Senior Operations/Sales leader with extensive P&L experience in large public corporations (Aramark, Ecolab, Honeywell, Accruent, Carrier), privately held start-ups, emerging markets, and family-owned operations. Delivered successful financial, operational, and development outcomes across wide variety of verticals: restaurant operations (both commercial/non-commercial), equipment repair, energy management, SaaS, CMMS, energy efficiency, and smart buildings

With over a decade of experience in building automation, Nick has had the opportunity to work within various sectors to deliver solutions that streamline facility operations, optimize energy use, and enhance comfort and air quality. His career began in residential automation and security, where he quickly realized the importance for smarter buildings. In his current role at TCS, Nick manages national accounts in retail, banking and education. In addition to his client-facing work, he actively contributes to various webinars and learning initiatives, helping educate others on the benefits of building automation.

With 16 years of experience in Building Automation, David has worked in a variety of roles, from Technical Support to Software Development to Product Management. In his current position, he leads the Software Engineering teams at Delta IBT, building On Premise Software, Cloud Applications, and Mobile Apps. These days, David’s teams work on adapting and building Artificial Intelligence into the products they create, bringing AI into the Building Automation market. 

Cody Shive is the Global Partner Solutions Architect for Grocery, Drug, and Convenience Retail at AWS, where he works with both cloud and physical store retail partners. Cody has over 20 years in Retail as an independent consultant, a technical lead for IBM/Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, and as a Retail Transformation architect for NCR. Cody specializes in deep data analytics and keeps himself involved in self-service solutions and AI-driven retail solutions using generative AI. He is passionate about grocery, stemming from his very first job at Albertsons in Florida. Cody is a graduate of the University of North Florida, with a degree in Computer and Information Sciences and a minor in Business Management. 

One of the top building automation technicians at Honeywell in the late 80’s and engineers at Johnson Controls in the mid 90’s, Keith Gipson has been a pioneer in the Buildings IoT, Enterprise Energy Management (EEM) industries and technology for over forty years.

In 1997 Keith Co-Founded the first EEM company, Silicon Energy Corp., which was sold to Itron in 2001 for $71 Million. In 2005 Keith co-founded Shield Ops Inc. He architected an AI-driven CSI and evidence linking program to help law enforcement discover, classify, and correlate crime data as featured on the television show CSI Las Vegas. Most recently Keith was CTO of Phoenix Energy Technologies, which he also co-founded, where he architected the Enterprise DX (Data eXchange) EEM platform that monitors and controls over 16,000 retail and commercial buildings, one of the largest integrated, web-based EEM platforms ever created. In March of 2020, after thirteen years, Keith left Phoenix ET to apply his vision and experience to build an AI-driven autonomous optimization solution (facil.ai).