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Internet of things: Rise of the machines - 4th May, 6-9pm, London
Internet of Things (IoT) is the combining of the physical and virtual worlds to drive improvements and benefits. This mashup* event will focus on why IoT is emerging (again).
IoT is, in its simplistic form, tiny sensors that are embedded into physical things which are connected (wireless or wired) to create benefit from process change or data analysis. Underlying the IoT are technologies such as NFC, sensors, and smartphones. IoT focuses on either services that collect data and analyse the data and the output is information or services that collect data but also close the loop and affect the physical world.
The Internet of Things refers to a network of objects beyond the usual computers, for example:
- The device containing electronics in order to fulfil its primary function (eg, washing machine, car, aircon unit)
- The electrical device traditionally absent of sophisticated electronics (eg, lighting, heating, power distribution)
- Non-electrical objects (eg, food and drink packages, animals, clothing)
- Environmental sensors (eg, for variables such as temperature, heat and moisture)
More detailed information about the definition of the Internet of Things is included in the CASAGRAS Final Report
So what has changed since the ITU report on IoT in 2005 and why has it become trendy again? The emergence of new research, Smart Grids, cost advantage, data analysis, device proliferation and the fact that yesterdays science fantasy is now possible, make IoT hot.
We will bring together people who are deploying the internet of things and are focused on where the value is, where your privacy ends and who is liable.
If you are interested in contributing to this event or demoing at this event please email team@mashupevent.com
Venue
BCS London Office
First Floor, The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street
London
WC2E 7HA
Programme:
6.00pm - Registration and Networking
7.00pm - Intro, Speakers and debate
8.20pm - Networking
10.00pm - Close
Tickets
£35+VAT please register and proceed to pay.
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SPEAKERS
David Orban
David Orban is an entrepreneur and visionary. He is the Chairman of Humanity+. In recognition of his lifetime contribution to exponentially advancing technologies, David has been awarded the position of Advisor and European Lead to the prestigious Singularity University.He is a Founder and Chief Evangelist of WideTag, Inc., a high technology start-up company providing the infrastructure for an open Internet of Things. David shapes the strategic vision of its technologies by developing the policies and communication steps necessary to enable constructive progress. David is also Founder of Startupbusiness, a social network aimed at enabling the Italian startup ecosystem. Startupbusiness is a spin-off of Questar, an Italian software publishing and distribution company, of which David is the Founder. He is further a Scientific Advisory Board Member for the Lifeboat Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks. David is also a Founder of the Open Government Data working group. His educational background includes studies in Physics at both the University of Milan and the University of Padua. More on David: http://www.davidorban.com/about/
David Wood
David Wood has spent more than 20 years envisioning, architecting, implementing, supporting, and avidly using smart mobile devices: ten years with PDA manufacturer Psion PLC, and more than ten years as an executive with smartphone operating system specialist Symbian.
His background includes: many years building and integrating UI system software and application frameworks in 16-bit and 32-bit versions of "EPOC" software (later named "Symbian OS"); growing and directing the technical consulting teams that worked with leading phone manufacturers to create the world's first successful smartphones; and defining and running development programs to stimulate and nurture the Symbian partner ecosystem.
He was heavily involved in preparations and planning for the open source Symbian Foundation, and served on its Leadership Team as "Catalyst and Futurist". He is now Principal of Delta Wisdom, an independent consultancy that aims to provide "intelligence for profound change".
Moderator
Philip Sheldrake
Phillip is an expert in marketing technology, digital marketing, process engineering and change management. Philip founded and leads the Influence Scorecard™ initiative, attracting the involvement of US thought leaders such as Katie Paine and Ted Shelton, established the PR industry’s first foray into Web 3.0 with the foundation of the work on the PR Ontology For Feelings About Things, and has been invited by best selling author David Meerman Scott to contribute content to his new book. He published “The Social Web Analytics eBook 2008“, downloaded over 80,000 times to date, and runs MarCom Professional, a social professional network for marketing communicators.
Philip co-founded a UK PR consultancy at the close of the 1990s, selling it to Larry Weber’s W2 Group in 2006 to become the group’s European HQ. He was Director of Digital Strategies until leaving the company June 2009. Philip is a Chartered Engineer. He is a main board director of Intellect. He also founded, built and sold Europe’s first Google Maps mashup.
More: http://www.influencecrowd.com/philip-sheldrake/
Niall Murphy
Niall is a successful and experienced technology entrepreneur, executive and angel investor, with over 17 years of experience in the mobile, internet and web market place. His professional journey has spanned fixed and mobile internet services, web services and public policy.
Niall is the founder of EveryThng, an internet software platform for exchanging realtime information about connected and unconnected objects. EveryThng serves application developers, manufacturers and enterprises. Niall co-founded of The Cloud, Europe's largest public WiFi network. He is principal of Kubu Ventures, CEO of Ideaworks3D and an investor in Worksnug.
Niall contributed as a policy advisor on telecoms in South Africa through an African National Congress (ANC) think tank in the early 90s. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Actuarial Science.
Paul Green
Director of Marketing and Technology - Arkessa
Paul is the visionary in Arkessa – the business that provides remote internet services to multitudes of machines. He is currently creating the services Arkessa will offer in five year’s time.
Armed with degrees in chemical physics and mathematics, his career has taken him through a variety of roles, including design and production engineering, business planning, marketing and corporate sales.
Telecommunications has been the central theme of his work which has been for leading bluechip companies, including STC, Nortel (for which he implemented the first single chip radio system) GEC, GPT and GPT Siemens.
Philip Cole
Co-Founder, Sales and Marketing Director, Wireles Logic Phil Cole is the founder and Group Sales and Marketing Director at Wireless Logic, the UK's leading independent provider of mobile M2M connectivity services, and is an expert on all things M2M. Wireless Logic is a preferred M2M partner to all four major mobile networks, providing a full-service, fully managed M2M connectivity solution through a nework of 400 systems integrators, for hundreds of organisations in around 40 different sectors. Wireless Logic grew by 75 per cent in 2009, exceeding market growth and expectation. Phil began his career at Team Systems at Altos and went on to launch the UK's fourth largest tier three laptop brand, Pico.
