Don’t just survive: Thrive with advanced process control

Dustin Beebe is the Vice President of Performance Software for Emerson. He is responsible for aligning the global control performance, operator performance and simulation businesses and the strategy synergy between Emerson and AspenTech. Before joining Emerson, Beebe served as the President of ProSys until Emerson acquired it in 2018. He has been in the industrial automation business since 1996. Beebe earned a BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Alex Kalafatis is the Vice President of Product Management at AspenTech. He is responsible for the manufacturing and supply chain management product portfolio. Dr. Kalafatis has spent most of his 25-yr career in the control and optimization of processing industries across the refining, upstream, chemicals and polymers industries. He strongly believes in digital transformation's value in industrial facilities as a critical factor in achieving new levels of operational excellence, including emissions reduction, energy efficiency and sustainability with profitability—advanced process control, optimization and embedded AI are key enablers for this transformation. Dr. Kalafatis earned an MS degree and PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Toronto.