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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #247 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Kris Watson, Stephanie, Pete, Tom, Olivier, Bill, Debbie, Bill, Rob, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:
 
🎶 🎙️  BAD KARAOKE! 🎸 🥁  "Don't Start Believing", IoT Coffee Talk semi-original (our version of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing")
🧅 Why "Don't Stop Believing" is the wrong song for the age of generative AI
🧅 Olivier pretends to sing for 2 seconds
🧅 Why experience matters as an analyst because your job is to clarify
🧅 How much AI generated video content is for porn?
🧅 RedCap finds a day in the sun with Semtech certifying with AT&T
🧅 What is the role of LoRaWAN today?
🧅 Evolving connectivity architectures for IoT
🧅 The economics of visibility at the very edge of the edge
🧅 Dimitri gets controversial - Leonard say LLM are B.S.?
🧅 The future of free expertise
🧅 Building your own personal Tay off your data junk
🧅 Rob tells the key how to deploy Llama 3.2 7B on the edge
🧅 The problem of believing tech
🧅 The scaled-out AI avatar burden of proof - that you are not a jerk
🧅 GenAI - How will it impact education and how we learn?

It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #246 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Pete, Tom, David, Bill, Debbie, Rob, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• THE WORST KARAOKE! "Anyway You Want It", Journey
• AI fatigue - Too much DeepSeek nonsense!
• All Chinese tech denial leads to a whining road to D.C.
• The great AI hypocrisy
• How to build LLMs and 1.5 trillion parameter MoEs out of coconuts
• The Week of DeepSeek - Dazed and Confused
• The red AI pill or the blue AI pill - utopia or dystopia?
• The 3 Laws of Edge AI
• What does safe, reliable, trustworthy Edge AI look like?
• How to make your content LLM copyright protected - 80 percent nonsense rule
• Why IoT Coffee Talk doesn't fit in the attention span of 99.999 percent of humanity

It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #245 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Pete, Tom, David, Bill, Debbie, Rob, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Round n' Round", Ratt
• Everyone needs to go to the Edge AI Foundation event in Austin in a month!
• Stargate - The ultimate $500 billion AI press release ever!
• Will quantum hype deflate Stargate into the WeWork of GenAI?
• Will the AI titans be able to quantum teleport themselves out of collapse?
• What are the historical implications of bad tech bets and bad timing?
• Leonard invents the "fake economy."
• OpenAI's Operator AI agent - savior or catastrophe in the making?
• Why 5G will matter again, especially when you try to podcast at 85 mph. 
• The tech-savvy proclamations of the app-savvy generations.
• Is the debt or any debt good or bad for your economic health?
• What is the value of a TikTok economy?
• The race to find power to fuel the great GenAI supercomputing data center black hole
• Western AI superiority under threat by DeepSeek - True disruption and risk

It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #243 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Pete, Olivier, Rob, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)", Big & Rich
• Rob shares the songs that he sings to get banned at an open mic night!
• OPEN INVITIATION - We are recruiting for younger IoT Coffee Talkers to replace us!
• What is up with wireless (cellular and Wi-Fi) services in Las Vegas!?!?
• Old Fashions make Leonard's mouth run endlessly. It's terrible!
• Pete kicks off our CES 2025 recap with an edge AI slant
• The immense "Okay-ness" of incremental. It's really not a bad thing
• Rob shares his strange picks from CES 2025 - It's a such a must miss you can't miss it!
• CES, the great hype and techno nonsense generator!
• The illusion of progress and how we go backwards when we think we are going forward
• AI, the augmenting technology that gets us to 95%
• What happened to the Rabbit and the Humane.AI Pin?
• Where is the high margin GenAI workload?
• Progress is iterative (the same thing just a little better)
• Rob and Olivier launch a new venture to create AGI using Visual Basic, the 1995 version
• The agentic SaaS catastrophe

 
It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #242 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Dimitri, Jan, Debbie, Rob, Ryan, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Summer Breeze", Seals & Crofts
• DJ Rob T ushers in 2025 with some killer Yacht Rock!
• Analog is the key to the future of artificial uber intelligence
• Agentic AI in the billions - the key to logarithmically scaling out 5% error rate in your business!
• The first rule in responsible AI, don't say irresponsible things about AI
• Agentic AI - GenAI + RPA on steroids with all the side effects
• The job of the future is to be an AI plumber
• Don't call your IoT business a "GenAIoT" business in 2025! Don't do it! 
• AppleTown - Apple jumps the smart home shark?
• The next exponential product from Apple: iHome
• iFactory 
• Dogecoin will become the new U.S. currency in 2025? Huh?
• The next era of Digital Twins is Seals and Crofts. Start the hype cycle!
• What is the opportunity for edge AI infrastructure in 2025?

It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #241 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Marc, Debbie, Rob,  Bill, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Purple Haze", Jimi Hendrix
• The logistics and gastrointestinal science of Santa’s global, personalized gift delivery system
• The missing link discovered: how the Tio came about
• The historically accurate nativity scene for your Catalonian home
• What happened to the Helium Network? What happened to crypto?
• Is there a business in a People’s Network, or is it all about the crypto?
• How does our view on IoT when everything connects by Wi-Fi?
• The old thesis of massive IoT for high-fidelity digital twins - a failed case?
• Who is up for betting and gambling on quantum computing? - the next nonsensical hype
• How did that prompt engineering doctorate work out?
• What did Rob do in 2024? You want to know!
• Bill puts a grill on digital twin in 2024 with True North!
• The Data Divas deficit and 500,000 downloads!
• See you in 2025! 

It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #240 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Olivier, Debbie, Rob, Pete, Bill, Ryan, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Jingle Bells", The IoT Coffee Talk Orchestra
• Olivier explaining how he doesn't know the lyrics to Jingle Bells
• Tay is back with a vengeance!!
• What do we not get about garbage in, garbage out?
• What is determinism and why is it a new concept for a lot of folks?
• Are we Luddites or do we know something you don't?
• Human speed versus machine speed
• Was 2024 the year of GenAI revolution results, denial, or experimentation?
• How to get the Wizard of Oz out of the loop
• Olivier and Leonard have a Hololens and Vision Pro shoot out!!
• Metaverse is dead. It's all about memories.
• Samsung's Project Moohan - Metaverse not revisited
• We are way past 1984 and we let it happen and are disturbingly OK with it
• Pleasure, Convenience, FOMO - the key drivers shaping our future?
• The dynamic of collective stupidity

It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #239 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Olivier, Debbie, Rob, Pete, Bill, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "The Needle Lies", Queensryche
• Rob knows Geoff Tate!
• Debbie's Data Diva podcast hits 500,000 downloads!!
• Olivier gives his take on IoT. What is it and does it need a name?
• Why is it so easy to say "solution" but difficult to mean "solution"?
• The big GenAIoT issue - latency
• The need for specialized AI for the specialness of edge use cases
• Autonomous is not around the corner. Sorry!
• Techno digestion issues and enterprise tech barfing
• What happened to BIG DATA!!?!?!?!
• The influence of privacy and pricing on on-premises big data
• The fabric trend in ludicrous data lakes and houses
• Cloud has been eating open source's lunch
• Regulation is the 900lb constraint in the room
• Zero Trust IoT - what is it?

It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #238 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Debbie, Rob, Pete, Bill, Stephanie, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Lay It Down", Ratt
• Elevate Our Kids donation drive! www.elevateourkids.org
• When will we have death metal Mexican cruises?
• Rob does his Chuck Norris impression
• Why the best cars were designed and made in the 70s
• Rob gives the history of yacht rock
• Rob's GPT movie review of Francis Coppola's "Metropolis"
• What is Intel without Pat Gelsinger?
• How a group of the smartest people with bad politics can produce logarithmic stupidity
• Why lazy industry journalists are screwing up tech as we know it and will know it
• Debbie throws a grenade into the conversation - chips in China
• Is the CHIPS Act seeing its day with an unraveled Intel?
• Be childish, my friend

It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #244 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Pete, Olivier, Marc, Ryan, Debbie, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "What's Going On", Marvin Gaye
• Ryan's doggie donut
• What is up with u-blox ditching cellular IoT? What is going on?!
• Ryan says that cellular IoT ain't that hard
• What is the anatomy of an agentic AI thingy?
• AARGH (Agentic Augmented Retrieval Generative Howdie-doodie) - The inevitable counter-RAG of agentic AI
• Stop your car from driving around in a circle in your parking lot? We have an app for that!
• The new horror scene - can't open your car with your mobile key before the killer gets you!
• Using the wrong technology for the right things
• The conflict of agentic AI interests and intents
• AI-native IoT - the next IoT?
• How do you like others innovating on your data?
• Unintelligent closed loop automation
• Eat your own dog food (and a lot of it) before you feed it to your customers
• Product testing at your expense

 
It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.