Where does processing occur? The cloud is drawn by thousands of network architects, but when it comes to managing real-time mission critical information, closer is better. The question then becomes how autonomous is the decision and is it using AI to analyze other resources? This panel looks at architectures and the where and when of aggregating data.

Where are the benefits and value in Fog Computing models? Efficiency and effectiveness are key drivers and this session is about the value that Fog brings to Industrial IoT.

Immediate, real-time information is the key to success with Artificial Intelligence. How do you assure speed, accuracy and execution? This session looks at AI and specific use cases based on experience in the field.

Can self-driving cars be bad drivers? If you are going to have self-driving cars, the rule for drivers of keeping their eye on the road applies to automobile itself. How do you assure that all available and useful resources are gathered?

Flexibility and interoperability in the field of IoT software is a paramount objective. The mix of platforms, “things”, applications, intelligence, etc. which are connected in an IoT deployment is extensive. And it’s still growing. How do you create a software platform that connects to a variety of old & new, greenfield and brownfield devices and sensors, allows the incorporation of various edge analytics, communicates to a diverse set of cloud and enterprise platforms like Azure IoT Hub, Google IoT Core, AWS IoT? The solution, as exhibited by the EdgeX Foundry (an open source, vendor neutral IoT platform hosted by the Linux Foundation), is to use a microservice architecture. In this session, learn about EdgeX Foundry, how it works, and see how its microservices architecture can help.

This panel is a question and answer discussion about how IoT benefits from distributed processing, aggregation and augmenting resources. It looks at IoT and the way that operational information from sensors are gathered, analyzed and processed.

When it comes to IoT people are developing solutions either to save money, make money or to comply with regulation. However much of the regulatory environment is trying to provide a framework for success in deployments. This general session looks at the issues being debated in government and how it will impact IoT solutions.

What is the state of the industry? Have we crossed the chasm and reaching scale, or are stuck in proof of concept: This session looks at various data sources to introduce the audience to where IoT is today.

The meeting of Healthcare and IoT represents a huge opportunity for both industries, but where are the logical places to start? Over the course of the Healthcare IOT program, we will explore the process of outpatient surgery, from patient intake to remote aftercare and patient communication. In this session we will give you an overview of the program and what delegates can expect.

When it comes to the Industrial Internet the essentials are about managing and monitoring production. At the heart of this management are processors that are designed to manage repetitive actions. This session looks at how Industry 4.0 is looking to revolutionize production.

In this session, we will give an overview of the Low Power connectivity issues that will be covered throughout the conference, and look at a key case study that is an example of Best practice across LPWAN execution.

The Internet of Things often represents small elements that have big impact when applied the level of a city or region. This session starts by looking at how some incremental deployments have tremendous impact.

What are the components to an IoT solution? What is the proper way to source a strategy? This session looks at the big picture of IoT design, development and deployment.

The primary care physician is the starting point for most patients within the healthcare process. This initial visit includes many IoT-friendly processes, including Electronic medical Records management, referrals to specialists and surgeons and examinations. In this session, the speakers will dig into the IoT-enabled options to streamline those procedures.

Taking a broader view of Industrial Controls we discover that their processing capabilities and coding is designed to be simple and not to be communicative of all but the essentials of production. Many companies are augmenting these systems with sensors to improve the business processes and gather real – time information. This session looks at how IIoT is expanding the knowledge of production.

The rapid rise and deployment of NB-IOT and LTE-M has been unprecedented in the cellular industry and just the start of the timeline to Massive IoT in 5G. There has been challenges in getting here but also some early success. In this session i will give a global overview of scale of deployment, the fastest growing regions and applications plus the challenges we all face to get to the billions of connections expected.

Atlanta has embraced the adoption of Smart City solutions for themselves and the region. This panel discusses the strategies involved at a local and regional level.

As industrial networks interconnect with enterprise networks, information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) are interacting in ways never seen before. In addition, the massive surge in the number and type of connected devices and machines presents challenges to OT, IT and security teams. Digital organizations need a new approach to tackling security. How will tomorrow’s plant manager identify and develop the right strategies to tackle cybersecurity challenges head-on and proactively prepare these teams to mitigate risks in the future?

With all the data being stored and transferred into and out of medical facilities, connectivity is critical at every point along that process. In addition, communications between departments and facilities can be time sensitive, and directly impact patient care. Of course, all of these cases also require top notch security, in addition to fast, reliable connectivity. Here, we will examine the methods and options for accomplishing this.

It’s amazing how small and useful IoT devices have become. In the Fashion industry the use of IoT spans the production of materials to the actual garments available today. Everything from Internet posts to LEDs embedded in the materials will be on display in the fashion show later today. This session is about the impact of IoT on Fashion.

For most of the world resources are scarce and need to be properly managed. For those that live where resources are abundant the issue is one of caretaking. The bottom line is the need is universal to manage, monitor and protect sustainable resources. This session looks at the full spectrum of using IoT with Sustainable resources.

So much data is gathered, but how many companies know what to do with these the big lakes. This session looks at how analytics finds relevant data to help evaluate the needs of IoT solutions. More importantly, it shows how management can measure success when deploying IoT solutions.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, is the legislation in the U.S. designed to protect the privacy and medical information of patients. There is similar legislation all around the world, and IoT technology implementation in Healthcare is directly impacted by the legally mandated compliance to these regulations. IoT providers need to know how to navigate these regulations and help their customers remain compliant to the law, while still accomplishing the goal of keeping patient information safe while improving patient outcomes through better data sharing within the IoT, and this session will dig into some of those solutions.

Managing Production is the focus of Operations, reporting on production is the focus of IT. The result is that one looks at the means to the end while the other looks at the end result. This often materializes in a failure to communicate effectively. How does IoT enable better understanding between the departments to improve production, planning and profit?

Who owns the rights to the pole and how does the Authority Having Jurisdiction build partnerships to enable the wide use of IoT services and solutions. One answer is in how the migration to better public lighting tools make street lights the gateway to new services. This panel looks at how public / private partnerships are formed to support quality of life IoT applications.

Do Smart Cities improve the quality of life of citizens, or are the goals of Smart Cities more operational? This session looks at the different objectives involved in smart city development and how that extends regionally.

Patient exams amount to data collection, which is the starting point for any IoT system. This session will look at how IoT-enabled sensors can help streamline those examinations, thanks to smart and connected medical devices.

It’s one thing to gather “Big Data”, it’s another thing entirely to determine how to find the relevant data and put it to action. This session is about how analytics can bring insight and measurable improvement when using IoT to gather, deliver and execute.

Despite the growth of the IoT, ever approaching ubiquity, most devices are still unconnected. And many enterprises are either reluctant to buy all-new, smart equipment, or not in the position to make such a capital outlay. The answer, of course if aftermarket add-ons. LPWAN can be a critical piece of that solution. Delegates in this session will learn how and why.

While we talk about Smart Cities, the reality is the need is often beyond one jurisdiction. This session looks at how Regional deployments are leading the way in Smart City applications and how adaptable they are to other locations.

In this session, we’ll discuss why you should bypass the public internet and use a global private network to improve and secure your business, support scale and interoperability for IoT devices, provide direct secure access to cloud-based enterprise applications, and navigate the exciting opportunities that lie ahead in the age of digital transformation.

Diagnosis has in the past been an eldritch art, combining patient data, studies and statistics, doctors’ professional experience, and symptom analysis in the supervising physician’s mind. Now, thanks to advanced machine analytics, doctors have better data available than ever before, and they are using it to inform ever more accurate diagnoses. We’ll show you how.

Digital models of any object can seemingly live forever, but question we’re asking at GE is can those digital models, or Digital Twins, enable their physical selves to live forever? Can we meld service and design into a single process that allows us to transform jet engines, power generation turbines and more into immortal machines? This is the essence of the digital journey GE is on in the Aviation and Power industries, as we digitize our industrial assets and connect them from the Edge-to-the-Cloud. Digitization, along with GE’s technology leadership in additive manufacturing, is creating a new paradigm in how we operate and service our machines. Colin will discuss what the significant business outcomes this journey already has yielded and the ultimate path to machine immortality.

Small- and medium-sized municipalities face huge challenges in getting smarter that include financial constraints, community concerns, infrastructure limitations and, sometimes most difficult, citizen buy-in. In this session, our speakers will talk about how an LPWAN connectivity strategy can check off all those boxes and let communities save money while serving citizens better.

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) are market leaders in fleet management, and their Connectivity Division is setting the bar for quality and innovation around the world. The Connectivity Division has turned IoT technology into a key differentiator in their fleet management portal, Detroit Connect. Users are able to view vehicle fault events and performance data for insights into their overall fleet health, fuel economy and safety performance. The web, iOS, and Android Detroit Connect product suite is built to handle terabytes of data seamlessly flowing from trucks through 3G and WiFi telematics boxes located on-board the truck. In this panel discussion and Q&A, the audience will learn how fleet connectivity was taken from concept to implementation. The discussion will include the end user, business and IT perspectives, and will offer attendees insight into how this successful process can be modeled in their own digital transformation initiatives.

Our classic session where we ask the simple question; who makes money, and where does smart money go to invest in IoT? This panel of movers and shakers gives us their perspective on the who and why of IoT success.

Within the factory, assets and inventory can be tracked with sensors, allowing for better accountability and product management. From there, industrial IoT allows the business to look at almost all components of the operation–from employees to forklifts–as assets that can provide opportunities for revenue growth if managed correctly. Using intelligence as part of the product development IoT model can also have an impact on development of processes, changing how products are innovated and built.

Location services, enabled by Low Power connectivity, serve two powerful needs within the IoT-enabled IoT: security through device identification, and physical site management. Both of these goals are critical to good operations no matter the size of the company, from single-location retail to global enterprises. Here, we’ll take a look at how LPWAN enables location services in any industry.

When it comes to commuting, timing is everything. With IoT timing can become even more precise and valuable to the customer base. This session is looks at how people move and how solutions can be deployed for mass transit and personal transportation including bikes and scooters.

As technology goes, we live in a world where smaller seems better. But imagine that your most valuable computing asset might also be your largest asset – the very building that houses your operations. And it might be your best worker: outfitted with technology to connect it to the digital world, it’s highly skilled and performs around the clock. This indispensable “employee” offers smart, reliable and resourceful service, and stands to get even more valuable over time.

This session will aim to educate healthcare providers and executives on how OPM can generate real qualitative and quantitative results for hospitals as well as the communities they serve. Attendees will also learn what key considerations to take into account when looking to orchestrate IoT systems and devices in the healthcare setting.

This session will focus on two separate real life cases of Predictive Maintenance. In both cases we enabled industrial customers to improve the technical availability of their machines and robots. The presentation will detail steps and issues resolved in developing the Data Lake and the required Machine Learning algorithms that enable corrections and improvements to industrial controls. By combining traditional Engineering approach (FMEA, RCM and Kaizen) with the Machine Learning approach (full data set analytics and multivariate correlation analysis) a Digital Twin is developed. This impact the specific manufacturing process that is way more reliable and predictable than what could be done in the past just with the Engineering approach. As these approaches continue to develop AI becomes a reality.

Low Power Wide Area Networks are useful in many IoT systems, of course, but LPWAN has many traits that are ideally suited to startups and SMBs, thanks in part to its low cost and ease of deployment. This session will look at some case studies and best practices for the not-yet-big players in IoT.

The technology used in Seat Pleasant's Digital Transformation includes an operational data platform (i.e. command and control platform, smart city platform) that allows Cities to aggregate data from disparate sources and visualize that data in a single view. This allows the City to share data across departments, and the solution also allows for the development of KPIs for measuring productivity and SOPs for improving the efficiency of processes. The solution was developed by IBM and is called the Intelligent Operations Center. There is a Public Safety/Emergency Management Module/Add-on to the IBM Intelligent Operations Center that was developed by Priority 5. This component allows our public safety individuals monitor crime activity across jurisdictions, plan for emergencies by understanding the interdependencies of critical infrastructure and respond effectively to emergencies by improving communication and coordination.

Production is the place where success is often the most tangible and in the case of industrial the ability to benefit from trial and error is an operational necessity. This session looks at test bed case studies and how they have impacted Industry 4.0.

Most medical after care these days happens at home, from post-operative care to maintaining medications. In addition, around the world, many people in need of care cannot get physical access to medical services. Solutions to these problems might lie with the IoT in the form of remote patient care and streamlined communications. Delegates in this session will learn about how this can work, and how the IoT enables and secures these remote solutions.

Connectivity in remote areas is a constantly evolving challenge in IoT, and satellite connectivity is one of the best solutions we’ve found for the problem. Now, LPWAN is joining the IoT space race. Learn how it works, and where it’s already being used.

Becoming a smart city is not only very appealing, but essential, to both small and large metropolitan areas. However, in the most recent Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, assessed by the American Society of Civil Engineers’, our near-failing grade (D+) has not improved over the last 4 years and would require an estimated investment of $4.59 trillion over the next 10 years if we want to raise our grade.

In this session we'll discuss real-life smart city implementations in reviewing connected car cyber protection trends and show how on-chip security functions help to provide security policy management and automated protection of the powertrain and communication domains in the vehicle, including the LTE module, vehicle-to-vehicle communications module, the wireless access point, the engine control module and more. We will describe ways to secure the communications between the domains and sets policies to limit access between certain domains to mitigate and control potential cyber threats. Specific demonstrations of mock IPS and DDoS cyber attacks will show how to secure the data transmitted from a public cloud service to the in-car entertainment system.

To close the IoT Evolution health conference, we will look back at the entire patient journey, and posit what an entirely IoT-enabled medical experience will look like in the not-to-distant future.

We gather key speakers and our event host review the lessons learned and to answer questions.

Discuss the issues and solutions raised in this track and talk about how those lessons can be translated to strategies for development of new solutions.

What did we learn, what do we still have questions?

Jumpstart your day at IoT Evolution Expo enjoying a continental breakfast and coffee while sharing ideas with colleagues and potential partners on the expo floor.