In the last IoT Stars event in Nuremberg during Embedded World, I had the chance to do live interviews of some of the most prominent and innovative thought leaders in IoT and Edge AI.Brandom Satrom, from Blues, shares what he thinks are the stupidest IoT devices out there (and I am sure you'll agree with him!) before sharing the latest news about Blues.

Did you know there were sensors that are placed in concrete and that are used to determine if and when walls and pillars will crack and make a structure unstable?In this live interview at the IoT Stars during Embedded World 2025, Jonathan Beri, founder and CEO of Golioth, tells us what his favorite IoT device is before getting into the latest news of enabling Bluetooth to Cloud with the Golioth IoT platform.

"What is the most interesting, innovative or stupid IoT device or solution you ever encountered?"That was the introduction to a great conversation with Robert Wolff, developers champion during the IoT Stars event at Embedded World 2025 in Nuremberg.

[Live audio, excuse the background noise]Walt is on a mission to help ML companies grow up to become AI organizations and not fall into the common traps and misconceptions.

With Tom Dever, long timer in IoT, we discuss use cases, as well as industries readiness for Edge AI. We exchange on hardware architectures, containerization of models on embedded devices leveraging Atym, the role of hyperscalers and IT teams who can now leverage familiar tools to configure and manage edge infrastructures.

[Live audio, excuse the background noise]What role do IoT and Edge AI play in robotics, embodied intelligence and assured autonomous and distributed systems?Tinoosh Mohsenin, professor at Johns Hopkins University shares her perspective and insights into some of the research her and her teams are doing. No wonder why Tinoosh is so active in the Edge AI Foundation.

Ryan Treece works daily with industrials and oil & gas companies, helping them connect their assets. He knows exactly where they are at in their digital transformation and shares an interesting perspective on how Edge AI can change the way they are approaching that transformation. Some of the topics we cover are whether or not OT infrastructures and networks are ready for Edge AI? Will someone crack the code of industrial data normalization?

The startup Godel Space is on a mission to send Edge AI in space to implement earth observation using transformer-based models. Vikash Kodati tells us all about the constraints they have to take into account when running Edge AI on embedded devices that need to operate unmanned while delivering the right insights for humans to make decisions from down there on earth.

Software Engineer at Oracle by day and LLMs wrangler by passion, Wassim Kezai created a smart AI powered search engine called Snipesearch. In this interview, we discuss the importance of precise and contextualized search powered by generative AI at the Edge, how you can make AI hallucinating less by injecting a human bias, the importance of Edge AI as a tool to help humans make the right decisions and more.

Do you realize how similar (and different) Edge AI is today compared to IoT in its infancy? Don't believe me? Check out this short interview with Samir Bounab, seasoned fractional CRO who's been in the IoT space for some time now and has observed the emergence of Edge AI over the last few years.