Ed Goffin is Senior Marketing Manager with Pleora Technologies, a leading supplier of AI solutions and video connectivity products for quality inspection and factory automation applications. Over his 25-year career, he has been widely published and is a featured speaker on topics ranging from packet switching and network timing to real-time video solutions for situational awareness in medical, factory automation, and security applications.

Pleora Technologies experts AI & Machine Vision and Smart Manufacturing, they are based in Ottawa, Ontario.

Here are my questions for Ed:

You have said before that People want more automation and they want to use AI. I want AI, what is AI again?

What are the first steps in digitizing and using technologies like AI?

Who are your bulls eye customers?

What is the ROI of automation, robotics, AI from your perspective?

You have said to educate your clients before they buy? How does that happen?

Do you have any use cases or challenges that you can talk about?

Where do you think vision and AI is going?

Did we forget to talk about anything?

When you are not changing the automation world through AI what do you like to do, hobbies?

How can people get a hold of you?

Thanks for participating.

To find out more about Pleora Technologies click here. If you would like to reach out to Ed Goffin you can find him on LinkedIn, here.

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Jim

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