Brian McCarson is a Vice President at Intel Corporation with extensive hardware and software product development and scale experience. He currently leads a Systems Engineering and Architecture team within the Internet of Things Group. This is an international team of world-class HW and SW architects, engineers, developers and AI experts with deep domain expertise in the industrial segment spanning Asia, Europe and North America. Previously, Brian held the position of CTO of IoT Strategy at Intel. He has a Master of Science in Materials Science and Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. Brian specializes in HW and SW design, development and validation, edge to cloud system architectures and systems engineering for IoT, industrial automation and control systems, data visualization, innovative data analytics, multivariate problem solving and artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning technologies.