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Very offers end-to-end IoT development that helps Enterprise/Industrial and Consumer brands bring IoT solutions to life.

In this podcast interview, Mark Thirman, MIT Enterprise Forum Cambridge's Connected Things 2020 Conference chair chats will Bill Brock, VP of Engineering at Very about trends he's observed from use cases in real-life IoT deployments that combine three or four of their custom pillars: software, hardware, data science, and design.

Bill and his team have observed that in Industrial applications, the high impact engagements they have are where an established industry player, like a manufacturer of manufacturing equipment, wants to innovate in order to offer their customers insights into machine health, anomaly detection, preventative maintenance; essentially aggregate performance metrics for how well their machine is performing in their factory.

On the Consumer IoT side, Bill mentions that building the entire system is a big investment and it can be risky, especially for a new entrepreneur. The best engagements on that end are where they have a customer that is “rock solid” on the hardware side.

“The idea of ‘isn’t there an app for that?’ gets very different when it’s ‘isn’t there an app for that?’ and there is a connected piece to it.”

We are grateful for Very’s sponsorship of Connected Things 2 years running and we are excited to see them again on March 23!

Affectiva spun out of MIT Media Lab in 2009 and is on a mission to humanize technology. But what does that mean?

In this podcast interview Mark Thirman, Connected Things 2020 Conference Chair chats with Affectiva’s Chief Marketing Officer (and Connected Things 2020 keynote), Gabi Zijderveld about their pioneering work in Emotion AI and Human Perception AI.

The Boston-based company is currently focused on two industry verticals: Media and Automotive, because as Gabi, a technology veteran, points out “As a small company, you can’t go after every market – you have to be focused.”

Given that Automotive is one of the largest verticals for IoT, it’s definitely a great place to choose as a beachhead market and Affectiva is doing fascinating work leveraging in-cabin cameras as sensors to provide driver state and occupant experience monitoring.

But Automotive is likely just the tip of the iceberg - there are many other use cases such as in Healthcare and Education, and Gabi hints she'll share more about those use cases during her keynote on the 23rd...

Sam Edelstein serves as the City of Syracuse's first Chief Data Officer. During his time in the position, he has been responsible for the development and implementation of the City's first Open Data Policy, Data Privacy Policy, and Open Data Portal - DataCuse.

The City of Syracuse uses data to inform decision making and engage the community - including predicting water main break risk, likelihood illegally parked cars will block snow plows and emergency vehicles, and several hackathons that aimed to resolve real challenges the city faced.

In this Connected Things 2019 podcast, Conference Chair, Mark Thirman, and Sam discuss how cities leverage technology and data to address the needs of citizens.

Listening to this podcast will inform you on IoT technology the City of Syracuse has implemented in order to make informed decisions about city operations from collected data, including street lighting, municipal parking, traffic lights, and water levels.

This podcast was produced on March 13th, 2019 before the Connected Things 2019 conference.

Bernardo Rodriguez is the Chief Digital Officer at J.D. Power, responsible for advancing J.D. Power’s digital transformation by leading new product development, branding, marketing and mergers and acquisitions.

His focus has been connected cars, IoT, and AI in order to provide customers with real insight on the experience of autonomous cars.

In this Connected Things 2019 podcast, Conference Chair, Mark Thirman, and Bernardo discuss how cars behave and the role of J.D Power in understanding AI-driven vehicles.

Listening to this podcast will let you in on how a consumer-goods company is addressing new applications of IoT within the car industry.

This podcast was produced on March 15th, 2019 before the Connected Things 2019 conference.

As Co-Founder and VP of Solutions Architecture at Very Possible, an IoT build-shop based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tyler Jenks works with prospective clients to take products to the next level, including your local brew.

In 2011, Tyler co-founded Very after becoming frustrated with the status quo of product development.

In this Connected Things 2019 podcast, Conference Chair, Mark Thirman, and Tyler discuss a connected bar Very designed and implemented for a former client and all the value it brought to bar-management and customer experience.

Listening to this podcast will let you in on a new application for IoT, within the restaurant or remote-bar industry.

This podcast was produced on March 6th, 2019 before the Connected Things 2019 conference.

Pascale Witz has been a key leader of GE Healthcare during a 17-year career with the company, where she led a variety of businesses in Medical Equipment and Diagnostics before becoming the CEO of its acquired pharmaceutical business. As the leader of several businesses in a company driven by results and efficiency, she led multiple organizational changes.

In this Connected Things 2019 keynote preview podcast, conference Chair, Mark Thirman, and Pascale discuss the applications for IoT in disease monitoring. They cover home-collection of biomarkers for people with diabetes, the potential for smart speakers (Amazon's Alexa) to act as sensors in health monitoring, and even ingestible sensors.

"You can actually learn yourself where you have your ups and downs depending on what you have done... For a disease that is so linked to individual and daily fluctuations, it's important to have a lot more data points, and so the technology actually makes it possible."

Listening to this podcast will help you gain an understanding of IoT's role in medical technologies, chronic disease monitoring, and the emergent use-cases in sleep apnea, diabetes, pulmonary diseases, and Parkinson's.

Joel Bagnal is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Vericlave, Inc., a cybersecurity company focused on offering customers a highly differentiated national security grade solution that conceals networks and prevents hacks against critical assets.

Joel is no stranger to difficult scenarios.

On 9/11, he was in the Pentagon just a few offices away from the airplane’s impact. Shortly thereafter, he was in the Oval Office with the President serving as a Senior Advisor where he developed the nation’s first security policy to secure government networks and commercial critical infrastructure.

In this Connected Things 2019 keynote preview podcast, conference Chair Mark Thirman, and Joel discuss the other definition of “disruption,” including the challenges of adding billions of connected things to networks and the importance of a systems approach to IoT security with a "hardware root of trust."

"Here we are in January 2019 and although we've made some incremental improvement in cybersecurity, both on the government side and the commercial side, 2018 represented the most challenging year ever in terms of successful cyber hacks we've had in computing history."

Listening to this podcast will help you gain an understanding of what needs to be done to secure the devices and networks for the future growth of IoT.

In this Connected Things 2019 (happening March 25th) preview podcast, conference Chair Mark Thirman chats with conference Keynote Bill Baxter, the CTO of VIZIO.

MIT Enterprise Forum caught up with Terry about his involvement in the MIT Enterprise Forum, how he got his company InphoMatch-Mobile 365 (acquired by Sybase) funded, the use cases for Hook Mobile (turns out in Hollywood, some folks didn't want their real mobile numbers used by Uber) and his thoughts on the entrepreneur ecosystem today vs the early 2000's.

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