Caterpillar's Operational Technology Leader Marty Groover recently gave a compelling talk at our Leonardo Live event in Frankfurt talking about how Caterpillar's Live Factory initiative by using realtime data, and one single version of the truth is empowering their workforce, their sales channel, and their boardroom to make informed decisions.

I asked him to come on the show to discuss these initiatives.

Marty will also be attending our upcoming Leonardo Live event in Chicago on November 2-3rd. If you want to hear more from him or our other customers and partners, you can register to attend at http://events.sap.com/sap-leonardo-na-summit/en/home

At out SAP TechEd event in Barcelona I had a chance to sit down and talk about the data from the Things in the Internet of Things with SAP Chief Analytics Evangelist EMEA, Andy Bitterer. We had a great chat. Enjoy!

SAP has recently funded a study on the topic of the Internet of Things in the Consumer Products industry.

The results of the study have just been released, so I invited E.J. Kenney (ejkenney), who heads up Consumer Products for SAP globally to come on the show to discuss the report.

The report is available to download from https://www.sap.com/CPIoTStudy

SAP Consumer Products is available on Twitter at @SAP_CP, on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4168249/profile, and on the SAP website at https://www.sap.com/industries/consumer-goods-cpg.html

This chat has also been uploaded to Youtube and can be viewed at https://youtu.be/QJRrxA9NkSw

Ronald van Loon is a director of Adversitement, and an influencer in the worlds of IoT, Big Data, and Analytics. Ronald attended our Leonardo Live event in Frankfurt earlier this year, so I reached out to him to come on the show to discuss his impressions of our first Leonardo Live conference.

Ronald is on Twitter at @Ronald_vanLoon

He is on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronald-van-loon-5411a/

And you can also find him at https://www.adversitement.com/ and at https://www.simplilearn.com/

This episode is also available on Youtube at https://youtu.be/ePTIuUIBfIU

Delaware is a global system integrator. I met Delaware's IoT Solution Lead at our recent Leonardo Live event in Frankfurt and asked him how Delaware's customers were succeeding on their Internet of Things journeys, and what their use cases were...

At our recent Leonardo Live event I had a chat with UPS VP for Corporate Strategy Alan Amling. He talked about UPS' nascent 3D Printing business. The reasons why UPS are pursuing it, and their plans for the future. It was a truly fascinating and enlightening conversation.

SAP carried out one of the largest ever studies on digital transformation polling 3,000 executives to try to glean some relevant facts and figures on this burgeoning space.

The results of the study are available to study and download at https://sap.com/execstudy

I asked Timo Elliott (@TimoElliott) to talk us through the report when I met him at our recent Leonardo Live event

Dion Hinchcliffe is a Senior Analyst and VP at Constellation Research as well as a columnist at ZDNet.

Dion and I have both been longtime members of the Enterprise Irregulars group but hadn't worked together before now.

When I heard Dion was going to our Leonardo Live event in Frankfurt (July 11th-12th in Frankfurt) to talk about analytics and IoT I reached out to him to ask him to come on the show to talk about just how vital analytics are to the Internet of Things.

Dion is @dhinchcliffe on Twitter, he also to be found on ZDNet, the Enterprise Irregulars, and his own blog is at DionHinchcliffe.com

This podcast is also available on Youtube at https://youtu.be/pKyCVuARRR0

One of the speakers at our upcoming Leonardo Live event is the one and only Tamara McCleary (aka @tamaramccleary), CEO of Thulium (http:www.thulium.co).

Tamara will be giving a talk on the topic of machine learning.

I asked Tamara to come on the show to give us a preview of her talk about Machine Learning and some of the more compelling ways it can be used. As ever, Tamara knocked it out of the park :)

Tamara is @TamaraMcCleary on Twitter, is CEO of Thulium, and is also very active on LinkedIn.

SAP's Nils Herzberg and I were on an ASUG webinar earler this year where he outlined some great use cases SAP's customers have for the internet of Things.

Nils had some great examples, but the webcast was limited to ASUG members only, so I asked him to come on the IoT Heroes show to share the customers wins with everyone.

He didn't disappoint :)

This chat is also available on Youtube at https://youtu.be/jOiBRL27h0U

And Nils is @TechMadiba on Twitter