Saving the Earth with the Internet of Things
Session Abstract:
The Earth and its inhabitants are facing a growing number of challenges ranging from climate change to hunger to a lack of safe drinking water to name a few. As the saying goes, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage or improve it.” The technologies that comprise IoT’s connected intelligence stack are perfectly suited to measure, manage and improve critical Earth ecosystems. Join Rob as he walks you through many of the systems that are in crisis and illustrates how specific IoT solutions can be used to take action and effect a positive change in our world.
Speaker:
Rob Tiffany is Founder and Principal at Digital Insights providing strategic advisory services to organizations embarking on a digital transformation journey.
Rob has been featured in Wired, Forbes, Dataconomy, Fierce Wireless, Inc. Magazine, Mobile World Live, and Techonomy. Prior to founding Digital Insights, Rob served as Vice President and Head of IoT Strategy at Ericsson driving 5G connection management for IoT devices. As Chief Technology Officer at Hitachi, he received the Presidential “Product of the Year” award for designing the Lumada Industrial IoT + Digital Twin platform which landed in Gartner’s “Leaders” Magic Quadrant. Spending most of his career at Microsoft, Rob was Global Technology Lead for the Azure IoT cloud platform and co-authored its reference architecture. Prior to Microsoft, he co-founded NetPerceptor developing one of the industry’s earliest Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) platforms for smartphones.
A bestselling author and frequent keynote speaker, Rob serves on multiple boards and is routinely ranked as one of the top IoT + Digital Twin experts and influencers in the world by Inc Magazine, Onalytica and others.