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15th-16th November 2016, Doubletree by Hilton Tower Bridge London Addressing the technical challenges for enterprises deploying IoT solutions

1 15th-16th November 2016, Doubletree by Hilton Tower Bridge London Addressing the technical challenges for enterprises deploying IoT solutions 20+ expert speakers Including Hive, ING, Stanley Black & Decker and Specsavers Extensive IoT technology case studies Live cyber threat demonstration

IoTBuild Why now? Enterprise network architects, builders, developers and technology professionals will play a pivotal role in driving IoT innovation and business adoption in 2016 and beyond.

There is a growing requirement to connect the disparate parts of a distributed IoT business solution from mobile devices, to wearables and sensors, to cloud and on premise legacy enterprise systems.

2 IoTBuild Why now? Enterprise network architects, builders, developers and technology professionals will play a pivotal role in driving IoT innovation and business adoption in 2016 and beyond. However, there are huge challenges ahead. There is a growing requirement to connect the disparate parts of a distributed IoT business solution from mobile devices, to wearables and sensors, to cloud and on premise legacy enterprise systems. Together with security and privacy concerns, a lack of standards and the overwhelming volume of IoT platforms, it can be a real challenge to make the right technology choices for the enterprise. IoTBuild provides a unique opportunity to join technology leaders, innovators and peers to tackle the challenges of technology selection and building the Internet of Things. If you are moving from thinking about IoT to deploying IoT networks then this is an event not to be missed.

3 20+ expert speakers, including: CHi Onwurah Labour MP for Newcastle Central and Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy, Science and Innovation Seb Chakraborty CTO Hive David Guest CTO Specsavers Alfred Biehler Cloud Managing Partner Google Jeevarathinam Ravikumar Digital Innovation Leader Stanley Security Europe Rana Ghosh-Roy Partner, Cognitive and Analytics Leader Europe IBM Watson Robin Duke-Woolley CEO Beecham Research Kalman Tiboldi Chief Business Innovation Officer TVH Group NV Adam Leach Head of R&D Nominet, Oxford Flood Project Grant Peters World Wide IoT Lead Architect Microsoft Alasdair Allan Scientist, Author, Hacker, Maker, and Journalist Martin Woolley Technical Programme Manager Bluetooth SIG Bas Geerdink IT Manager ING RIchard Browning Trader & Innovation Advocate BP Amar Parmar Head of IoT Design Centrer Wind River Adrian Winkles OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Rami Avidan Managing Director Tele2 Group Ken Munro Security Specialist Pen Test Partners Paul Green Chief Creative Director Iotic Labs Alex Gluhak Technical Lead Digital Catapult Things Connected Programme David Bodenstein Managing Director RedGear Solutions Saverio Romeo Senior Researcher Beecham Research William Webb CEO Weightless SIG Raphael Crouan Managing Director Startupbootcamp

4 Why attend IoTBuild? The only event on the challenges of building and deploying the next generation of enterprise IoT networks Cyber threat live demonstrations See what can happen if product security is flawed CTO platform builder panel How are IoT platforms evolving and which one should you bet on? Extensive technology case studies - learn from the success and failures of the early adopters Top 5 case studies: Hear from Hive how customer focus, roll-out planning and scaling was key to success Learn how Specsavers created a smart retail environment using IoT Understand how interoperability issues were overcome in Oxford s IoT flood defence project Hear ING address the challenges of building a real-time IoT analytics engine for enterprise Discover how the TVH Group built an IoT-enabled predictive maintenance solution to seize competitive advantage

5 Who will attend? Enterprise organisations whose plans for IoT have moved from thinking to building Industries will include: Retail Manufacturing Healthcare Transportation Smart Cities Financial services Energy Automotive Job titles will include: Chief Technology Officers Chief Information Officers Heads of Solutions Architecture Heads of Enterprise Architecture Heads of Software Engineering Heads of Application Development Heads of Information Systems Heads of Technology Infrastructure IT Director Developers

6 CONFERENCE DAY ONE: TUESDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2016 IOT ENABLEMENT, INTEROPERABILITY AND PLATFORM CHOICE 08:15-08:50 Registration and welcome refreshments 08:50-09:00 Chairman s opening remarks Robin Duke-Woolley, CEO, Beecham Research 09:00-09:45 KEYNOTE: IoT, Can the government be doing more? The UK government claims to be forthright in its promotion of the Internet of Things, and local IoT start-ups coming out of the country. But could the Conservative government be doing more, and what does the future of IoT hold? Chi Onwurah, Shadow Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy is also a distinguished engineer so she is in a unique position to give her perspective in this keynote presentation Chi Onwurah, Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy, Science and Innovation 9:45-10:15 IoT Futures Machine learning and software learning With data being the new oil, how will future advances in machine learning and software automation impact the IoT within the enterprise? What plans should organisations make now to ensure they are well positioned to benefit from future advances? In this closing keynote we examine how this rapidly evolving area will bring a new wave of change to enterprise IoT. Rana Ghosh-Roy, Head of Cognitive and Analytic Practice, IBM 10:15-10:45 IoT interoperability: The holy grail for IoT Building systems that talk to each other is pivotal to the success of IoT Projects. But IoT is fragmented and currently lacks interoperability. This session will explore the requirements for a connected, interoperable environment to enable an enterprise that is IoT ready. - The basic building blocks for IoT interoperability - What approaches can be taken to meet the challenge of enabling IoT interoperability? - What efforts are being made in key standards development organisations to support interoperability Adam Leach, Head of R&D, Nominet Oxford Flood Project 10:45-11:15 IoT Value Chain - Selecting the right components IoT is not a standard and it is all about connecting things and getting insight of it and making intelligent decisions accordingly. Hence it is not a standard, there are many organisations that have come out with their own protocols and physical layer that covers from sensors to networks. - What does it involve in creating end to end IoT applications? - What kind of edge devices that are to be used? - What kind of wide area network that works for a particular application? - What kind of platform that can help building these applications? Jeevarathinam Ravikumar, Digital Innovation Leader, Stanley Security Europe 11:15-11:45 Networking refreshment break amd one-to-one meetings 11:45-12:15 It s not all about the technology: Is your organisation ready? Adopting IoT is not only about technology choices. A key success factor in its deployment will be having an organisation ready, focused and organised for change. Hear from a global leader about some of the innovation challenges that need to be addressed when seeking and implementing technology disruption opportunities in the enterprise and the need to adopt a nimble innovation model. Richard Browning, Trader & Innovation Advocate, BP

7 12:15-13:00 IoT Platform Play: Open discussion with IoT platform builders Despite IoT Platforms still being in their infancy, recent research suggests there are now more than 260 IoT Platforms. How do IoT project teams and builders decide what will work best for them how will these platforms evolve and which is the right one to bet on? Hear from the CTOs of IoT platform vendors and get your questions answered. Hear from our IoT platform experts and get your questions answered This session will: - Offer you an unrivalled opportunity to hear from IoT Platform experts - Help you shape your platform decision making to align your platform choice with your organisation s IoT Strategy - What scale and performance factors need to be considered when thinking about connecting huge numbers of products? - Give you the opportunity to ask questions directly to the people responsible for building the IoT Platform of the future - Accelerate your decision making for platform choice. Panel chaired by Alasdair Allan, Scientist, Author, Hacker, Maker, and Journalist. Panelists: Alfred Biehler, Cloud Managing Partner, Google David Bodenstein, Managing Director, Red Gear Solutions Amar Parmar, Head of IoT Design Center, Wind River Grant Peters, World Wide IoT Lead Architect, Microsoft Azure 13:00-14:00 Networking lunch and one-to-one meetings 14:00-15:00 INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP - The World of Things and Not Things in IoT With so many connected devices, how will businesses create a place where things can share data, where data can be mashed with data from others things, where anything can be related and made into useful decision making data? How will it be stored, managed and secured? Sensors, devices, remote equipment and even dumb things can share their data with each other and can be shared or exchanged, creating new relationships, insights and whole new ways to interact. We look at innovative, realistic ways that this can be done and possibilities for driving business change without leaving broken useless pieces of the Internet of Things behind. Paul Green & Ali Nicholl, Iotic Labs 15:00-15:30 Things Connected: Accelerating the UK LPWAN eco-system Alex Gluhak is the lead technologist for IoT at the Digital Catapult, where he is responsible for setting the technology directions in the area of IoT and the creation of strategic programmes and their delivery. His current work focuses on lowering barriers for innovation around Low Power Wide Area Networks and establishing common market places for IoT data across heterogeneous IoT platforms. Inthis session he will discuss his work in this area. Alex Gluhak, Technical Lead, Digital Catapult Things Connected Programme, and Organiser, LP- WAN London Meetup 15:30-16:30 Innovation in Action: Technology Roundtables Start-up companies have an important role to play in driving disruptive innovation that will shape the future of IoT. Take this opportunity to gain early insight into new technologies and potentially identify your next investment project. Hear from start ups participating in Starupbootcamp s connected devices accelerator programme to inspire you with fresh thinking and keep you at the forefront of technological developments that could give you a competitive edge. Ask questions and get involved Panel chaired by: Raph Crouan, Founder & Managing Director, Startupbootcamp IoT Connected Devices

8 16:30-17:00 CLOSING KEYNOTE: Data Science in an IoT enterprise: Building a real-time analytics engine Things create data and lots of it. So how are organisations going to analyse all the data things make? Should they go on premise or in the cloud? Should they utilise existing Big Data tools or integrate a range of other analytics tools? What do distributed processing systems look like? This keynote talks through the challenge of building a real-time IoT analytics engine for enterprise: - Hear from fellow end users that have evaluated the choices and built their own analytics engine - Understand the technology options and underlying platform architecture - Explore how you build a data lake that can handle multiple data sources Bas Geerdink, IT Manager, ING 17:00-17:15 Chairman s closing remarks 17:15 Canapes and drinks reception, end of conference day one

9 CONFERENCE DAY TWO: WEDNESDAY 16TH NOVEMBER :15-8:50 Registration and one-to-one meetings DATA-DRIVEN IOT STRATEGIES 09:00-09:45 KEYNOTE: Turning the IoT vision into reality Putting the Consumer FIRST: - Building a customer centric development team - The roadmap and vision of creating an IoT consumer product and service - What does the product adoption path look like? - The role of the developer in shaping consumer-driven apps at each stage of the process Seb Chakraborty, Chief Technology Officer Connected Homes, Hive 09:45-10:30 Connecting the unconnected Starting on the road to IoT in the enterprise There is an immediate opportunity for enterprises to benefit from IoT in the billions of devices already out there. Yet how does an organisation approach their dumb things and connect the unconnected? How do you start on that journey and what mistakes can you avoid? - What technology challenges does connecting the unconnected have? - Are there any quick wins to accelerate your projects? - How does accessing new data change how you manage it within your business? - What impact does interoperability standards have in connecting the unconnected? - What can we learn from initial projects to enable future ones? Rami Avidan, Managing Director IoT, Tele2 10:30-11:15 Implementing change, transforming business The Optical market place, which has been a stable bricks and mortar environment for many years is undergoing a number of disruptions caused by the emergence of new technologies in the optical process, greater use of the internet and mobile by customers and the increasing desire from customers to be in control of how and when they interact with the store. In response to this, Specsavers is extending its customer journey out of their stores, on to customers devices and into their homes, using innovative IoT technologies in store and personalising customer interactions. - How are Specsavers responding to this change? - How are they using IoT technology to meet customer needs? - What technology choices did they make to implement this transformation? - What impact are these choices making on it s core infrastructure and cloud based systems? This session will address the potential disruptions, the journey and the technology choices they made to implement IoT systems as well as the opportunities they offer. David Guest, CTO, Specsavers 11:15-11:45 Networking refreshment break and one-to-one meetings 11:45-12:30 Data-driven disruption Seizing competitive advantage moving from reactive to predictive maintenance IoT enabled data driven predictive maintenance is becoming relevant in all the major industries as it can drive efficiency by providing higher levels of safety and quality at a fraction of the current costs, but what happens after a failure is predicted, the need for maintenance is detected or a part replacement is required? Even if you can predict failures, dynamic technician scheduling associated with equipment maintenance management requires insight into real-time held inventory, technician location and estimated service completion time. - IoT enabled intelligent fleet/asset management - Steps to create a data platform for real-time information flow - Squeezing the asset identifying new opportunities from existing data flow - Challenges to implementing IoT enabled predictive maintenance - Information visualisation, layered architecture for Sensing, Communication, Service and Infrastructure Kalman Tiboldi, Chief Business Innovation Officer, TVH Group

10 12:30-13:00 Harden the IoT: Strengthening your IoT design The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is focused on improving the security of software. Its key mission is to make software security visible, so that individuals and organisations worldwide can make informed decisions about true software security risks. The most well known, mature and flagship project is The OWASP Top 10 Most Critical Web Application Security Risks which has made its way into many of the major security frameworks in use today. This presentation and demonstration will take a look at a number of Flagship, Lab & Incubator Open Source Projects which can provide real benefits to security professionals, developers and enterprises. Adrian Winkles, OWASP Cambridge 13:00-14:00 Networking lunch 14:00-14:45 Bluetooth beacon applications and real world developer issues 2014 was the year when many organizations ran initial pilot projects and 2015 was the year of large beacon deployments. ABI Research predicts there will be a 60-million-unit market by This session will review fundamental beacon concepts and the issues facing developers in the real world. A selection of beacon frame formats including ibeacon, AltBeacon and Eddystone will be introduced and the session will explore the technicalities and issues that can be faced when developing a beacon application and there will be a live beacon demonstration. - Apple ibeacon vs AltBeacon vs Google EddyStone - Under the hood How Bluetooth Smart Beacons work - Application issues including APIs - Testing methods and tips Martin Woolley, Technical Programme Manager, Bluetooth SIG 14:45-15:15 Technology Evolution in the Mist Subtitle: Innovation in the Confusing IoT Platform Landscape The presentation will illustrate the status of the IoT Platform landscape and the key area of development including AI, data visualization, security, social objects, and business models. Saverio Romeo, Principal Analyst, Beecham Research 15:15-15:45 Addressing standards fragmentation to make way for mass IoT adoption Without standards, the potential of IoT and its mass adoption will never be fully realised. Yet, how can standards be developed when such diverse systems exist? This discussion will seek to explore how the market can address fragmentation of standards and examine the best way forward to accelerate IoT adoption. Agenda: - Establishing the importance and challenges of developing IoT standards - Is the future divergent or convergent? Can a universal standard ever be reached? - What security implications exist with the current standards regime? - What are the risks of fragmentation? - How can progress be accelerated? William Webb, CEO, Weightless SIG

11 15:45-16:30 LIVE DEMONSTRATION: Designing & building in security and privacy to IoT This demonstration will showcase how vulnerable designs can be when they ve not been created with security at the forefront on the engineering and coding. - The fundamentals for designing with security in mind - A look at how current IoT products can be hacked - How these products could have been hardened during their development - The must do s to strengthen IoT design Ken Munro, Security Specialist, Pen Test Partners 16:30-16:45 Chairman s closing remarks 16:45 End of conference

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