Presentation: Opening Session

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Alicia Coppock is a Product Manager for visualization products at OSIsoft. She has been with OSIsoft for 5 years where she has also served as an Escalation Engineer specializing in AF and Analytics products as well as a Tech Support Engineer. Prior to joining OSIsoft, she worked at Hemlock Semiconductor as a Process Engineer. Alicia has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Chris is a Senior Product Manager at OSIsoft focused on the product strategy for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Chris joined OSIsoft in 2014 in the role of Partner Solution Architect with over 25 years of process automation, data management, and project execution experience having worked in various engineering and marketing roles in the power, process, and semiconductor industries. Chris spent the 15 years prior to joining OSIsoft at a large process automation supplier where he worked closely with OSIsoft to develop applications and solutions to integrate with the PI System. Chris has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University, holds several patents in the areas of process automation and data integration, and is a registered Professional Engineer.

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Chris leads the OSIsoft engineering teams on their relentless pursuit to connect sensor-based data, operations and people to enable real-time intelligence. At OSIsoft we believe people with data can transform their world and we are continuously enhancing the PI System to capture and leverage sensor-based data across the enterprise to improve efficiency, sustainability, quality and safety. Chris is responsible for the design and development of software systems at OSIsoft including all aspects of the PI System. Chris joined OSIsoft in 2002 as a software developer focused on extending OSIsoft’s position within the Life Sciences Industry by enhancing existing batch products and developing new products and capabilities. Prior to joining OSIsoft, Chris worked for Merck & Co., Inc., as a Technical Manager in both Clinical Trial Systems and Manufacturing Process Information Systems. Chris has demonstrated advanced expertise in streaming data and events infrastructure having designed manufacturing information and data analysis systems as well as participating in various control system implementations. Chris holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Rutgers University.

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Janelle Minich is a Product Manager at OSIsoft. She manages PI System Health and Manageability. Janelle has been at OSIsoft for 19 + years, holding various roles including Field Service Engineer, Interface Release Manager, Systems Engineer, and Systems Engineering Manager. She has a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Arts in Piano Performance, both from Washington State University.

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Laurent Garrigues has been working for OSIsoft since 2000, starting in the field service and training teams out of the Montreal office. He specialized in products such as PI ACE, Sigmafine and RLink. Garrigue moved to the Product Management team in 2007 and has since been responsible for PI AF, PI server and PI Notifications products. He is now overlooking the different OSIsoft's Cloud initiatives. Garrigue holds an MSc in Physical Oceanography from University of Toulon, France and a PhD in Applied Statistics from McGill University in Montreal.

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Michael Sloves has worked at OSIsoft for 18 years. During that time, he has developed and led software teams responsible for PI ICE, PI WebParts, SAP/ERP Integration and for OSIsofts SAP/MDUS Integration products. Presently, Sloves is the Director of Technology Enablement. In his role, he is responsible for driving excellence in our External and Internal Developer Community by educating, informing, and enabling Developers. He is also responsible for the development of OSIsoft's PI Developer Technologies suite of tools.

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Steve Kwan is the product manager at OSIsoft focusing on the PI Server including PI AF, asset analytics and notifications. Prior to joining OSIsoft in 2010, Steve spent 15 years in various roles in engineering, project management and product management with GE Energy. Steve holds a BS in Engineering Chemistry from SUNY Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in Materials from Pennsylvania State University.

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Gregg has worked at OSIsoft and with OSIsoft technologies for about 19 years now. He is currently the Director of Applied Research Technology in the Office of the CTO. He and his team focus specifically on cloud-oriented, machine learning, and metadata operations data scenarios. He has a Master's Degree Chemical Engineer from University of California Santa Barbara with a 2nd Year certificate from University of Edinburgh. Check him out on LinkedIn (http://linkedin.com/in/gregger) and see some of his photos at (https://CumulusLight.com).

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Joy Wang is the Technical Product Manager for PI Integrators. She joined OSIsoft in 2012 as a Customer Support Engineer and spent the majority of her time leading the OSIsoft Technical Support team in North America before her current role as product manager. Joy holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Business Administration at UC Davis.

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Hans De Leenheer is a true technology jack-of-all-trades. Starting his career working for VARs as an implementation consultant and team lead, having followed dozens of infrastructure start-ups as an independent analyst, and having gone through the successful coming out of stealth period with TrendMiner as VP Marketing, Hans has been on all sides of the technology table. Today, Hans leads the Technology Alliances team at TrendMiner, with a clear focus on scaling out the technology partner ecosystem and enhancing the existing relations.

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Abbas Saboowala is a Product Manager for Integration Technologies (Interfaces and Connectors) products at OSIsoft. He has been with OSIsoft for nearly 6 years where he has also served as a Product Specialist as well as a Tech Support Engineer. Prior to joining OSIsoft, he worked as a SAP Consultant for 2 years. Abbas has a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering.