Ewald Munz's Blog Posts

Ewald Munz is a senior manufacturing and industrial leader with 25+ years of global experience driving tech-enabled business transformation and sustainability across large-scale, asset-intensive environments. He has a proven multi-million-dollar track record of building, scaling, and commercializing high-growth digital solutions and industry-specific business models for industrial customers.

At Splunk, now part of Cisco, Ewald leads the Manufacturing and Automotive vertical in EMEA, owning industry strategy and go-to-market execution and orchestrating global cross-functional teams. He advises global customers on leveraging enterprise security and observability solutions to strengthen their digital resilience, improve operational efficiency, and deliver real-time visibility at scale across complex IT and OT environments.

Ewald is also a recognized leader in industrial sustainability and energy management. He spearheaded Splunk’s sustainability offering, developed the Sustainability Toolkit, and launched cross-industry energy management solutions for buildings, data centers, and factories. These solutions empower organizations to tackle measurable operational and financial KPIs such as energy costs, energy efficiency and carbon footprint through data-driven insights.

Ewald combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution, translating emerging technologies into innovative solutions that deliver real business impact. As a Quantum Ambassador, he is currently driving the convergence of AI and quantum computing, with a focus on optimization and networking use cases relevant to AI factories and next-generation infrastructure.

Industries

8 Minute Read

AI + Quantum in Manufacturing: Bold Predictions, Reality Checks and Real-Life Examples

Meet John, the plant manager, together with Caesar, the manufacturing AI robot, Milo, the quantum watchdog with superposition capabilities, and the rest of the AI + Quantum manufacturing crew of the factory of the future. Read on about bold predictions, reality checks at Hannover Messe and real-life Splunk / Cisco examples of AI + Quantum in manufacturing.

Industries

6 Minute Read

Building Resilience with Energy Management for Industries

Energy and energy management are top of mind for all types of organizations to build resilience. Read on to learn about a data-driven approach by unlocking a new observability use case: reducing energy costs, increasing energy efficiency and improving the carbon footprint for buildings, data centers and factories across industries.

Industries

4 Minute Read

OT Security is the New Avenger in Manufacturing

Of all industries, manufacturing is the one targeted the most by cybercriminals. Why? One of the key reasons is that it is relatively easy since most manufacturers simply have no OT Security in place. Read on to learn how to build resilience with a secure factory and why it is a good idea to have an OT Security avenger in a plant manager's team.

Industries

3 Minute Read

Building Resilience with Energy Management in the Financial Services Industry

Environmental sustainability in the financial services industry has matured from a “nice-to-have”, feel-good ESG initiative to a numbers- and data-driven imperative. Read on to learn how an unified environmental sustainability solution which focuses on energy management metrics for buildings and data centers is an effective way to provide data visibility and advance key business outcomes.

Industries

7 Minute Read

AI & Sustainability: Better Together with the Splunk Sustainability Toolkit

The seismic shift brought by AI has an enormous impact on data centers. Unprecedented demand for energy, exploding costs, new regulations and a soaring CO2 footprint are just the tip of the iceberg. Read on how the Splunk Sustainability Toolkit with its sweet spot IT sustainability can tackle these challenges in 3 ways.

Industry Insights

3 Minute Read

Manufacturers Hate False Promises. Here’s How to Keep Net Zero From Becoming One.

Where manufacturing leaders should start on their path to net-zero, from Ewald Munz, Head of Manufacturing, Automotive and Sustainability EMEA at Splunk.