IEEE Tech Industry Summit on IoT ‐‐ Focus on Industrial IoT Products, Services June 6‐7, 2016 Santa Clara Convention Center Overview The Industry Summit and associated events offers a new approach to technical events ‐‐ maximizing benefits to industry through involvement with IEEE communities (including academia). This event has a 2‐day Summit which reviews the opportunities of industry in the industrial IoT world and is a showcase to exhibit current products. In addition, there are multiple attached technical conferences where the associated research and standards are moving with this technology. A key reason for reviewing the Summit now, prior to the program details, is that there are some pre‐events sponsored by industry that support challenges (studies, hack‐a‐thons, contests, etc.) covering the company’s needs and products, and these are shown at the Summit. This differs from other IEEE or Industry‐Sponsored events by maximizing the benefits to all. The concept is discussed below but these challenge efforts start in 2015 and can be shown at the Summit. The initial web will be focused on these challenges and their associated sponsors. Showcase sponsors and a detailed event program will be published later in 2015 The Summit deals with the broad area of challenges created by the Industrial IoT world. The topics consider broad areas around IoT (instead of a single‐topic focus, as at many technical events). The Summit brings differing perspectives of the IoT opportunities and directions over two days. For 2016 the overall Summit event is focused on the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT), creating many opportunities for both industry and research, as technology users and technology providers. The two Summit days have key industry speakers on IoT opportunities and their chosen approaches. Those days also have a sponsor showcase, reception for all, demos of the challenges (discussed below), and smaller‐group Forum presentations by our sponsors. The goal is to describe industry directions and issues to stimulate research and standards (rather than presenting results in papers, as in a typical conference). Following the Summit, there will be technical sessions run in parallel – the International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society); a multi‐day series of IEEE standards meetings (P2413: Architectural Framework for IoT), an IEEE IoT Committee Workshop, world‐class autonomous automobile sessions and demos from the International Transportation Innovation Center (ITIC), and other events. Additional IEEE entities are evaluating activities ‐‐ watch for more. All will draw many industry sponsors and exhibits. Day 1 – Powering the Elements of IoT – The collection, storage and use aspects of energy, from batteries to drive sensors and computers to charging systems for connected vehicles – for high‐power systems, computers, wearables, factory sensors and equipment, appliances and HVAC. Day 2 – Computing and Communicating in IoT – Aligning computing and big‐data requirements to a particular IoT service or control system, across different mediums, and assuring suitable security for the actions executed by the IoT connection, with sensor technologies to provide industrial‐grade IoT services. These two days will have a single plenary track with key speakers from industry describing the needed directions and opportunities they observe and predict. Smaller focus sessions will be run in parallel rooms to study a particular topic leading to both technical solutions and standards that the IEEE can facilitate. [more …]
Visit us: www.TechIndustrySummit.org Challenge One of the most unique additions with the Summit is the integration of the company‐sponsored and ‐managed challenges (or contests) that are run in 2015 and then shown at the Summit. Some industry sponsors are engaging in pre‐events ‐‐ “challenges” or contests ‐‐ this year, to exhibit at the summit. Companies sponsor activities available to the IEEE and research communities that use the company’s IoT products; these challenges can be studies to show proofs of concepts (POCs), benchmarks, standards, hack‐a‐thons, or other applications of their technology. Companies start in 2015 by engaging research communities with their IoT products and desired study activities. They chose how to provide appropriate equipment or services to researchers to do their studies or concept applications. Then companies can select some results/winners to be shown at the industry summit event and potentially engage in one of the attached conferences. This enhances the value of this arrangement to both communities, as well as assists in taking awareness of these new technologies viral. Such challenge activities will be linked from the Summit website but be completely managed by the sponsoring company. This diagram shows how the challenge is separated into IEEE and company spaces.  Intel, SAP, IBM, Samsung  Others
Critical is that the nature of the study/challenge is completely driven by the company. One company may wish Proofs of Concept (PoCs) or benchmarks developed by customers on products or services; another's focus is standards proposals, or a hack‐a‐thon run by the company with results shown at the Summit. This is also an excellent strategy for recruiting new employees ‐‐ have the graduating students work on your products, then you pick the best, who will already have expertise with your company’s technologies and practices. This summit takes place June 6‐7 2016 in Silicon Valley, CA USA at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The IEEE is planning to make this an annual event ‐‐ every year with different partners hosting the connected conferences. For further information, contact: Dr. Michael Condry General Chair, Tech Industry Summit IEEE Industrial Electronics Society AdCom Industry Forum Series Chair Technical Committee Standards Co‐Chair Chair of IEEE Industrial IoT Committee condry@ieee.org Paul Wesling, IEEE Life Fellow Admin Chair & Webmaster, Tech Industry Summit Past Comm’ns Director, IEEE SF Bay Area Council Past VP‐Publications, IEEE CPMT Society p.wesling@ieee.org +1‐408‐320‐1105 Visit us: www.TechIndustrySummit.org