Pieter van Schalkwyk is CEO and Founder of XMPro, leading the development of the Agentic Operations Platform for mission-critical industrial environments in manufacturing, energy, mining, and utilities.
A leading voice in Digital Twins, industrial AI governance, and decision intelligence, he is the lead author of the Industrial AI Agent Manifesto (Digital Twin Consortium, 2026) and creator of the Digital Twin Capabilities Periodic Table and AI Agent Capabilities Periodic Table.
He co-authored Building Industrial Digital Twins (Packt, 2021) and chairs working groups at the Digital Twin Consortium and OMG. Pieter speaks globally on Agentic Operations and AI governance for safety-critical environments.

