Jan Bajorat

Jan Bajorat is senior director of software-defined automation (SDA) at Siemens. After positions within Simatic product management, he headed the internal start-up that created Simatic AX and was head of STEP 7 TIA Portal. He now leads Siemens’ software-defined automation initiative, focused on transforming the automation industry by bringing modern software development methods to the industrial automation space and decoupling automation capabilities from hardware.