Said Tabet

Chief Architect, Office of the CTO, Dell Technologies

Dr. Said Tabet is the Lead Technologist for IoT and Artificial Intelligence Strategy at Dell EMC. Said is a member of the Object Management Group Board of Directors and the Principal Dell Technologies representative to the Industry IoT Consortium and member of its Steering Committee. Said is Chair of the INCITS Secure Cloud Computing Ad-Hoc Group, and ISO Editor of the Cloud Security SLA project. Said is leading Deep Learning testbed activity within the IIC. Dr. Tabet is also a member of the Cloud Security Alliance International Standardization Council.

With over two and a half decades in the industry, Said played the role of a technology advisor to a number of large multinational companies. Said contributes to technology innovation forums, guides startups through mentorship and coaching, is himself an entrepreneur and a supporter of industry efforts encouraging new technology adoption in multi-disciplinary environments. Said currently focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Industrial IoT and Deep Learning exploring challenges in Smart facilities, Manufacturing, Utilities/Energy, Connected vehicles, IoT Security, Big Data Analytics, Model-based engineering, and future technology innovation. Dr. Tabet is a regular speaker and panelist at industry conferences and international standards meetings, co-founder of RuleML, Artificial Intelligence and IoT Expert, as well as author and editor of several book series and articles. Said worked closely with W3C founder Sir Tim Berners Lee and with other globally recognized technology leaders.

Mr. Justin Piwetz

Asset Management Lead - Digital Science, Innovation, and Technology, BP

Justin Piwetz is a specialist in Digital Twin and Geospatial technologies with a strong background in Software Architecture and Engineering and a history in the oil and gas industry. He has spent the last 10 years within bp building the teams and technologies to handle digital innovation within the Geospatial, Digital Twin, and IoT Platform spaces.

Mr. Greg Porter

Vice President of Customer Systems, Entarian

Greg Porter is Vice President of Customer Systems, Entarian. He is responsible for setting strategies and building technologies around Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Digital Threads, and Digital Twins. Greg has spent the last decade assisting clients across many different government and commercial entities in designing and implementing these technologies. For the past two years, he has been working with NASA on creating the ambitious Industrial Metaverse, a dynamic Twin of Twins platform capable of incorporating all of NASA’s campuses and manufacturing into a single digital domain. Greg has been featured on numerous podcasts and magazine articles, authored whitepapers, and presented at various industry events. He earned a B.S. in Information Technology – Network Administration from Western Governor’s University and an M.S. in Data Analytics from Western Governor’s University. Greg has over a dozen professional IT certifications and has won multiple Innovator of the Year awards.

Ms. Chafia Aouissi

Head of Product Data & AI – Digital Twins, Microsoft

Chafia is helping enterprise customers transform their operations with the latest Digital Twins, Data & AI, Real Time Analytics, and IoT solutions.
Before this role, Chafia held multiple leadership positions, including technical sales, WW product landing and adoption, ecosystem growth, field enablement, and customer engineering.