Arlen Nipper

Arlen has over 38 years of experience in the SCADA industry.  Over his career, he has worked for Amoco and Koch Oil and then served as the President and CTO of Arcom Control Systems and Eurotech.  His experience covers a broad range of technology, from the design and manufacture of embedded computer systems to complete SCADA system infrastructure implementations for many companies.  Arlen is also the co-inventor of MQTT, a SCADA message transport, in conjunction with IBM, and has over 18 years of experience designing high-performance SCADA systems using MQTT and message-oriented middleware.  He was also involved in many of the activities that have recently led to MQTT being a dominant IIoT messaging standard.