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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #187 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.

In this week's episode, Rob, Dimitri, Marc, Leonard and Pete jump on Web3 to talk about:

* Bad Karaoke for the Week: "Sucker In A 3 Piece" by Van Halen
* The experience gap versus the knowledge gap
* A little history of databases as the crew talks about their first
* Powerbuilder, Silverstream and a ton of tools and tech that didn't make it
* Making the mistakes of the past - why old people are kinda cool!
* Success is a rare event in a field of failures
* Generative AI - the future of an emerging technology hype
* What happened to The Metaverse?
* Generative design - what is old is Gen AI augmentable?
* Why Gen AI demos are religious moments that get you closer to your diety of choice
* Fleet management of Raspberry Pi devices with Balena
* The edge cloud orchestrator - the big thing for 2024?
* The graveyard of hype

It's a great episode. Check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #186 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.

In this week's episode, Rob, Bill, Leonard and Pete jump on Web3 to talk about:

* Contemplating doing wine reviews instead of IoT stuff reviews
* Baldur's Gate 3 - a representation of how little progress has been made in RPG gaming
* IoT Coffee Talkers discuss their gaming preferences
* Marvell Industry Analyst Day 2023 - Early with Arm
* Why is commercializing innovation and invention hard?
* The Innovator's Dilemma
* The Innovator's Enigma - Who Cares?
* The big picture of innovation and impact
* Generative AI monetization, the next 5G monetization problem
* Google Gemini - who cares?
* The GAP OF THE UGLY!!! Where real innovation happens!
* Preventing artificial dementia
* Why we might just go back to tubes
* Godzilla Minus One!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #185 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.

In this week's episode, Steve, Rob, Bill, and Pete jump on Web3 to talk about:

* Bad Karaoke Tune of the Week: Seventeen by Winger
* Why Pete has a wall of guitars and didn't pull one down to fill in for Leonard
* A little about AWS re:Invent,.... not quite. 
* What's so smart about smart cities - we have connected communities!
* Can there be a smart city standard?
* Where is the love for Windows NT?
* How did you implement the open-source standard?
* Getting paid on open source
* What was hot by AWS re:Invent and big disses on Microsoft and the OpenAI fiasco
* Is OpenAI the only game in town or is a real open AI approach and options a better thing?

It's a great episode. Check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #184 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.

In this week's episode, the IoT Coffee Talk Crew is joined by Ernest Russell of EMQ Technologies to jump on Web3 to talk about:

* Bad Karaoke Tune of the Week: Party Up by DMX (00:20)
* Intro (00:50)
* Thanks to EMQ Technologies for their donation to Elevate Our Kids (01:35)
* Typical IoT Coffee Talk rambling about sports (04:00)
* Introducing Ernest Russell and EMQ Technologies - The Leading MQTT Broker! (06:35)
* Connecting software defined vehicles (SDVs) with MQTT - The state and the opportunity (10:30)
* Migrating from MQTT to MQTT-SN (Sensor Networks) (16:15)
* The sales cycle and GTM strategy for the connected vehicle market (22:38)
* The applications driving the connectivity requirements of the connected vehicle (25:37)
* Why do older and familiar tech and tools still dominate and work? (32:40)
* Connecting EV charging infrastructure with MQTT (33:25)
* Connecting the power grid with MQTT to make it smarter (36:30)
* We need a "basic" language for connecting things. ;-) (41:16)
* We ponder if electricity mixes well with gasoline (42:22)
* TAM expansion opportunity for In N' OuT Burger (43:30)
* What killed off hydrogen? Will it make a comeback? (44:18)
* EMQ Technologies - The MQTT Glue of IoT! (45:45)
* MQTT for social broadcast (46:36)
* IoT standards and the importance of ubiquity. It's not what you think (48:20)
* Marc gets a word in which will be transcribed by GPT-5 (50:34)
* Wrap up (51:42)

It's a great episode. Check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #183 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.

In this week's episode, Rob, Leonard, Stephanie, Steve, and Pete jump on Web3 to talk about:

* How much we appreciate Stephanie Atkinson for the generous time and commitment she has toward Elevate Our Kids. Please donate at www.elevateourkids.org
* Rob explains why the iPhone 15 Pro would make for a horrible submarine.
* How valuable and good will general generative AI be?
* What's a RAG and what does it mean for generative AI?
* Why is everyone forgetting the old data common sense adage "junk in, junk out" when it comes to generative AI?
* How much productivity uplift will there be if you automate and scale out no-so-smart Gen AI applications?
* What came first, the Gen AI or the template?
* What are so many people demoing Gen AI applications that don't apparently work?
* How will Gen AI be monetized? Do we like the inevitable answer?

It's a great episode. Check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #182 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.

In this week's episode, Rob, Leonard, Marc, welcome first-time guest, Pete Bernard of Edgecelsior to jump on Web3 to talk about:

* U2 and if The Edge is a pioneer in edge computing? Is he really the edge we have been talking about?
* TinyML, who is making traction and is it the future of the AI IoT edge by U2?
* Who is winning the new AI PC war that has broken out since Qualcomm announced its new Oryon CPU core based Snapdragon X Series X Elite AI PC processor? Is Apple getting its butt handed to it despite its newly released and available M3 processor family and MacBooks Pros? Will Intel run the table with its Core Ultra, its first line of Meteor Lake processors for AI PCs?
* What's going on with RISC-V? Is it the future or is it dead on arrival with the RISC-V International Conference happening this week?
* Is software-defined velocity something that the IoT wants or needs?
* Is generative AI the answer for modernization of old stuff and making CI/CDs and Agile stuff relevant for IoT?

It's a great episode. Check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #181 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.

In this week's episode, Rob, Ryan, Tom, Bill, Marc, David, Stephanie and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

* Why Halloween is such a weird holiday to explain to little kids
* Hype kills but why is Leonard moderating a panel on 6G this week?
* What went wrong with the 5G hype?
* Telco, is it just a business of building and managing dumb pipes?
* How do we create the laxative to ease the telco tech indigestion?
* Are we going full circle with the content bundle and paying more for more than we could care to watch?

It's a great episode. Check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #180 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.

In this week's episode, Rob and Stephanie jump on Web3 to talk about:

* Lenovo Tech World 2023
* Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit 2023
* Edge AI and Qualcomm's edge AI event
* What happened to Samsung?
* The new chip wars with the advent of Qualcomm's Oryon CPU and Snapdragon X Elite
* Who's going to pay for Generative AI? Will we just want it for free?
* Stupid chatbots!

It's a great episode. Check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #179 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.

In this week's episode, Rob, Marc, and special guest, Olivier Bloch, jump on Web3 to talk about:

* How to start an IoT podcast and live to tell about it
* Why Apple is so good at marketing
* Is IoT a victim of wrong messaging?
* Let's digitally transform? Who's going to do the work?
* Fit-for-purpose is the best strategy - The Middle
* The engineer's delusion of grandeur - I'm Superman/Superwoman!
* OMG! Are we still talking and not doing OO?

It's a great episode. Check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #178 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.

In this week's episode, Rob, Bill, Steve, Marc, and David jump on Web3 to talk about:

* About the Las Vegas Sphere thing. It's really awesome but getting back to the strip is a nightmare.
* F1 Las Vegas - a good thing or a raw deal?
* Should you follow your passion or do you really suck at painting?
* What happens when you mix football with Ex-Lax?
* At some point there is a tie back to IoT, LOL!!!
* IoT Coffee Talk literally devolves into Sports Center!
* XaaS in IoT. Will it work? Who is it for? (Finally 22:20)
* Let's talk business model and cost structures for XaaS for IoT!

It's a great episode. Check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech!

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