CONFERENCE WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Session Abstract:
A welcome to the IoT Slam Live 2024 conference from IoT Community CMO, Kevin Grant, who will share a brief update on the current IoT landscape. Mark Demers, the M.C. of the event will share opening remarks. Dr. Tom Bradicich will provide insights in his capacity as the IoT Community BoA Chair.
Speaker:
Kevin Grant is the CMO and a co-founder of the Internet of Things Community – IoT Community. He is an emerging and disruptive technology industry specialist, whose passion is to elevate brands, open new markets, enhance loyalty, improve business effectiveness, and motivate high performing teams. For over 8 years, Kevin has been the driving force of the IoT Community evolution, growth and continued success. He is a highly connected and seasoned IoT, cloud and next gen b2b executive. Prior to co-founding IoT Community Kevin spearheaded several clouds computing efforts, including running and managing global cloud communities. His specialties Include: Creating business collaborations on a global scale, Cultivating Thought leadership advocating IoT (Internet of Things), aligning Corporate Strategy, Integrated Marketing, Branding & Communications, Demand Generation Initiatives, Research & Intelligence.
Mark D Demers is the Sr. Director, Global Industry Marketing at SAS. He leads a team of global industry strategists and marketers with combined direct industry experience of more than 256 years. His team works closely with SAS’ customers, industry analysts, influencers, media and partners, to position, message, market, evangelize and empower them to harness the power of AI and analytics to transform their industries. This dynamic team also works directly with SAS R&D, technical staff and sales teams to support the sales efforts of SAS solutions for Government, Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Education and Communications sectors. Demers’ decades of management experience include executive positions at several public and private companies before SAS. Mark serves as Board member for several innovative companies – InterContinental School of Economics and Applied Sciences and, Visual Farms. Mark serves as a Delegate for the United States of America to the Global Chamber of Business Leaders. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University.
Dr. Tom Bradicich, Chairman of the IoT Community Board of Advisors, began his career at IBM, where he was an IBM Fellow, R&D VP, Distinguish Engineer, and Server CTO. At National Instruments, an Operational Technologies (OT) company, he served as an NI Fellow and company officer, pioneering Big Analog Data™ solutions. While at HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Tom held various roles including R&D VP, HPE Fellow, Global Head of Edge & IoT Software Labs, and General Manager, As GM, he lead the global business unit, Servers and Edge Systems and Software, with P&L, worldwide sales, R&D, and customer experience ownership. Opening three global Innovation Labs, and exceeding salsas quotes by achieving revenue growth of over $250M, Tom’s business unit was the fastest growing in HPE.
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