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ROKLive Digital Strategists Conference   


June 10th - 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM CDT
Paul Didier,
Solutions Architect and Manager, Cisco® System’s IoT Business Group, Cisco
Preparing Security and Virtual Work Environments for Crisis Situations

A key change in our working lives driven by COVID-19 is the reality that we must be able to work virtually. For production environments, that means remote access and management are critical to maintain operations as employees, vendors and partners work virtually with access to production environments. All of which means that the cybersecurity status of the production environment is even more critical to maintain reliable operations.

This presentation will look at the best practices Cisco and Rockwell Automation have developed as part of our collaboration and support in our technologies, standards, solutions and services to enable virtual working required to maintain and secure production environments.
Paul Didier is a Solutions Architect and Manager for Cisco® System’s IoT business group. He is responsible for developing solutions for the Industrial Automation including Manufacturing, Oil&Gas and Mining verticals. Paul represents Cisco at the Open Device Vendor Association’s (ODVA) Technical Review Board, the OPC Foundation, the AVnu Alliance and the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC).  He has over 25 years of industry experience.  Paul authored the Cisco and Rockwell Automation Converged Plant-wide Ethernet (CPwE) Design and Implementation guide, a Cisco Validated Design (CVD).  Paul works extensively with key Industial Automation and Control machine builder partners such as BoschRexroth, Rockwell Automation, ABB, Honeywell, Emerson, Yokogawa, Schneider Electric and Fanuc.

Prior to joining Cisco, Paul was an IT Infrastructure expert at Accenture for 16 years and an IT Manager for SAP for 2 years.  He has extensive experience working for Manufacturing, Retail and Financial Services clients.  He has developed and deployed large enterprise IT applications on a global scale.
Developing a Digitized, Agile Supply Chain

Yield optimization is the desired outcome for any business. Available resources are key in providing an increased output with less input. Supply chain, employees, factory health and quality are a part of this equation. Historically supply chain was like running a 4x100 relay race with baton passes between each exchange of goods. Technology has enabled us to remove the potential for that baton to fall by providing a seamless and transparent chain of events from resource origination to finished product.  An intelligent and connected architecture allows for real-time and agile responses via optimization of insights throughout the entire supply chain. Through storytelling, you will leave this talk empowered to embrace the immense opportunity to strategically design end-to-end supply chain optimization and service offerings successfully with a focus on yield output.
Craig McNeil
Managing Director of Accenture Industry X.0 North America, Accenture
Craig McNeil is Managing Director of Accenture Industry X.0 North America. Industry X.0 North America helps companies transform Product Innovation, Engineering, Manufacturing and Operations so they can become the disruptors of their industries.

As a founding member of Accenture’s groundbreaking Industry X.0 business, Craig’s focus is to provide companies with tools to grow their top- and bottom-lines and transform leaders into innovation thinkers and product transformation champions.
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