Modernize on Your Terms: Open, Software-Defined Automation Is Her
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Industrial organizations know they need to modernize, but aging infrastructure, proprietary systems and hardware dependencies can make transformation feel disruptive and costly. In this session, Jacob Thompson will explore how EcoStruxure™ Automation Expert enables a more flexible approach through open, software-defined automation that decouples software from hardware, supports distributed intelligence and creates greater continuity between IT and OT. Through real-world use cases, Jacob will show how organizations are putting these capabilities into practice today. Attendees will learn how this approach can help them modernize at their own pace, protect existing investments and build a more agile, resilient automation architecture.
By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Understand how open, software-defined automation can overcome the limitations of traditional hardware-dependent architectures.
- Explore how hardware independence and distributed intelligence can enable flexible, phased modernization.
- See how open, software-defined automation is being applied in real-world environments to support modernization while protecting existing investments.
Speaker:
Jacob Thompson
Business Development Leader
Schneider Electric
Jacob Thompson is a Business Development Leader for Next Generation Automation at Schneider Electric, focused on helping industrial organizations and water utilities modernize through open, software-defined automation. He works with customers to advance more flexible and interoperable automation architectures that bridge IT and OT, enable hardware independence, and support phased modernization while protecting existing investments.
