Scott Cochrane is President and CEO of Cochrane Supply & Engineering, overseeing six branch locations throughout three states, as well as President of Canada Controls. He is an advisory council member for multiple industry manufacturers such as Honeywell, Johnson Controls, and Tridium. Cochrane Supply is proud to have been in business for 50+ years and has received multiple prestigious awards. Scott earned a Bachelor's Degree in Business with minors in Marketing and Finance from Eastern Michigan University and holds an additional minor in HVAC Technologies from Macomb Community College. Scott is also an IBcon Digital Impact Award Winner for going above and beyond to positively impact the smart building industry.

Kevin Smith is the Chief Technology Officer of Tridium. In this role, he provides technology strategy and direction for all of Tridium's products to the architecture and engineering teams. For more than 25 years, Kevin has led technology organizations and endeavored to develop highly secure, data-focused software solutions for a wide variety of customers. The author of seven technology books on topics such as cybersecurity, big data analytics, semantics, software engineering, and enterprise architecture, he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on the subjects of building automation, the IoT, and cybersecurity. Kevin received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary, and a Master's degree in Computer Science along with post-graduate certificate degrees in Software Systems Engineering and Information Systems Security from George Mason University.

Ken strives to be a Catalysis/Harbinger of the IoT future. His goals are to inform his readers of the future of building automation, which will involve the full embrace of IoT. Ken believes that systems will be smarter, self-learning, edgy, innovative, and sophisticated, and that they will automatically configure and integrate new equipment to optimize themselves, to self-manage and self-heal while reinventing purposeful, productive, desirable buildings and accommodations. And Ken wants to help grow our only real resource/asset, our younger people, by reaching out to youth with messages about our vibrant, vital and rewarding industry.

Jim Young is the founder of the Realcomm Conference Group, an education organization that produces Realcomm, IBcon and CoRE Tech, the world's leading conferences on technology, automated business solutions, intelligent buildings and energy efficiency for the commercial and corporate real estate industry. Jim interacts with some of the largest companies globally pertaining to some of the most advanced and progressive, next-generation real estate projects under development.

As President of the Acuity Brands Technology Group, Laurent oversees IoT-enabled business solutions, which include intelligent luminaires, building management and controls as well as the supporting software services. He most recently served as President and CEO of Schneider Electric's North American Operations where he led the organization in its Industrial Internet effort. During his 30+ year tenure, he transitioned the company's focus from products to digital solutions after previously evolving the industrial giant into a technology company. He is a Board Member of Tulip Interfaces, working to balance the human side of automation and integration of IT-OT. Laurent holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance from the Ecole Superieure de Commerce in Dijon, France and a Master of Business Administration from the Fuqua Business School at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.