Internet of Things with Game Changers, Presented by SAP: Recent Episodes
Bonnie D. Graham
Game-changing technology strategies are transformational, exciting and disruptive for a reason. They shake up your status quo. They get you thinking about new ways to scale, compete and grow. They move you in amazing new directions.brbr Join host Bonnie D. Graham as she invites you to take an additional coffee break with game-changers for our special series on totally new sources of information that will change the way you run your business, on Internet of Things with Game Changers.brbr Learn how you can become the savvy Transformation Leader who leads your company to analyze and act on the hidden data that permeates everyday business activities. Internet of Things with Game Changers, presented by SAP, can be heard live on Wednesdays at 11 AM Pacific Time / 2 PM Eastern Time on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.
The Buzz 1: Data governance the organizational framework…to understand where your data originated, how it was handled, and the goals your AI platform and machine learning models set out to achieve.” [https://www.datarobot.com/wiki/data-governance/]
The Buzz 2: “Companies have tons and tons of data, but [success] isn’t about data collection, it’s about data management and insight.” [Prashanth Southekal at the Data for Business Performance Institute]
The Buzz 3: “You can have all of the fancy tools, but if [your] data quality is not good, you're nowhere.” [Veda Bawo at Raymond James]
Big data and artificial intelligence (AI) are accepted as key drivers for the digital transformation of organizations and today’s societies. To succeed with data-driven innovation, companies around the world need to develop an agile mindset and experiment with new technologies.
However, with key concerns about data access and data quality in analytics and AI initiatives, applying data governance is often perceived as rigid and non-value adding.
Is data governance an inhibitor suffocating technical innovation or a mandate that facilitates the success and further adoption of AI and machine learning (ML)?
We’ll ask Christine Legner, Maria Villar and Wolfgang Epting for their take on AI and Data Governance – Friends or Foes?
The Buzz 1: “We have a single mission: to protect and hand on the planet to the next generation.” (Francois Hollande)
The Buzz 2: “It’s a collective endeavor, it’s collective accountability and it may not be too late.” (Christine Lagarde)
The Buzz 3: “It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.” (Cameron Sinclair)
The Buzz 4: “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” (Robert Swan)
Sustainability – “the new frontier of digital transformation” – is dominating business conversations from the C-suite to the front lines of customer service.
The top challenges they’re talking about? De-carbonizing and eliminating waste. Driving meaningful social responsibility across supply chains. Moving to cloud platforms to integrate and extend applications across business networks and optimize growth and innovation. Enabling visibility of fragmented data for compliance, including ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) reporting, holistic steering, and supply chain transparency.
The bottom line? Leaders and stakeholders want to understand what their businesses are doing—and what more they can do—to improve the health of the planet. Data-driven insights are essential for building that understanding to drive action and measure impact.
We’ll ask SAP’s Frank Omare, Jennifer Beason and Japen Hollist for their take on Creating The Sustainable Enterprise In 2022 and Beyond.
The Buzz: “Why doesn’t a company know that a target customer has connections to an existing customer? Why doesn’t it automatically see that a new customer may be involved with a company that engaged in fraudulent activities? There are so many good reasons to know business relationships – and integrate this knowledge into processes in a standardized way…countless pieces of information are publicly available, but not intelligently linked and easily retrievable.” (www.palturai.com)
The ecosystem of businesses and people that surrounds your organization is full of hidden potential as as well as harm. The ability to successfully navigate in this ever-more-complex environment requires a revolution in data-driven insights. You need now – more than ever – to transform data with contextual insights into applicable knowledge that uncovers hidden opportunity as well as risk.
Why? Knowledge gained from business network insights drives an evolution in customer acquisition and retention by enabling high-value, relevant customer interactions. And understanding the dynamics of an interconnected business ecosystem expands capabilities in risk mitigation.
Good news! Innovative knowledge graph solutions – powering today’s AI – deliver the contextual understanding your business needs to be competitive in tomorrow’s connected world.
We’ll ask Bernhard Ritz and Noel Billingsley at Palturai, and Falk Rieker at SAP for their insights on thriving in today’s challenging global marketplace on Business Network Insights: Tomorrow’s Competitive Differentiator – Part 2.
The Buzz: On August 20, 2014, Maamar Ferkoun (AP IBM–Cloud Computing & Cognitive Technologies) wrote, “The flexibility and scalability of the cloud acts as an ideal complement to business intelligence activities. The ‘democratization’ of the cloud is now allowing organizations that have used business intelligence with on-premises applications and on a limited scale to reach a whole new level—all through the use of storage, networking and tools that can sift through big data…” (www.ibm.com)
Indeed, in the last few years, we have seen a huge adoption of cloud native applications for both edge applications and line-of-business functions, yielding new insights, business agility and lower IT costs.
In addition to migrating their ERP landscapes to the cloud to achieve those benefits, companies are adopting the latest best practices to eliminate in-house customization and to bring intelligence at scale into the enterprise. Done right, this can have immense impact on the speed, agility and intelligence that companies like yours can tap into, to win market share and optimize your ecosystem of suppliers and partners.
We’ll ask Allan Coulter at IBM and Christian Thisgaard at SAP for their insights on the opportunities to exploit, as well as the pitfalls to avoid, in this business transformation.
Tune in for The Second Cloud Wave Is Emerging: Delivering Enterprise-Scale Intelligence.
The Buzz: “Data! data! data …I can't make bricks without clay” (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #12).
Intelligent Enterprises know how to use their data assets to achieve desired outcomes faster and with less risk. How? Especially in times of uncertainty like the COVID-19 pandemic, intelligent enterprises anticipate and pro-actively respond in real time to put their employees and customers first. And they create personalized, unique digital experiences from disparate data sources while leveraging AI, chatbots and voice technologies. Most importantly, they build digital ecosystems leveraging orchestrated data to create new business models and revenue streams to monetize data-driven capabilities and apply core business competencies in innovative ways.
We’ll ask Mike Price at Capgemini, Ritesh Menon at Incture and Scott Harrison at SAP for their expert insights on how your organization can get on board.
Join us for The Intelligent Enterprise: Data Assets and Your Digital Ecosystem.
The Buzz 1: “Simply put, a data ecosystem is a platform that combines data from numerous providers and builds value through the usage of processed data.” (mckinsey.com)
The Buzz 2: “Data ecosystems provide companies with data that they rely on to understand their customers and to make better pricing, operations, and marketing decisions.” (mixpanel.com/blog)
How can today’s business organizations solve important societal problems and offer participants and consumers more benefits? The answer to this big challenge: data ecosystems.
Data ecosystems offer a new, powerful way to achieve this and lay the foundation for real innovation. With the right approach, data ecosystems can be built up within a short period of time and offer long-term opportunities for expansion and value creation.
But building and leveraging the value of data ecosystems can be a challenge for some companies. Leaders may be hesitant due to potential risks from sharing sensitive data with competitors and potential hackers.
We’ll ask Wolfgang Epting, Data Enthusiast and SAP Solution Advisor Chief Expert, Prof. Dr. Christine Legner, Academic Director Competence Center Corporate Data Quality (CC CDQ), and Maria Villar, SAP Enterprise Data Management and Governance Innovator, for their take on Winning with Data Ecosystems: Real Innovation for Value Creation.
The Buzz: “What drives IT executives to initiate cloud migration? Deloitte’s survey of more than 500 IT leaders and executives reveals that security and data protection is the top driver…increasingly relying on the expertise of third-party cloud-based security and infrastructure providers to protect their data…The No. 2 driver for cloud migration, data modernization, primarily involves moving data from legacy to modern databases.” [www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/technology/why-organizations-are-moving-to-the-cloud.html]
Let’s look closely at this trend. Moving to the cloud is more than just a technology replacement; it is also a mindset change.
The key to cloud adoption is leveraging cloud technologies in the right way, taking a center of excellence “COE” or “app factory” approach with a fail-forward, continuous iteration and improvement mindset.
This is happening in many companies, as millennials demand increased automation and digitalization of key business processes. Rapid application development tools plus the empowerment of business user “citizen developers” – less reliant on central IT, with more development within lines of business – are reducing effort and shortening timelines.
How can your organization adopt cloud efficiently and productively?
We’ll ask Madhu Angara at Deloitte, and Vipin Varappurath and Chris Aron at SAP, for their take on Heads Up: Cloud Adoption Strategy Insider Tips – Part 2.
The buzz: “It’s imperative that you find the right balance between automation and human intelligence within your business. Automation is shy; it’s great for boring, repetitive tasks behind the scenes, but not so much when it comes to the frontlines.” (tigersheet.com/blog/best-automation-quotes-and-what-can-be-learnt-from-them/)
Nobody wants a job doing the same repetitive tasks all day, every day. Instead, they want to spend their time making good decisions to better serve customers.
Similarly, business organizations want to make optimal use of their trained people to provide the best levels of service – with a workforce increasingly working remotely, reflecting workplace flexibility accelerated by the COVID pandemic.
Can your company eliminate the boredom of repetitive daily tasks? Can you better apply workforce skills to deliver consistently great service to customers and partners? Can you achieve these goals in a flexible workplace?
Yes to all, when you have Intelligent Automation (IA), also called cognitive automation. IA is the use of automation technologies – artificial intelligence (AI), business process management (BPM), and robotic process automation (RPA) – to streamline and scale decision-making across organizations.
We’ll ask Chet Harter, Sukshitha R, and Keith Grayson for their take on Excel At Your Job, All Day, Every Day: Intelligent Automation.
The buzz: Big Think (https://bigthink.com/words-of-wisdom/nikola-tesla-2) discovered a visionary quote by Nikola Tesla [1856–1943] in a 1926 interview with Collier’s magazine where he described the modern-day smartphone:
“When wireless is perfectly applied, the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.”
Fast forward to today: The Internet of Things, aka ‘IoT’, has crossed over into mainstream commercial and business use. In honor of Tesla, we googled “IoT Trends 2021” and got ~75,700,000 results in 0.49 seconds.
What would Tesla say about how IoT now impacts data analytics, computing at the edge, remote work, remote health care, robotics, smart homes, life in cities, automation, smart retail, cybersecurity, industrial equipment monitoring, and customer experience?
We’ll ask Don DeLoach at Rocket Wagon Venture Studios, Tom Raftery at SAP, Dave Friedman at Ayla Networks, Rob Tiffany at Ericsson, and Ron Rock at Microshare, Inc. to unpack IoT in the News: Ripped from the Headlines – Part 2.
The buzz: What drives IT executives to initiate cloud migration? Deloitte’s survey of more than 500 IT leaders and executives reveals that security and data protection is the top driver. With 58 percent of respondents ranking it No. 1 or 2, security is top-of-mind for everyone, from C-suite IT executives and senior leaders to IT managers and developers.…The No. 2 driver for cloud migration, data modernization, primarily involves moving data from legacy to modern databases.” [https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/technology/why-organizations-are-moving-to-the-cloud.html]
Let’s look at this trend more closely. Moving to the cloud is more than just a technology replacement; it is also a mindset change.
The key to cloud adoption is leveraging cloud technologies in the right way, taking a center of excellence “COE” or “app factory” approach with a fail-forward, continuous iteration and improvement mindset.
This is already happening in many companies, as millennials in the workforce are demanding increased automation and digitalization of key business processes. And rapid application development tools plus the empowerment of business user “citizen developers” – less reliant on central IT, with more development within lines of business – are reducing effort and shortening timelines.
How can your organization adopt cloud efficiently and productively? We’ll ask Sarah Lottman at Deloitte, and Chris Aron and Vipin Varappurath at SAP, for their take on Heads Up: Cloud Adoption Strategy Insider Tips.
The buzz: Big Think (https://bigthink.com/words-of-wisdom/nikola-tesla-2) discovered a visionary quote by Nikola Tesla in a 1926 interview with Collier’s magazine where he described the modern-day smartphone: “When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.”
Let’s bring his vision full circle to the present day. The Internet of Things, aka IoT, has crossed over into mainstream commercial and business use. In honor of Tesla and the title of this long-running SAP Game-Changers Radio series, we googled “IoT Trends 2021” and got ~75,700,000 results in 0.49 seconds.
What would Tesla say about how IoT now impacts data analytics, computing at the edge, remote work, remote health care, robotics, smart homes, life in cities, automation, smart retail, cybersecurity, industrial equipment monitoring, and customer experience?
We’ll ask Don Deloach at Rocket Wagon Venture Studios, Tom Raftery at SAP, Rob Tiffany at Ericsson, and Anu Shah at SAP to unpack the IoT news they find most compelling on our special episode, IoT Trends 2021: Ripped from the Headlines.
The buzz: “CEOs are looking ahead to their post-Covid challenges. Nowhere is this challenge more daunting than figuring out if the global pandemic and its far-reaching impacts have created a temporary shock to their markets or a permanent shift in them.” (Bob Zukis, Contributor, www.forbes.com/sites/bobzukis/2021/02/15/shock-or-shift-the-post-pandemic-strategic-challenge-for-boards-and-ceos/?sh=48623f2e1870)
As the world gradually emerges from the global pandemic, we expect 2020’s business and digital transformation trends to accelerate in the second half of 2021. While these complex and disruptive business shifts differ by industry, line of business, and region, all acknowledge that adapting to the new reality requires change across all functions.
As business and technology experts last year planned for re-opening and transformation acceleration, strong central themes emerged. The pandemic’s impact on the business demand and supply equation. How a business’s ecosystem will adjust and how technology will help accelerate it. The changing workforce – contract, remote, part-time, gig – coming back virtually or physically with new expectations. Keeping workers motivated and loyal while attracting the best talent for new business demands.
We’ll ask SAP’s Ryad Semichi and Craig Stasila about this perfect storm that will require us to adapt to multi-dimensional shifts in industry, technology, and work.
The buzz: “Many organisations are looking to make significant investments in data assets, but without the appropriate strategy, they run the risk of putting the cart before the horse and making poor and regressive investment decisions.” (pwc.com)
Becoming a data driven intelligent enterprise helps to build resilience and succeed in times of crisis and beyond. The intelligent use and smart discovery of data determine whether an organization and specific roles – CDO, Head of Data and Analytics, Chief Information Security Officer, Head of IT, Head of Architecture – can survive in the market. Companies lacking an outcome-driven data strategy will fail to generate value from data.
But with Big Data proliferating, AI/ML is introducing new ways of creating business value that will fundamentally impact and change the data value chain.
We’ll ask SAP’s Wolfgang Epting at SAP, PWC’s Wolfgang Sock and SAP’s Maria Villar for their take on Generating Value from Data: From Pious Wish to Reality.
The buzz: “From a business standpoint, human-centered AI solutions leverage human science and qualitatively thick data to understand the deeper needs, aspirations and drivers that underlie customer behaviors…to tap into user behavior and subconscious patterns to construct products and services that follow more satisfying, informed, enriching…user experiences.” cognizant.com
We’re living and working in the era of game-changing technologies including IoT, AI, ML, and Predictive Analytics. Beyond disrupting business models and creating new business processes, these technologies have a huge impact on us, the people who are part of the processes. But what good are these technologies if they don’t work well for us humans? Unless innovators take a user-centric approach, they run the risk of creating a set of technical prototypes without delivering real business value.
We’ll ask Naeem Zafar at Telesense and Bert Laws and Adam Mardini at SAP for their take on AI Is For Humans – Part 3.
The buzz: “AI is developing at whirlwind rates. While nobody can say for certain how it will impact our work and personal lives, we can make a good few educated guesses…with COVID-19 limiting human interaction in the built environment, advancements in AI and automation are on course to accelerate.” (axenter.com/ai-future-work-171663.html)
AI and related disruptive technologies are impacting how we work more today than in recent years – with collaboration technologies (Slack), video meetings (Zoom), and intentions/task assigning (Cortana).
The bottom line: AI is the engine transforming the workforce landscape – spawning new tech jobs, eliminating repetitive busywork assignments, automating hazardous jobs, reducing human error, evaluating job applicants, and even rating sales leads via sentiment analysis.
We’ll ask Naeem Zafar at Telesense, Sena Zorlu at Kubera Venture Capital and Peter Woo at Course Hero for their take on Get To Work! How AI Is Transforming the Labor Market.
The buzz: “Why do only 13% of data science projects, or just one out of every 10, actually make it into production?…Data scientists have been around since the 1950s — individuals sitting in a basement working behind a terminal. But now that it’s a team sport…it’s essential that every person on the team is able to collaborate with everyone else: the data engineers, the data stewards… BI specialists, all the way up to DevOps and engineering.” (venturebeat.com)
Data science has become an integral part of 21st century organizations. Yet, setting up and successfully running a data science practice has not been fully achieved by most businesses. The majority of data science projects fail. And even many of the successes are not considered “accurate” enough to be utilized.
How can this failure rate be turned around?
We’ll ask Reliance Jio’s Naman Bhayani, and SAP’s Ankit Garg, Varun Thamba and Luigi Di Rito for their take on “Inconceivable? Data Scientists and IT on the Same Page!”
The buzz: “The term Experience Economy was first used in a 1998 article by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, describing the economy after the agrarian economy, industrial economy, and most recent service economy. Businesses must orchestrate memorable events for customers. That memory becomes the product: the “experience”. en.wikipedia.org
Welcome to the Experience Economy, where experience-based services drive economic growth in transportation, hospitality, consumer products, entertainment and other industries.
Today, how your business manages and uses customer data is becoming as important as your products and services. How to do it right? A cloud-first approach can help accelerate cycle times, focus on strategic competencies, improve scalability and innovation, and allow customers to pay only for services they use. Are you on board yet?
We’ll ask Ethan Jewett at Mindset Consulting LLC, and Craig Stasila and Chris Pauxtis at SAP for their take on Journey to the Cloud: Part 2.
The buzz: “APIs are the unsung heroes of the connected world.” (businessinsider.com)
Cloud migration continues to accelerate, with AWS’s 1M business customers in 2015 growing to 2.6M+ today, and Google and Microsoft not far behind in market share. The COVID-19 economic crisis could accelerate this trend, as companies that moved or are moving operations and infrastructure to the cloud are running efficiently even when employees can’t physically access the office or the servers housing their data.
Reality check: Every enterprise should harness cloud infrastructure and APIs to deliver new and innovative experiences, from streamlining employee onboarding to delivering a digital app for partners to jointly access key data. Serving their ecosystems in new ways internally and externally will provide a solid chance to endure.
We’ll ask Mark Geene at Cloud Elements, and Chris Aron and Dr. Harsh Jegadeesan at SAP for their take on Full-Enterprise Integration Lynchpin: Open Connectors.
The buzz: Big data is a familiar term. Data exhaust is less widely known, tends to be raw, unstructured, and even bigger. In some ways it's an evil twin brother. (computerworld.com)
While humans began encountering large volumes of data from 1932, NASA coined the phrase “Big Data” in 1997. Today's “dataquake” upon us is too big to ignore. We and everything around us are “data exhausts”, with 10B+ devices interconnected. The number of connections per second will probably be unmeasurable with 5G. Decades of data, which is now training machine learning, plus new data – from health devices, trees, livestock, gas pumps, retail shelves, smart clothing, manufacturing devices, bridges, smart farms – will overhaul the data processing infrastructure. Petabytes of data vs. terabytes of data will become the norm.
We’ll ask Shyam V Nath at Oracle, Aaron Werman at Techwave and Gerard Das at SAP for their insights on Big Data Journey: Dataquake, Human Data Exhausts, and Now Machine Learning?
The buzz: “The graph paradigm goes well beyond databases and application development; it’s a reimagining of what’s possible around the idea of connections.” (neo4j.com) A major inhibitor in business is a fundamental lack of trust and transparency with the customers, suppliers and other stakeholders within and outside your ecosystem. Understanding “hidden” connections can reveal threats and opportunities, as well as enhance your business relationships to develop trust, increase efficiencies and minimize risks. Graph Intelligence solutions aka business graph technology provide the ability to map and visualize connections within data. Beyond primary applications for banking, insurance and government agencies, the technology can be used for enterprise risk management, procurement, sales solutions and data integrity. We’ll ask Noel Billingsley and Bernhard Ritz at Palturai and Dirk Haeussermann at SAP for insights on Mapping Your Business Networks: Hidden Connections Enable Trust.
The buzz: “Data! data! data …I can't make bricks without clay” (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #12). Intelligent Enterprises know how to use their data assets to achieve desired outcomes faster and with less risk. How? Especially in times of uncertainty like the COVID-19 pandemic, intelligent enterprises anticipate and pro-actively respond in real time to put their employees and customers first. And they create personalized, unique digital experiences from disparate data sources while leveraging AI, chatbots and voice technologies. Most importantly, they build digital ecosystems leveraging orchestrated data to create new business models and revenue streams to monetize data-driven capabilities and apply core business competencies in innovative ways. We’ll ask Mike Price at Capgemini, Ritesh Menon at Incture and Scott Harrison at SAP for their expert insights on how your organization can get on board. Join us for The Intelligent Enterprise: Data Assets and Your Digital Ecosystem.
The buzz: Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much (Helen Keller). The pace of change in industry has forced organizations to focus on their core competency and select partners for specific digital expertise to achieve mutually beneficial industry innovations. How can you innovate in new ways beyond leveraging enabling technologies – IoT, AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain – to support product development and go-to-market activities? The experts speak. Nicola Zingraf Bolton, Bolton Consulting: “When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters - one represents danger and one represents opportunity” (JFKennedy). Don DeLoach, Rocket Wagon Venture Studios: “You must be the change you wish to see in the world” (Gandhi). Matt Jennings, SAP: “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together” (J. C. Penney). Join us for Digital Transformation: Enabling Technologies and New Partnership Model Predictions – Part 3.
The buzz: Businesses in our Experience Economy must orchestrate memorable events for customers. That memory becomes the product, the experience. Experience-based services drive economic growth in many industries. How your business manages and uses customer data is as important as products and services. How to do it right? A cloud-first approach helps accelerate cycle times, focus on strategic competencies, improve scalability and innovation, and allow customers to pay only for services they use. The experts speak. Ethan Jewett, Mindset Consulting: “Inconceivable!” (Princess Bride). Craig Stasila, SAP: “I know there's a part of me that doesn't jump so easily. Each day I try to remind myself that the guy who's scared is someone else” (Float Trip). Chris Pauxtis, SAP: “What I want in life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart” (M. B. Rosenberg, PhD). Join us for Journey to the Cloud: Powerful Business Outcomes for the Experience Economy.
The buzz: “As ML starts to power more and more products and experiences, let’s step up to our responsibility to stay human-centered, find the unique value for people, and make every experience great” (Josh Lovejoy, medium.com). We’re already deep into the era of IoT, Machine Learning, and Predictive Analytics. Beyond disrupting business models and creating new business processes, these technologies have a big impact on the humans who use them. But unless tech innovators take a user-centric approach, they risk creating technical prototypes that don’t work with humans and don’t deliver real business value. The experts speak. Naeem Zafar, TeleSense: “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come” (Victor Hugo). Mashhood Alam, SAP: “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence” (Einstein). Adam Mardini, SAP: “Do well and have well” (Chinese proverb). Join us for AI Is For Humans – Part 2.
The buzz: “Data Monetization is a tremendously gooey subject. It can mean so many different things and almost everybody has a different twist on it…What is the secret sauce you have within your data repositories?… research has shown there is money in data” (Stephan Zoder). When you talk about wanting to monetize your company’s data, are you always told to “Dream On”? Good news! Data monetization is real thing for any company – but you must dare to rethink your business models and achieve the highest standards of data quality and security. Where to start? Harmonize your data monetization projects with your business goals and strategies, then follow the path to success. The experts speak. Oliver Schwenteck, INFOMOTION: “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them” (Albert Einstein). Wolfgang Epting, SAP: “In God we trust. All others must bring data” (W. Edwards Deming). Join us for Time to Turn Your Data Into Money: But How? Part 2.
The buzz: Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much (Helen Keller). How can your company innovate in new ways beyond leveraging enabling technologies like IoT, AI, Machine Learning and Blockchain? The pace of change in industry has forced organizations to focus on their core competency and select partners to collaborate in non-traditional ways that are mutually beneficial. The experts speak. Don DeLoach, Rocket Wagon Venture Studios: When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras” (Ruth Bader Ginsberg). Nicola Zingraf Bolton, Bolton Consulting: “I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life…Lukewarm is no good” (Roald Dahl). Lorraine Longato, SAP: “If you build it, they will come” (Field of Dreams). Chris Rezendes, Spherical Analytics: “Success requires that we fuse generalized awareness with specialized expertise” (Gen. Stanley McChrystal). Join us for Digital Transformation: Enabling Technologies and New Partnership Models.
The buzz: Data matters to every business. So it follows that every business needs a data strategy (Bernard Marr www.forbes.com). A data strategy is an enterprise-wide blueprint tailored to an organizations unique circumstances, culture, and data maturity. Every industry is being disrupted by companies that are harnessing analytics and executing data-driven management strategies to capitalize on data and leverage profits to drive innovation. Our panel shares insights to help your company develop and execute your own first-class data strategy. The experts speak. Patrick Schwerdtfeger, Trend Mastery: Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth (Mike Tyson). Olaf Kexel, SAP: In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different (Coco Chanel). Tom Rabbitt, SAP: Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are (John Wooden). Join us for Your Digital Transformation: Lessons from Giants and Upstarts.
The buzz: “We live in a data-driven world that requires digital dexterity and customer-first innovation… [but] changing the status quo and an entire culture to prioritize long-term digital transformation is like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube on a rollercoaster” (blog.kintone.com). Digital technologies are transforming business models and blurring industry boundaries. B2B and B2C customers alike are demanding personalized service, customized products and I-need-it-now delivery. How can your business survive these challenges? Evolve to embrace IoT, Augmented Analytics, Machine Learning, AI and other new technology to become an intelligent enterprise. The experts speak. Tony Costa, Bumble Bee Foods: “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail” (John Wooden). Jeff Harvey, SAP “Trust, but verify” (Russian proverb). Dr. Sathya Narasimhan, SAP: “Instead of better glasses, your network gives you better eyes” (Ronald Burt). Join us for Leapfrog Your Competition: The Essential Technology Guide.
The buzz: “Data Monetization is a tremendously gooey subject. It can mean so many different things and almost everybody has a different twist on it. … What is the secret sauce you have within your data repositories? … research has shown there is money in data.” (Stephan Zoder). Dreaming about monetizing your company’s data? Good news: It’s a real thing for any company that dares to rethink their business models and achieves the highest standards of data quality and security. But where to start? Harmonize your data monetization projects with your business goals and strategies, then follow the path to data monetization success. The experts speak. Dr. Sebastian Derwisch, Business Application Research Centre: “All models are wrong, but some are useful” (George Box). Wolfgang Epting, SAP: “You always have to repeat the truth, because the error is preached again and again around us” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe). Join us for Time to Turn Your Data Into Money: But How?
The buzz: “We live in a data-driven world that requires digital dexterity and customer-first innovation… [but] changing the status quo and an entire culture to prioritize long-term digital transformation is like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube on a rollercoaster” (blog.kintone.com). Digital technologies are transforming business models and blurring industry boundaries. B2B and B2C customers alike are demanding personalized service, customized products and I-need-it-now delivery. How can your business survive these challenges? Evolve to embrace IoT, Augmented Analytics, Machine Learning, AI and other new technology to become an intelligent enterprise. The experts speak. Tony Costa, Bumble Bee Foods: “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail” (John Wooden). Jeff Harvey, SAP “Trust, but verify” (Russian proverb). Dr. Sathya Narasimhan, SAP: “Instead of better glasses, your network gives you better eyes” (Ronald Burt). Join us for Leapfrog Your Competition: The Essential Technology Guide.
The buzz: “There is no alternative to digital transformation. Visionary companies will carve out new strategic options for themselves…those that don’t adapt, will fail” (R. Berger). The pace of industry innovation is forcing companies to find new ways to leverage IoT, AI, Machine Learning and other enabling technologies for product development and go-to-market. They’re also partnering in non-traditional ways, such as enterprise software companies with cloud hyper-scalers. Who’s your partner? The experts speak. Don DeLoach, Rocket Wagon Venture Studios: “We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles (J. Carter). Chris Rezendes, Spherical Analytics & Context Labs: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” (J. Baldwin). Matt Jennings, SAP: No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it (H.E. Luccock). Join us for Digital Transformation: Enabling Technologies and New Partnership Models.
The buzz: “Data Monetization is a tremendously gooey subject. It can mean so many different things and almost everybody has a different twist on it. … What is the secret sauce you have within your data repositories? … research has shown there is money in data.” (Stephan Zoder). Dreaming about monetizing your company’s data? Good news: It’s a real thing for any company that dares to rethink their business models and achieves the highest standards of data quality and security. But where to start? Harmonize your data monetization projects with your business goals and strategies, then follow the path to data monetization success. The experts speak. Dr. Sebastian Derwisch, Business Application Research Centre: “All models are wrong, but some are useful” (George Box). Wolfgang Epting, SAP: “You always have to repeat the truth, because the error is preached again and again around us” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe). Join us for Time to Turn Your Data Into Money: But How?
The buzz: The worst business decision you can make is no decision (John Peace). The move to an Intelligent Enterprise is not just about technology decisions. It's about moving from emotion-based to data-driven decision-making for core business processes. Now, for the first time, data science and big data technologies have converged to make this possible. Where does this leave the business and management consultants who have been providing the qualitative insights that drove emotion-based decision making? The experts speak. David Lynch, BearingPoint: “Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses its relevance” (Yuval Noah Harari). Jan Philipp Thomsen, Celonis: “A fool sees not the same tree as a wise man sees” (William Blake). Keith Grayson, SAP: “If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know” (Keith Richards). Join us for Will Bots Drive Business Transformation?
The buzz: “…are there times when it makes sense to work with your competition instead of against them? … when co-opetition, not competition, is a smart move? Absolutely” (Craig Bloem). Innovative organizations are not only finding new ways to leverage technologies such as IoT, AI, Machine Learning, and Blockchain, to support product development and go-to-market. Many are also aligning with unlikely partners – their competitors – to collaborate on non-traditional industry innovation. Why? The experts speak. Nicola Zingraf Bolton, Bolton Consulting: “Our heads are round so our thoughts can change” (Francis Picabia). Matt Jennings, SAP: “The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward” (Winston Churchill). Mrinalini Lakshminarayanan, Parker Hannifin: “The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me” (Chaplin to Einstein). Join us for Digital Transformation Innovation: Turning Competitors Into Partners.
The buzz: “80% of the 2.5 exabytes of big data generated everyday is geographic” (ehjournal.biomedcentral.com). The discovery of spatial insights for your business starts with where questions: Where are my trucks, my customers and my distribution center? Now the integration of spatial insights, AI, and IoT with business and live data allows intelligent enterprises to answer more complex questions. Where is the storm going to hit, what is the impact, what resources can help us prepare? How are the soil quality and weather conditions affecting the yield of crops next year? The experts speak. Bernd Fastenrath, HERE Technologies: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” (Lao Tzu). Dan Exley, Spatialitics: “When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment” (Simon Sinek). Francisco Urbina, SAP: “Everything in moderation, including moderation” (Oscar Wilde). Join us for Spatial Intelligence: Unlocking Our Power.
The buzz: … we will see intelligence in the form of machine learning survivorship … algorithms which ‘learn’ how records survive and will, therefore, use these results to make predictions about which records survive, and which don’t” (Stefan Franczuk). A quiet revolution has been unfolding in enterprises worldwide. While snazzy digital transformation successes grab headlines – Machine Learning/AI, Predictive Analytics, Process Automation – the unheralded enablers of these innovations are the tools and services that help enterprises manage data. Businesses are reinventing their approach to holistic data management as data volumes soar, governance requirements tighten and analytic needs multiply. How will the major trends impact you in five years? The experts speak. Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates: “Never confuse motion with action” (Ben Franklin). John Fiske, SAP: “The things you own end up owning you” (Fight Club). Join us for Enterprise Data Management: Holistic Evolution.
The buzz: The worst business decision you can make is no decision (John Peace). The move to an Intelligent Enterprise is not just about technology decisions. It's about moving from emotion-based to data-driven decision-making for core business processes. Now, for the first time, data science and big data technologies have converged to make this possible. Where does this leave the business and management consultants who have been providing the qualitative insights that drove emotion-based decision making? The experts speak. David Lynch, BearingPoint: “Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses its relevance” (Yuval Noah Harari). Jan Philipp Thomsen, Celonis: “A fool sees not the same tree as a wise man sees” (William Blake). Keith Grayson, SAP: “If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know” (Keith Richards). Join us for Will Bots Drive Business Transformation?
The buzz: If it is frequently changing, it probably isn’t master data” (blog.westmonroepartners.com). Out of view of most business users, enterprise data landscapes are dynamic and continually evolving. Organizations run hundreds of distinct applications, replicate the data into vast data lakes, transform and load it into data warehouses for reporting, and migrate large data sets into the cloud for management. How can your organization ensure a single, trusted view of the business that includes a 360-view of customer data, accurate supply chain insights, and precise financial information? The answer: Master Data management, which is becoming an enterprise data strategy cornerstone. The experts speak. Michael V Jordan, Utopia Global, Inc.: “You get what you settle for” (Louise in Thelma and Louise, 1991 film). Silvio Arcangeli, SAP: “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” (Allen Saunders). Join us for Master Your Data Before It Masters You!
The buzz: “Everyone has an opinion on the ‘cloud’ and its effect on business – some believe it is dark and scary and fraught with unnecessary risk, while others would argue it’s silver lined and the path to greater business performance and cost savings” (Dave Anderson). Widely used Cloud technology has brought great conveniences, enabling us to share resources easily, enhance teamwork, improve productivity, and reduce physical storage costs. But Cloud is surrounded by user concerns about data security, stability and accessibility. Are these myths or facts? Picture this: If we list the pluses and the minuses, and the minus column is longer, what would happen if we return to a world without Cloud in 2019? The experts speak. Victor van Dinten, HERE Technologies: “I smile at obstacles” (Tiger Woods). John Gibson, SAP: “From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it’s not a miracle, we just decided to go” (Jim Lovell). Join us for Life without Cloud in 2019?
The buzz: “Enterprise Architecture requires such a diversity of skills that EAs really need to be the renaissance men and women of IT” (Anna Mar). Your digital transformation to an Intelligent Enterprise requires clear objectives, designs, plans – and E2E flexibility to revise them across your entire organization. How to get there? Enterprise Architecture combines requirements, business, data and infrastructure domains to help align IT and business concerns. The experts speak. Rogan Morrison, Olayan Financing Company: “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living” (Nelson Mandela). Jeffrey Giles, Sandhill Consultants: “You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust the sails” (Cora L.V. Hatch). Matt Creason, SAP: “Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future” (Walt Disney). Join us for Enterprise Architecture: Design Success Into Digital Transformation.
The buzz: “As ML starts to power more and more products and experiences, let’s step up to our responsibility to stay human-centered” (Josh Lovejoy, https://medium.com). We’re in the era of IoT, Machine Learning, and Predictive Analytics. Beyond disrupting business models and creating new business processes, these technologies have a huge impact on the human beings who are part of the processes! But if these technologies don’t work well for the humans, what good are they? Unless innovators take a user-centric approach, they run the risk of creating a bunch of technical prototypes without delivering real business value. The experts speak. Naheem Zafar, TeleSense: “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come” (Victor Hugo). Mashhood Alam, SAP: “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see” (Arthur Schopenhauer). Adam Mardini, SAP: “Strong reasons make strong actions” (King John, Shakespeare). Join us for AI Is For Humans.
The buzz: “Well-managed dispersed teams can actually outperform those that share office space...must-haves: the right team, the right leadership, the right touchpoints, and the right technology” (Keith Ferrazzi). The modern tech start-up office typically has open work spaces, white boards, ping pong tables, people communicating and collaborating. But when your team is scattered around the country or the world, can they effectively collaborate on innovation ideas? The Internet of Things is all about innovation. But where does innovation happen? What kinds of environments do we need? The experts speak. Bryan Mattimore, The Growth Engine Company: “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit” (Richard Bach). Christopher Bishop, Improvising Careers: “When you're finished changing, you're finished” (Benjamin Franklin). Ira Berk, SAP: “If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today” (Lou Holtz). Join us for Reach Out and Collaborate: Long-Distance Innovation?
The buzz: “If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.” (Jim Barksdale) The topic of Big Data has been gaining traction since 2010. What’s the big deal? Big Data happens when traditional software can't handle the data because there is so much of it. Lots of new software has been written to distribute Big Data across hundreds or thousands of computers running side-by-side, then gather and consolidate the results. Now organizations can analyze huge volumes of data to understand customer behavior and preferences, motivate the workforce, and optimize supply chains. What has changed since 2010? What are the big challenges and opportunities of Big Data for your company and industry now, almost a decade later? The experts speak. Das Gerard, SAP: “War is 90% information” (Napoleon). Ira Berk, SAP: “A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does” (Marilyn vos Savant). Join us for Size Matters: The Big Deal About Big Data and You..
The buzz: “What we have is a data glut. What we really want is the ability to manipulate the information and to reach conclusions from it” (Vernor Vinge). Good news: Companies have more data at their fingertips than ever before. Not-so-good news: Companies are losing their ability to control the data and to understand their customers and their business. They also live in fear of auditors asking, “Where did that data come from and how do you know it is reliable?” Our panel will explore the explosion of data challenges and the newest emerging strategies to tame them. The experts speak. Chris Hallenbeck, SAP: “You will see light in the darkness. You will make some sense of this” (The Police lyrics). Bryan Hunter, Siemens: “It is not the critic who counts… The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena…” (Theodore Roosevelt). Chris Kernaghan, Bluefin: “Life is short. Make it amazing” (Hugh MacLeod, Gapingvoid). Join us for Data, Data Everywhere: But Why Can’t We Trust It?
The buzz: “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works” (S.Jobs). Remember your anticipation when you got your first smartphone? Your curiosity the first time you typed “@” online? As the world becomes increasingly digital, we expect great experiences in every interaction with every business and organization. What does this mean for UX designers? The experts speak. Matt Grajcar, Google: “The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art (J.Lasseter). RJ Owen, CreativeMornings: “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge” (D.J. Boorstin). Shaun Syvertsen, Convergent IS: “You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over” (R.Branson). Maricel Cabahug, SAP: “It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date” (R.vonOech). Join us for UX 2018: User Experiences for a New Generation.
The buzz: “ Top-performing companies are able to differentiate themselves…their ability to use the right data at the right time for conclusive decision-making” (tibco.com). If your company is like most, you’ve accumulated predefined applications that seldom share data. Reality check. Which would you rather be: a car manufacturer service department that batch-accesses and updates 20+ silo’ed systems with old data for every appointment - or - a data-centric enterprise with a central data pool that boosts productivity and customer satisfaction with less time and cost? The experts speak. Detlev Sandel, Capgemini: “We cannot solve our problems with the same way of thinking that created them” (Einstein). Jeff Kyle, HPE: “Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition” (A. Lincoln). Axel Schwarz, SAP: “…whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running” (Thomas Friedman). Join us for Data-Driven Enterprise: More with Less.
The buzz: “GIS technology will evolve into a nervous system for our planet” (Jack Dangermond). The Internet of Things is connecting billions of devices, capturing reams of data to be mined. Where are these devices? Inside a delivery truck that needs to optimize its route? Attached to a gas pipeline that urgently needs repairs? Spatial Analytics, at the heart of GIS technology, answers these questions and more, providing context for every conceivable situation from IoT to emergency response to facility layout. The experts speak. Robert Godfrey, Florida Crystals: “The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing” (E.Tufte). Steve Benner, Cybertech: “Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight” (S.Meyer). Leandro Rodriguez, ESRI: “Understanding precedes action” (RS.. Wurman). Doug Carroll, ESRI: “Wherever you go, there you are” (Jon Kabat-Zinn). Join us for Does Anybody Really Know Where We Are?
The buzz: “Process mining, if used right, can identify alternative courses, patterns and common mistakes” (M. Paz). Are you losing a week between the time you ship an order and the time you invoice, and hours daily on unnecessary process steps? Are your vendors slipping on commitments? How to fix all of this: Process Mining. It’s not about going into mines or streams to dig or sift for gold nuggets. But the resulting “find” can yield real treasure for your business. How? Process Mining leverages the digital footprint left behind by your IT systems and provides complete transparency into how your processes are – and are not – working. The experts speak. Marc Kinast, Celonis: “I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring” (David Bowie). Brian Jordan, Protiviti: “A man’s got to know his limitations (Clint Eastwood). John Santic, SAP: “He who ain’t busy being born is busy dying” (Bob Dylan). Join us for Digital Footprints: Mining the Data in Your Operations.
The buzz: “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works” (S.Jobs). Remember your anticipation when you got your first smartphone? Your curiosity the first time you typed “@” online? As the world becomes increasingly digital, we expect great experiences in every interaction with every business and organization. What does this mean for UX designers? The experts speak. Matt Grajcar, Google: “The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art (J.Lasseter). RJ Owen, CreativeMornings: “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge” (D.J. Boorstin). Shaun Syvertsen, Convergent IS: “You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over” (R.Branson). Maricel Cabahug, SAP: “It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date” (R.vonOech). Join us for UX 2018: User Experiences for a New Generation.
The buzz: “Research by McKinsey revealed 94% of surveyed executives were dissatisfied with their company´s innovative performance.” (entrepreneur.com) Since digital disruption started, survival in our competitive global economy has required innovation. Fact of life: only 12% of 1995’s Fortune 500 made it to 2016! Now businesses need to embrace machine learning, digital currency, blockchain, and big data. No longer just focused on creating new products, innovation addresses every aspect of our lives, every process in every business. Your challenge: adopt an innovative culture. How’s it going? The experts speak. Hosin Min, SAP: “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat (Sartre). Surbhi Sheth-Shah, SAP: “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves” (Thomas Edison). Annie Miu Heyward, SAP: “Time is a thief when you’re undecided” (Rod Stewart). Join us for Surviving Digital Disruption: How’s Your Innovation Culture?
The buzz: “Can a machine converse with a human with enough facility that the human could not tell that she was talking to a machine?…a mirror in which men wish only to see themselves.” (C.M. Valente). With 4 billion people worldwide using text messaging apps, brands have tremendous opportunity to expand their reach on Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat, and more. But now the Era of Conversational AI has arrived. Have you met Alaska Air’s Ai-enabled virtual assistant Jenn, who answers questions in beautiful natural language? We’ll explore how businesses like yours can use Conversational AI, if this can rescue consumers from bad service, and where we’re heading. The experts speak. Samir Patel, SAP: “I promise you one thing: A lot of good will come out of this (Tim Tebow). Piyush Chandra, SAP: “One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man” (Elbert Hubbard). Join us for Conversational AI: Are You Talking to Me?
The buzz: “You can’t stop things like Bitcoin. It will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust” (John McAfee). Blockchain is all the buzz in the tech industry, with major corporations eyeing its disruptive potential. But you may still wonder what Blockchain is and how it works. Here goes: At its simplest, Blockchain is a distributed ledger that exists on multiple computers at the same time. It keeps records of digital transactions arranged in data batches called blocks. Each block contains the hash (digital fingerprint) of the transactions recorded on it, and the hash of a previous block, hence ‘Blockchain.’ Will Blockchain change the world as we know it? And how soon? The experts speak. Torsten Zube, SAP: “Stay hungry. Stay foolish” (Steve Jobs, 2005). Ben Boeser, SAP: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” (R. Buckminster Fuller). Join us for Blockchain: Beyond the Hype.
The buzz: “A company that can make the right decision three times out of five as opposed to 2.8 out of five can gain an upper hand over its competitors” (sloanreview.mit.edu). Many businesses that strive to innovate beyond digital transformation to improve performance, efficiency, and productivity, are inhibited by repetitive processes and a lack of resources. They’re missing out on the potential of machine learning algorithms to propel their enterprise to a new level by making processes intelligent with self-learning software. Are you an intelligent enterprise yet? The experts speak. Andreas Welsch, SAP: “If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade” (Tom Peters). Dr. Dirk Jendroska, SAP: “In god we trust; all others bring data” (W. Edwards Deming). Dr. Urko Sanchez, SAP: “A long road tests the strength of a horse” (Chinese proverb). Join us to learn the strategic, technological and customer perspectives on The Intelligent Enterprise: Putting Machine Learning to Work
The buzz: “We both hate the cat. I’m just not sure what it is you’d bring to a partnership” (Andertoons.com). It’s impossible for you to be the expert for all products or solutions in our digital/IoT-driven economy. An IoT solution requires understanding technologies from communications to data management, analytics and beyond. That's why partnerships are critical. How to find the right partners to bring opportunities and innovation technology and to ensure each contributes strongly to a successful outcome? The experts speak. Sathish Gajaraju, Sensify: “Most of the bright people don't work for you -- no matter who you are” (Bill Joy). Shannon Platz, SAP: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...” (Shakespeare). Join us for Innovation Squared: Partnerships for Successful IoT Outcomes.
The buzz: “As the Internet of Things creates a fourth industrial revolution, smart manufacturing is making waves across all industries” (www.iottechexpo.com/2016/10/industry/top-4-trends-in-iot-for-smart-manufacturing). The Internet of Things, plus Blockchain, Machine Learning, AI, is giving manufacturers exciting opportunities for digital transformation. By automating manufacturing and connecting things with people and processes to collect and exchange data, the IoT is improving the speed, efficiency and quality in how goods are made, distributed, serviced and refined. It is also facilitating new business models. Exciting times! The experts speak. Marty Groover, Caterpillar: “Ensign, I am pretty sure if you don't turn the ship you will not get any closer to your new destination” (Capt. James L. McCLane, USN). Tanja Rueckert, SAP: “Always in motion is the future” (Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back). Join us for IoT: Making Manufacturing Smart.
The buzz: “We are headed for a world that will have 24 billion IoT devices by 2020” (Andrew Meola, 12/19/16) To bolster personal safety and business security, we are cheering on the Internet of Things which gives us connected devices, integrated systems and services, and smart homes. Consider the ubiquity of cameras, overt and hidden: vehicle cams and wearable cams for law enforcement, hidden cams to catch bad behaviors at home and work. But ironically, these IoT advances also make us and our personal information vulnerable to prying eyes and ears, and cyberattacks. Will IoT help make the world safer or just more complicated – and what price will we ultimately pay? The experts speak. Ravi Condamoor: “If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees” (Kahlil Gibran). Adam Mardini, SAP: “At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security” (Jodi Rell). Join us for IoT: Game-Changing Our Security, For Good or Bad?
The buzz: “In a nutshell, edge computing means…each device becomes its own mini data center…A self-driving car will have 200-plus CPUs. That’s a data center on wheels” (Peter Levine). The Big Data landscape is changing rapidly, largely driven by the Internet of Things. How? By taking the computer out of the centralized data center and bringing it into the field where IoT sensors are generating data at the edge of the network. What does this mean for the future of your business? The experts speak. JR Fuller, HPE: “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” (Alan Turing). Amit Rustagi, Western Digital: “I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?’” (Elon Musk). Peter Koslowski, HPE: “You can always go faster than you think you can” (Meg Whitman). Join us for Big Data and IoT: Living on the Edge.
The buzz: “A survey of 12,000 adults across 8 nations showed that…‘70% are receptive to using toilet sensors, prescription bottle sensors or swallowed health monitors” (D.M. West). The Healthcare industry has long been at the forefront of adoption of innovative technology and the Internet of Things (IoT). Why? Integrating IoT medical devices has improved the quality and effectiveness of Healthcare service, especially for the elderly, chronic conditions, patients requiring constant supervision. The experts speak. Dr. Peter Killcommons, Medweb: “The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom” (Steve Forbes). Dr. Mohammed Mardini, Medweb: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” (Prof. Leon C. Megginson). Adam Mardini, SAP: “Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future” (Hippocrates). Join us for IoT Meets Healthcare: Internet of Medical Things.
The buzz: “The Industrial Internet of Things will fundamentally rearrange entire supply chains from production all the way to consumption.” (A. Narayan) In the complex world of supply chain management, Internet of Things (IoT) technology is helping companies make real-time decisions to achieve transportation logistics efficiencies. Tangible results: best-in-class supply chains are lowering transportation costs by up to 60%. In 2015, DHL and Cisco estimated that IoT asset tracking solutions had a $1.9+ Trillion positive impact. What are you waiting for? The experts speak. Ira Berk, SAP: “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is” (Yogi Berra). Angelina Ha, SAP: “I won’t be impressed with technology until I can download food.” (Bill Murray; Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab 3D-printed food in 2010). Adam Mardini, SAP: “Things don’t have to change the world to be important” (Steve Jobs). Join us for IoT: Upending Supply Chain Management.
The buzz: Auditor to Santa Claus: “You gave away 60 billion toys and didn’t get one receipt?” (FARCUS Comic Strip). As April 15 approaches each year, U.S. tax firms are deluged by clients’ last-minute filing requests, piles of disorganized papers and receipts, and emailed scanned documents. Will the Internet of Things reduce a CPA’s deadline-driven work? Reality check: Not right away for individual practitioners, but significantly for businesses. Planning and budgeting accuracy increases with real-time data. Continual fraud detection is feasible when live information streams through a detection algorithm. Welcome to the intersection of accounting and the IoT. The experts speak. Jeff Hattendorf, Macrospect: “All change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and so beautiful at the end” (Robin Sharma). Seth Marlow, Wells Fargo: “There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them” (Casey Stengel). Join us for Accounting and the Internet of Things: Does This Compute?
The buzz: “The IoT...ups the ante: ‘Reach out and touch somebody’ is becoming ‘reach out and touch everything’” (Parker Trewin). The Internet of Things (IoT) is about connecting machines and devices and sensors – but connecting to ‘What’? How does data from the airliner – or the factory floor, or the weather station – find its way to business applications running in private or vendor-hosted clouds, to ultimately provide useful info that impacts our daily lives? It’s about IoT data's end-to-end journey and the ‘Internet’ portion of the ‘Internet of Things.’ The experts speak. Jason E. Sfaelos, Equinix: “Almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. Only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement” (Joe vs The Volcano). Ira Berk, SAP: “We owe a lot to Thomas Edison. If it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight” (Milton Berle). Join us for Internet of Things: Interconnections to What?
The buzz: “Survival is optional. No one has to change” (W. Edward Deming). The Internet of Things (IoT) can be very complex – with multiple platforms, incompatible protocols, and high volumes of streaming data. How to bring all this together to solve real-world challenges and capture new business opportunities? A Modern Data Platform for IoT. What? A platform that can handle all kinds of data. A platform that combines IoT data with existing business data in new and innovative ways. A platform you can use to take the next giant leap in IoT productivity. The experts speak. Walter Muntzenberger, SAP: “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home” (Ken Olsen). Carol Clarke, SAP: “There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come” (Victor Marie Hugo). Tim Hardy, SAP: “We are moving from a world of materialism to one of experientialism” (James Wallman). Join us for Internet of Things: Time for A Modern Data Platform.
The buzz: “The IoT...ups the ante: ‘Reach out and touch somebody’ is becoming ‘reach out and touch everything’” (Parker Trewin, Aria Systems). Last year's IoT innovations made their presence felt in a big way – by now you’ve probably at least watched a conversation with Alexa. Now what? IoT promises to keep changing the world in 2017 – and this could be its biggest year yet. Which new technologies will have the biggest impacts on which industries? How deeply will Big Data analytics and Machine Learning embed themselves in our daily lives? The experts speak. Maribel Lopez, Lopez Research: “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” (Sir Winston Churchill). Ronan 'Zero' Schwarz, SQRL Solutions: “It's still magic even if you know how it's done” (Terry Pratchett). Brian Katz, VMware: “Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it” (Aubrey De Grey). Join us for IoT Predictions for 2017.
The buzz: “People are always going to go shopping” (Philip Green, Chairman, Arcadia Group). “In five years, consumer electronics stores as we know them today won’t even exist, and…our favorite apparel brands,” Ingram Micro Mobility’s Bashar Nejdawi told Forbes. “Technological innovations and a hyper-connected world have significantly influenced consumer behaviors and expectations…retailers are faced with a scary reality: change or become obsolete.” How will retail survive? The experts speak. Doug Stephens, Retail Prophet: “Don’t fear mistakes. There are none” (Miles Davis). Brian Kilcourse, Retail Systems Research: “If you don’t transform and use this Internet-connected ‘always on’ digital technology differently…you’re going to get disrupted...a brutal disruption” (John Chambers). Greg McStravick, SAP: “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones” (John Maynard Keynes).Join us for Future of Retail in 5 Years: Trends in the IoT Digital Age.
The buzz: “I think cell phones were invented by the devil” -Joe Hill, NOS4A2. As we carry mobile devices with sensors everywhere, we generate a flood of data with staggering implications. Per futurist Yuval Noah Harari, with enough data and computing power, computer systems will understand humans better than we know ourselves -8-26-16-. “We are already becoming tiny chips inside a giant system that nobody really understands.” The experts speak. John Akred, Silicon Valley Data Science: “While digital natives were most concerned with what they can do with technology, data natives are more concerned about what that technology can do for them” -Monica Rogati. Gray Scott, SeriousWonder.com: “Who looks outside, dreams: who looks inside, awakes” -C.G. Jung. Doug Freud, SAP: “We interact with screens 90 percent of our waking hours. The result…a colder, more isolated, less humane world…we are less happy” -David L. Rose. Join us for Does the Internet of Things Know Us Better than We Do?
The buzz: “I think cell phones were invented by the devil” -Joe Hill, NOS4A2. As we carry mobile devices with sensors everywhere, we generate a flood of data with staggering implications. Per futurist Yuval Noah Harari, with enough data and computing power, computer systems will understand humans better than we know ourselves -8-26-16-. “We are already becoming tiny chips inside a giant system that nobody really understands.” The experts speak. John Akred, Silicon Valley Data Science: “While digital natives were most concerned with what they can do with technology, data natives are more concerned about what that technology can do for them” -Monica Rogati. Gray Scott, SeriousWonder.com: “Who looks outside, dreams: who looks inside, awakes” -C.G. Jung. Doug Freud, SAP: “We interact with screens 90 percent of our waking hours. The result…a colder, more isolated, less humane world…we are less happy” -David L. Rose. Join us for Does the Internet of Things Know Us Better than We Do?
The buzz: Honk honk! Beep beep! With all the hype surrounding Smart Cities and the IoT, you may wonder if cities are really changing and if the IoT is making an impact. The answer to both: Yes. But the changes are where you may not expect them – in finance, politics, privacy and security. How can you spot the hidden changes IoT is making in your city, neighborhood, office and home? The experts speak. Charles Anderson, IDC: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat” -George Santayana. David Stephenson, Stephenson Strategies: “A merger of top-down and bottom-up systems can invite widespread engagement and mean effective implementation of solutions, ideally resulting in livable urban spaces” -Carlo Ratti. Saj Kumar, SAP: “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius…and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction” -E.F. Schumacher. Join us for Smart Cities, Smart Streets: IoT to the Rescue – Part 3.
The buzz: Getting a pulse. The Internet of Things -IoT- is gradually beginning to impact healthcare by delivering the benefits of life-saving innovations to patients, doctors and nurses. How? Armed with intelligent, connected breakthroughs – from personal devices that measure your vital signs to “smart” hospitals beds and 'smart' medication dosing and tracking – you and your professional healthcare team can now address potentially fatal issues quickly, before they escalate into crises. Where is this happening? All over the world. The experts speak. Stephanie Huber, Deloitte: 'It always seems impossible until it’s done' -Nelson Mandela. Guillermo B. Vazquez, Deloitte: 'The Healthcare environment is still ‘information rich’ but ‘knowledge poor’' -Sunita Soni, Ph.D-. Gayatri Gopal, SAP: 'To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment' -Ralph Waldo Emerson. Join us for Healthcare and the IoT: Lifesaving Gets Smart.
The buzz: Leader of the pack. You’ve heard of Software-as-a-service: instead of buying and installing software on your own hardware, you access it via the Internet. Is SaaS new? Not! The Telecommunications industry has been doing “_-as-a-service” for 100+ years, positioning Telcos as leaders in the movement to offer Everything-as-a-service. XaaS is not just phone service, but also software, communications, infrastructure, data, platforms. Where is this trend going? Will it benefit your company and industry? What businesses will be changed forever? The experts speak. Craig Bachmann, TM Forum: “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future” (Yogi Berra). Dave Duggal, EnterpriseWeb: “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed” (William Gibson). Angela Russell-Rekika, SAP: “Everybody's talented at something, and that’s what makes the world go ‘round. We all need each other...” (Prince). Join us for Telcos and the IoT: Future of Everything-as-a-Service.
The buzz: Honk honk! Beep beep! As cities around the world work to maintain a safe, clean, inclusive urban environment, they require innovative tools to perform mundane tasks that will keep our cities and streets – and our lives – moving at a steady pace. What are they choosing? Real-time IoT sensors. How? Storm drains can keep themselves clear during heavy rains. Street lights now send their own alerts for maintenance and replacement. And taxicabs can signal progress to help maximize city traffic flow and minimize disruptions? How smart is your city? The experts speak. W. David Stephenson, Stephenson Strategies: “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody (Jane Jacobs). Dina Dayal, SAP: “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity” (Albert Einstein). Saj Kumar, SAP: “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom” (Richard Feynman). Join us for Smart Cities, Smart Streets: IoT to the Rescue – Part 2.
The buzz: Dollars and Sens[ors]. In industries from Utilities to Manufacturing and Oil & Gas, sensor-based data is supporting critical business decisions. However, while many recognize the value of combining operations and business data, the differences in function, technology stacks and cultures have raised barriers to convergence. As the tech barriers fall, we are discovering new opportunities for integrating mission-critical operational data, business tools and sensor-based data to create novel intelligence and drive performance. The experts speak. Alon Kantor, Check Point: “Can you trust your own toaster?” (Matthew G. Devost, Brian K. Houghton, Neal A. Pollard). Martin Otterson, OSIsoft: “The world is one big data problem” (Andrew McAfee). Bala Ram, SAP: “Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement” (William Pollard). Join us for Reimagining the Industrial Internet of Things.
The buzz: Side by side. A successful IoT project encompasses a broad set of technologies from physical hardware and connectivity to data management and analytics to drive visualizations, insights and outcomes. A single company can’t do it all alone. How are IoT ecosystem players partnering to overcome the challenges and bring solutions to market? The experts speak. Jason Shepherd, Dell: “I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things.It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself” (Beck). Fred Yentz, Telit: “We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another” (Klaus Schwab). Bryan Hicks, SAP: “The most profound technologies are those that disappear into the fabric of everyday life…” (Mark D. Weiser). Join us for Building the Internet of Things: It Takes A Village.
The buzz: Land of the free or home of the brave? The Internet was conceived to facilitate the free flow of information. The IoT inherited this spirit. But now Silicon Valley and governments face personal privacy and security challenges. If devices need to be redesigned to support court-ordered searches, a new and dangerous black-market could result. The experts speak. Gray Scott, Futurist: “When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else” (David Brin). Kent Sanders, TCS: “Imagination is more important than knowledge...Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces…all there ever will be to know and understand” (Einstein). David Jonker, SAP: “In the span of less than a century, we have lost any vestige of the unlocked-front-door privacy mythically enjoyed by our grandparents….” (Stewart Wolpin) Join us for Here’s Looking at YOU, Kid…and Listening: IoT and CyberCrime–Part 2.
The buzz: Faster than a speeding what? Think the Internet of Things technology is new? Not! It’s in our pocket, on our wrist, in front of our eyes, built into our clothes and shoes, in our hospital beds, driving our cars, managing our homes and offices, keeping our trains and airplanes safe. Now the 3rd Wave of IoT is here, harnessing computer resources at the edge. What will it take to fully synthesize, analyze, and actualize all of this data into as-yet unimagined capabilities? And what does this mean for your business? The experts speak. Gray Scott, Futurist: “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom” (Isaac Asimov). JR Fuller, HPE: “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” (Alan Turing). Ira Berk, SAP: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it” (Alan Kay). Join us for Internet of Things: Third Wave Already? – Part 2.
The buzz: Reading and writing and ‘rithmetic. Education now has a real potential to directly influence businesses and entire industries, and vice versa. How? Increasingly digital student-university interactions, from teaching to guidance. New topics like the Internet of Things added to the curriculum. Investments in research that can disrupt industries such as healthcare, retail, utilities and more. The experts speak. Sudha Jamthe, IoT Disruptions: Detective Del Spooner: “Human beings have dreams… but not you, you are just a machine…Can a robot write a symphony…turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?” Sonny: “Can you?” (iRobot). Dr. Vince Kellen, University of Kentucky: “An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people” (Thomas Jefferson). Puneet Suppal, SAP: “Always in motion is the future…You must unlearn what you have learned” (Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back). Join us for Higher Education and Digital Transformation: Impacting Business and Lives.
The buzz: We see you! We hear you! In light of the raging Apple vs FBI smartphone privacy dispute, have you thought about whether “innocent” objects like phones and Internet-connected “things” are helping hackers, criminals and terrorists virtually infiltrate your home, organization, government? We have. Hear experts on harnessing the good of IoT without the risks. The experts speak.Kent Sanders, TCS: “No battle plan survives contact with the enemy” (Field Marshal Helmuth van Moltke the Elder). Gray Scott, Futurist: “Resistance is futile” (Borg, Star Trek). David Jonker, SAP: “If someone had asked you 10 years ago, ‘Can I plant a device on you that would tell me who you’ve spoken to, what you’re curious about, what books you’ve read, what money you spend…’, you would have said there is no way. But today we line up at the Apple store to pay $800 for such a device because it’s so convenient” (Rick Smolan). Join us for Here’s Looking at YOU, Kid…and Listening: IoT and CyberCrime.
The buzz: In a land far, far away. The beauty of IoT is doing new things with information from sensors that are nearly ubiquitous – in cars, homes, factories, and even remote locations like mines and oil rigs. But ingesting and analyzing this information presents a huge challenge. For example, when a sensor detects an oil rig equipment failure, the rig operator cannot wait for data to synchronize with a remote cloud service. We’ll explore the challenges and opportunities of gathering data from distant sources – “the Edge” – and harnessing it into localized and cloud-based systems. The experts speak. Bridget Karlin, Intel: “Imagination is more important than knowledge” (Albert Einstein). Lalit Canaran, SAP: “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying” (Michael Jordan). Ira Berk, SAP: “When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window” (George Eliot). Join us for From the Edge to the Cloud: Harnessing Remote IoT Data
The buzz: Do good. Which high school students are most at risk of dropping out? What city buildings pose a high lead poisoning risk? Which at-risk expectant mothers will most benefit from visiting nurses and home health aides? Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) is training data scientists to tackle important problems like these. What are the opportunities, challenges, and prospects for the digital and data transformation of social benefits programs? The experts speak: Joe Walsh, University of Chicago: “I can't swim, and I actually hate sand” (Chrissy Teigen). Rayid Ghani, Harris School of Public Policy: “Brain: Has it ever occurred to you, Pinklet, that your scarf is constricting the bloodflow to your head?” Pinky: “Yes! And it keeps my neck all cozy-warm” (Pinky and The Brain). Doug Freud, SAP: “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so” (Mark Twain). Join us for Digital and Data Makeover: Social Benefits Programs.
The buzz: Up close and personal. The numbers are staggering. The possibilities are promising. From 1990 to 2003, the Human Genome Project discovered and documented the complete sequence of 3 billion pairs of DNA molecules. Fast-forward to 2015. More exciting progress! Big Data analytics and the Internet of Things enable us to analyze the DNA sequences of thousands of different cancer tumors. The impact on society? We can apply this information to personalize therapy for individual patients based on lifestyle and environment. Onward! The experts speak: Kevin Fitzpatrick, CancerLinQ: “The future’s here, it’s just not evenly distributed” (William Gibson). Stephanie Huber, Deloitte Consulting: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants” (Isaac Newton). Greg McStravick, SAP: “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones” (John Maynard Keynes). Join us for Medicine by the Slice: Curing Cancer One Patient at a Time.
The buzz: Score! The world of Sports and Entertainment is getting “smarter” via technology. How? Smart batting cages track every phase of a baseball player's performance. Smart WiFi networks bring fans into the action via smartphones. Smart predictive analytics, Internet of Things [IoT], and in-memory computing help athletes and teams improve performance, fans actively participate, and sports-business organizations run like never before. The experts speak: Corrine Vitolo, SmartSports: “Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible…” (Frank L. Gaines). Dr. Kim B. Blair, Cooper Perkins: “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn” (Xun Kuang). Amy Lai, Wittos: “Practice Genchi-Genbutsu and the 5 whys … to grasp the facts, persevere, and never give up until you have succeeded” (Dr. Shuhei Toyoda). Milan Cerny, SAP: “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships” (Michael Jordan). Join us for Sports and IoT: Play Hard, Play Smart!
The buzz: Honk honk! Beep beep! From traffic congestion to air pollution to crime, there is no shortage of problems waiting to be solved in major cities around the world. Can the Internet of Things (IoT) help? Yes. The Smart Cities already taking advantage of this technology are leveraging the IoT to gather real-time information from across the city. This creates data that can be used to identify small problems before they become big, and to find sustainable solutions to big problems that were too big to tackle until now. What can we look forward to happening at the intersection of more cities and the Internet of Things? The experts speak. David Stephenson, Stephenson Strategies: “If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not (Elon Musk). Ira Berk, SAP: “Patience is the art of concealing your impatience” (Guy Kawasaki). Join us for Smart Cities, Smart Streets: IoT to the Rescue.
Internet of Things is transforming businesses by creating unprecedented operational efficiencies as well as richer experiences for customers. Are most companies taking advantage of this full potential? No! Per a Forrester Consulting study for SAP (May 2015), early adopters use IoT mainly for the latter, but not for changing business models to enable new products, services and revenue streams. What’s holding them back from gaining IoT’s top- and bottom-line benefits? The experts speak. Frank Gillett, Forrester:“Your ability to understand and communicate with other scientists, engineers…customers and users…is essential to taking part in the next wave of the Internet (David Rose]. Laura Merling, SAP: “The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow” (R. Murdoch). Ira Berk, SAP: “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things” (Henry Miller). Join us for Survey Says: Transform Your Business with IoT.
The buzz: Charge! With almost 1 million electric vehicles on roads around the world, and volume growing daily, utilities face a huge surge in power demands. Can their aging electrical distribution networks, built for a bygone era, handle the rising load without rebuilding infrastructure? Yes, with the help of sensors in cars, homes, and the power grid. But will this be adequate for business and leisure drivers who need or simply want to drive to “somewhere” right now? The experts speak. Prashant Kulkarni, TechMahindra: “If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning” (Mahatma Gandhi). Prateek Saxena, TechMahindra: “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success (Henry Ford). Lalit Canaran, SAP: “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying” (Michael Jordan). Join us for The Charge of the Electric Car: Utilities and the IoT.
The buzz: How’s Things? With the proliferation of the Apple Watch, we are starting to see some of the promise of the Internet of Things making its way into the enterprise. But if the hype hasn’t matched your expectations, it may be time to rethink the place of Things and devices. How? And can we avoid Thing-caused fatigue and frustration? The experts speak. Benjamin Robbins, Palador: “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together” (George Elliot). Maribel Lopez, Lopez Research: “Connected doesn’t mean smart. Businesses still have to put thought into what type of experience a connected device should provide before they buy hardware that could be meaningless. Brian Katz, VMWare: “The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation (Leo Cherne). Join us for The Internet of Things: When Things Don’t Live Up to the Hype.
The buzz: Money on the go. The Internet of Things is affecting everything around us, including your money and payment methods. Information from your home, car, every place you go, can all be connected to your transactions, to help you better manage your financial life. Is the IoT coming to a wallet near you? The experts speak. Val Srinivas, Deloitte: “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence” (Jiddu Krishnamurti). Hugh McCullen, Axxiome: “In the days of my youth, I was told what it means to be a man, Now I've reached that age, I've tried to do all those things the best I can. No matter how I try, I find my way into the same old jam” (Led Zeppelin). Ira Berk, SAP: “All the platforms, whether it’s Apple’s or Google’s or Microsoft, you’ll see this [mobile] payment capability get built in…Apple will help make sure it gets to critical mass for all the devices” (Bill Gates). Join us for Financial Services and the Internet of Things
The buzz: IoT When we discuss Internet of Things, it's about processing massive amounts of data. But what about the major management challenge this poses: how to change your management practices to take advantage of the fact that, for the first time, everyone who needs it can share real-time information about the company and do it instantly? This will demand a major shift, requiring senior managers to relinquish control of traditional top-down data flow. The experts speak. W. David Stephenson, Stephenson Strategies: “The Web as I envisaged it, we have not yet seen it yet. The Future is still so much bigger than the past” (Tim Berners-Lee). David Jonker, SAP: “We are now being exposed to as much information in a single day as our 15th century ancestors were exposed to in their entire lifetime” (Human Face of Big Data). Ira Berk, SAP: “In God we trust. All others must bring data” (W. Edwards Deming). Join us for At the Intersection of Big Data and the Internet of Things – Part 3.
The buzz: Wearables. The early crop of wearables is optimistically promising to simplify your daily life, improve your health care outcomes, enhance your sports performance, make your home and city smarter, and more. But to achieve these admirable goals, wearables must share your personal data – location and even body traits – with the Internet of Things. Even if wearables are comfortable, fashionable, precise, and relevant enough for you, do their lifestyle improvements outweigh potential compromises to your safety and privacy? The experts speak. Ronan Schwarz, SQRL Solutions: “The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed. (William Gibson) brbr Susan Rafizadeh, SAP: “I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago” (Henry Ford) brbr Ira Berk, SAP: “All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” (Victor Hugo) brbr Join us for IoT and Wearables: Give and Take.
The buzz: 16 tons, what do you get? According to a 2014 MaRs Connected World Market Insights report, “The mining industry is as vital to today’s global economy as ever before, yet it is…combating multiple adverse global trends such as falling commodity prices, a slowing global economy and skilled labour shortages…Calls for innovation in the mining industry are deafening, and the IoT is making its way into mining sites…[but] change is at times very gradual.” The experts speak. Lou Cellini, SAP: “If you can dream it, you can do it” (Walt Disney). Rob Tennant, Barloworld: “Telemetry data has a half-life of 3 days. If you cannot analyze, verify, recommend a solution and execute within a week, the value is often lost or at the least considerably diminished.” Ira Berk, SAP: “When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed to two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity” (John F. Kennedy). Join us for IoT and Mining: Revolutionizing the Industry Part 2.
The buzz: IoT and the Enterprise. If you haven’t introduced the Internet of Things into your organization, or you’ve only taken baby steps, take note: it’s easy to deploy a sea of sensors in everything you do, but the hard part is mapping their inter-relationships and drawing knowledge from them. You’ll also be wise to follow the rules of the road: justify your trip to IoT, re-map BYOD policies to BYOT, be prepared to swim in a sensor-enabled data sea, steer clear of privacy and security potholes, and more. The experts speak. Paul Madsen, Ping Identity: “Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.” (Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire) Benjamin Robbins, Palador: “To be prepared is half the victory” (Miguel de Cervantes). Brian M. Katz, Sanofi: “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else (Albert Einstein). Join us for The Road to IoT: Introducing Internet of Things into the Enterprise – Part 2.
The buzz: Mining. We typically use “mining” as a metaphor for digging through, analyzing, and finding value in Big Data. Now, with the mining industry undergoing an IoT revolution, we can apply the term to its namesake industry. How soon will mining companies and suppliers “mine” data flowing from sites and equipment to improve safety productivity, profitability? The experts speak. Mark Leach, Cameco: “IoT holds many as yet undiscovered uses, benefits and opportunities, but also many obstacles and dangers to be navigated, mitigated and managed. Just because we can record and measure everything, doesn’t mean we should.” Steve Fiscor, E&MJ and Coal Age: “As mining engineers and metallurgists begin to fully embrace the IoT concept, they will test it geographically and on a size and scale most would find hard to imagine.” Ruediger Schroedter, SAP: “Today IoT is a buzzword, but tomorrow it will make Star Trek technology look old.” Join us for IoT and Mining: Revolutionizing an Industry.
The buzz: Wearables. The early crop of wearables is optimistically promising to simplify your daily life, improve your health care outcomes, enhance your sports performance, make your home and city smarter, and more. But to achieve these admirable goals, wearables must share your personal data – location and even body traits – with the Internet of Things. Even if wearables are comfortable, fashionable, precise, and relevant enough for you, do their lifestyle improvements outweigh potential compromises to your safety and privacy? The experts speak. Ronan Schwarz, SQRL Solutions: “The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed. (William Gibson) brbr Susan Rafizadeh, SAP: “I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago” (Henry Ford) brbr Ira Berk, SAP: “All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” (Victor Hugo) brbr Join us for IoT and Wearables: Give and Take.
The buzz: IoT and the Enterprise Has your company begun introducing the Internet of Things into your organization yet? If you’ve ventured forth tentatively or not at all, be forewarned! The journey can be bumpy unless you follow basic rules of the road: justifying the trip to IoT, re-mapping BYOD policies to BYOT (Bring Your Own Things), preparing to swim in the sensor-enabled flood of data, avoiding privacy and security potholes, and more. The experts speak. Benjamin Robbins, Palador: “We need to stop talking about the Io’T’ and start talking about the Io’Me’.” Brian M. Katz, Sanofi: “We can connect anything we want to the Internet; but without context, who cares how many times you flushed the toilet today?” Paul Madsen, Ping Identity: “The things you used to own, now they own you (Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club). Join us for The Road to IoT: Introducing Internet of Things into the Enterprise.
The buzz: Data! The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vast ecosystem of physical objects connected to the Internet, offering the potential of big opportunities to transform your business. When we break it down, the IoT is nothing more than millions – perhaps even trillions – of objects, devices, and sensors, each generating its own continuous stream of data. Put these all together and you have the ultimate Big Data challenge. What actually happens at the intersection of Big Data and the Internet of Things? And how do we now balance past data and real-time data? The experts speak. David Stephenson, Stephenson Strategies: “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest (Ben Franklin). David Jonker, SAP: ““Mankind's Next Step Will be Our Greatest” (Promotional poster for the movie, Interstellar). Ira Berk, SAP: “All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come” (Victor Hugo). Join us for At the Intersection of Big Data and the Internet of Things – Part 2.
The buzz: School for IoT. If you think your company can just dive in and reap value from the IoT, think again! Yes, we’re poised for a dramatic increase in the number of devices and opportunities, and interconnectivity on a massive scale, but IoT training and education are needed to align users, devices, technologies, and technologists. We’re already seeing a deficit of ioT developers for existing apps and systems. Can we bring new developers up to speed fast enough to meet our needs? The experts speak. Sanjay Sagar, Quantilus: “There is no such thing as a Fish” (Stephen J. Gould). Ed Anuff, Apigee: “Eric Schmidt said, ‘The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand.’ If that's true, then it sounds like we've got our work cut out for us when it comes to the IoT.” Ira Berk, SAP: “We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution” (Scott Cook). Join us for Education and Training for the Internet of Things.
The buzz: IoT. The Internet thrived when the browser was invented, HTML was the language of every web page, and HTTP was the protocol every browser and app used to talk to the Internet. It all worked. But the Internet of Things (IoT) requires a powerful new infrastructure to accommodate huge volumes of data from thousands of entities and devices like smart homes, smart cities, smart refrigerators, smart cars. How are businesses building a new communications fabric for IoT? The experts speak. Dan McNamara, Keytree: “We could incorporate Internet protocol (IP) into nearly everything. There's no reason why the Internet shouldn't be in every single appliance.” (Geoff Mulligan) Denis King, Solace Systems: “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” (Wizard of Oz). Christine Hertzog, Smart Grid Library: “The communications solutions enabling IoT traffic need to be involved in protecting the ongoing security and privacy of data.” Join us for How the Internet of Things Really Works.
The buzz: Data, data everywhere. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vast ecosystem of physical objects connected to the Internet, that in aggregate offer the potential of big opportunities to transform your business. When we break it down, the IoT is nothing more than millions – perhaps already trillions – of objects, devices, and sensors, each and every one generating its own continuous stream of data. But put these all together and you have the ultimate Big Data challenge. What actually happens at the intersection of Big Data and the Internet of Things? The experts speak. W. David Stephenson, Stephenson Strategies: “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past” (Thomas Jefferson). David Jonker, SAP: “Technological neutrality is a myth” (Langdon Winner). Ira Berk, SAP: “All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come” (Victor Hugo). Join us for At the Intersection of Big Data and the Internet of Things.
The buzz: IoT saves lives. In 2011, the State of Indiana had the sixth highest infant mortality and child fatality rate in the US. Governor Mike Pence said, “Enough!” and made health improvement a top priority. How? He is leveraging the power of data analytics and the Internet of Things in a new biomedical-centered park in Indianapolis and a collaboration center in his office. Indiana is just one example of visionaries using IoT worldwide. The experts speak. Paul Baltzell, State of Indiana: “Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors” (Nikola Tesla). Charlie Brandt, KSM Consulting: “When we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe” (John Muir). Tim O’Malley, EarlySense: “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up” (Thomas A. Edison). Join us for Internet of Things and Life-Saving Innovations: Lowering Infant Mortality
The buzz: IoT. The Internet thrived when the browser was invented, HTML was the language of every web page, and HTTP was the protocol every browser and app used to talk to the Internet. It all worked. But the Internet of Things (IoT) requires a powerful new infrastructure to accommodate huge volumes of data from thousands of entities and devices like smart homes, smart cities, smart refrigerators, smart cars. How are businesses building a new communications fabric for IoT? The experts speak. Dan McNamara, Keytree: “We could incorporate Internet protocol (IP) into nearly everything. There's no reason why the Internet shouldn't be in every single appliance.” (Geoff Mulligan) Denis King, Solace Systems: “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” (Wizard of Oz). Christine Hertzog, Smart Grid Library: “The communications solutions enabling IoT traffic need to be involved in protecting the ongoing security and privacy of data.” Join us for How the Internet of Things Really Works.
The buzz: IoT.The Internet of Things (IoT) has replaced Big Data as our most-hyped technology. But IoT is already more than hype. IoT is penetrating every aspect of our lives as we play, live, and work. Do you understand it? At its simplest, IoT involves capturing, making sense of, and acting on data about the presence, location, and status of a thing or a person. Some analysts say IoT is the new battleground for capturing user mindshare. To participate fully in today's digital ecosystem, you need the scale, insight, agility to grow your business. Could API management be the answer?The experts speak. Craig McNeil, Accenture: “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else” (Albert Einstein). Chet Kapoor, Apigee: “By 2020, there will be 50 billion connected devices. Where you see a device, we see data and APIs.” Darren Crowder, SAP: The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. (Tim Berners-Lee). Join us for Internet of Things Comes to Life.