Industrial Transformation: The Technology that is Reimagining Work

More than 20 years in the security technology market, Amir Shechter leads a team responsible for Market Insights, Technology portfolio, and Solution enablement, a part of Convergint’s Digital Transformation initiatives. His role includes identifying market trends, developing vertical market solutions driven by business needs, and supporting the design and implementation of software-centric integrated solutions. Specialties: PSIM, IDMS, security risk and vulnerability assessment, program management, large security projects.

Matt Powers is the Vice President of Global Technology Services at Anixter. Matt currently manages Anixter’s global field engineering team with a network of engineers supporting physical security, data centers, building technologies and industrial controls and networking. He brings with him over 20 years of sales, management and technical experience in the physical security industry. Matt has been an elected member of the ASIS Physical Security Council, with a special focus in ASIS’ education, international and physical security system design subcommittees. ASIS is the leading global industry organization of security professionals worldwide focused on development of industry standards and best practices. In 2010, Matt was elected into the Technical Services Committee of ONVIF, making Anixter the only nonmanufacturer representative to serve on an ONVIF committee. ONVIF is an open industry forum for the development of a global standard for the interface of IP-based physical security products. In his committee role, Matt’s objective was to be the voice of Anixter’s customers, both end-users and integrators, within the standards community. During his time with ONVIF, he assisted in the development of many physical security interoperability standards such as ONVIF Profiles S (video streaming), C (IP-based access control) and G (edge video storage). Matt also introduced the Profile concept to the ONVIF standards committee. Profiles is based on a concept of making it easier for security practitioners to understand the benefits of ONVIF conformant devices and how various conformant devices interoperate with each other. In his career at Anixter, Matt has spent over 14 years focused on the physical security industry. He has worked with integrators and their end users globally on many complex physical security applications ranging from citywide security, education, retail, critical infrastructure and enterprise. He was also responsible for leading Anixter’s physical security-focused testing at the Anixter Infrastructure Solutions Lab to help customers make informed purchasing decisions. In his current role, Matt leads Anixter’s Technology Support Services team of over 70 global engineers who partner with globe sales teams and specialize in supporting complex customer applications. He also guides the company’s commercial technology strategy with a team of innovation experts to evaluate and test transformational technologies.