for 2015.
Stan holds a BS and MS from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University.
Richard Soley
Executive Director
Dr. Richard Mark Soley is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of OMG ®, Executive Director of the Cloud Standards Customer Council, and Executive Director of the Industrial Internet Consortium. As Chairman and CEO of OMG, Dr. Soley is responsible for the vision and direction of the world’s largest consortium of its type. Dr. Soley joined the nascent OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG’s world-leading standardization process and the original CORBA® specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling, leading first to the Unified Modeling Language TM (UML®) and later the Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®).
He also led the effort to establish the SOA Consortium in January 2007, leading to the launch of the Business Ecology Initiative (BEI) in 2009. The Initiative focuses on the management imperative to make business more responsive, effective, sustainable and secure in a complex, networked world, through practice areas including Business Design, Business Process Excellence, Intelligent Business, Sustainable Business and Secure Business. In addition, Dr. Soley is the Executive Director of the Cloud Standards Customer Council, helping end-users transition to cloud computing and direct requirements and priorities for cloud standards throughout the industry. In 2014, Dr. Soley helped found the Industrial Internet Consortium and (IIC) serves as Executive Director of the organization. The IIC was formed to accelerate the development, adoption and wide-spread use of interconnected machines and devices, intelligent analytics, and people at work. The members of the IIC catalyze and coordinate the priorities and enabling technologies of the Industrial Internet.
Dr. Soley also serves on numerous industrial, technical and academic conference program committees, and speaks all over the world on issues relevant to standards, the adoption of new technology and creating successful companies. He is an active angel investor, and was involved in the creation of both the Eclipse Foundation and Open Health Tools.
Katherine Voss
President
Katherine Voss is president of ODVA, a leading standards development organization driving the application of IOT to industrial automation including the use of Internet technologies to automate industrial processes and the secure exchange of data between plant devices and business applications.
Jiang Wangcheng
President of IoT Solution
Joy Weiss
Vice President of IoT and Security
