The Industrial IoT World 2019 "IIoT Leader of the Year" award recognizes individual executives, whose outstanding leadership has resulted in the implementation and success of Industrial IoT in their businesses and beyond.

Lou enables entrepreneurs, startups, leading technology OEMs and other IoT innovators to bring IoT solutions to market. With 30 years of industry experience he knows how to help guide today’s ideas into tomorrow’s technology.

ClearBlade CTO and product visionary for the ClearBlade Platform and EDGE brings decades of application tooling development and runtime experience to the emerging technologies in the Internet of Things.

Helping companies navigate the constantly changing environment of IoT We build Go-to-Market strategies, educate and enable our clients to be successful within IoT to ensure their success in SMB, mid-market and enterprise environments.

Nicole has rapidly grown Darktrace into the world’s leading AI company for industrial cyber defense — trusted by hundreds of smart cities, critical infrastructure firms, and energy industry leaders in 110 countries around the globe.

Over eight years spent a thought leader in IIoT by working with leading technology providers and OEMs. Alex has worked with a wide range of Fortune 500 companies to help conduct new business and strategy development for IoT, smart systems and software.

A Senior Fellow for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Production Operations and has been with LM for 34 years. Currently Don supports Digital Transformation at Aeronautics as well as other programs such as F-35.

A proven, motivated leader with a passion for transformation from the norm, breaking tradition driving change, motivating a change in the customer experience, and an outcome-oriented leader who has a passion for execution results.

Focuses on the power a digitally connected supply chain, from shelf to source, brings to businesses and consumers. Creating digital supply chain fingerprints and metrics that enable growth through Supply Chains that ultimately can sense.

Sharelynn leads Itron’s networked solutions technology strategy for utilities and cities globally. Sharelynn’s exemplary leadership through the acquisition of Silver Spring Networks has helped position Itron as a global IIoT leader.

A trailblazing leader and tireless evangelist for trust in IoT environments. Fortune 500s globally are signing up to his solution of closing the trust gap between smart edge devices and the cloud by warranting the authenticity in data proof of provenance.

Santiago is Chief Commercial Digital Officer & SVP US Solutions and Services for Schneider Electric, where he is responsible for helping customers realize the benefits of IIoT and leads the commercial deployment of EcoStruxure, the company's IoT-enabled system architecture.

Brian has leads LEC's IIoT Strategy through development of a comprehensive plan and related implementation of a high growth strategy. Brian has an extensive executive-level background in wireless data, M2M, IIoT, and wireless network architectures.

At Software AG, Jonathan is responsible for leading the technical teams that help customers recognize the value of leveraging IIoT to solve complex business challenges. He is a seasoned technologist with deep IIoT, and manufacturing expertise.