We talk IoT – The Internet of Things Business Podcast

The world of IoT is changing rapidly, and the right supplier can be tricky, says Lou Lutostanski, Vice President, Internet of Things at Avnet, a leading global distributor of electronic components and services – and incidentally the sponsor of this podcast. Also: Marc Dupaquier, co-founder and managing director of Cartesiam, a French startup, on bringing blazing-fast reaction time by bringing data collection, processing, and reporting as close to the end user as possible through edge computing.

The hype surrounding 5G has been building for years, and business leaders making bold claims about what they’ll do with 5G capabilities. Adel Al Saleh, CEO of the German global IT services and consulting company T-Systems and a member of the board of its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, discusses how 5G networks will create a smarter, more connected world with better mobile service, safer streets and enhanced entertainment. Not to mention huge profits for the carriers, of course. Also: Prof. Dieter Kempf, President the Federation of German Industries (BDI), on why Germans count differently than the rest of the world – they’re already into the fourth Industrial Revolution!

Marcel Weiss
Stian Overdahl
The ‘last 50 feet’ are be the true bottleneck for e-commerce growth, says Marcel Weiss, an experienced journalist and author of a major article on the subject in the current issue of Smart Industry. In our latest podcast, he talks about how startups and online retailers are striving to close that last gap. Also: Our author Stian Overdahl on how customs and border protection experts are looking to IoT and AI to make borders more secure and border patrolling more efficient.

Bentsi Ben-Atar is Chief Marketing Officer of Sepio, a super-secret Israeli company that specializes in protecting us against malicious hardware: rogue devices with mysterious names like “Packet Squirrel” or “Plunder Bug”. They are physically plugged into networks where they listen and siphon off critical business info. In addition: Alan Earls on ubiquitous IoT and how we can ever hope to keep up with the exponential growth of billions of connected devices all over the world.

Hardware and sensors are driving progress in IoT today. To discuss the latest trends, we invited Dr. Gunther Kegel of Pepperl+Fuchs, a worldwide specialist in both factory and process automation, and Frank Hansen, Vice President Technical Resources and Marketing at Avnet Silica, the European semiconductor specialist division of Avnet, Inc.. They will discuss how vendors and application developers should respond and what the impact of artificial intelligence will be.

China is betting big on IoT with huge investments in cutting-edge technologies. Our author Greg Langley answers a few very important questions, like: Does this mean it will come to dominate the industry? And should the West be worried? Also: Avnet Silica's "Mister Microsoft" talks about Azure Cloud and the IoT Connect platform.

"We're creating an ecosystem for developers where we empower people to create products, source the components, launch them on hackster and, if the signal says people love what you do and we want more of it, we then tell them, Now you can work with Avnet to make it happen."
In the latest edition of We Talk IoT, the Smart Industry podcast, editor Tim Cole sits down with Adam Benzion, founder and CEO of Hackster.io, which bills itself as the world’s largest and fastest growing open-source hardware community.

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We Talk IoT, the Smart Industry podcast, keeps you up to date on the most important developments in the world of IoT, IIoT, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing. Listen to leading industry experts, business professionals and experienced journalists as they discuss some of today’s hottest tech topics and how they can help boost your bottom line.