Jeff Smith is a Chief Technical Officer at Dynics based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Jeff is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience in the automotive industry, where he developed control and networking architectures for large companies and worked with suppliers to create products that met the needs of industrial environments. He is currently the CTO of Dynics, an OT technology company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan that provides OT cybersecurity solutions, IIOT solutions, and industrial compute platforms to a global market. In addition to his role at Dynics, Jeff is also the acting CTO for Veracity Industrial Networks, a software-defined networking company based in Ann Arbor that offers a leading edge SDN controller for OT networks.
Jeff is a strong advocate for software-defined networking (SDN) as the foundation for OT networks and believes that its proper application can significantly improve the security and monitoring of these networks. He is a frequent speaker on topics such as Ethernet-based OT network design and OT cybersecurity for organizations such as ODVA, ARC, SANS Institute, and Rockwell Automation, CISCO, Belden, and many others. His expertise has been recognized by leading publications such as The Industrial Ethernet Book, Automation World, Industrial Automation, Control Engineering, SAE Automotive Engineering, Control Design, and Control Global magazine, as well as various industry blogs.
The pop in my job:
Creating solutions that help those in OT solve real problems and not just rebranding or relabeling non-OT solutions as OT. My 25 years as an end user gives me a unique perspective when creating solutions as I experienced first hand the challenges and the reality of an OT setting.
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