David A. Vasko is director of Advanced Technology at Rockwell Automation. He is responsible for applied R&D and Global Product Standards and Regulations within Rockwell. He is responsible for developing and managing technology to enable the future generation of Rockwell Automation’s industrial automation products.

David has held leadership positions in development and research groups while at Rockwell. He managed the Distributed Control Research lab, where agent based control systems were first developed and successfully deployed in industrial applications. He managed the Architecture Development group and contributed to the development of the Control Logix Architecture and CIP (Common Industrial Communication Protocol/IEC 61158) which is currently used in over 15 million industrial devices. He led the team that developed the CIP Safety communication protocol (IEC 61784-3) and in 2005 he was recognized as Rockwell Automation’s Engineer of the Year for his contribution.

David is a member of the NIST Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT). He is on the board of the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) and leads the workgroup on open standards. He is on the boards the IoT Talent Consortium (Secretary) and the Milwaukee Institute. He is a member of the Wisconsin Technical Council, the US National Committee and serves on Technical Advisory Groups in the US National Committee for industrial control and communications. He serves in leadership positions within the IEC (IEC 65B Secretary, TC65 Advisory Group) and is a member of the IEC Strategic Evaluation Group (SEG7) focused on Smart Manufacturing and Industrie 4.0, the Industrial Internet of Things. He is also a senior member of the IEEE.