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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #127 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, Rob, Stephanie, and Marc rap about the great workforce shortage. Can we automate our way out of the shortage? Can we create digital twins to replace them? Will you be hiring a digital twin to fill roles that you can't fill?

Rob gives a lecture on the jobs-to-be-done and defining roles and tasks for a digital twin that learns human behavior and decision making? 

Sure, it's a bit of a mind bender. Is a digital twin a simulation? Your head will hurt by the time you get to the end of the episode. It is awesome!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #126 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, Andreea, Tom, Rob, Bill, and Leonard talk about the B Company and the idea of doing good. Are you doing good? Is your company doing good? What is your purpose? 

We the make another foray into a discussion about Bill's ridiculously awesome smart, connected him. Really weird, later on we talk about the relevance of PERA and how age old frameworks are still valid. Cloud does not break the wheel. Bill's house is proof. 

We wrap things up with a long discussion about security, quality code development, and the need to test and QA. We need to call it DevTestOps because we tend to defund the testing and QA in IT. 

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #125 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, Andreea, Steve, Leonard, Bill, and Rob engaged in a fragmented but enthralling discussion about a bunch of random stuff such as the Hurricane Ian tragedy, going from chip shortage to the impending chip glut, annoying behaviors of Norton endpoint protection, the Edge Computing World, and Big Ass Fans. Yes, that is literally the name of the company that makes the massive fans that you see at Costcos to cool the warehouses.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #124 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, we have a special guest, Afzal Mangal of T-Mobile and IoT Creators, joining us to talk about his book, "How Telcos Destroy Their Future Relevance". It's a great book. Straight talk and some sobering perspective on why telcos do what they do and don't do what we think they might be able to do.

It's a great debate with Rob taking on Marc Pous' role as Chief "I disagree with you" Officer! It's pandemonium on Zoom as the gallery debates topics from the role of ecosystems to the stifling influence of standards in innovation. It gets hot up in here!

Oh, and Rob does some amazing air drums! It's simply ridiculous!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #123 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, Leonard and Rob report from Mobile World Congress in Las Vegas. This is the first year that the North American version of GSMA's marquee event is taking place in Sin City in collaboration with CTIA. It's an event that is still recovering from the big pandemic hit that forced the event organizers to regroup and reinvent. 

You won't want to miss this event where Leonard gets totally lost and has to trek much further than he had to if he had bother to find out where MWCLA 2022 was taking place before he left his hotel. Pretty ridiculous. On the way, the Dynamic IoT Duo carry on about what is big in IoT and 5G. Is it all about ecosystems? Is it all about open? Find out in this episode! 

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #122 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, Steve Brumer and Tom White join Stephanie, Rob, and Leonard to talk about where the growth is. Leonard is at TM Forum's Digital Transformation World 2022 event in Copenhagen reporting live. Just like the IoT, the folks in the telecoms industry are trying to figure out where the growth is. Listen to us conclude that the Hump of Nonsense and what happens when valuable technological improvements in industry and within companies can be undermined by hype and silliness. We also talk about Helium House. Steve gives us the low down on what it is like to be the oldest guy in the room of a bunch of crypto fiends who know little about what their crypto investments are capitalizing. Rob and Steve also give Apple of a bunch of unsponsored props for the iPhone 14. Apple, be cool. Donate a couple of million to Elevate Our Kids. www.elevateourkids.org. Let's not just talk digital divide, do something about it!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #121 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, Ryan, Rob, Marc, and Leonard talk about K-Pop and how Leonard could have been bigger than BTS back in 1993, oil and gas industry in the IoT dark ages, an IoT edge server HMI on a Raspberry Pi, heterogenous realities at the edge, IoT platforms redux, the MING stack, premature cloud-jumping, techno silos getting in the way of solutions and IoT nirvana, and inflation - time to pay off the credit card bill. It's a welcome return to the nerdy side of IoT Coffee Talk. Great episode for the nerdy segment of our audience of billions!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #120 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, Leonard, Rob, Bill, and Marc jump on a chat about a lot of stuff. We kick things off reminiscing about the 90s when Grunge just became a thing at a time when spandex and teased massive hair and heavy metal guitar ruled the day. Then came Britney Spears who ruined everything. We also chat about smart homes and why they don't matter despite Matter and it's inability to Thread the needle despite support from massive players like Apple. Speaking of Apple, we talk about the big announcement that was going to happen today with a lot of gossip and hype about some kind of satellite service, faster and better iPhone, new Apple Watch, and AirPods, and more, and the drama that is Arm suing Qualcomm. Of course, we were right about Apple, they had deal with Globalstar. It's real, not a rumor.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #119 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, David, Leonard, Rob, Bill, and Marc talk about IoT in space. We share our thoughts on the big announcement last week which was the T-Mobile + SpaceX technology partnership to provide cellular-based text services from satellites to your smartphone. Project Artemis' big day was scrubbed on Monday. Did IoT and digital twins not quite work out to make it the first successful launch of this great new program to get humans back on the moon? We talk about how this new excitement about communications in space could create another opportunity for IoT to deliver on some global hopes and promises of old. 

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #118 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, David, Leonard, Rob, and Stephanie talk about the fact that there is no such thing as a miracle, just grit and the will to grind it out. It's all about hard work. There are no miracles. We talk about the necessary mindset and focus needed to reconstituted manufacturing and engineering in the U.S., the importance of starting kids young in becoming our industrial talent of the future. There are no shortcuts and we have to build what is next. It's not about what we invented in the past, it is about what we invent today for future industrial leadership.

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