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📆 🔙 Throwback Thursday: Business Members Board of Governors Meeting

Blake Bradburn and Gerardo Zendejas in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the APTA Business Members Board of Governors meeting. What a great opportunity to connect with all of the stakeholders from the rail industry.

🌐: Part 3

Effective leadership is a driving force behind success in the rapidly evolving technology industry landscape. Our commitment to these conversations stems from our unique position as integration subsystems SCADA specialist solutions for metro rail automation projects.

In Part 3 of our series, Willowglen Systems asked Ian Verhappen, Manager of Cybersecurity & Safety, what excites him about automation and how he sees the evolving industry. Read his responses below ➡️:

☑️ Innovation: With the increasing use of internet protocols everywhere (IoT), we are on the cusp of the next generation of innovation. For the Operations Technology space, this is more than process control. IoT is pushing Industrial Automation Control Systems (IACS) to manage assets. SCADA as the IACS platform for widely distributed and irregularly updating signals is a natural fit for managing all this data, so being part of the community and developing the standards and products to meet those needs motivates me to get up every morning.

☑️ Industry Insights: There are more devices, more data, and more complexity. Our job as engineers is to hide the complexity so people can use that data to improve their lives, so no more thought is required about how something works than turning on the lights — that is the magic we need to create and are building.

📷 Ian, enjoying a moment of relaxation after the IEC TC65 AG14 meeting in Tokyo at an owl cafe.

👣 Follow us next week when Ian discusses the importance and value of volunteering in the automation industry.

🐣 Happy Good Friday! Today marks a day of reflection and renewal for many around the world. May your Easter be filled with hope and new beginnings.