Ricky Watts

Senior Dr, Intel

Ricky is a Senior Director of Industrial Solutions for the Federal and Industrial Business at Intel. During the last 30 years, he passionately has been driving innovation enabling changes for a better world. He has been leading product marketing & strategy and business developments for manufacturing and energy. He had previously worked in telecommunications, and multiple embedded businesses such as control automation, medical, energy, and transportation.

Ricky’s Industrial and Telecom experience brings a unique perspective on how compute and connectivity at the on premise edge will enable the data driven outcomes driving increased efficiency, quality, performance and innovative & sustainable driven manufacturing. Ricky has a wide international experience spending half of his career living and working in Asia, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at Motorola, Aircom International, British Telecom, and as Vice President of Industrial for Wind River Systems.