Will Sobel

William Sobel has been architecting complex systems across various industries for over 35 years. For the last 19 years, Mr. Sobel has served as the Chief Architect and chair of the Executive Committee of the MTConnect Standard, an international model-based standard for manufacturing equipment and the IIoT. Additionally, he leads the Industrial Ontologies Foundry Architecture Working Group, which advances support for cross-domain industrial knowledge and explainable AI. While leading the architecture of the MTConnect standard, Mr. Sobel was the CEO of VIMANA, a leading industrial analytics platform. Before VIMANA, he worked as a visiting lecturer at UC Berkeley, teaching agile web development and data center optimization using machine learning at RadLAB. Before UC Berkeley, Mr. Sobel worked in the financial industry for 17 years. He served as VP and Chief Architect at MSCI-Barra, leading a team that was architecting the industry's first and leading SaaS financial risk management software.