🎙️ True North 🧭

From PI to CONNECT. From data platforms to data trust. On True North 🧭, I sat down with John Baier, VP Solution Strategy at AVEVA, and one of the architects behind the evolution of the PI System into today’s industrial data platforms. John has spent decades at the core of industrial data, from Rockwell Automation to OSIsoft, and now AVEVA. He has seen the stack evolve from historians to cloud pla...

On True North, I sat down with Julian Pereira, VP Product & Engineering at TrendMiner.   The company I founded and led for over a decade before its acquisition in 2018. Julian and I go back to a cold LinkedIn message in 2017. He'd seen what data validation looked like before it could scale, and he wanted to build something different. He joined TrendMiner in customer success, moved into product...

From assumed data to trusted decisions. On True North 🧭 , I sat down with  Raj Munusamy , Product Portfolio Manager for Data Platforms & Agentic AI at Saint-Gobain, a 350+ year-old industrial giant operating across 1,200+ manufacturing plants worldwide . Raj is a rare bridge between worlds: automation & control, historians & OT systems, and modern cloud-scale data platforms and AI. In...

Building for tomorrow, not just solving today’s problem. On True North 🧭, I sat down with Robert Feldmann, Director of Manufacturing Industry at Microsoft — formerly Associate Partner at McKinsey and today also an industrial advisor to Timeseer. AI.  At Microsoft, Robert helps manufacturers bridge the gap between shop-floor reality and cloud-scale AI, shaping how industrial companies move from au...

𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆’𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. On True North 🧭 , I sat down with Stijn for a sharp conversation about strategy, AI, and long-term advantage. We go way back, school friends, and today he’s one of the builders behind a Belgian unicorn in data governance . What made this conversation special is where our worlds meet: OT and IT data quality and governance .  The point where...

𝗔 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, inspired by Gaurav’s new book Data Quality  ROI. On this True North 🧭, I sat down with Gaurav Patole to explore how IT and OT finally meet when it comes to one universal truth: you can’t automate, govern, or trust what you can’t rely on. We talked about how data governance can move from a checklist to a strategic advantage, and why data quality must evolve from IT p...

🎧 From IoT Hype to AIoT Reality — The Cumulocity Story with Bernd Gross Some conversations aren’t just about technology; they’re about vision coming full circle. On True North 🧭 , I sat down with Bernd Gross , co-founder and CEO of Cumulocity , for an honest talk about the evolution of IoT — from the early hype to today’s AI-powered reality. Bernd built Cumulocity back in 2012, long before IoT w...

🎧 From Historian to Infrastructure: The OSIsoft Story with Richard Beeson Some conversations aren’t just interviews; they’re tributes . On True North , I sat down with Richard Beeson , former CTO of OSIsoft , for an honest talk about the company — and the man — that changed both our lives: Pat Kennedy . Richard spent 32 years at OSIsoft. Before AVEVA, OSIsoft quietly built the nervous system of i...