• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Jim Nyquist

Emerson

Group President Systems and Solutions

Jim Nyquist has served as a group president of Emerson Automation Solutions, a $10 billion Emerson business, since 2010. In this position, he is responsible for the process systems and solutions, reliability solutions, power and water solutions, and remote automation solutions businesses. Recognized brands include DeltaV and Ovation process control and safety systems, AMS asset management software, and AMS machinery health products and services. Nyquist heads Emerson’s project management leadership team and is leading the project certainty initiative, which is Emerson’s transformational approach for Top Quartile project performance. He is also responsible for Emerson’s Project Management Office (PMO) and global project consulting and engineering organization of more than 5000 project management and engineering professionals in over 50 countries. From 2007-2010, Nyquist served as president of global sales. In this position, he was responsible for sales, service and customer facing activities for Emerson Process Management around the globe, including Emerson’s marquee account program. From 2004 through 2007, Nyquist was president of Emerson Process Management in Europe where he oversaw sales and service in both Western and Eastern Europe and established Emerson’s “Think Customer” customer loyalty program. After beginning his career as an application engineer at Fisher Controls in 1977, Nyquist has held various sales and marketing, operations, and general management positions in North America, Asia Pacific and Europe. He architected and led the construction of Emerson’s network of Solution’s Industry Centers, which are now responsible for executing some of the world’s largest automation projects. Nyquist is an officer of Emerson, a member of Emerson’s Process Executive Group, and has represented Emerson on the Construction Industry Institute Board of Advisors and was a member of its executive committee. He received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Kansas State University and resides in Austin, Texas.

Sessions With Jim Nyquist

Monday, 11 March

  • 07:30pm - 09:00pm (CST) / -

    Workforce of the Future
    Panel Technology/Innovation

    The nature of work is changing, the traditional definition of white and blue collar is breaking. Digitalization and technology, especially since the 2014–16 price collapse, have launched a revolution in the energy industry, reshaping the competitiveness of production, introducing radical gains in efficiency, and creating virtuous cycles of change where data flows continue to drive innovation. To sustain this drive as the energy transition pushes the industry to reduce emissions, energy companies need to attract the best talents in science and technology. Whether due to a generational shift in environmental consciousness, entrenched misconceptions of the industry, or the perpetual gender struggle, there is no doubt that prompt action is required. What does young, high-tech talent seek in the work place? How can the industry adjust to meet the seismic cultural shift of a generation both defined and driven by technological advancement?