Erika Franco

Erika Franco is a technical leader with over 15 years of experience in networking and 6 years in industrial automation. She currently works as a Solutions Architect at Cisco in the IoT Solutions group. She is responsible for designing end-to-end architectures for manufacturing and leading the validation efforts to ensure secure and reliable implementations. Erika is a contributor to the Cisco and Rockwell Automation Converged Plant-wide Ethernet (CPwE) design guides. She works closely with automation and control partners such as Rockwell Automation and Schneider Electric and serves as a representative of Cisco in the Profinet IO working group. Areas of expertise include Industrial IoT, cyber security for industrial solutions, software defined networking (SDN), and Cisco TrustSec.