Steve Gierden

Condition Monitoring Engineer AssetWatch

Steve Gierden is a Condition Monitoring Engineer at AssetWatch, where he helps customers turn AI-backed machine health data into clear, prescriptive maintenance actions. As part of AssetWatch's predictive maintenance solution, Steve interprets condition monitoring insights, validates equipment health concerns, and delivers actionable recommendations that help customers prevent failures, reduce unplanned downtime, and improve asset reliability. He brings deep experience in vibration analysis, condition-based monitoring, and reliability program execution, supported by prior roles with Georgia-Pacific, Waites, I-care Reliability, and Allied Reliability, as well as technical training and service in the United States Navy.

Monday, June 15, 2026

10:00 AM Innovative Tech Demos

Technology demos give attendees a hands-on look at cutting edge tools, turning complex innovations into clear, memorable experiences. Each demo is designed to spark curiosity, inspire new ideas, and show exactly how these solutions can elevate real world performance.

@10:05: Same Process, Different Outcomes. Let's Find the Why - Live.

Every factory runs the same process and gets different outcomes. Operators improvise, engineers chase ghosts, and dashboards show what changed without ever explaining why. In this techno demo, Bernhard shows how Causal AI closes that gap; reasoning about cause and effect to pinpoint the parameter actually driving variation, recommend the corrective set point, and make the fix repeatable across lines and plants. Stop chasing problems. Start controlling them.

Bernhard Kratzwald, Founder and Co-CEO, Ethon

@10:20: Presented by Asset Watch

Steve Gierden, Condition Monitoring Engineer, AssetWatch

12:00 PM Partner-Led Roundtables: Technology Solutions Enabling Digital Transformation

Table 1: Closing the Gap Between Predictive Insights and Maintenance Action

Predictive maintenance and condition monitoring can tell you what might happen. Operational excellence requires acting on it. For manufacturing leaders navigating complexity across sites, the real challenge isn't just visibility, it's execution.

This interactive round table invites you to exchange perspectives on how to translate machine health insights into coordinated, measurable action across maintenance, operations, and leadership teams.

Together, we'll explore what separates organizations that generate alerts from those that drive outcomes.

Hosted by: Steve Gierden, Condition Monitoring Engineer, AssetWatch

Table 2: Building the Business Case for the Connected Digital Factory: Where to Start and How to Scale

Hosted by: Marc Banning, Global Business Development, Autodesk

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Steve.

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