Kirk Smith has over 30 years of experience in embedded and end-to-end automation and control system design for manufacturing operations across the continuous, batch and discrete process industries. As Director and Principal Engineer for the System and Solutions Architecture Team in the Industrial Solutions Division within Intel's Internet of Things Group, Kirk and his team are chartered to create end-to-end architectures and solutions that enable the realization of scalable, open and secure, software defined autonomous systems for today's IoT automation landscape. Kirk is an active member in the Society of Petroleum Engineers and has held previous leadership positions as the Industrial Co-Chair in the Open Connectivity Foundation, alternate Board Member in the Industrial Internet Consortium, and is currently fulfilling his 2nd term as the Technology Working Group Co-Chair in The Open Group Open Process Automation Forum.