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Please see below the latest agenda for this year's Internet of Things Global Summit.

 

This page is updated regularly so please check back for additional speaker confirmations.

 

If you are interested in speaking opportunities, please contact the event manager Tom Chinnock at tom.chinnock@forum-global.com or on +44 (0) 2920 783 025.

 

Please note that over the course of the two days, there are a number of sessions that will take the format of an interactive panel discussion. For these sessions, each speaker will have 5 minutes at the start of the session to provide introductory remarks. Following this, the session’s moderator will then open up the discussion, which will also include questions from the floor.

 

Speakers marked with an asterix (*) are to be confirmed.

 

Monday 27 October, 2014

Morning

08:30 – 09:00

Welcome Coffee

09:00 – 10:45

Session 1: Keynote presentations and roundtable discussion


Moderator: Sanjay Sarma, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Co-Founder, Auto-ID Labs

09:00 – 09:20

Keynote presentation: IoT - Opportunities and Challenges


Edith Ramirez, Chairwoman, FTC

09:20 – 09:40

Keynote presentation: Overcoming key challenges of the Internet of Things and sustaining the networked society of tomorrow - The EU perspective


Ilkka Lakaniemi, Chairman, European Commission’s Future Internet Public-Private Partnership Program (FI-PPP)

09:40 – 10:00

Keynote presentation: Accelerating IoT Results through Innovation


Mark Bartolomeo, Vice President-Connected Solutions, Verizon Enterprise Solutions

10:00 – 10:30

Roundtable with keynote speakers

10:30 – 11:00

Morning Networking Break

11:00 – 17:05

Session 2: Building the IoT ecosystem together – life in a future IoT world

The Internet of Things connects people and things everywhere. IoT solutions and technologies are empowering citizens and transforming businesses dramatically. Split into 3 parts, this session will provide the opportunity to look at the current and future landscape of 3 key areas – the city and other urban centers, rural and remote environments, and the home.

11:05 – 12:35

Session 2a: Smart Cities: A playground for the Internet of Things

Cities today are facing many pressing challenges. Examples include increased populations, the challenges of accelerating economic growth, creating more jobs, lowering pollution targets, reducing congestion, the impact of ageing populations and social resilience. The Internet of Things, however, is generating new opportunities that are helping to tackle these challenges across cities worldwide. These opportunities, which are fuelled by a growing number of new IoT solutions, will drive growth and economic development into the future. Over the past 12 months we have seen many innovative IoT solutions emerge to help citizens improve their city-life experience dramatically, and businesses to grow and enhance their operational productivity and efficiency more than ever before. New players are now commercializing solutions across all sectors and city infrastructures: from healthcare to retail; from manufacturing to logistics; from public safety to transport; and from utilities to urban planning.

There remains however a number of key regulatory and technological challenges for achieving the ‘complete’ smart city. Funding of smart city projects, debates on centralized strategies and governance, the need for common standards, and the necessary security measures are all at the forefront of the minds of stakeholders, and all need to be addressed.

- How is the IoT helping to address urban challenges?
- What technologies are currently being rolled-out and what does the current smart city ecosystem look like?
- What efforts are currently being made by industry to accelerate smart growth in cities worldwide?
- Is the role of city leaders and national decision-making bodies sufficient in this area?
- What role can the citizen play is shaping the future city landscape, and is enough being done to understand the citizens’ needs?
- Ultimately, how can policymakers, industry representatives and citizens work together to realize the benefits of a smart city, and create an inclusive smart society?
- What are the main regulatory considerations for managing the network requirements of future city life?
- Which business models are required for deploying smart city solutions?
- Other than mobile networks, to what extent can other forms of wireless communication, such as Wi-Fi and satellite communications play in smart city technology deployment?
- What new network models for cities are emerging, and what role can managed network services break open the smart city market?


Moderator: Nigel Cameron, President and CEO, Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies

11:05 – 11:15

Achieving the goals of Smart America and the Global City Teams challenge


Sokwoo Rhee, Associate Director of Cyber-Physical Systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology

11:15 – 11:25

Accelerating Smart City growth worldwide


Joseph Bradley, Managing Director, Internet of Everything Practice, Cisco

11:25 – 11:35

Industrial IoT Gaining Traction


Ron Sege, Chairman and CEO, Echelon Corporation

11:35 – 11:45

The future mobility experience


Christopher Wolf, Partner and Founder & Co-Chair, Hogan Lovells, Future of Privacy Forum

11:45 – 11:55

Working together to achieve the benefits of the Smart City


Peter Marx, Chief Innovation Technology Officer, City of Los Angeles

11:55 – 12:35

Panel discussion with session’s speakers: Maximizing the opportunities for Smart Cities

Afternoon

12:35 – 13:55

Lunch

13:55 – 15:25

Session 2b: IoT outside the city

In addition to creating the smart cities of the future, IoT technologies and services are also having a significant impact, and playing an increasing role for people and businesses in less urban areas. IoT innovations are emerging across sectors such as agriculture, farming, conservation and forestry, as well as the energy sectors in remote environments.

- What are the main challenges for deploying smart technology in less urban areas, and what is being done by businesses and governments to help overcome these challenges?
- What are the economic and business benefits of using IoT technologies in remote environments?
- What new market opportunities does this open up?
- What options exist to ensure crucial connectivity is reaching areas with lack of affordable connectivity and bandwidth? How significant a role can Wi-Fi play in these developments?


Moderator: W. David Stephenson, Principal, Stephenson Strategies

13:55 – 14:10

Transitioning to a New Economy: The ‘efficient Internet of Things’, and solving many of the world’s problems.


Arturo Muente Kunigami, Senior ICT Policy Specialist, World Bank

14:10 – 14:20

Using white spaces to power the Internet of Things in remote areas


Darrin Mylet, Business Operations, Adaptrum

14:20 – 14:30

China’s food security and the role of the Internet of Things


Shudong Chen, Professor and Lab Director, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiangsu R&D Center for Internet of Things

14:30 – 14:40

Profitable Sustainability; A Killer App for IoT


Chris Rezendes, Founder, INEX Advisors

14:40 – 15:25

Panel discussion with above speakers

15:25 – 15:40

Afternoon Networking Break

15:40 – 17:10

Session 2c: Building Smart Homes of the future – what to expect?

The vision of the Connected Home enables residents the opportunity to connect and control almost everything in their home through a smartphone. It provides convenience and cost-savings and offers a single connected environment for home automation, energy controls, assisted living, self monitoring & control, and home entertainment.

However, there remain a number of challenges for widescale smart home deployment in the U.S. and indeed globally. Different players have launched connected devices using different technologies and operating systems which itself creates a barrier for widescale deployment. In addition to a lack of interoperability, privacy and security concerns remain high, and policymakers and industry are continuing to work together to help quell these fears.

- What is the current state of technology deployment for the Connected Home in the United States and globally? What developments have we seen in the past 12 months?
- What role can the smartphone play as an interface for the Connected Home experience? What viable alternatives are there?
- What role can the 'Home Network' play?
- What are the main uncertainties and challenges for widescale deployment?
- What technologies are helping manufacturers to add wireless connectivity to their products? What role can Wi-Fi play?
- What are the main regulatory considerations for managing the wireless communication requirements of the future smart home?
- How can innovators and decision makers educate consumers?

Interactive panel discussion: Each speaker will have 5 minutes at the start of the session to provide introductory remarks. Following this, the session’s moderator will then open up the discussion, which will also include questions from the floor.


Moderator: Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow, The Technology Policy Program, Mercatus Center, George Mason University

Neil Chilson, Attorney-Advisor to Commissioner Ohlhausen, FTC
Tobin Richardson, Chairman and CEO, Zigbee Alliance
Cees Links, CEO, GreenPeak Technologies
Todd Greene, Founder & CEO, PubNub

17:10 – 18:30

Networking Cocktail reception

Tuesday 28 October, 2014

Morning

09:00 – 09:30

Discussion: Beyond Cost Savings - Forging a Path to Revenue Generation


Moderator: Nigel Cameron, President and CEO, Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies

Eric Openshaw, Vice Chairman & Global Technology Leader, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Craig Wigginton, Vice Chairman & Global Telecoms Leader, Deloitte & Touche LLP

09:30 – 10:55

Session 3: Managing the spectrum needs for the Internet of Things

Wireless communication is an essential component to the IoT’s infrastructure. It is used for various IoT applications in homes, cities and the power grid. With more and more connected devices being commercialized, there is an increasingly higher demand on available spectrum, which is ultimately putting a strain on the growth of the IoT market. Existing technologies are not able to accommodate the forecasted demand for wireless connectivity, and therefore new technologies and approaches are required.

- What are the main regulatory considerations for managing the spectrum requirements of the future?
- To what extent can shared solutions be used to meet the needs of the future IoT?
- What spectrum bands can be used to help provide a solution to the high demand?
- To what extent can WRC-15 be expected to address the spectrum needs of the future for industries such as IoT?
- What technologies are helping manufacturers to add wireless connectivity to their products? What role can Wi-Fi play?
- To what extent can satellite communications play an important role in an increasingly connected environment?
- What are the current factors affecting Quality of Service (QoS), predictability and spectrum costs?
- What role can ‘Small Cells’ play in metropolitan and rural areas?

Interactive panel discussion: Each speaker will have 5 minutes at the start of the session to provide introductory remarks. Following this, the session’s moderator will then open up the discussion, which will also include questions from the floor.


Moderator: Anna Gomez, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP

Julius Knapp, Chief, Office of Engineering and Technology, FCC
H Nwana, Executive Director, Dynamic Spectrum Alliance
Charla Rath, Vice President - Wireless Policy Development, Verizon
Philip Marnick, Group Director - Spectrum Policy, Ofcom U.K.
Hazem Moakkit, Vice President of Spectrum Development, O3b

10:55 – 11:15

Morning Networking Break

11:15 – 12:35

Session 4: Architecting the Internet of Things: Sensing, Networking and Analytics

At their basic level, IoT solutions are comprised of sensors, networks and analytics that combine to support the generation and delivery of information that drives value to consumers. Approaches to the design of IoT system architectures and their components can vary based on operational requirements related to cost and performance. These include both centralized computing architectures, that support the collection and processing of large volumes of device data in the cloud, and distributed approaches where the analytical processing of sensor data is conducted at the network’s edge.

- What are the key trade-offs between centralized and distributed IoT system architectures?
- What are the technical challenges to communicating and centrally processing data from potentially billions of connected devices?
- What new technologies in networking and cloud computing are addressing these challenges? Who are the key players?
- How can distributed computing approaches improve IoT system performance? What business opportunities does this approach offer?
- What types of new devices are required to enable a new generation of distributed IoT system architectures?

Interactive panel discussion: Each speaker will have 5 minutes at the start of the session to provide introductory remarks. Following this, the session’s moderator will then open up the discussion, which will also include questions from the floor.


Moderator: Tom Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor in IT and Management, Babson College; and Senior Advisor, Deloitte Analytics

Gary Butler, CEO, Camgian Microsystems Corporation
Xiaolin Lu, Fellow and Director of IoT Lab, Texas Instruments
Steve Halliday, President, RAIN RFID
Sky Matthews, Chief Technology Officer, IBM

Afternoon

12:35 – 13:55

Lunch

13:55 – 15:15

Session 5: The ‘People’ side of the Internet of Things: Meeting consumer expectations

More and more consumer focused IoT applications and devices are being rolled out in order to satisfy an ever increasing demand for innovative new products and solutions. Alongside this, the creation of an environment of trust and confidence both in IoT systems and the security of the data that they generate is key to widespread social acceptance.

- What new devices and upcoming trends are we seeing, and how are manufacturers helping to ensure people’s widespread trust?
- What benefits can be delivered to consumers (as well as industry) through maximising the potential of the data generated by IoT technologies and services, and what potential does data collection and data-driven innovation have for growth and jobs worldwide?
- How do we define the uncertainties associated by data collection and what role can all stakeholders play in ensuring the security of the data that is generated?
- What scope do IoT products and data-driven services have to empower consumers and improve people’s everyday lives?
- What efforts are currently being made, and what work still needs to be done, to help close the gap between the technological side and people side of IoT in order for users to fully trust these systems and meet their expectations of data and identity being secure?
- How can technologists and engineers demonstrate the potential and benefits of IoT technologies to consumers in a way that is compelling to policymakers?

Interactive panel discussion: Each speaker will have 5 minutes at the start of the session to provide introductory remarks. Following this, the session’s moderator will then open up the discussion, which will also include questions from the floor.


Moderator: Dan Caprio, Senior Strategic Advisor, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP

Mark Eichorn, Assistant Director, Consumer of Bureau Protection, FTC
Daniel Castro, Senior Analyst, ITIF; and Director, Center for Data Innovation
Linda Sherry, Director, National Priorities, Consumer Action
Stephen Pattison, Vice President, Public Affairs, ARM Holdings

15:15 – 15:35

Afternoon Networking Break

15:35 – 17:00

Session 6: Standards - the bridge to innovation

In order to take IoT to the next level, co-evolution and collaboration across different sectors and environments is required. IoT is not limited by lack of innovation and imagination, its full potential is hindered by the need for greater interoperability of common standards.

- What standardization and regulatory challenges are faced as we look to develop on infrastructures to enable the potential of IoT to be achieved?
- How will a common set of standards and a more unified approach enable greater interoperability?
- What current efforts are being made by industry, policymakers and academia?
- Is there a need for a global set of standards?
- What is the future role of ‘open source’?
- How can it be ensured that standards are ‘future-proof’?

Interactive panel discussion: Each speaker will have 5 minutes at the start of the session to provide introductory remarks. Following this, the session’s moderator will then open up the discussion, which will also include questions from the floor.


Moderator: Alain Louchez, Managing Director, Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT), Georgia Institute of Technology

Steve Bratt, CTO and President, Standards Development, GS1 Global
Oleg Logvinov, Director, Special Assignments, STMicroelectronics, Chair, Working Group - Standard for an Architectural Framework for the Internet of Things, IEEE
Clarke Stevens, Board of Directors and Technical Chair, UPnP Forum and Principal Architect, CableLabs
Brian Vogelsang, Director, Product Management, Qualcomm
Yi Zhao, Vice President, Standards, Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Huawei R&D USA)

17:00 – 17:05

Closing remarks and conference summary

Logistics

When

Mon 27 October, 2014 09.00 to
Tue 28 October, 2014 17.00

EST

 

Where

The National Press Club

529 14th St. NW,
13th Floor -
Washington, DC 20045

Tel: 1202-662-7500

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