Brian Bishop, CEO of Data Performance Consultancy (DPC) has been announced as the new Vice Chair of the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) Strategy Work Group (SWG). DPC provides business intelligence to support digital transformation, big data analysis and the creation of innovative smart city solutions. The company is already an active member of OCF, and additionally a member of the UK’s National Digital Twin program. Brian’s leadership in this field will be of significant value to OCF’s SWG, which proposes and maintains OCF priorities and roadmaps, based on OCF objectives and IoT market trends.

Commenting on his new position, Brian says: “DPC is an active member of OCF as we share a commitment to an open standard approach towards smart city development and support the principle of securely sharing trusted data for the purpose of delivering societal impact. I look forward to working within the OCF SWG as it continues to foster collaboration throughout the global ecosystem. Our aim is to collectively solve real world challenges related to urbanization and the environment, by harnessing the vast potential of highly secure and standardized IP-based networks.”