Adam Gluck, Copia Automation

Adam Gluck is CEO & Founder of Copia Automation, building DevOps tools for controls and automation engineers that streamlines operations, reduces downtime, and improves innovation and delivery of applications and services. Copia’s flagship offering provides Git-based source control for PLC programming.  Adam was an early hire on Uber’s driver engineering team and later was the founding engineer on Uber’s engineering strategy team. At Uber, Adam worked on multiple rewrites of Uber’s driver app what was distributed to millions of drivers each month, and helped redesign Uber’s overall microservice architecture. He founded Copia to bring the same best practices to the fundamental technology that runs industry.   Adam was recently recognized in the 2022 class of Forbes 30 under 30 in the category of Manufacturing and Industry. He received a Bachelor of Arts Honors degree in Sociology from the University of Chicago.  Keywords: automation, manufacturing processes, PLC coding, digital transformation