Who you will hear from
Atish Misal
Sr. Director Digital Thread, Product and Engineering Systems, OTIS
Atish Misal on LinkedInAtish Misal is an experienced Digital Transformation & Enterprise leader with 20+ years of experience driving large-scale, global enterprise programs across PLM, Digital Thread, and Digital Twin initiatives. He specializes in defining and executing enterprise digital visions, strategies, and multi-year roadmaps that align tightly with business priorities—accelerating time-to-market, improving productivity, reducing operational cost, and enabling data-driven decision-making at scale. He is known for bridging strategy and execution, influencing at executive levels, and fostering high-performance, innovation-driven teams. Atish is passionate about building scalable digital foundations that unlock long-term enterprise growth, resilience, and competitive advantage.
Steve Dertien
EVP, Customer & Technology Partnerships, PTC
Steve Dertien is responsible for championing corporate technology strategy across the portfolio and solution offerings. Steve also leads the team in PTC’s Reality Lab researching new, unchartered, and possible next technology while figuring out the business advantages it can provide to our customers and global partner network.
Since joining PTC in 2000, Steve has spearheaded many different initiatives at PTC including the business transformation to bring IoT into our solution offerings and the goto-market strategy and product marketing that followed. Prior to PTC, he was a business systems analyst and manufacturing engineer at Medtronic.
In addition to his role at PTC, Steve serves on the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council's Technology and Innovation Advisory Board.
Steve earned a B.S. in Manufacturing Engineering Technology from Ferris State University in Michigan.