- Career in Automation with a Computer Science Background - Challenges and Opportunities. - Establishing Modern Enterprise Architecture Best Practices. - Technological Opportunities in Manufacturing - MES, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and more.

- Approaching Digital Transformation from a Distributor Standpoint. - Establishing Modern Enterprise Architecture Best Practices. - Challenges and Opportunities in the South African Market.

- Modern Enterprise Architecture - How to build a scalable infrastructure that solves current and future challenges. - The roadblocks and challenges faced by manufacturers today.

- Modern Enterprise Architecture. - How to build a scalable infrastructure that solves current and future challenges. - The roadblocks and challenges faced by manufacturers today.

In this episode, we speak with Arlen Nipper, the co-inventor of MQTT. We discuss how and why MQTT was invented, the adoption of MQTT as a lightweight and modern protocol, and how IIoT has forced us to rethink many of the legacy ways we've been working on automation and manufacturing.

- The technology stack of IIoT. - Key stakeholders and parties in IIoT initiatives. - Challenges and Opportunities in IIoT and Industry 4.0.

- The technology stack of IIoT. - Key stakeholders and parties in IIoT initiatives. - Challenges and Opportunities in IIoT and Industry 4.0.

- How did IIoT / IoT change in the last decade? - What opportunities do we see in IIoT technology? - Driving sustainability through IIoT initiatives.

- Employee First Private Equity in Manufacturing. - Financial Structures that put the employee first. - Reshoring and working with local suppliers/producers.