2024 Keynote Speakers

Included in your visitor pass!

Join key presentations happening on the ISA Calgary Show Main Stage on the exhibition floor, Level 1, Hall C at the start of each day featuring:
  

Tuesday, June 11th, 10:30 -11:30 am

Peter G. Martin PhD

Industrial Performance Consultant

Peter Martin, an Industrial Performance Consultant with over 40 years of industrial experience, recently retired as Schneider Electric's VP of Innovation and Marketing. Holding various leadership roles, he contributed significantly to Schneider Electric's success, focusing on improving operational profitability. Dr. Martin holds multiple patents related to real-time accounting, dynamic performance measures, and industrial control systems. He authored several books and coauthored others, receiving numerous awards for his contributions, including the Schneider Electric Lifetime Achievement Award and International Society of Automation Life Achievement Award. With degrees in Mathematics, Administration, Industrial Engineering, and Biblical Studies, Dr. Martin has left a lasting impact on the field.

Wednesday, June 12th, 10:30 -11:30 am

Jason Maynard

Field CTO Cybersecurity Canada

CISCO

Jason has been architecting, designing, and deploying security technologies that secure the most complex computing environments for almost 2 decades. His understanding of operational and informational technologies, people, and processes enable him to deliver effective, comprehensive security solutions that align to an organization's security goals and strategic imperatives. Jason is adept at addressing a range of risk profiles across multiple industry verticals; skills he has cultivated as an end-user security practitioner, partner/integrator, and now manufacturer as the FIELD CTO, focused on Cybersecurity for Cisco Systems. Jason is also active in the direct community speaking at BC Aware, Vancouver International Privacy and Security Conference, Cisco Live achieving distinguished speaker, and has delivered multiple sessions at BSides. Jason also holds over 75+ designations across a variety of products and technologies including the CCIE designation.

Thursday, June 13th, 10:30 -11:30 am

Jose Valls

CTO Manufacturing

Microsoft Corporation

Jose is a CTO Manufacturing at Microsoft based in Redmond, Washington. As part of the global Manufacturing Industry leadership team, Jose is responsible for driving thought leadership, defining and shaping AI and Cloud adoption opportunities, and activating Microsoft’s partner ecosystem to drive industry use cases at scale.

Jose has over 40 years of experience in executive positions in Advance Process Control, Automation Control Solutions, Process Manufacturing, and Historians across Europe, South Asia, Latin America and the United States. During his career he has played key roles leading complex transformation and innovation engagements, driving business platform development, leading technology and strategy groups, and serving as an Industry technical visionary. Jose joined Microsoft in 2014 and is currently focused on: technical principal guidance framework, hybrid computing, the industrial metaverse, unified analytics and data solutions for the era of AI, and how humans visualize and interact with technology.