PLENARY KEYNOTES DAY 2: WEDNESDAY MAY 13, 2020
8:45 am
Chair’s Opening Remarks
Matt Hatton, Founding Partner, Transforma Insights
8:50 am
‘If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it’: How to Get Your Whole Business Comfortable with Becoming Software-Centric & Digital Transformation Strategies
9:25 am
Building & Implementing Human-Machine-AI Collaborative IoT Systems Across a Multinational Company
In this session, we will discuss commercial and technical mechanisms you need to put in place across global business functions to support IoT commercial products and IoT solutions on the manufacturing floors. The talk will discuss how we can bring Humans, Machines and AI systems together to form an effective partnership. It will also cover various challenges and mechanism including technical issues, sales strategy, incentive models and partner selection to bring these systems to reality across commercial and industrial use-cases.
Dr. Manish Mehta, Technical Director of Innovation, Stanley Black & Decker
9:50 am
PANEL: Edge vs. Cloud? Building the Infrastructure to Turn Data to Dollars
Where is the Edge and how should end users differentiate between the Infrastructure Edge and Device Edge? Is it all about the last mile? And how will Edge relate to the Cloud?
Join this session to ensure you are leading through Edge, with key Edge pioneers answering pertinent questions and discussing use cases already in practice.
Moderator: Bill Pugh, Managing Partner, Smart Connections Consulting
Qiang Huang, Senior Director of IoT Product Management, Cisco
10:20 am
INNOVATION PITCH
10:30 am
INNOVATION PITCH
10:40 – 11:25 am
Networking & Refreshment Break | 1-2-1 Meetings
THREE DEDICATED TRACKS OF CONTENT
HOW TO BUILD & WITH WHICH TOOLS
11:25 am
Business Strategy Track Chair’s Open
11:30 am
Building from Pilot to Premium Product
What are the steps that lead from considering the power of IoT to launching a pilot, building a project team and gaining sign off at the top? Join to hear how to build
buy-in, partners and platforms for your IoT product. Challenges are inevitable and hear how this leading insurer beat those around connectivity, data and stakeholder endorsement. Absorb tried and tested tips in keeping the
customer central to your plans and picking a practicable price point.
Shannon Lewandowski, Innovation & Digital Team - IoT, American Modern Insurance Group
11:55 pm
Data-Driven IoT Products & Services: Supporting the Stages with Statistics
Tobin Jansenberger, Manager, Data Science & Analytics Lab, American Family Insurance
12:20 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
Technical & Cultural Considerations for Connected Products
A common view is that it is not often the technology that causes an IoT project to fail, but systems, training and culture.
Gain deep insights into the steps taken across different vertical sectors to ensure IoT projects go from pilot to profit. Hear discussion and ask questions on:
• Engaging key stakeholders
• Employee training & inclusion
• Building out secure, scalable and interoperable platforms
• Partner choice
12:50 – 1:50 pm
Networking & Refreshment Break | 1-2-1 Meetings
PEOPLE & COLLABORATION
1:50 pm
Chair’s Open
1:55 pm
Prerequisites of Partnerships: Pushing Past a ‘No’ Culture
Processes are the backbone of an IoT project’s success, and the key to moving from pilot to product in the shortest time possible. When working with multiple partners, establishing the processes needed to effectively co-produce can be one of the most challenging steps.
Join the Chief Innovation Officer of California’s capital, to learn from his extensive experience in public-private partnerships when rolling out IoT strategies. Break down obstacles presented by differences in business language and thought processes and discover the possible gains when you achieve an operating rhythm with your IoT partner.
Louis Stewart, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Sacramento
2:30 pm
Introducing the Complexities of IoT to Systems & Culture: What should your technology strategy look like from a bottom up perspective? Identifying and involving the right people in your IoT products and solutions.
David Bishop, CTO, SIS, LLC
2:55 pm
Building an Edge Device with Open Source Hardware: From Data Collection to Deployment
With the arrival of powerful microcontrollers and software toolsets, it is possible to run a neural network on a microcontroller. This provides a lot of opportunities in applications like image processing, keyword detection etc.
Edge Computing enables recurring costs like cellular data charges, provide alternatives when there is poor connectivity or react immediately to a critical sensor input and avoid loss of productivity, identify anomalies (e.g.: leak detection) in data streams etc.
Sai Yamanoor demonstrates the different hardware and software toolsets available to build an edge device and walk the audience through the different steps involved in building an edge device. I will also talk about the challenges involved in building and testing an edge device.
Sai Yamanoor, IoT R&D Applications Engineer, Praxair
3:20pm
Building Smart Connected Life Sciences IoT Enabled Instruments
Over last 5 years we have been building IoT enabled instruments that allow our customers to monitor and control the instruments remotely. It has enabled our service teams to analyze the telemetry data and build more effective service solutions. We have also leveraged IoT to deliver voice-based interactions on our instruments. This talk will focus on our solution; key challenges faced along the way and highlight the advantages of having a key technology partner like Amazon Web Services.
Hardeep Sangha, Senior Software Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific
3:45pm
FISHBOWL DISCUSSION
Mastering a Shared Mindset: Hardware & Software Engineering + IT! How to be aware of the culture and collaboration gap?
Sai Yamanoor, IoT R&D Applications Engineer, Praxair
4:25 pm
CLOSING KEYNOTE: Digital Twins & Role of IIoT in Energy Industry: Challenges & Future Roadmap
Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy, Technology Fellow & Chief Data Scientist, Halliburton
4:45 pm
Close of IoTBuild US 2020
HOW TO BUILD & WITH WHICH TOOLS
11:25 am
Engineering Track Chair’s Open
Benjamin Wald, Co-Founder, Very
11:30 am
IoT Build Best Practice: Battling Substance Abuse with an IoT-Powered Accountability App
Benjamin Wald, Co-Founder, Very
11:55 pm
Is there a New Future in Cloud Computing?
Serverless architecture has taken resource sharing to a new level. Is the “cloud” truly the limit, now that global edge infrastructures are available to dev teams at very little cost and unlimited scale?
Ricky Brown, CTO, Conduit
12:20 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
Agile vs. Waterfall: How to Approach IoT Software Development
David Bishop, CTO, SIS, LLC
Ben Lucas, Principal Software Engineer, Steelcase
12:50 – 1:50 pm
Networking & Refreshment Break | 1-2-1 Meetings
PEOPLE & COLLABORATION
1:50 pm
Chair’s Open
1:55 pm
Prerequisites of Partnerships: Pushing Past a ‘No’ Culture
Processes are the backbone of an IoT project’s success, and the key to moving from pilot to product in the shortest time possible. When working with multiple partners, establishing the processes needed to effectively co-produce can be one of the most challenging steps.
Join the Chief Innovation Officer of California’s capital, to learn from his extensive experience in public-private partnerships when rolling out IoT strategies. Break down obstacles presented by differences in business language and thought processes and discover the possible gains when you achieve an operating rhythm with your IoT partner.
Louis Stewart, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Sacramento
2:30 pm
Introducing the Complexities of IoT to Systems & Culture: What should your technology strategy look like from a bottom up perspective? Identifying and involving the right people in your IoT products and solutions.
David Bishop, CTO, SIS, LLC
2:55 pm
Building an Edge Device with Open Source Hardware: From Data Collection to Deployment
With the arrival of powerful microcontrollers and software toolsets, it is possible to run a neural network on a microcontroller. This provides a lot of opportunities in applications like image processing, keyword detection etc.
Edge Computing enables recurring costs like cellular data charges, provide alternatives when there is poor connectivity or react immediately to a critical sensor input and avoid loss of productivity, identify anomalies (e.g.: leak detection) in data streams etc.
Sai Yamanoor demonstrates the different hardware and software toolsets available to build an edge device and walk the audience through the different steps involved in building an edge device. I will also talk about the challenges involved in building and testing an edge device.
Sai Yamanoor, IoT R&D Applications Engineer, Praxair
3:20pm
Building Smart Connected Life Sciences IoT Enabled Instruments
Over last 5 years we have been building IoT enabled instruments that allow our customers to monitor and control the instruments remotely. It has enabled our service teams to analyze the telemetry data and build more effective service solutions. We have also leveraged IoT to deliver voice-based interactions on our instruments. This talk will focus on our solution; key challenges faced along the way and highlight the advantages of having a key technology partner like Amazon Web Services.
Hardeep Sangha, Senior Software Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific
3:45pm
FISHBOWL DISCUSSION
Mastering a Shared Mindset: Hardware & Software Engineering + IT! How to be aware of the culture and collaboration gap?
Sai Yamanoor, IoT R&D Applications Engineer, Praxair
4:25 pm
CLOSING KEYNOTE: Digital Twins & Role of IIoT in Energy Industry: Challenges & Future Roadmap
Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy, Technology Fellow & Chief Data Scientist, Halliburton
4:45 pm
Close of IoTBuild US 2020
HOW TO BUILD & WITH WHICH TOOLS
11:25 am
Design Track Chair’s Open
11:30 am
User Expectations & Optimization of Infotainment in the Automotive Industry
James Lee, Head of User Experience, Lucid Motors
11:55 pm
Getting Up to Speed in Designing for Voice
12:20 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
12:50 – 1:50 pm
Networking & Refreshment Break | 1-2-1 Meetings
PEOPLE & COLLABORATION
1:50 pm
Chair’s Open
1:55 pm
Prerequisites of Partnerships: Pushing Past a ‘No’ Culture
Processes are the backbone of an IoT project’s success, and the key to moving from pilot to product in the shortest time possible. When working with multiple partners, establishing the processes needed to effectively co-produce can be one of the most challenging steps.
Join the Chief Innovation Officer of California’s capital, to learn from his extensive experience in public-private partnerships when rolling out IoT strategies. Break down obstacles presented by differences in business language and thought processes and discover the possible gains when you achieve an operating rhythm with your IoT partner.
Louis Stewart, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Sacramento
2:30 pm
Introducing the Complexities of IoT to Systems & Culture: What should your technology strategy look like from a bottom up perspective? Identifying and involving the right people in your IoT products and solutions.
David Bishop, CTO, SIS, LLC
2:55 pm
Building an Edge Device with Open Source Hardware: From Data Collection to Deployment
With the arrival of powerful microcontrollers and software toolsets, it is possible to run a neural network on a microcontroller. This provides a lot of opportunities in applications like image processing, keyword detection etc.
Edge Computing enables recurring costs like cellular data charges, provide alternatives when there is poor connectivity or react immediately to a critical sensor input and avoid loss of productivity, identify anomalies (e.g.: leak detection) in data streams etc.
Sai Yamanoor demonstrates the different hardware and software toolsets available to build an edge device and walk the audience through the different steps involved in building an edge device. I will also talk about the challenges involved in building and testing an edge device.
Sai Yamanoor, IoT R&D Applications Engineer, Praxair
3:20pm
Building Smart Connected Life Sciences IoT Enabled Instruments
Over last 5 years we have been building IoT enabled instruments that allow our customers to monitor and control the instruments remotely. It has enabled our service teams to analyze the telemetry data and build more effective service solutions. We have also leveraged IoT to deliver voice-based interactions on our instruments. This talk will focus on our solution; key challenges faced along the way and highlight the advantages of having a key technology partner like Amazon Web Services.
Hardeep Sangha, Senior Software Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific
3:45pm
FISHBOWL DISCUSSION
Mastering a Shared Mindset: Hardware & Software Engineering + IT! How to be aware of the culture and collaboration gap?
Sai Yamanoor, IoT R&D Applications Engineer, Praxair
4:25 pm
CLOSING KEYNOTE: Digital Twins & Role of IIoT in Energy Industry: Challenges & Future Roadmap
Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy, Technology Fellow & Chief Data Scientist, Halliburton
4:45 pm
Close of IoTBuild US 2020