Farid Bichareh is a technology expert and entrepreneur with over 22 years’ experience defining solutions/strategy for smart manufacturing, digital transformation, IoT/IIoT, Neural and Autonomous manufacturing and innovative Optical Wireless Communication/Li-Fi and AI. He has co-founded several businesses and served as a board member and top executive. He also Chaired Smart Factory at IIC (Industrial IoT Consortium) for past several years and served as member of IIC Steering Committee. Currently he is Connected Plants Solution Director at TCS.