David Francis

David is the Vice President of Operations at Virtalis.  He has been at Virtalis for 3 years during which time he has been focussing on advanced visualisation and virtual reality technologies and how this fits into digital transformation and Industry 4.0.  He has developed the Virtual Digital Twin solution which he will be presenting on at the IAM Exchange.  

Prior to working at Virtalis David has spent his career in big-data.  After 11 years working for the UK Immigration service, he switched his focus to asset management working for 3 years in the asset management community at Network Rail who own and operate the UK rail network.  His focus there was on process and IT system improvement, acting as a sponsor for the £300M ORBIS programme and owner of the enterprise asset registers.  David  had lots of success in digitally enabling the workforce with mobile apps.  His current work takes this on to the next stage; virtual and augmented reality, providing the data in a visual manner in real time, where the user needs it.