Keith Larson has more than three decades experience covering industrial automation and other aspects of operational technology and its convergence with the IT space. He currently serves as content director for Endeavor Business Media’s brands in the industrial automation, engineering design and process industry sectors. He holds a BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked as a research engineer for Amoco Chemicals (now BP) before joining the ranks of the business media in 1989 as senior editor for the then fledgling process control and instrumentation start-up Control. He holds several U.S. and international patents for his research work in industry, and among other journalistic achievements has been honored with a Jesse H. Neal award for editorial excellence from the American Business Press, now part of the Specialized Information Industries Association.