People Category: Speaker

Jeff Shaknaitis

Jeff Shaknaitis is the Customer Sustainability Leader at GE Aviation with a background in mechanical engineering and a decade of experience working closely with GE Aviation’s airline customers. Jeff has played a key role in shaping GE Aviation’s sustainability strategy, with a particular focus on partnering with customers and building coalitions to drive progress on industry decarbonization initiatives. Most notably, Jeff ideated and led an eight-month project to fly the first passenger flight with one of the two engines operating on 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

Eman Kawas

Throughout her career Eman Kawas has architected proof of value at a small scale and then developed a methodology to create scalable dynamic solutions. Eman’s path is focused on bringing industry 4.0 innovative technologies to the workplace with an eye on processes and people to maximize return on investment and increase technology adoption. After 15 years as a trusted advisor in technology consulting and implementation across different industries, Eman co-founded Thynkli, a digital twin services company that builds a digital twin of your organization, creating data-oriented interactions, accelerating digital transformation, and increasing the flexibility, quality, and productivity of your business.

Dan Isaacs

Dan Isaacs is a Chief Technical Officer of Digital Twin Consortium, where he is responsible for setting the technical direction, liaison partnerships and support for new memberships.

Previously, Dan was Director of Strategic Marketing and Business Development at Xilinx where he was responsible for emerging technologies including machine learning, defining, and executing the ecosystem strategy for the Industrial IoT and Automotive Business. Dan also represented Xilinx for the Industry IoT Consortium (IIC). He has more than 25 years of experience working in automotive, mil/aero and consumer-based companies including Ford, NEC, LSI Logic and Hughes Aircraft.

Dan has been a keynote speaker and panelist for IIC World Forums, Industrial IOT Global conferences, Embedded World, Embedded Systems, and FPGA Conferences. Dan serves on international advisory boards. He holds degrees in Computer Engineering: EE from Cal State University, B.S. Geophysics from ASU.