AWS Industrial Insights

This episode’s special guest, Dr. Oxana Pickeral, is the VP GM of Connected Life Sciences & Logistics & Software Business Model at Honeywell. For International Women’s Day, she joined us to discuss her career in STEM and how her experience empowers her to bring legacy technology, software, and consulting knowledge together to innovate in numerous ways and deliver new value to customers. Covering topics that range from the importance of mentors to suggestions on how to get more underrepresented people into STEM, Pickeral comes with a crisp perspective and plenty of advice. Listen now One Woman's Journey: Diversity in the Tech Industrial Space In honor of International Women’s Day, we spoke with Dr. Oxana Pickeral of Honeywell, the VP GM of Connected Life Sciences, Logistics, and Software Business Model. She supports innovation at Honeywell to drive business around their focus areas: industrial automation, the future of aviation, and energy transition. She joins us to discuss her varied career in STEM, covering topics ranging from mentors to building networks to the value of a diverse workforce to what female representation in the broader industry looks like today. Finishing with suggestions on how to bring more underrepresented people into STEM, she provides a crisp perspective with plenty of advice for the next generation of women entering industrial and technology fields. Listen now On the value of mentors: “Nobody can grow without the help of people around them. There is a long list of formal and informal mentors that I'll always be very grateful to. And I think, what's important, because I do think we have a fairly diverse audience here, is I think different mentors give us different things at different stages in the career as we grow.” - Oxana Pickeral On creating space where everyone is heard: “One of my favorite kinds of behavioral rules at Amazon was the most senior person always tries to speak last in the room, and that's the way to get everybody to speak up and not be biased by the most senior opinion.” - Oxana Pickeral On what lasting advice from her mentors: “There are areas where we need to, obviously, be fact-based and bring our experience to the table. At the same time, it is okay sometimes to find a way to speak up without having 100% confidence, 100% certainty.” - Oxana Pickeral

In this episode, our guest, Steve Hooper, vice president for design and manufacturing software tools at Autodesk, walks through the nuanced conversation around generative design and generative AI in the manufacturing space.

Establishing trust and open dialogue between IT and OT teams is crucial to the success of implementing new cybersecurity measures, yet it’s something that can be overlooked. Taking time to understand the other team’s priorities regarding operations is invaluable despite how tricky it might be given differences in process, business rhythm, and work culture. Tune in to the conversation with Steve Applegate, Chief Information Security Officer at Dragos, as he shares career wisdom from his experience bridging IT and OT communities for more secure operations. He speaks on leading by listening, minimizing the use of fear, uncertainty, and doubt in conversations, and recognizing the impact a threat or patch has on plant operations and even safety. Check out this episode for expert advice to bolster your role in championing your organization’s security journey.

Join us as we talk with Gabe Green, Chief Information Security Officer for Koch Industries, about taking an informed approach to security in manufacturing. In this episode, Green shares with us insights from Koch’s journey to provide consistent IT and OT security across their very different environments, and how a bottoms-up approach creates space to leverage each employee’s comparative advantage.

Listen in as we continue our conversation with Jason Bergstrom, Principal Smart Factory Go-To-Market Leader, and Stephen Laaper, Principal, Smart Factory Leader, from Deloitte and get their perspectives on striking the balance between people and automation in the factory of the future.

In this podcast, we’ll highlight how smart factories, also known as smart manufacturing, smart refining, or digital operations, leverage rapidly advancing technology to create an impact in the manufacturing environment by connecting data from across the enterprise, systems, and supply chain.

In our final episode during cybersecurity awareness month, we turn our discussion with Robert to examine the myths and misunderstandings surrounding industrial IoT systems that persist throughout the manufacturing industry. Robert tells us “A lot of the myths that are out there with regards to industrial IoT systems, unfortunately, misdirect us. They make us think in some directions that are problematic and you’ll end up trying to solve a problem that maybe doesn’t exist.”

Join us as we continue our cybersecurity awareness conversation with Robert from Cisco Systems, a leader in product management for secure firewall / industrial security, and discuss the significance of implementing a security architecture that meets your needs today and in the future.

Today’s episode is a continuation of our conversation with Robert Albach, a leader in product management for secure firewall / industrial security at Cisco Systems. We’ll dive into the complex world of securely managing vendor integration and the importance of doing it while maintaining control within your environment.

This week our hosts sit down with Robert Albach, a leader in product management for secure firewall / industrial security at Cisco Systems, to discuss the differences between IT and OT in how they respond to security incidents, as well as how they value security within the organization. Hear the varied perspectives and mindsets at play, how technological updates can create risk in OT workflows, and how IT can keep OT secure while also keeping them physically safe, as “Safety is the number one concern in the OT departments vs uptime.”

Have you ever asked for permission to save money? In this episode, learn how Safran Cabin saved five million dollars in three years! IT Director, Jon Ripley reveals a 3-step approach to make cloud migration a self funding project. You heard that right. Self funding. There’s no need to allocate extra dollars for an eventual payoff. Listen and learn how to use your existing dollars!

Learn how to get started with your cloud journey, and make the right changes along the way. Featured guests include Chris Carissimi, CTO at GE Aviation and Douglas Bellin, the Business Development Lead for Smart Factory and Industry 4.0 at AWS

In this episode, you’ll learn how to bring IT and OT together towards one common goal. You’ll hear from Bobby George, the Chief Digital Officer at Carrier, and Douglas Bellin the Business Development Executive for Industrie 4.0 and Smart Factories at AWS.

Transforming and upgrading your technology can be expensive, but so is funding outdated and inefficient IT. In today’s episode we’ll learn from Volkswagens Nihar Patel, and Frank Goeller as they share their strategies for upgrading and replacing existing systems. You’ll learn how to communicate a bold vision within your organization to realize substantial cost savings and efficiencies.

Learn how to thoroughly examine your current security exposure, scrutinize users accessing your network, and identify areas of vulnerability. Featured guests include Deirdre Hanford, Chief Security Officer at Synopsys, and David Pellerin, Head of WW Business Development for Semiconductors at AWS.

Learn how to realize new opportunities for innovation, even while managing a crisis. This episode helps you analyze the potential for long-overdue digitization efforts to increase your speed to market and reduce risk.

Learn how to gain visibility into your complex data sources by using a data lake. Learn the fundamentals of what a data lake is used for, and how it can help you gain actionable insights from your interconnected supply chain.

In this episode, we’ll uncover tips and strategies for adopting new technology – figure out what is limiting you today, and learn how to transform the culture of your organization to embrace new technologies, take risks, and solve for business-critical outcomes.

Manufacturing and industrial companies face a looming worldwide shortage of qualified skills on an unprecedented scale. Many refer to this challenge as the talent gap, or the skills gap. In this episode, we’ll discuss strategies for closing these gaps. Learn how to train, develop, and qualify talent within your transitioning workforce.