Today, we have Dean Bethke on the show. Dean is a Director of Sales and Business Development for Azure IoT in the West, US. As part of an elite team that serves to help businesses with specific capabilities, the Global Black Belt team. Internally he's considered a hyper specialist in the area of all things connected. Dean has been with Microsoft for a little over 20 years, celebrating his 20th anniversary just this last December.

This episode is the 4th and FINAL segment of a special series focusing on Industry 4.0, which has concentrated around the capabilities, technologies, and realities of today's digital era of AI and Cloud computing, and most importantly, the collaborations with the worker, and how this is impacting all types of industries from automotive all the way to dairy production and cattle herding - which you'll hear more about today.

Some big items we discuss:

-the infamous 3 letter word, IOT, and how this ambiguous technology has evolved - Dean simply perceives this genre of tech today as "making dumb things smart, and smart things smarter"

-the hidden challenges in connecting devices and pulling insights off of them and the importance of data , and why any IoT effort must be anchored into a well thought out data strategy

-importance of stories in the world of technology, and why it helps people explore their own journey and the challenges to innovation and change management

-the emerging divisions and collaborations between IT (information technology), and OT (operational technology), and why the current state of technology mandates that these two entities must work together

-ideas about privacy and security in the realm of all things connected, from ambient sensors to cameras, and how these can be easily misused

Thank you for listening!

How to contact dean:

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanbethke/

Additional resources mentioned:

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3322517/a-critical-look-at-gartners-top-10-iot-trends.html

https://news.microsoft.com/features/connected-cows-help-farms-keep-up-with-the-herd/

Ginni Rometty keynote: CES 2016

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3322517/acritical-look-at-gartners-top-10-iot-trends.html

https://www.gizbot.com/news/number-connected-things-use-will-go-up-25-billion-2021-055276.html

https://go.forrester.com/blogs/predictions-2019-iot-devices/

https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS43722418

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