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    Cybersecurity Challenges for Manufacturers, Brought to You by AI

    AI boosts efficiency and ROI in manufacturing—but also exposes critical vulnerabilities. Many OT systems weren’t designed for networked AI environments, making them prime targets for costly cyberattacks in today’s evolving threat landscape.

    August 28, 2025

    12:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM CT / 9:00 AM PT / 5:00 PM GMT

    Duration: 60 minutes

    Sponsors: Integris & Schneider Electric USA

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    Summary

    The advent of artificial intelligence in manufacturing has brought about many efficiency gains and benefits such as better ROI for manufacturers. But AI also has opened Pandora’s box of possible system vulnerabilities to costly and disruptive cyber intrusion—and often plant technology, especially OT, isn’t built to be networked, as AI requires, and run in this threat landscape.

    Join Smart Industry’s Scott Achelpohl as he “opens this box” for discussion with two special and esteemed guests:

    • Tim Freestone, chief strategy officer and AI-first strategist with Kiteworks, vendor of a software platform designed to manage and secure sensitive and proprietary data communications.
    • Carolyn Duby, field CTO and cybersecurity lead at Cloudera, vendor of a data platform designed for flexible data and analytics across any cloud and on-premises environments.

     

    Speakers

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    Tim Freestone | Chief Marketing Officer | Kiteworks

    Tim joined Kiteworks in 2021 and brings over 15 years of experience in corporate strategy and marketing leadership, including demand generation, brand and market strategy, and process and organizational optimization.

    Tim was previously Vice President of Marketing at Contrast Security, a scale-up application security company where he built out the marketing organization globally, modernized and mechanized the team's execution, and elevated the company into a world-class brand. Before Contrast, Tim was the Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Fortinet, a multi-billion-dollar, next-generation firewall and cloud security company. In that role, he rebranded Fortinet and built out the comprehensive go-to-market operations for eight solutions encompassing more than 30 products. Prior to Fortinet, he was Director of Americas Demand, Strategy and Operations at NetApp where he built out the programmatic demand execution for the Americas and optimized operations to ensure effective lead flow and opportunity creation through sales. Before NetApp, Tim co-founded a marketing services agency where he created and led the execution of hundreds of marketing programs for large and small technology companies.

    Tim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Communication Studies from The University of Montana.

     

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    Carolyn Duby | Field CTO and Cyber Security AI Strategist | Cloudera

    Carolyn Duby is a cybersecurity and data expert who drives some of today’s most important tech topics, including hybrid data cloud, big data, privacy, becoming a data-driven organization, and careers in tech.

    With more than 30 years of experience in the industry, she currently serves as Field CTO and Cyber Security Lead at Cloudera, guiding companies in banking, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing and more through complex transformations that help them use data as a strategic asset to impact their bottom line.

     

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