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From facial recognition tracking us, to AI taking over human work, to overall issues of data privacy, recent headlines have made much about all there is to fear from technology. In this panel, we take a step back to examine where – and if – that fear actually exists. Examining the results of a global survey, we will explore individuals’ feelings about the effects specific technologies have on their lives and careers – do they expect help or hindrance? The discussion will highlight survey results and engage with experts on technology, humans, and society to form a basis for understanding and a road map for managing technology anxiety (or enthusiasm!).

In this talk, we will share the results of a recent survey Accenture conducted with 1,300+ executives across a range of discrete and process producers in 16 countries to show how Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and Automation are making impact today. We will also share the key use-cases across a set of verticals ranging from Semiconductor to Healthcare, the benefits realized, and some of the challenges.

The current healthcare system makes the interaction between your doctor, pharmacy, and health insurance companies highly inefficient. In addition, it costs more for every party, to carry out the procedures in a slow, inefficient, paper?based way. This session will explore Pharmeum, the world's first Blockchain and AI solution, enabling access to healthcare globally straight through your smartphone. Discover how blockchain and AI can bring patient-centricity to life by centering the system around the patient, who holds their private medical data and can instantly grant access to any healthcare entity. 

The pace of technology change we are experiencing today is truly unprecedented and it is revolutionizing the way companies innovate from the design process to the way they deliver to their customers. This wave of digital transformation is providing companies with access to real-time data and critical insights that enables them to accelerate the R&D process, improve operational efficiency and create a sustainable competitive advantage. McLaren is at the forefront of this digital transformation, spanning their F1 racing team, automotive design manufacturing and new areas in healthcare. Join this Fireside chat with Jonathan Neale, CTO McLaren Group to learn more about what they are doing to drive the company’s digital transformation.

The use case of trusted credentials is showing up across industries–education, energy & utilities, financial services, government. Blockchain-based systems can be used for verifying certificates, licenses, university degrees, & professional skills. For example, utility companies, in partnership with compliance organizations can implement a blockchain-based credentials system for technicians who go to people’s homes, where physical licenses are replaced by digital ones that can be activated and deactivated by those authorized, and seen, tracked and trusted by all ecosystem participants. In a similar fashion, educational institutions can digitize and secure degrees, qualifications & achievements using blockchain technology. This panel will discuss what has already been implemented, what projects are moving into production, as well as which organizations are driving this and why.

Cooking high quality bitumen economically with machine learning. We will talk about delivering optimal recipes for the producing of polymer modified bitumen (PMB): how bitumen differs from PMB, how you can save costs and get high-quality product using ML methods, what to do and what to avoid if you want to obtain robust outcomes with ML.

IoT is continually evolving to embrace new capabilities and extend its reach into new frontier. In this session we will look at the lessons learned from our customers in the last six years of IoT, talk about where customers are going and the most important considerations for the future.

This session will explore a use case involving an edge-based solution for excavator bucket teeth wear and brakeage detection and granulometric analysis on the large open pit coal mine in Asia.

This moderated, yet totally unscripted, panel of participants will interact heavily with the audience to discuss the newest trends, previous successes and failures, and future of IoT as it relates to Connected Transportation. Attendees in the session can prod for practical aspects around engaging in new IoT technology, developing IoT adoption models, and what to watch.

The notion of a connected worker as coexisting with smart connected machines is a topic that is gaining prominence across industry, especially in the context of Industry 4.0. With ubiquitous connectivity, smart miniature sensors, and AI, industries are now in a position to explore synergetic relationships between humans and machines that lead to improved workplace safety and productivity. Attend this session to learn how leading companies are successfully employing a connected worker offering to improve overall worker safety, productivity, and operations at their industrial sites. Panelists will discuss various aspects of an IoT-enabled connected worker and delve into challenges, current state of various technologies, and opportunities in topics such as co-bots and human machine interactions that lie ahead.

This session captures the journey that Vestel Electronics, a consumer electronics group based in Turkey, faced while transitioning to an IOT-enabled world. Hear how they migrated to a multi-cloud ecosystem in order to reduce the IT burden and allow for more time to develop their services. You will learn from real-life examples of converting conventional products to IoT and creating new IoT products from scratch. You will leave this session with best-practices for making your cloud work with 3rd party partners while ensuring security. 

There are several networking wireless technologies that drive and connect smart infrastructure and cities, from transport systems, smart buildings and spaces, energy and security. IoT, including telemetry and control data, adds requirements to existing technologies that were not built with IoT in mind. How will the technologies of the future meet this need? In this session we explore several such networking technologies and explore their applicability to various use cases. Panelists will cover technologies such as LoRaWAN, 5G, and Zigbee.

Robots. AI. Mixed Reality. Autonomous Transportation. Genomics. Blockchain. These exponential technologies offer health care systems of today a path to transform into the systems of the future. A new reality built on the platforms and capabilities of today's IoT devices and platform. This session will discuss how health care systems are leveraging exponential IoT technologies in today's setting and their lessons learned. Join us for a talk on the path to tomorrow's IoT technology.

In this presentation we will talk through the customer’s smart meter monitoring use case and the potential to scale into more use cases. This will include considerations on how to ensure trust across a system-of-systems spanning public and private boundaries, including the emergence of “data confidence fabrics” to ensure data is delivered with measurable confidence.

What if your machines, silent giants of your factory, come to life? Have you ever listened to them before? Do they have any mystery to share with you? Is it possible to find where my products are on the shop floor? Can I locate them easily and accelerate shipment process? Does this sound a bit weird? Absolutely not. This is possible.  All you need to do is to join us for a glimpse into Hugo Boss' factory of the future!

Boston Consulting Group has mapped out 9 current and emerging use cases for blockchain in supply chain.  This session will discuss these use cases, the value at stake, case examples, the challenges to implementation, and how we believe these different industry ecosystems will evolve over time.  Given BCG’s experience developing blockchain platforms, we will also cover how major players are growing successful blockchain ecosystems and mitigating the changes in power dynamics these create – something that has slowed adoption across several industries to date.

Digital twin has been touted as one of the top strategic trends in Industrial IoT. By having a living virtual model of physical assets, digital twin can be used to predict behaviors of the assets, prescribe actions, and design future versions. To achieve its potential, digital twin needs to incorporate many aspects of the assets: from design, manufacturing, sales, operation, to maintenance. Come and hear our expert panelists discuss how to get started with digital twin, its adoption path with benefits and challenges along the way, and what to expect in the next five years.

Large energy consumers, from manufacturers to municipalities, are tasked with meeting aggressive carbon reduction targets but find this challenging with dated energy and facility infrastructure. How are these institutions pairing the use of advanced technologies and high efficiency systems with innovative financing mechanisms to achieve their goals? How did they invest in upgrades when there wasn't a generous budget line item in place? In this session, hear directly from large energy consumers on how they have implemented energy efficiency programs. What were the critical first steps? How did they get the required executive support? What was the timeline for the projects and how did they secure funding? What were the lessons learned and notable best practices? What were the results of these energy efficiency projects, and how have they impacted their planning for tomorrow?

27% of corporate IoT transformation projects are stuck in proof of concept limbo. What’s the solution? This session will explore insights from our latest industry pulse report, highlighting three different case studies connected by one crucial factor: the central role of people in the success and scaling of IoT transformation. An automotive OEM launched a 5-year rollout of an enterprise software solution intended to streamline productivity across the company. An international multichannel distribution company needed to develop, validate and realize a best-in-class mobile solution to support its technicians. A major food packaging company made a significant investment in its equipment, including state-of-the-art automation. But anticipated results remained elusive. What was missing? An IoT transformation plan that included people.

Vehicle fleet operators are now commencing a move towards zero emission electric vehicles. However, this creates substantial challenges for electricity networks to provide the necessary supply capacity. This can result in potentially high costs and delays to the operators' zero emission roll-out. This session will explore Optimise Prime, a 33m project to address the challenges for fleet operators and electricity networks, arising from the electrification of vehicle fleets. Hear how the program has brought together technology suppliers, vehicle fleet operators and electricity networks to utilize big data, IOT and optimization technologies to determine the impact on fleet and network operators on the move to EV, the role of IOT & data-driven forecasting and optimization to minimize the costs of this transition, and the future smart infrastructure requirements to support the EV roll-out. 

Within the coming years, every in-patient of the Radboud University Medical Center will stay in a hospital room that is personalized based on preferences, characteristics and continuously measured needs of the individual. Using IoT technology, the single patient hospital room is optimally designed for giving a human centered experience. This session explores R4Heal, the first global initiative offering hospitalized patients a smart healing environment. See how visuals, sounds, games and smells allow for personalizing postoperative care and meeting individual needs and get insights into the development and adoption of this new set of technologies in the hospital.

Learn how a leading hospital in Spain, Hospital Vall d'Heborn, is monitoring the stress of caregivers (60 participants) of children with neurological disorders by using physiological sensors to track physical activity, sleep patterns, movement and location. Discover how they have used the sensor data collected to help detect chronic stress and put resources towards managing it.  Discover the economic impact of this program, and how they have reduced the cost of visits, provided better knowledge and clinical decisions for the healthcare community and most importantly, improved the quality of life of caregivers and patients.

A digital transformation is often motivated by the promises of efficiency, performance, and quality gains thanks to the automation, integration, and streamlining of business and/or engineering processes. This reliance on digital data creates a new point of failure and a source of (digital) threats that need to be addressed. Failing to address these treats will not only prevent organizations from reaching the full potential of a digital transformation but can also result in catastrophic consequences. In this talk, we will discuss the digitization of manufacturing, the digital threat(s), and how organizations could leverage blockchain to reduce the digital threats.  

Deutsche Telekom (DT) is building a large IoT ecosystem with many partners, with DT just being one of the many contributors. This combines the stability of DT with the flexibility to ensure best IoT solutions for each customer to maximize customer value.  IoT transformation can help improve and optimize business performance. However, in order to succeed, IoT transformation cannot be technology-driven. Rami Avidan will share his insights on how and why all IoT initiative should start with a sound strategy. Navigating IoT successfully requires a clear view about the destination. Without it, it is easy to get lost. Because IoT is a very complex and dynamic market with many different and changing vendors that promise anything and everything. Integrating it all alone is an illusion. Together with an ecosystem, IoT success is within reach.

AI is enabling the digital transformation reach its anticipated potential. This transformative field has impact on areas that range from technology to trustworthiness to Ethics to societal concerns to governance to verticals. Similarly, the stakeholders are numerous and diverse ranging from technologists to practitioners to social scientist and regulators. In reaction to this revolution, the industry and standardization ecosystem have mobilized to the variety of concerns. This session will look at the activities and landscape from an industry and standardization perspective. It will also provide an overview of the latest activities in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42. SC 42 (Artificial Intelligence) is the international standards committee that carries out standardization activities for artificial intelligence. It is set up as a joint committee.

As advances in technology rapidly transform our world, the wine business, often perceived as an arcane mix of immutable tradition and arbitrary complexity, will not be exempt. This session explores the OpenVino Project, which seeks to revolutionize the way wine is thought about, sold, and consumed.  Come hear lessons learned along the way to creating the OpenVino project, a collection of open source software packages and business processes to create the first open-source winery that seeks to solve the main problems of the wine sector. Learn how you can reference and adapt this business model, and how they are using blockchain to ensure extreme transparency, complete traceability and the use of a new paradigm for price definition.

Organizations are continually seeking to realize the full potential of IoT. In this session, we will explore how a major Industrial IoT company is leveraging AI technologies such as machine learning and computer vision to address some of their biggest IoT challenges. We will also explore key findings from a groundbreaking global study revealing the impact of the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) on companies like yours.

The IoT Security Maturity Model (SMM) helps organizations set security maturity targets and regularly undergo assessments against those targets. Join two of the SMM authors as they discuss the model's design, how to apply the model to industry, and how to extend it beyond security. Learn about the SMM through exploration of a case study.

This session explores autonomous modules for telecom access in isolated areas like mountains, without access to energy & telecom networks, based on solar energy and different innovative telecom solutions. See examples of real-time monitoring of water dam production, environment protection by controlling water levels in rivers, and human safety with avalanches, with many already deployed in France and Spain.  See real-life examples of how shepherds are staying connected to phone and internet via satellite with new opportunities to supervise cattle with webcams and connected necklaces.

Pentair is a global leader in providing smart, sustainable water solutions for customers across various market verticals. In this presentation, learn how IoT is transforming Pentair's solutions in the industrial, commercial and residential markets, by walking through several case studies. Learn best practices for developing partnerships that result in faster deployment of IoT solutions globally.

In areas like Dallas' West End Historic District, the Strip in Las Vegas, living labs and innovation districts are flourishing - unleashing exciting opportunities for cities and leaders. Led by an eclectic mash-up of entrepreneurs and educational institutions, start-ups and schools, mixed-use development and medical innovations, bike-sharing and investment - this represents a radical departure from traditional economic development and helps cities increase global competitiveness by growing the firms, networks and traded sectors that drive broad-based prosperity. Panelists will discuss the economic, physical and networking assets that need to be at play whenever an innovation district emerges in order to facilitate idea generation and accelerate commercialization. Discover how businesses have benefited from innovation districts, helping to drive economic growth across the city. 

This session showcases the business case, implementation plan, and technology stack/roadmap being followed to create "smart" exam rooms to be used in behavioral health to help mitigate the shortage of providers that underlies the crisis in meeting the needs of patients. Use of sensors to record interactions, analysis of inputs, and production of meaningful analytics to improve care outcomes will be discussed.

This session will explore how the worlds largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBevs, South African Brewery, subsidiary set out on an IoT initiative designed to allow them real-time intelligence on the location and condition of their cooler systems, across South Africa under challenging circumstances. Discussion will focus in on the elements of several strategic local and global partnerships that were put in place to ensure seamless, low cost connectivity that would work where-ever and when-ever required, enabling them to rapidly develop the solution and roll it out in the space of weeks. Hear how they achieved the requirements necessary, and are now able to identify cooler asset optimisation and potential maintenance tasks, amongst others to ensure efficiencies and cost savings.

Despite touted benefits of blockchains in the value chain, there have been few pilots that have been successful. The presentation seeks to showcase the gaps in blockchain implementation and how some of the newer computer science techniques could potentially serve as an enabler towards further adoption.

The application of the AI in the Industrial IoT field is at the center of the next wave of digitalization. The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is uniquely positioned to lead in this emerging area through its diverse stakeholders that include world leading IT and OT organizations, extensive IIoT ecosystem that it has built through its liaison program and its domain expertise in Industrial AI. This panel will look at the intersection of Industrial IoT and AI, specifically emphasizing the emerging work coming out of the IIC that includes technology deliverables driven by the Industrial AI Task Group, an overview of testbeds looking at Industrial AI applications, domain requirements and end-user interest in Industrial AI. 

This Panel will discuss how Industrial IoT is being enabled in different sectors of the industry from Buildings, to Manufacturing to Transportation. These enabling technologies are helping to accelerate the outcomes for the organizations and end users. The Panelist will share examples of this enablement of IoT and Digital Transformation from their own industry sectors. The attendees will be able to relate these to their own IoT journeys. The interactive format of the Panel will allow attendees of ask questions and pose their own scenarios for discussion during the Q&A.

Factories of the future are growing around the world. Every sector and industry has several examples of advancements implemented as pilots or rolled out at scale. When one decomposes the key elements of the Factory of the Future, one common denominator becomes clear – it a concept of Digital Twin. Digital Twin is an exact copy of a physical object or process. More precisely, it is “an evolving digital profile of the historical and current behavior of a physical object or process that helps optimize business performance.” Join this panel to hear the stories of experts who deployed digital twins for Industrial Automation of OEM factory lines, modeling nuclear reactors to predict precise performance / impact and other breath-taking examples of “Twins Revolution” in manufacturing.

Today, technical standards for interoperability and innovation represent key protocols (Ethernet, WiFi, LTE, etc.) that ensure compatibility and to promote competition. Moving forward these technical standards will underlie the development of an increasingly seamlessly internet-connected Internet of Things. As standards are developed, patented technologies are often contributed to the effort. "Standards essential patents" (SEPs) are patents covering technology implemented into a technical standard to the degree that an implementer of the technical standard must use the patent. Understanding SEP-related legal and policy issues is important to any organization that creates technology or provides products and services related to technical standard.  Join this session to learn about, and engage on, SEP licensing negotiation tactics, international perspectives on IP enforcement, emerging legal and policy developments across key venues, and the ultimate impact on IoT technology developers.

Buildings come in all shapes and sizes, but historic, noteworthy, and iconic buildings and infrastructure are something to treasure. Dated buildings and infrastructure can be seen in almost every major city across the US and Europe. Inefficiencies are becoming problematic in lighting, water usage, heating, cooling, airflow, plumbing and more. In this session we will hear from key building and infrastructure stakeholders on best practices for upgrading dated infrastructure with smart, connected solutions. Who are the key stakeholders, where do you start, and what is a viable roadmap for engaging in such transformative projects with so much at stake?  We will learn about key efficiency gains, performance contracts, and budget-friendly long-term financial savings that enable these projects to deliver meaningful results.

In this session we will share insights from an innovative mission-critical edge solution for connected trains. Learn how we are achieving  realtime data transport and synchronized data states across edge nodes, and monitoring and analysis along railways tracks to enable all kind of new use cases. In the case study we will present all the challenges we faced during the project and how we overcame them.

In Russia, 70% of drinking water comes from the surface. Water pollution is a major issue in this country, with more than 10 million Russians currently lacking access to quality drinking water. Around 60% of the total reserves of drinking water do not meet sanitary standards. This fact favors the proliferation of health issues as only 8% of the wastewater is correctly treated before being returned to the waterways.

This session explores the Drone on the Volga project that measures water pollution in the Kuybyshev Reservoir, the largest water reservoir in Eurasia, located in the Volga river.  Through a combination of modern robotics, blockchain and IoT for environmental monitoring, see how they have built a base of continuous control of pollutants in water environments and how a matrix of data coming from many of these drones can feed AI systems to easily and quickly detect pollution sources.

AI and Blockchain are having a profound impact on how organizations recalibrate their IT strategies in order to increase their product strategy and innovative edge, and Legal Aid Ontario has been at the forefront of this movement. In this session, Karl Martineau, the organization�s entrepreneurial CIO, will share the strategic digital transformation that he has led across the organization, detailing how skills and culture development have a profound impact on how organizations can accelerate their strategies for enhancing the customer experience, and developing industry partnerships. Discover how AI and blockchain have been strategic accelerators at Legal Aid Ontario, and how through research and development they have integrated institutional expertise, academia and private sector partnerships to accelerate their AI and blockchain adoption and modernize their IT Strategies. 

The ability to integrate data-driven insights to transform field service operations over the next two to three years will determine whether servicing organizations remain competitive for the long term. This session explores a new use case in the realm of applied AI, with application to reducing repeat servicing visits, increasing equipment uptime, and assisting failure diagnosis in complex equipment. Join Hobart Service, a leader in commercial food equipment, and find out how they are leveraging decades of data and domain knowledge to power new competitive business models. This is first complete example of "Intelligence as a Product" that the repair organization has seen, and they are excited to share this story at IOTSWC!

Blockchain technology is a tremendous opportunity that can be used to solve the current Climate Crisis.  Climatetrade is a disruptive ecosystem (platform, crypto asset, and wallet) for the new carbon markets post- 2020, with the aim of promoting and drive funds towards projects and enterprises that are committed to climate change mitigation. This session will explore Climatetrade, a decentralized carbon offsetting marketplace that uses blockchain technology to allow corporations and individuals worldwide to offset their emissions by selecting over the different projects available. 

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have the potential to completely revolutionize manufacturing as we know it today. From operational gains in production efficiencies to unlocking new markets and sales opportunities, AI, when built correctly, has the power to transform how and where we do business. This panel will explore how leading manufacturers are integrating/expanding AI, Machine Learning, and IoT technology into their automation and manufacturing systems. We will discuss return on investments, strategies for integration, technology and manufacturing trends.

The introduction of sensors and actuators in gas distribution networks has never been an easy task due to lack of power supply, which can make implementation difficult. Measuring parameters like gas flow and pressure at supply points in a simple and low-cost way has always been a key challenge.  This session will explore Gas Network Monitoring (GNM), a use case based on energy harvesting. Discover how you can monitor operation parameters (flow, pressure, noise...) at supply points and network stations (ERM) and in a simple, fast and low-cost manner.  

The Biopharma industry is at a pivot point. Increasing cost pressure and growing regulations require new approach towards research and the production of drugs. Personalized medicine and other market trends demand smaller batches with variable production parameters. To answer the market demand, Merck is rethinking and redesigning every part of the ecosystem, integrating new technologies with industrial automation platforms to deliver game changing capabilities for drug manufacturers. This session will explore the concepts, design principles, challenges and achievements of the interdisciplinary team which is on a mission to revolutionize the way drugs are discovered and produced.

ONE HUNDRED RESTROOMS is a full-service solution for retail areas, public transport hubs, petrol stations and QSR. The company, The company, in partnership with the global bathroom brand ROCA, is redefining the standard of public toilets by offering a complete restroom experience. This session will explore the digitalisation journey from that of product to service. Discover how, with the proliferation of sensors in all products (IoT), they can generate data, that with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), offers complete insight into visitor data, operations, water management, customer satisfaction, employee performance and repair & maintenance issues. 

France's public rail company, the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF) has a keen focus on innovation. The company manages the scheduling, operations and maintenance of a network covering 30,000 km of track, 15,000 trains and 3,000 stations in France. This session highlights the journey of migrating from preventive maintenance to current IoT predictive maintenance using non-intrusive mobile sensors and deep-learning algorithms to detect alerts and predict diagnosis and consequences. SNCF has set up a Digital Open Lab (DOL) to foster open innovation and develop interest from the Industry. After one year of the DOL, results are encouraging. Meanwhile, the maturity of the IoT technology and the ROI of the use case will be presented. Discover how, by life observation and predicting maintenance requirements, SNCF can have a more efficient supervision, and prevent outage on the network.  

Machine tending is very common in manufacturing plants. Robots are gradually being introduced to perform these activities, but these specialized robots can be expensive for small and mid-sized companies. In this panel, we discuss and demonstrate an affordable vision-based cobot that was introduced at a customer site to improve productivity and reduce costs. Cobots form an integral part of a smart factory in the context of Industrie 4.0.

Connected & autonomous vehicles will generate zettabytes of data and collect just as much from their surrounding environment. In fact, some of the data that should arguably be publicly accessible can help create products and services such as improved brakes that may eventually become standard. Creating cost-effective ecosystems is key to achieving the highest ROI. In this session, we will explore what data should be stored in the vehicle, the cloud, the edge, or at a data center; how data is collected from other vehicles, infrastructure, and the environment through sensors; and how to set up data management systems to collect, index, and tag the data to aid analysis and support AI workloads. We will consider different scenarios, such as using black box systems vs. allowing small data sets that can be translated to stakeholders such as governments and other organizations.

In oil and gas deployments, customers face the challenge of commissioning, managing, and securing Industrial IoT (IIoT) devices.  The benefit of connecting distributed assets is asset management and the challenge: how to deploy and manage these devices to access critical data for machine learning.  Discover how you can access data with existing infrastructure, integrate analytics, and securely deploy edge gateways.  The result is better usage of assets in upstream O&G, tracking of services for fueling solutions, and improved asset

ARCELIK is a pioneer company for IoT security in the home appliance market.  They provide consumers with new services that make tasks easier, from downloading new programs to installing new software releases for appliances and receiving remote diagnostics and monitoring. This session will present a case study on how ARCELIK added embedded security to home appliances.  Learn how they developed a system architecture that enables a secure connection for their products, enabling them to provide their customers with convenient services without compromising on security, including remote diagnostics and monitoring, the ability to download new programs and the ability to install new software releases for appliances.

The value of driving 'AI & analytics to the edge' has been demonstrated over 'sensor to cloud', but this means deploying new processes, protocols and servers across the manufacturing floor. The challenge then becomes how to manage these new servers while maintaining data integrity, security and availability. Scaling from a small proof-of-concept environment, to a smart factory can challenge even the most willing manufacturer. Through collaboration between IT and OT teams, manufacturers have been able to standardize and deploy industrial grade IT infrastructure with proven IT management, ensuring scalability, security and manageability. Join this dynamic session to hear how a leading tools manufacturer, a global automotive manufacturer, and several other customers have overcome the PoC to production scaling challenges.

Healthcare IOT requires that security never be treated as an afterthought. Thus, new investments in these technologies often raise red flags in many healthcare organizations. Learn from a panel of insiders how to avoid common pitfalls to get your projects successfully funded and implemented.

Across all industries, billions of remote assets will soon be connected to increase productivity, reduce costs, and create new revenue streams, in ways previously unthinkable. However today, many enterprises don’t have access to a global, reliable IoT connectivity service. This moderated, yet totally unscripted, panel of participants will discuss some of the pressing challenges which facing these enterprises are facing when they want to connect their remote assets, as well as and cover the latest trends in IoT connectivity. The panelists will also discuss talk about ground-breaking innovations from the cellular and satellite industries, some of which are becoming a reality today. Join us for this session for thought-provoking debates and accelerated learnings from renowned industry and IoT industry experts.

The ongoing digitalization enables industries to launch innovative products and services, but at the same time brings numerous challenges. One of these is time-to-market and the implementation of new offerings on existing systems. This session will explore how new, recurring business models in IoT are being implemented today to help companies achieve breakthroughs, including the development of 'as a Service'. Learn how Blockchain builds trust in a multi-sided business delivery model and how artificial intelligence is helping to gain consumer insights.

This hybrid presentation / panel will focus on Future of Air travel and your personal experience as a passenger. Key players in the air travel ecosystem will share their views / strategies and successes to-date on making the passenger journey becoming smart and seamless from arriving to the airport - to boarding the plane to crossing the border to picking up your luggage and arriving home.

AI is powering the breakneck transition from the Information Age to the Age of Intelligent Machines and creating profound changes in business and society. Autonomous cars, personalized medicine, chatbots and co-bots, and other types of intelligent machines promise to automate processes, boost efficiencies, and create new disruptive products and services. But these intelligent machines will also track our every move, create and expose societal biases, eliminate jobs, and, some fear, will one day develop a will of their own and go rogue. In his talk, Joe will offer a perspective on the future of AI and machine-learning technologies. He will explain the principles of AI and machine learning technologies, what they can and cannot do (at least not in the foreseeable future), and discuss the opportunities and threats posed by autonomous machines in a future dominated by AI.

Renewables, like solar or wind, have empowered everyone to become an energy generator. Now it's time for Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) to change the way we distribute and consume energy. This technology will reduce the price you pay, reduce blackouts and increase the amount of green energy we use. While DLTs have the ability to disrupt many different parts of our lives,one of the most significant areas it will affect is how we produce and consume electricity. This session will explore the impact of DLTs on the ways we personally distribute and consume electricity. We will examine real world examples used in the energy industry and what the future of energy generation, distribution and consumption will look like.

We are told that the world is digitizing and the solution is technology but digitization is a one-way street – from old to new ways of working with new and untested eco systems. Success in a digital world will be driven by the partners you embed rather than the technology you select. `

This session will explore how to improve the management of water and energy in cities through the use of artificial intelligence, helping to meet UN SGD 6: "Ensure access to water and sanitation for all".

In Madrid, as in any other big city, the combination of public and private mobility services promise to provide citizens new ways of transport that could help to reduce the number of cars in the city. One important friction point for citizens to start using mobility services is that each service require an independent "onboarding" in the operator "APP" to be able to use the service. This session will explore the easy and unique "onboarding" citizens can use to pay for mobility services in Madrid without using/downloading the operators apps. Thanks to blockchain technology, the mobility ecosystem can authenticate and validate users, register transactions for payments and shared operational data between the different participants, facilitating the access of citizens to their services maintaining citizens data privacy.   

In this session, we will share examples of organizations that have rapidly put their aspirations into play at planet-scale. Learn how Xi IoT can be used in smart retail to do cashierless checkout systems, in smart cities to do traffic analysis, and in smart factories to do predictive maintenance and product quality checks.

The EU's GDPR puts the spotlight on the topic of personal data, and individuals are concerned about big tech companies monetizing their data and privacy. Businesses struggle with regulations like these. On the one hand they collect and use tremendous amounts of personal data for delivering services we all want, while also trying to comply with GDPR's requirements. During this fireside chat we explore how enterprises are trying to marry conflicting goals regarding data collection with individual desire for privacy and control. We specifically focus on blockchain technologies and the privacy challenges these bring with them. But we also discuss what options blockchain technologies may offer actually help complying with privacy rules like the GDPR.

The session will explore the use and benefits of IoT devices that leverage AI to utilize observed data and enable process understanding, as well as asset optimization to leverage hidden potential in manufacturing processes.

Nowadays, most manufacturers are focused on digital transformation and eager to achieve game-changing results with their products and process. While some have achieved success, others struggle to get started and some ponder how to leverage an overwhelming amount of data. This session shares the experience of an intense journey of digital factory transformation to become a data & insights-driven business. It will also discuss the challenges, successes and the initial efforts that are slow but ultimately achievement of the significantly impactful outcomes.

Market economics and dynamics in the energy sector are changing rapidly, creating a compelling reason to consider new distributed energy solutions to support sustainability and carbon reduction objectives. Heightened energy prices and challenges to the larger grid have made localized distributed energy solutions highly cost competitive. The benefits of renewable energy with storage span even further: Imagine not being crippled by a grid outage, or sustaining full operational during a time of crisis? When the proper advanced technologies are in play, the combination of renewable energy coupled with a microgrid and battery storage enable true resiliency at its finest. In the session, we will learn about the experiences and stories of renewable energy implementation on U.S. military bases of Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

In industrial factory automation, the OPC Foundation's Unified Architecture (OPC UA) has fast become the universal interoperability foundation for structuring and accessing metadata and configuration of complex factory systems down to the smallest components, and for flowing state information and telemetry between the components of such systems and providing telemetry and process data into external business and control systems, either on the factory floor or in the cloud. The DIN 92222 standardization effort builds on this foundation and attempts to answer the question how the value proposition of 'product as a service' can be realized for all suppliers in the industrial equipment supply chain: How can the manufacturer of a sensor built into a drive built into a robot that is part of a production cell get access to live telemetry information from its product? How are telemetry streams structured? How are they routed and filtered and split? How are trade secrets protected?

The concept of a Liquid Hospital is not just supported by technology but is only possible through combining IoT technology, innovative ways of working and modern innovation. Breaking down the systemised walls for the provision of care is the key to disruption. This session spotlights Sanitas' Hospital-at-Home unit, which provides safe, high-quality, hospital-level care to patients in the comfort of their own homes, through an IoT connected health platform. Discover how modern innovation is driving constant contact between patient and health provider, by connecting medical wearables with a mobile app.  See how all data is analyzed by the artificial intelligence system, which generates alarms in case of decompensation of the disease and warns the health care team, to contact the patient by video visit.

Test Drives, Challenges and Testbeds Oh My! Industrial Internet Consortium Leads the Way This session will explore where organizations are deploying IoT today and the specific problems they are solving. Join our panel of experts for a lively discussion on the state of the IOT market, and how the Industrial Internet Consortium is leveraging its diverse membership of enterprises, vendors, and service providers to collaborate and solve real-world problems.

IoT solutions are generating more and more data. This data is being collected and stored in blockchain systems. These blockchain systems are now allowing individuals to have control over their data in a way that hasn't happened before. This panel of experts will explore how consumers can monetize their data without giving up their privacy.

AI promises great opportunity, and with that comes great responsibility. Recent rapid advancement of AI has given rise to ethical concerns about AI: from its unintended consequences to job displacement.  In this talk, we will discuss a practical framework and approach to Responsible AI that aligns AI design and deployment to a company's core values and ethical principles in order to benefit customers, employees, businesses and society. 

This panel will showcase how companies, across various industry sectors, are using IoT technologies to enable their digital transformation. Discover how different enabling technologies are being deployed for end-to-end IoT solutions and learn how these companies measure the outcomes from these deployments.

This session will explore how LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) consumers are optimizing logistics and improving customer service by implementing an end-to-end solution (device + connectivity + platform + integration) by connecting remote installations in an efficient way in terms of network performance, power consumption, security and cost. See how gas tanks are sending critical information like filling levels or temperature to ensure the operational efficiency (optimize the logistics and routes) and end-user satisfaction (predictive maintenance and demand anticipation).

To open the session, GlobalPlatform will briefly launch IoTopia – a common, cross-industry practical implementation guide for standardizing the baseline design, certification, deployment & lifecycle management of secure IoT devices. IoTopia is built on four pillars – secure by design; device intent; autonomous, scalable and secure onboarding; and device lifecycle management – and gives device makers a blueprint for how to build secure devices without having to become cybersecurity experts. Following that, GlobalPlatform, GSMA, ENISA and NIST will debate the key cybersecurity and regulatory challenges facing the IoT ecosystem. Each of the independent bodies will bring forward insights from key vertical sectors and geographies, outline their key priorities to bring trust to IoT and discuss what they would like to see from IoT security implementation guides like IoTopia.

In this session, a panel of experts will explore how new tenant engagement technologies offer benefits for building stakeholders of all types, including building owners, properties owners, asset managers, facility managers and occupants. Discover how IoT applications are growing margins and enabling features such as more efficient building operations, enhanced tenant relationships, and new revenue generation opportunities. 

Mobile health technology using wearables has the potential to integrate seamlessly into the daily routine, accurately sense physiologic changes that predict an asthma exacerbation, provide personalized monitoring of air pollution exposures such as ozone, and provide patients with instant feedback that allows them to intervene early to prevent progression to more severe symptoms and/or an asthma exacerbation.  This approach has high potential to make a significant public health and economic impact to reduce asthma-related morbidity and mortality.

The rise of intelligence machines and automation driven by AI has driven a significant interest on ethical issues - from securing AI from adversaries, to distributing wealth created by machines. Addressing many of these challenges require a strong collaboration between industry, business, academia and government. Come and join us in this multi-stakeholder panel where we will be discussing this new frontier for ethics and the outlook for the next ten years.

Through the implementation of Blockchain technology AB InBev is able to have transparency of its entire supply chain, all the way to the farmer. These farmers are empowered as a result because they now have access to full accounting information, such as sales price, volume and payout via SMS - creating a verifiable economic identity and records - that they can take to a financial institution, allowing them access to credit and other financial service. Through the recent integration with the Mobile Network Operators, the farmer can be also have their funds disbursed in mobile, thereby reducing the cash risk and allowing for ease of remittances. This solution has the potential to transform and improve the lives of millions in the Agriculture sector in Africa, and across the world.

This hybrid presentation/panel will examine multiple dimensions of smart factory deployment, based on the field experience of implementers and clients.  The session will cover the various starting points and approaches to deploying smart factory, across a variety of industries.  It will also draw upon perspectives from multiple organizational roles (IT, CFO, Operations) in the examination of value delivered and challenges faced. Join us for an overview of smart factory advances, followed by a expert panel discussion that includes representatives, with differing roles, of firms pursuing smart factory strategies.  

The Internet of Things presents exciting opportunities to apply artificial intelligence for transformative business growth. Advanced analytics methodologies and embedded AI help companies understand and process IoT data, resulting in meaningful business outcomes. This confluence of AI and IoT, also known as AIoT, will run the entire gamut from personalization in healthcare for the connected patient to the prediction of component failures in large industrial assets. What are the benefits of augmenting traditional rules-based systems with adaptive learning systems in the world of IoT? Moving up another level, what will new innovations in computer vision technology bring to the IoT? The possibilities are limitless: enhanced industrial safety, traffic monitoring for smart city initiatives, drone inspections in agriculture that monitor health of crops, and much more. These applications will continue to improve with faster processors, more advanced machine learning algorithms and deeper integration with edge devices. In this session, pa Room 1

At any given point in time, Larsen & Toubro has around 400+ active project sites, with a fleet of 35000+ construction equipment of different makes, models, and vintages. Construction progress has considerable dependence on availability and productive utilization of construction equipment, so ensuring proper allocation, availability, and productivity are of paramount importance. This session will explore how they retrofit their equipment with required sensors, intelligent edge processing, near real-time streaming of data and information, data ingestion & storage, analytics, and visualization. Discover how this enables them to make effective decisions on mobilization, hiring, buying, resizing, and enhancing utilization and productivity of their equipment, thereby accelerating construction progress.

To understand how air quality works and protect citizens from harm, City Managers in Kuwait and Doha have implemented a real-time IoT monitoring network of 90 ambient electronic noses and air quality sensors placed in areas across the city. These detect harmful pollutants and gases in real-time within the ambient air. In this session you will learn how they use the data collected in the cloud to provide city managers insights for immediate actions to reduce harm on city residents. Discover how they use atmospheric dispersion models, validated by several organizations such as the US EPA, together with wind data to determine the likely source of a measured impact.

With an ever-increasing number of “things” connecting to the Internet, we now have access to an overwhelming amount of data – especially location data. Whether your “things” are fixed sensors on a factory floor or mobile devices such as vehicles or drones, spatial context is critical for unlocking insights and providing actionable business value. The Location of Things (LoT) represents the new market opportunities that are unlocked from harnessing real-time contextual and proximity intelligence in IoT applications. With scenarios spanning indoor mapping, vehicle management, asset monitoring and much, much more, understanding the insights your location data can provide has never been more critical to developing next-generation IoT solutions. 

IoT is fundamentally transforming how we live, work and play. As companies begin to move past the now well-trodden path of initial use cases in IoT such as predictive maintenance, they are beginning to harness the power of sensor-enabled, real-world data to reimagine why, how, and where they deploy IoT- and ultimately, how they make money from it. Lessons from these trailblazers illustrate that success lies in focusing not just on the technology, but more holistically, on a true transformation of the business. In this session we will cover novel IoT use cases and critical ingredients for success in enterprise IoT initiatives.

This session will explore Intelligent Mine, a complex solution for highly efficient, safe, completely unmanned mining technology based on robotics, AI and IoT technologies. The project consists of autonomous heavy trucks, infrastructure including automatic gates, traffic lights and data transmission system, control center with remote operator workplaces and server with FMS for robots to manage and optimize the work. Discover how they have removed people from heavy monotonous work in difficult conditions such as Australia, the Arctic cold of Siberia, low O2 in deep pits, and increased productivity through effective collaboration of equipment, allowing for transfer of staff to comfortable control centers in cities.

In this session, we'll explore the Monash Smart Energy City program that is deploying an IIoT smart grid management system to integrate the distributed energy resources (DERs) and actively balance their output with the energy demand of the buildings and other campus entities. With a goal to achieve 100% renewable energy generation, discover how they are using the Monash campus as a large-scale trial to demonstrate the value of smart energy infrastructure to energy market participants and the ability to move to 100% renewable energy. Learn how the system orchestrates energy production and loads to respond to grid events and market pricing, maintains power grid reliability and optimizes energy costs.

Digital Twin is a concept which develop in Product Engineering and is now more and more used also in other areas of the product lifecycle like in production or during operation of a product. Today this different digital twin are often created as silos with limited possibility to exchange data. The presentation will show how to solve this challenges and how integrated digital twins along the whole product lifecycle can be realized. The solution is based on the architecture of the International Data Spaces Association using the open source technology of FIWARE providing predictive maintenance services while ensuring data sovereignty. It will be explained how the Overall Equipment Efficiency is improved while at the same time the data sovereignty is increased.

This session will explore the Digital Control Centre program, the smart hospital partnership solution at Salford Royal NHS, an integrated provider of hospital, community and primary care services in Greater Manchester, UK and beyond. Discover how this program is revolutionising the organisation of care across both acute and integrated services. Learn how it will build on the healthcare provider’s existing digital excellence to utilise advanced analytics and IoT to support staff in making the best of their talents and the resources they have.

The role of human expertise is critical in fulfilling the promise of the Digital Twin.  Today human expertise and reasoning logic still performs the heavy lifting for problems like creating a new design, identifying a root cause, and redesigning a process.  A critical phase in digital twin maturity lies in capturing and applying this human knowledge to complement AI and automation technologies. This presentation explains how we are using domain knowledge graphs - the same technology behind today's Internet search - to capture the human expertise for powering digital twin applications to create intelligent systems. Examples from various verticals, including Oil and Gas, will be presented.

Carrefour was the first retailer in Europe to introduce Blockchain technology in food traceability. The retailer has been offering a new business usage of the blockchain to its customers since March 2018. Through a QRCode, the end-customer can retrieve all relevant information concerning Carrefour Quality Line chickens, eggs, oranges, milk, cheese, etc.  Accordingly, they may know the farmers that bred their specific chicken, the date of their eggs, the level of juice or sugar of their oranges, or see the cows or goats that produced milk.  This session will explore: why the project and why the use of blockchain? How the project was achieved and how it became an international program, and key lessons and next steps of the blockchain-based traceability journey.

IoT can significantly transform how companies develop and sell their products and services, and engage with their customers. These transformations unlock unprecedent opportunities for these companies. Come and hear from our panelists on how IoT affords them the opportunity to create new revenue streams and business models. They will provide specific examples as well as share their transformation journey.

This session will explore visible light communication, considered as a potential secondary channel for 5G wireless communications, and gaining extensive attention. Discover how VLC has strengths in energy efficiency and ultra-wide bandwidth, but also has weakness in transmission range and obstacles in transmission paths. This session discusses VLC as a part of resilient 5G wireless communication in transportation systems.

Fires caused by electric grid failures are increasing at an alarming rate, with complex problems involving local and global factors such as rapid weather changes or failing infrastructure unable to keep up with power fluctuations. To deal with climate change, green power is rapidly coming online, but accepting renewables into the grid creates complex issues with reverse power flows. The Napa fires last year, and perhaps the recent Camp Fire, may have been ignited by such power fluctuations. What the future of energy adaptive networks holds and the role of open collaboration to prevent the next catastrophic disaster. This presentation will describe Project EAN-Caltech use case with utility companies in Southern California to identify potential use of real time DER data to predict reactive power fluctuations and protect smart grid infrastructure. 

Due to European waste regulation, municipalities will soon have the obligation to increase recyclability of organic wastes, provide each household with separated bio-waste collectors and recover energy from bio-waste (either as compost or as bio-gas). This session will explore how Axibio, a company that offers innovative and pragmatic solutions to meet the environmental challenges posed by food waste, developed a solution based on bio-waste collector and logistics from bin to energy production center, with an innovative traceability to incentivize households to receive rewards from their municipality for their “green” behaviour and contribution to the circular economy.

If your major focus for the coming months and years is reducing labor costs, increasing factory throughput, and optimizing pricing strategies, you're not alone. These operational efficiencies have become business-critical for manufacturing companies who want to stay competitive in a market constantly challenged by workforce shortages, price wars, and customer expectations. This panel explores how real-time location systems can positively impact your manufacturing operations. Drawing from specific use cases as examples, participants will discuss how leading manufacturing organizations are experiencing both short-term benefits and ROI, as well as long-term transformation by leveraging RTLS.

The biggest problem with PV plants: they may work, but you can never be sure how well. Power reducing errors - if noticed at all - must be searched, and this is time-consuming and expensive. In this way the operators not only loose yield, but the error-finding produces costs as well. IoT is changing the solar industry and artificial intelligence is clearing that vision. This session explores how digitalized modules revolutionize different operation and maintenance of PV plants and have revolutionized. Digitalization with AI is changing this industry as we speak!

The food supply chain provides some of the strongest blockchain examples in the market today. Global retailers and local farmers are using blockchain to track food of all kinds from the original farm to the end customer. This can include tracking fruits & vegetables for safety purposes – making it easier to isolate contaminated foods. It can also include tracking wine & spirits for authenticity, reducing counterfeit goods and ensuring customers get what they paid for. This panel will discuss: What are the use cases that are most evolved in the agricultural industry today? How is blockchain changing partnerships & supplier/customer relationships through consortia? Why is blockchain a better solution than other technologies? What issues do players in the agricultural industry need to overcome to participate effectively in blockchain-based solutions?

Due to the automotive industry's deep penetration into modern society, new technologies such as electrification, autonomous driving, and connected vehicle are advancing automotive capabilities at a dizzying rate. We explore how these technologies evolved in automotive and what considerations are important going forward. On the flip-side, there are concerns related to the safety of these vehicles, as well as their reliability, due to the rapid innovation and technological adoption. Concerns around the security, privacy, and resilience of these new vehicles abound. This panel of experts explores the evolution of automotive up through today, the impact of IoT on the vehicles, and what considerations may be important going forward. What are the impacts of technology on the reliability of the vehicles? How do the evolving privacy considerations come into play?  The panel will be quite interactive with the audience.

Health and science startups seem uniquely positioned to fool investors and the public.  Theranos is a well-known example of a risky healthare investment gone wrong, but a handful of other new health and science ventures have raised questions too. In this session, we will present several case studies of IOT in healthcare. And half of them will be totally made up. The audience will be asked to identify which ones are real. 

In their quest to move to "smart",  many cities struggle with how to start the journey. Join this session to learn how leading municipalities have transformed their streetlight network into a Digital City "Operating System" for deploying smart city devices and services. Discover how they have collected, visualized, and acted on real time data to solve for such problems as improved public safety, energy efficiency and sustainability, smart mobility - traffic and parking, economic development, operational improvement/asset management.

To ensure the safety and security of all airspace users as the use of drones continues to grow, there is an urgent need to establish a framework for complex drone operations with a high degree of automation. Join us to explore the Chainbus, a blockchain platform network that tracks the scheduled routes of a set of drones. Discover how Chainbus was built to provide high availability and guarantee the identity of the actors, the source of the data and its integrity, thus leading to improved security. Attend this session to get an inside look at this decentralized solution that improves interoperability by allowing multiple fleets to coordinate.

This session explores how, with the application of Digital Twin/Thread technologies alongside traditional BIM models, TopHat and its partners have optimized the centuries-old housing market by building residences and commercial properties designed around people's lives and actual usage patterns. TopHat's pre-fab properties, which are sold to large real estate companies, are the world's first truly "intelligent homes", introducing smart manufacturing and Predictive Design into an industry ripe for disruption - a world-first for the housing market.

From manufacturing to transportation, organizations are constantly evaluating ways to modernize and transform their industry processes in order to create business advantages. In this presentation, we will discuss the major trends that intersect Industrial IoT (IIoT) applications and edge computing with an emphasis on how customers are using cloud computing with distributed machine learning and analytics at the edge to derive meaningful insights.

Trade finance is a tedious and expensive process that limited parties in the shipping industry have access to. The industry is plagued by a lack of visibility and cross border inefficiencies. This session provides a deep-dive into the future of transportation with a blockchain approach to shipping. Hear first-hand insights on how IoT and DLT are revolutionizing the supply finance industry, deeply rooted in old fashioned practices, from the point of view of a freight forwarder and a logtech/trade finance provider.

Managing and correctly disposing of or recycling the world's waste is a problem that has reached critical levels. By utilizing mobile, IoT and predictive analytics, the companies charged with disposing and recycling everyday waste are taking a more pro-active approach to the problem. They are also getting customers more involved in the process and building electronic bridges that connect smart trash receptacles, trucks, and landfills in a conservation network that can eventually lead to a cleaner planet. This presentation will outline the techniques and some of the innovative pilot projects launched by a major U.S. waste management company as it combines emerging technology with sustainability best practices to preserve the world for future generations.

Safe, simple and secure, edge-to-cloud connectivity "Takes a Village" beginning with a strong foundation of identity and trust, renewable, throughout the life-cycle via secure updates & automation. In this talk, we'll explore a case study of DevOps friendly methods and tool-chains needed. Enabling connected commercial vehicles presents unique new challenges for cyber-security, as the attack surface expands and the results of compromise become highly valuable to attackers. The presenters combine tools and techniques to resolve this challenge and share their approach, with security, agility, and scale ideal for IIoT solutions providers and systems integrators. 

Safety is always an absolutely priority at oil and gas giant Total. As part of this focus, they have embarked on an effort called TADI (Total Anomaly Detection Initiative) to support the prevention of major accidents. This session will explore the application platform that Total chose for this project, for its ability to combine independent information flowing from diverse sources, qualify this data, and enable system operators to make the right decision and take actions in a complex industrial context.

Smart cities are dynamically developing systems in many countries.  One of the core technologies of smart cities is IoT, but it brings new cybersecurity threats due to new technologies and application introduction. An analysis of incidents involving the various components of the Smart City shows that most of them could have been prevented with the right approach to the design of systems and their components and taking into account the requirements of information and cybersecurity. This session will explore these approaches.

Industry 4.0 has begun and 5G is unlocking new possibilities - are you poised for success in the new era? In this session, you will learn to modernize operational technology (OT) through consolidated infrastructure and centralized application lifecycle management for your manufacturing floors as well as leverage AI through an Intelligent Edge Computing platform supporting easy on-boarding of data-science apps that use containers, functions with rich data and runtime services. You will hear about a successful real-world IIoT use case, deployed at Schneider Electric, to map the physical warehouses with digital twins and exploit the data with real-time insights to optimize various business processes in logistics.

The city of Cary, North Carolina has leveraged IoT and sensors to raise the level of their citizen experience. This session illustrates how this was implemented and demonstrates real data being generated from Cary. You will see sample connected building data and how the sensors within the buildings can be used to provide proactive service and support for building tenants. Discover how AI is leveraged for predictive and prescriptive service and support.

Will smart contracts solve every (contractual) legal problem? Probably, not. Real life contracts are not simply "programs" that easily run down from the start to the end automatically. Many times life produces small events that alter the realization of legal transactions. This session will explore: how to apply the Roman law principles "pacta sunt servanda" and "Clausula rebus sic stantibus" concerning smart contracts,
security issues, and DAO hacks. Automated contract realization is a complex solution where software developers and lawyers will need to resolve many open issues in the future. How do we accomplish this in practice? This session will get you thinking about the important elements you need to get started.

Worldwide spending on IoT will reach $745B this year with an expected 14.2B connected IoT devices in operation.  So, it’s no surprise that most every company in the world has IoT systems in place or is at least thinking about how they might be included as part of an overall enterprise strategy.  Most deployments will incorporate intelligence at the edge to pre-process collected data - expected to amount to more than 79 zettabytes by 2025, according to IDC. Join us as end-users on the frontline of enterprise initiatives voice their opinions on key areas in enterprise IoT deployments. The discussion will focus on what is technically effective and socially acceptable, including data ownership, privacy, regulatory compliance and even algorithmic bias – all important as new regulations take shape and laws put in place that dictate just who controls IoT devices and the data they generate.

Danfoss Drives is a leading manufacturer of intelligent AC drives with the clear vision to achieve full capacity of industrial IoT. By unleashing the drive, existing industrial applications and systems become smart and connected, without investing in added devices. To demonstrate this, Danfoss executed a full-scale trial to connect already installed AC drives. This session will explore the project, which connects an existing factory using its own drives to serve as smart IoT sensors. It aims to establish the possibility of optimizing efficiency, improving performance, and adding predictive and condition-based maintenance capabilities to an existing application or system and to serve as a platform for ongoing intelligent drive innovation. The trial enhances AHU energy efficiency and improves conveyor uptime using a mix of over 100 types of intelligent drives, connected to the cloud without disrupting factory operations.

In Hong Kong, buildings account for 90% of electricity consumption and contribute 60% of the city’s greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time 50% of the building stock are classified as ‘sick buildings’, which are prone to causing human discomfort due to factors such as lighting, air quality and temperature control. This session will explore how you can integrate IOT and AI with existing Building Management Systems to provide insight and machine learning models for built environmental improvement, operation and asset management, energy monitoring and optimisation. Discover how this technology creates a better indoor environment in order to improve employee productivity and wellbeing and how it can drive the digital transformation of the built environment.

Sainsbury, a large UK grocery retailer understood the importance of using analytics to protect refrigerated and frozen food for customers, but they struggled to stitch the relevant data to realize their vision of IoT.  They had building controls in place, and multiple systems for monitoring temperature from food cases. This session explores the Sainsbury's journey migrating from a reactive service model to one that is predictive and prescriptive.  Understand how they manage service events to be scheduled proactively outside of peak trading and how they leverage available equipment data to understand problems and trigger resolution.

Powering Android in the IIoT: Leveraging ML, AI for Improved Operational Outcomes and Device Life

When a customer enters the world of IoT, he ends up in an ecosystem with a large amount of different players. Big players, small players, consultancies, semi-conductors, module makers, hardware manufactures etc. All these different players are trying to find out what role they currently have and what role they should have. This leads to an extremely dynamic IoT market, where roles can change pretty fast. Semiconductors are experimenting with stepping in the market of IoT platforms, module makers experiment with reselling connectivity etc. This panel discussion will focus on how big corporations struggle to work with small partners/ small niches companies and offers advice on how companies can expand their previous roles when it comes to IoT.  

Adoption of AI in IoT applications currently presents multiple challenges. Everything should start by identifying the most important problems and opportunities for end users. In high-performance sailing, a clear opportunity was identified: improving the autopilot. This talk explores the technical efforts and achievements using recurrent neural networks, deep reinforcement learning, and optimisation techniques, combined with domain knowledge to produce an autopilot that can operate either as a digital twin of the sailor, or develop its own style and strategy. Discover how solution co-creation between end user, subject matter experts, data scientist, academics, among others, takes place using an agile approach. You will see how implementation of solution, which spanned culture and process changes (not just technology) was undertaken (digital transformation program).

The government of Catalonia is promoting the Blockchain Strategy of Catalonia to encourage the implementation of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) in the country by way of a programme structured around six strands: administration, promotion, innovation, ecosystem, talent and regulation. This session will explore the strategy which includes actions to improve public services by adopting blockchain technologies and support the government in its application, also takes into account initiatives to promote research and innovation to foster a new industry associated to blockchain technologies and activities to generate, retain and attract talent with the necessary knowledge and capacities for developing this new industry.

Each year at the IoT Solutions Awards, we present awards in (4) categories including Innovative Technology, Industry, Testbed, and Business Transformation.  Hear from the winners of each category as Dr. Richard Soley moderates an informative discussion around the projects that led each of them to their category award.

Machine tending is very common in manufacturing plants. Robots are gradually being introduced to perform these activities, but these specialized robots can be expensive for small and mid-sized companies. In this panel, we discuss and demonstrate an affordable vision-based cobot that was introduced at a customer site to improve productivity and reduce costs. Cobots form an integral part of a smart factory in the context of Industrie 4.0.

The attributes of blockchain technology are ideally suited to large networks of disparate partners. A distributed ledger technology, blockchain establishes a shared, immutable record of all the transactions that take place within a network and then enables permissioned parties' access to trusted data in real time. By applying the technology to digitize global trade processes, a new form of command and consent can be introduced into the flow of information, empowering multiple trading partners to collaborate and establishing a single shared view of a transaction without compromising details, privacy or confidentiality. This session explores TradeLens, an open global trade platform using blockchain technology aimed at improving the cost of transportation, lack of visibility and inefficiencies with paper-based processes. 

Disruptive improvements and innovation in supply chain require a structured approach. Novel ideas and technologies can be screened and evaluated using agile development and Proof of Concept testing. Successful execution is turned into sustainable capabilities and establishment of standards. In this keynote presentation, Johnson and Johnson will share their extensive experience in supply chain associated with pharma, over-the counter medications, and consumer goods and will share their best practices and guidance. Discover how IoT adoption, under the umbrella of the Digital Operating Model, is a critical component & enabler for the overall Supply Chain Innovation Engine.

If a company provides data for 3D-printing, it is important that its IP is protected and the part is only printed as permitted. An airline must be sure that a spare part is original and not counterfeit and was manufactured with the right parameters. These challenges can be met by Blockchain technology and additive manufacturing. By combining both technologies it is possible to liscence printing processes and establish a secure chain of trust from the IP-Owner, integrating a print service provider and 3D-printer up to the end user. The presentation provides a live demonstration of these use cases, using blockchain.

This session will explore how FM Logistic has optimized their warehouse operations by generating timely insights about the employees and asset movement inside their facilities.  Learn how they have improved day-to-day efficiency and are leveraging meaningful data.   

The biotech and pharmaceutical industries work following the same rules as other manufacturing sectors but are required to comply with specific regulated principles. Innovation is part of the soul of pharma but it must always be implemented considering the patient’s safety. From data acquisition to decision making and knowledge acquisition, all the processes and elements involved must be validated when they affect drug production. IoT is the critical technology, positioned at the beginning of the knowledge chain, that provides a raw source of information. Its implementation must comply with data integrity criteria in order to be accepted in AI models that leverage human capabilities for better process understanding. We will present some real experiences of IoT and AI in biotech-pharma, describing the benefits and the dark side of this journey in NovoNordisk.

Innovative Enterprises are using hyperscale. cloud services like AWS, Azure, GCE as a basis for their IoT solutions; not only to leverage highly available and scalable infrastructure, but also to implement faster new products using state of the art cloud services for AI, image recognition, data analytics, and security. When it comes to cellular connectivity integration between devices and the cloud-based Enterprise infrastructure it has always been complex with traditional service providers. Cellular connectivity has always been opaque, geographically tied and inaccessible for cloud ecosystems leading to time-consuming and costly integration projects. By leveraging a cloud-native Mobile Core Network, it is now possible to integrate cellular connectivity as a cloud-native service reducing integrations to minutes. For the first time, cellular connectivity is as easily accessible as any cloud resource.  

Impaired mobility associated with a number of chronic diseases and aging is emerging as a significant global health challenge. Critical to addressing this challenge will be the development of novel methods of assessing and measuring human motion.  Such assessments will be critical in evaluating the value and impact of therapeutic interventions. There are many examples of sensors used to study many aspects of human motion. Such analyses are often complex and expensive. Rapid advances have been made in the development of smaller inexpensive, sensitive and capable sensors such as Multi-Axis Inertial Measurement Units. In this session we describe the application of machine learning techniques and a consumer grade IMU to study clinically relevant human movement and to develop robust correlates between pathology, pain, discomfort and disequilibrium.

In this session, Albert Zaragoza from industrial IoT company Worldsensing will share how he and his team built an end-to-end IoT solution for cities, infrastructures and construction sites to help them better manage everything from traffic flow management to critical infrastructure monitoring.  In addition to improving efficiencies, learn how they are monitoring in 60 US cities, collecting data from 10,000 sensors in 100 critical infrastructures, ensuring 50 mines have safe working conditions and supporting decision making in 6 major construction sites

Sensize encountered many challenges managing the connectivity for their nodes, including reliability issues, geographical network limitations and the complexities of managing thousands of SIMs. This session will explore how they adopted a connectivity platform to securely connects their devices on a global scale.

In the world of business identity there are many efficiencies to be gained if you knew exactly who was giving you information on the other side of that internet connection. Frameworks can be built to allow these communications to happen, but larger market agreements and protocols have to be put in place to establish that level of trust between parties. Come and see how Dun & Bradstreet is leveraging the open DID protocol to build a platform to serve as an Anchor of Trust to speed up a more trusted way of doing business.

Within the IIoT ecosystem, an integral part of Condition Monitoring is providing data that can be used for Predictive Maintenance (PdM). The advent of smart sensors and wireless networks now provides a new level of digital intelligence that allows companies to accurately monitor, track and share data about their assets in order to improve efficiency, reduce downtime and achieve greater cost savings. This presentation will explore the challenges of condition monitoring and predictive maintenance and how to overcome these challenges with scalable and secure long-range Bluetooth connectivity.

This session will explore the use case of digitally transforming the bicycle and motorcycle experience by connecting vehicles to a smartphone.  Discover how the implmentation of this technology resulted in a new revenue stream + reduced customer churn for Vodafone.

This session will explore how Marcegaglia, world leader in steel processing, has implemented a Factory Network architecture, including an innovative Factory Wireless component. You will see how, alongside the process of digitalisation of the processes, the plant automation component and the full integration of the plants into the company network was added, with the need for high standards in terms of reliability, flexibility and security.

As large U.S. cities set their sights on IoT, AI and other emerging technologies as part of expansive smart city deployments, relatively small Cary, North Carolina is taking the lead by launching small pilot programs that target such real-world challenges such as water usage, waste management, and city-wide parking.  Carys smart city game plan is to find ways to use technology to make it easier and more efficient for residents to access town services and bring together industries, partners and communities to make it happen. By adopting a start-up mentality, the people driving initiatives can think more creatively and develop solutions that provide better services that improve the towns culture. Join Town of Cary CIO Nicole Raimondo as she outlines the technology roadmap for one of the fastest-growing and technologically progressive cities in the U.S.

For companies starting in loT, there will be many challenges along the way. How do you deploy a solution at scale, how can assets be monitored and managed, how can downtimes be reduced without impacting operations? This session will explore these questions and more about getting started in a digital environment. Learn how leading companies are turning virtually any 'thing' into a smart device, with instant connectivity from device from anywhere — without building complicated IoT VPNs. Experience how companies are improving their reaction time in the market and providing support and monitoring services to their clients and devices wherever they are located.

Marel is the leading global provider of advanced processing systems and services to the Poultry, Meat and Fish industries, with a strategic objective of bringing their advanced, automated systems and solutions to every step of the production process and covering the relevant geographical areas in their industries. Knowing where and why to use AI and ML has helped propel Marel forward in industry. Join us to take a deep dive into how AI and ML were deployed in several use cases from Marel’s road to Industry 4.0. Discover the possibilities of AI and ML and how you can incorporate them into your corporate initiatives to help drive the next decade of possibility.

The Internet of Things is the information systems revolution of our generation.  Every company needs to be thinking through service management requirements and opportunities for IoT. While many focus only on the deployment of IoT devices, few still understand what represents the right management of these devices through its lifecycle. This session explores best practices for delivering best in class IoT implementations with great service management behind it.  Learn how to build enterprise ready, service manageable IoT.  Understand how IoT can open new doors for service management.

In this session, IoT startups will be given a guided tour on how they can offer a reliable connectivity solution to their customers via a global network provider. Hear details of how you can leverage the opportunity to be part of something new by joining this global online marketplace and access existing brand, channels and platforms to reaching whole new audiences. Established IoT technology and solution provider will provide an overview of their offerings, that are relevant to the IoT Startups and give insight into how they evaluate which IoT startups to partner with. Case studies of current partnerships with Reolink, Seneca, Pocketalk and Sclak will showcase the challenges they are tackling and their ambitions and expectations

T Plus is a Russian electricity generation company. It is the largest private heating and electricity generation company in the country, controlling 7% of the power generation and 10% of the heating market. In this session, discussion will focus on how TPlus and other leading companies have implemented Industrial IoT solutions for diagnostics and predictive analytics of industrial equipment to improve equipment performance, increase safety and cut operating costs.

This session will explore how Ibercaja, a leading bank in the rural sector in Spain, built a precision agriculture IOT product to digitize new and young farmers. Due to the expansion of ebanking, Ibercaja was losing physical contact with this main sector of customers in rural areas.   Discover how Smarteye helped to improve their production, control and protect the environment, and finally to create a new business model to transform the engagement with their main clients.

Artificial Intelligence is enabling new and emerging aspects of digital business -- from basic and applied research, data and digital infrastructure, industrialization, forecasting, decision making, customer interaction to ethical behavior and regulatory policy and oversight, and this is just beginning. Our panel of experts, taking into account the presentations and panels from this week, will be sharing their perspective on the Future of Artificial Intelligence from a business perspective: where it is heading in the next 3 years and beyond, what aspects of business will be more impacted than others, what challenges business will be facing, and how to best prepare for it.