Jim Petrusich is a Vice President at NWA Software, a company which specializes in real-time analytic monitoring systems in chemical process industries. He has worked on many data aggregation and decision guidance projects with some of the world's largest oil, gas and chemical manufacturers. These deployments have won multiple industry awards including the Manufacturing Intelligence Award (2016, Frost and Sullivan). Prior to joining NWA in 2010, he was Vice President, Sales and Services for Planar Systems, where he was responsible for large deployments of automated monitoring systems (C4I and C5I) in military, surveillance, transportation, and energy projects with many of the world's largest companies and governments. Hans Volkmar Schwartz is Vice President, Process Safety at BASF. He had group wide responsibility for process safety at the world's largest chemical company with more than 100,000 employees in over 80 countries until end of 2016, and, after reorganization, is now supporting BASF's Process Safety approach as an executive expert. Schwarz started his career at BASF in 1986 and progressed through the organization with senior roles in Europe and North America, including plant management, project management, technology director and project director with responsibility for supply chain optimization. His production and technology roles included the development of process safety concepts for some of BASF's most hazardous technologies. Schwarz was given BASF's North American innovation award in 1999.