Costas Pantelides is the CTO of Siemens Process Automation Software and also a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He was a co-founder, and subsequently CTO and CEO of Process Systems Enterprise Ltd., one of Imperial’s largest spin-out companies acquired by Siemens AG in 2019. Costas has extensive experience in the area of digitalization for the process industries and its application to process R&D, engineering design and operation. A key focus of his current activities is the transformation of process operations towards higher degrees of autonomy, and the architecture and design of general software platforms that can support this. Costas has been the recipient of several awards including the 2007 MacRobert Award of the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering, the 2016 Sargent Medal of UK Institution of Chemical Engineers, the 2019 Computing Practice Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and an honorary PhD degree from the Technical University of Dortmund. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and an international member of the USA National Academy of Engineering.
Forum Sessions:
Future Is Now: Operational Historians/Industrial Data Platforms, Digital Twins, AI, & What’s Next