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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #237 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, Marc, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Man in the Box", Alice in Chains 
• Merry New Year!
• Is Big Tech a conspiracy game?
• Taking down IBM
• Massive GenAI supercomputing for the greater good?
• Why tech historians are essential to avoiding historical mistakes
• Windows, the most open operating system!!!
• Robotic rights
• Use their crap at your own risk - It's all on you. Deal?
• The growing cybercriminal economy - $9.2 billion and growing fast!
• KYC for generative AI?
• Is Duck Duck Go the future of search? 
• Are the days of Big Tech numbered?
• In the search for real in an age of fake and synthetic engagement
• Twitter is just really an MQTT broker!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #236 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, Pete, Rob, Dimiti, Bill, Marc, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Spain", Chick Corea 
• Why we don't care about global warming - the 5th Element answer
• Change and confusion - the state of tech policy in the U.S.
• CV2X is approved but is it a big deal?
• Human-centric digital future - Data Diva's good work
• GenAI supercomputing - why? The answer is 42.
• The giving season is also the tech layoff season? What?
• Scaling law BINGO
• The Agentic AI layoff - the great offloading of humanity and empathy
• Our emerging culture of offloading our humanity to AI
• We select profit over humanity whether you like it or not
• Cutting cables under the sea - the new form of digital warfare
• Cyber Resilience - enforceable? A formula for security or inflation, or both?
• The case for SysBOM (System Bill of Materials). The industry will catch on in five years

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #235 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, Rob, Marc, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Crying in the Rain", Whitesnake
• Apple Intelligence is now here, but what do we think? Will it move the AI needle?
• Why you should watch Rick Beato
• Music creativity like tech entrepreneurship?
• Why ageism in tech is stupid
• Hormones or wisdom and experience? What counts in entrepreneurship?
• Is Mark Zuckerberg the ultimate founder?
• Is Facebook a GenAI supercomputing Apple versus other hyperscaler Oranges?
• Facebooks massive GPU supercomputing scaling law
• Why does Apple Intelligence suck?
• You have priority junk mail! Courtesy of GenAI!
• When a camera is no longer a camera
• What happened to smart cities?
• Smart cities are not for those with short attention spans
• Rob's sleeping digital twin platform looking for a Prince Charming
• Unified Namespace - a MQTT Broker?
• Why software architecture and language choice matter
• Why you need to show up for IoT Stars in Barcelona

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #234 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, Jan, Dimitri, Marc, Bill, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Among The Living", Anthrax
• Apple Intelligence is now here, but what do we think? Will it move the AI needle?
• What happens when two AI avatars start to argue with each other?
• Can GenAI speak Klingon?
• Can we have good agentic AI without good GenAI?
• Digital transformation is not about pontification. It's real work.
• The commoditization of AI and all those prompt engineers.
• The rest of the world is 2-years behind IoT Coffee Talk on GenAI.
• Taking a GenAI hammer to a box full of screws.
• The future of GenAI and RAG - Cascading, multi-layer hallucinations
• Overreliance - Misguided trust in GenAI

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #233 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, Dimitri, David, Rob, Bill, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Any Way You Want It", Journey
• Apple Intelligence is now here, but what do we think? Will it move the AI needle?
• Covid is still a thing and it is the origin story of IoT Coffee Talk
• Using IoT to handle crisis, then what?
• Essential travel advice to avoid consuming human emissions and airborne disease
• The cone of gaseous silence method
• Stupidity is not only a great driver of innovation, it can also be a huge market
• The IoT game is about perpetual pivot
• How Delta Airlines can dramatically raise their NPS
• Smart cities could be real according to Bill!
• The only thing you need to know about generative AI
• Somehow we got on the topic of horse cuisine 
• Apple drops M4 Pro and M4 Max and new Macs
• Leonard and Rob are looking for a gullible VC to give us $7 trillion for a RISC-V fab

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #232 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, Stephanie, Debbie, Steve, Bill, and Leonard jump on Web3 on a rare Friday taping to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Panama", Van Halen
• Why does no one care about IoT?
• RISC-V, did Arm just make them a potential superstar of silicon IP?
• Arm stirs up licensing drama with Qualcomm, again!
• Steve Brumer is safe but the Milton catastrophe is real!
• The Data Diva gives birth to a major Federal recommendation for Consumer IoT Privacy Protection! Congrats!
• Debbie shows the auto industry a thing or two about consumer privacy
• Security and privacy are differentiators and areas of innovation
• How Bill really needs to take blockchain back! Why he won't!
• Why privacy is such a misunderstood thing
• Dropping old knowledge to solve new conflations and misunderstanding
• Can you build quality, secure, and privacy protecting value to your customers? 

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #231 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, David, Rob, and Leonard jump on Web3 live from Lenovo Tech World 2024 in Bellevue, WA to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Spoonman", Soundgarden
• How to catch rocket boosters with chopsticks
• What happens when we prioritize the things that don't matter?
• The pay off of returning the chewy ribeye at a really fancy restaurant
• Hype distraction and why it is not a good thing for progress
• The advantage of being a systems integrator (A.K.A. plumber)
• We keep coming back to the identity crisis of "IoT" and now "AI" companies
• Why wireless is important - Our experience at IoT Stars in Austin
• Leonard claims he was the first vLogger before YouTube!! How is that possible!?
• Breaking down Embedded World North America 2024 and MWC Las Vegas 2024
• After all these years, who is getting 5G right? 
• How will the promise of 5G be realized for all?
• Why IT and CT are commercial oil and water?
• Why everyone gets open wrong? Techno Religion!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #230 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, Marc, Stephanie, and Leonard jump on Web3 live from Embedded World North America 2024 in Austin, TX to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Voodoo Chile", Stevie Ray Vaughn (Jimi Hendrix)
• IoT Stars and Embedded World come to North America in 2024!
• Yes, IRF is better than virtual, no argument!
• How reality unleashes the giganticness of Marc Pous.
• 10 years of IoT Stars and the IoT hype!
• They why of AI...... Sustainability and climate change, anyone?
• Monkey brains, the next generation quantum AI computing platform!
• Why industrial AI is nowhere near as easy as people think.
• The orders of the AI "data" problem.
• The IoT Coffee Talk crew hugs it out!
• Pete proves his limited nerdiness and Star Trek knowledge
• Where is IoT going according to IoT Stars?
• Strong margaritas and really poor Spanish.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #229 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, Rob, Stephanie, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

• BAD KARAOKE! "Seattle Grunge Special", Pete Bernard
• Why fostering inclusion of women in tech is important and inspirational - Cadence Fem.AI
• "No automation allowed!" What do you say to that?
• Managing change against the proposition of automation.
• Fear China because we aren't innovating fast enough.
  
  
• Supercomputing is for the governments. Is sovereign AI going to be a thing?
• Attention is everything and ours (human) seem to be getting shorter and shorter.
• Stephanie has a multi-core, hyper threaded brain!
• Going viral is not by intent but by silly accident according to Rob. Find out why!
• Does Larry Ellison take advice? The great mystery of the Oracle of Oracle.
• The IoT Influencer's Samson Effect.
• Cerebras IPO poised to shake the GenAI supercomputing landscape for NVIDIA.
• Qualcomm is in the GenAI data center game. You just didn't know. 
• What are MSOs doing with GenAI. The reality!
• How to go viral? Be P. Diddy? Don't blame us. Blame the algorithm.
• Self-inflicted supply chain crisis. Why you must hoarding cat litter and pizza sauce.
• We don't like change because it figuratively means a tiger is going to eat us.
• The AI-proof career - plumbing. 
• Digital twins are worthless if you can't make stuff work in the real world. 

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #228 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, Marc, David, Ryan, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

* BAD KARAOKE! "Feel Your Love", Van Halen
* Catering to the universal human 15 second attention span!
* AI is acquiring and expanding its attention as we shorten ours. What does it mean?
* Why telcos subconsciously get in their own way with IoT
* Is there a "We" in "Telco" or "IoT"?
* Rob discovers that being an analyst is all about the glamor of it all!
* How to make storage sexy again... make it about AI!
* The speed of IoT - what is it and why does it matter?
* Why IoT projects get cancelled - because you called it an IoT project?
* Depreciation is the vendor's greatest sales cycle foe!
* The religion of open tech and the burden of Kumbaya!
* The missing holistic thinking about IoT... after all these years.
* Why plumbers make more than IoT people.
* The Things Conference 2024 - tracking the evolution of the IoT mindset

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