Simon Cohen is Executive Vice President of Business Development at MTech Systems, part of Speria, and one of the leaders behind the company's growth from a regional US software provider into a global agribusiness technology business. Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, he holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Southern University and previously designed poultry processing plants for Systemate in the Netherlands. Simon works closely with poultry producers around the world to apply connected data, IoT and AI to production and supply-chain decisions. His focus is helping the industry move from manual, reactive processes toward more predictive and real-time operations that improve planning, performance and sustainability.