Kevin O'Brien, Divisional Vice President & General Manager, PTC
Kevin O’Brien is the Divisional Vice President and General Manager of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) segment at PTC. In this role, Kevin is responsible for PTC’s strategy, product, go-to-market and customer success for PLM offerings including Windchill and ThingWorx Navigate. Previously at PTC, Kevin led the build out of PTC’s award winning Internet of Things and Augmented Reality partner ecosystems.
Earlier in his career, Kevin spent several years as a product manager at PTC on the Windchill PLM offering before going for an MBA at Harvard Business School. He then spent a decade at Oracle in a series of global go-to-market leadership roles building several new growth businesses.
Managing Complexity with a Digital Thread: Strategy and Context
Why build a digital thread? For most companies, their existing systems don’t support a concurrent way of working. Manual handovers and duplicate data in disparate IT systems result in quality issues, increased lead times, and additional costs. In this session, Kevin O’Brien, GM PLM at PTC, will share how Volvo Group addressed these challenges with closed-loop quality, concurrent manufacturing, and collaboration across engineering disciplines, projects, and divisions.