Momenta I Digital Thread

In this week’s podcast, Ken Forster interviews Dr. Brian "Beam" Maue, the cofounder of AFWERX, a talented, nationwide team connecting innovators and creating accelerated technological and cultural agility for the 680,000 members of the United States Air Force. Dr. Maue, or 'Beam' as he prefers to be called, is a decorated officer with a 21-year track record of mission-accomplishments ranging from ICBM launch officer and nuclear budget analyst to treaty officer and U.S. Air Force Academy assistant professor, including civil service duties developing new hypersonic and ICBM weapon options.

In this week’s podcast, Ken Forster speaks with Kairus Tarapore, former Chief Human Resources Officer of Xylem, a leading global water technology company committed to developing innovative technology solutions to the world’s water and critical infrastructure challenges. For more than 30 years, Kairus has provided executive leadership for human resources across industry-leading companies such as Xylem, Babcock & Wilcox, Ceridian, and General Electric. He's provided leadership across the US, Canada, and India with cross-functional experience across sales, marketing, supply chain, and Lean Six Sigma quality.

Momenta Digital Thread Podcast – Venture Industrialist - Michael Dolbec, Managing Partner, Momenta

#144 - Rachel Taylor - CEO | Co-Founder Nubix

Roberto Siagri, is the founder and recent CEO of Eurotech, a global company that integrates hardware-software services and expertise to deliver building blocks for entire Internet of Things solutions. Roberto founded Eurotech in 1992, leading the business as CEO through its public listing in 2015, which was rated the best performing IPO in Europe for that year, and just recently handed over the reins to the next generation of leadership. Prior to Eurotech Roberto already had a strong presence in ICT as CTO of HTE ASEM, now part of Rockwell.

Vatsal Shah, the Founder & CEO of Litmus, the leading provider of unified Edge to Cloud platform for Industrial Internet of Things

In this week’s podcast, Ken Forster interviews Simon Kampa, CEO & Co-Founder Senseye. Simon has over twenty years leading the development of mission-critical software, across industry, aerospace, and defense. Before Senseye, he was Managing Director of Critical Software (UK) where he expanded its operation and established its focus on data analytics systems for complex machineries such as helicopters, aircraft, and trains. Simon then co-founded Senseye to disrupt the Predictive Maintenance domain with a fully automated and turnkey solution targeted at the wider industrial sector. Simon holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southampton.

In this week’s podcast, Ken Forster interviews Jerry O'Gorman, V.P of Advantech IIoT. Prior to its acquisition by Advantech, Jerry served as CEO of B+B Smartworx US and Managing Director of B+B Smartworx EMEA, located in Ireland. Jerry has over 30 years of experience in Business Leadership, General Management, and International Sales and Marketing for a variety of technology-based companies – across Industrial Automation and IoT-related industries. He has been particularly active in mergers and acquisitions with a strong track record of success through technology and channel development as well as new business case initiatives.

Perspectives on Fog and Edge computing! In this week’s podcast, Ken Forster interviews Flavio Bonomi, Founder of Nebbiolo. Dr. Bonomi is a technology expert and visionary with experience that spans from low-level devices and silicon to the broad level of networking and computing systems. He spent 14 years at Cisco Systems, leading advanced R&D, and was named a Cisco Fellow. He also literally coined the term ‘Fog Computing’. Prior to Cisco, Flavio worked at several Bay Area startups and was at AT&T Bell Labs, where he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University as well as a BSc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pavia, Italy. A consummate learner, he has published 100+ papers in technical journals and conference proceedings and is a co-inventor in 60+ USA and International Patents. Some of the discussion points during this interview were: What were some of your early wins and lessons learned at the several networking startups? What were some of the highlights as a distinguished engineer, a VP, and Head of Advanced Architecture and Research at Cisco Systems? You coined the term ‘Fog Computing’. What was this new pattern you were describing? What compelled you to start Nebbiolo and to focus on the Industrial Automation space and what were some of your key use cases and wins? You exited the company to long-time investor TTTech. What were some of your lessons learned and what would you have done differently? What do you see in the next decade for Edge / Fog – especially in Digital Industry? So, now that Nebbiolo is behind you, what’s next? Make sure to tune in….

#138 Gadi Lenz, Chief Scientist, Urban-Software-Institute