Join us for a very special episode where we highlight the amazing work of individuals who have come together to make a difference in the way we approach environmental sustainability, including saving species that are on the verge of disappearing from our planet forever. Project 15 is the brainchild of some remarkable folks at Microsoft, including one of our special guests Sarah Maston, who had a "light bulb" moment on how to use Azure IoT to create a bridge between the technical and scientific communities to tackle environmental challenges. As the story unfolds, Sarah shares the partnership that developed between Microsoft and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Our other special guest, Yoko Watanabe,  Global Manager of the GEF Small Grants Programme at the UNDP, dives deeper into the different communities and opportunities this partnership will enable while working with local community and civil society groups on global environmental issues around the world with a focus on innovation, impact, and inclusion. Learn about the ways you can get involved to utilize IoT open source technology, community, funding, and resources to get your sustainability project accelerated today.

Project 15 - http://aka.ms/project15

GEF Small Grants Programme - https://sgp.undp.org/

Project 15 YouTube Channel - http://aka.ms/project15video

Project 15 Open Platform - http://aka.ms/project15code

How do you catch the next big wave in your industry? Hear from Zenon Radewych from WZMH Architects about the incredible innovation focus they embarked upon to redefine their industry and how it is paying dividends in their business and in other industries that would surprise even them!  From an Intelligent Structural Panel to a Citizen Care Pod, hear about their journey, investments, and partnering and how these continue to lead them to success.

In this episode, we decided to take a different approach to bring you some insights and stories from the field.  Steve Busby is a Principal Architect at Microsoft who has spent the last five of his twenty-year career in IoT.  He has established himself as a global thought leader and overall Azure IoT guru through his extensive work with customers and partners and through his popular blog Busbyland.  Hear his insights on how IoT has changed, his favorite transformational stories, the coolest projects he is working on, and the technologies he feels will create an even more exciting future. 

Sujan Thanjavuru, head of digital transformation at Wipro, joins us for this episode to share how they have used IoT, block chain and cloud technologies to create a secure pharmaceutical digital supply chain & anti-counterfeiting platform to tackle two major structural challenges globally in the life sciences industry - counterfeit drugs and drug degradation and spoilage due to broken cold chains. Together these two problems result in over half a million deaths and over $200 billion in economic losses globally, but thanks to the Wipro Smart Track platform these numbers are being drastically reduced. 

Learn about their journey building this solution with Takeda (formerly Shire) and Microsoft and how any industry that requires real time monitoring of shipments in a supply chain can benefit. Sujan Thanjavuru can be reach at [email protected]

https://www.wipro.com/pharmaceutical-and-life-sciences/titan-secure/

In this episode, we talk with entrepreneur and founder of MachineQ, Alex Khorram.  MachineQ, a division of Comcast Corporation, is helping their customers transform by providing Low Power Network (LPN) based solutions to customers looking to embrace the power of IoT.   Hear how his team approaches the market to democratize IoT for all users, not just developers and provides industry solutions to accelerate digital transformation.