August 22, 2023

IoT and IT: Bridging the Gap | Digimondo's Dennis Kolberg | Internet of Things Podcast

21 minutes

Dennis Kolberg, Chief Product Officer at Digimondo, joins Ryan Chacon on the IoT For All Podcast to discuss IoT and IT. They talk about trends in the IoT space, leading IoT use cases, the challenges of scaling IoT, IT and IoT convergence, tech agnosticism, domain knowledge, ROI, and succeeding with multiple IoT use cases.

Dr. Dennis Kolberg is Chief Product Officer at Digimondo, one of the leading German IoT platforms for utilities. He is also a guest lecturer for digitalization in production at the NORDAKADEMIE in Hamburg. He holds a doctoral degree in factory automation which he accomplished at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), one of the birthplaces of Industry 4.0. During that time, Dennis was head of research in the department of factory innovation and at the SmartFactory KL. As Senior Manager for Industry 4.0 in a consultancy, he could successfully support various companies in automotive, medical, and food industries to introduce IoT and Industry 4.0. Furthermore, he was former CTO and co-founder of a software-startup for digitizing master data management in production.

Digimondo GmbH was founded in 2016 by software experts with the vision of making the world more efficient, sustainable, and better with the Internet of Things (IoT). As an IoT pioneer in Germany, the Digimondo team has many years of experience in implementing IoT projects. The self-developed IoT platform niotix is the key to the successful implementation of proof-of-concepts through projects of all scaling levels up to global rollout. By implementing a Digital Twin tailored to the needs of IoT and by using a technology-agnostic approach, Digimondo provides a next generation IoT platform that allows the fusion of IoT and IT.

Discover more about IoT at https://www.iotforall.com

More about Digimondo: https://www.digimondo.com/en/

Connect with Dennis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdenniskolberg/

Key Questions and Topics from this Episode:

(00:00) Intro to the IoT For All Podcast

(00:09) Intro to Dennis Kolberg and DIGIMONDO

(01:25) Trends in the IoT space

(03:36) Leading IoT use cases

(05:29) Challenges of scaling IoT

(08:04) IT and IoT convergence

(10:14) What does technology agnostic mean?

(12:09) Acquiring domain knowledge