Scaling and Managing IoT Devices - Talks by Alibaba Cloud, Soracom and Devi...
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Hardware Pioneers is supported by some of the leading companies in the IoT sector:
Mouser Electronics (Headline Sponsor)
Digi-Key Electronics and Cocoon Networks.
Excited to invite on stage three extraordinary companies who will share invaluable advices about managing, scaling and monitoring your IoT devices. Join us on the 5th of April to learn from:
- The largest cloud computing company in China who provides a suite of cloud computing services that covers elastic computing, object storage, relational database, big data analysis, and artificial intelligence (Alibaba Cloud).
- A Tokyo based IoT platform provider who offers secure, scalable, cloud-native connectivity developed specifically for the Internet of Things (Soracom).
- A universal cloud-based software service allowing companies to easily locate, monitor and manage their connected devices at scale (DevicePilot).
See agenda below for full info about the speakers.
Drinks will be served throughout the night.
About the speakers
Xuan Jin, Lead Soulutions Architect at Alibaba Cloud Europe
Talk title: Data Driven IoT Applications
About the speaker: After graduation from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xuan received MSc in Electronic Engineering from Queen Mary, University of London. He then started his career in software engineering in Oracle UK and progressed to tech lead in software engineering and SRE in companies including Cisco. Currently Xuan holds the position of lead solution architect and technology evangelist in Alibaba Cloud Europe, helping customers to adopt the world-leading cloud platform and promote the BigData and AI solutions from Alibaba Group.
About the company: Alibaba Cloud offers high-performance, elastic computing power in the cloud. Services are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and include data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, Anti-DDoS protection and content delivery networks (CDN). Alibaba Cloud R&D efforts include the advancement of IoT technology, virtual reality, smart homes, automotive networking and information systems, and cloud-based mobile-device operating systems.
Video: Alibaba Cloud Computing Conference 2017 - Wang Jian, Chairman of Technology
Article: Alibaba Sets Sights on IoT, Rebrands Operating System AliOS
Parag Mittal, Chief Commercial Officer at Soracom
Talk title: Challenges and Solutions for Secure Connectivity when Managing IoT Devices.
About the speaker: Parag has 10+ years of experience in managing global businesses and proven track record of significant accomplishments in product management and business development during his tenure with Valid and Bluefish Technologies in management positions.The team under his management is breaking down the technical barriers to IoT/M2M and enabling prototyping to commercialisation already for over 5,000 businesses in a democratised way.
About the company: Soracom offers secure, scalable, cloud-native connectivity developed specifically for the Internet of Things, available in over 120 countries worldwide. Soracom's vision is to democratize IoT by breaking down technical barriers and bringing technology to people everywhere in convenient new forms
Video: Challenges in the Internet of Things - Parag Mittal, Chief Commercial Officer at Soracom
Video: Soracom in 30 seconds
Pilgrim Beart, CEO of DevicePilot
Talk title: The ingredients of successful IoT gowth
About the speaker: Pilgrim Beart is a serial connected-products entrepreneur, having founded companies including Antenova (billions of antenna systems shipped) and AlertMe (now known as Hive and acquired by BG in 2015 for $100m, it's the UK's most successful connected home platform and has shipped millions of connected devices). He is an IET Fellow and is now CEO of DevicePilot.
About the company: DevicePilot is a universal cloud-based software service allowing you to easily locate, monitor and manage your connected devices at scale, with proactive management of the entire device lifecycle. DevicePilot has been built and is managed by a senior team that has the experience of resolving scaling issues first-hand through deploying millions of devices in previous businesses.
Video: Pilgrim Beart talks to Computer Weekly about the challenges of IoT and connected products
Video: Introducing DevicePilot
Agenda
6:30pm - Arrival and registration.
6:40pm - Drinks and networking.
6:50pm - Event opening.
7:00pm - Xuan Jin, Lead Solutions Architect at Alibaba Cloud Europe
7:20pm - Parag Mittal, Chief Commercial Officer at Soracom
7:40pm - Pilgrim Beart, CEO of DevicePilot
8:00pm - Community announcements and demos: This is your time. If you would like to share what you are working on with the community or make any sort of announcement. You have 2 minutes max for a short shoutout.
8:20pm - Drinks and networking.
9:30pm - Event ends.
Global partners
Electronic Specifier - Europe's premier publisher of information resources to the global electronics industry.
Publitek - The leading global marketing communications and PR agency for B2B electronics.
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