2. Technology Convergence Panel Internet of Things (IoT)
November 27, 2018| 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Technology Convergence Panel Internet of Things (IoT)
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3. Panel Moderator James B
Panel Moderator James B. McClellan Technology Infusion Chief NASA Headquarters - Office of CIO
James is the Technology Infusion Chief for NASA in the Office of Chief Information Officer (OCIO) responsible for coordinating the NASA CTO community, developing IT Strategic Vision for NASA, and managing Agency level IT innovation projects. He is the lead of the NASA IoT effort. 

4. Panel Member Dr. Stephan Biller Vice President for Offering Management IBM Watson IoT
Stephan is Vice President at IBM Watson IoT responsible for IBM's Industrial IoT, Industry 4.0, and  Asset & Smart Buildings solution suites.

5. Panel Member Kent Cunningham Chief Technology Officer, U. S
Panel Member Kent Cunningham Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Federal Civilian Government Microsoft Corporation
Kent is the Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft’s Federal Civilian Government division and responsible for driving cloud technologies such as IOT, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence across the segment; in alignment with Federal mandates and unique mission or policy requirements. 

6. Panel Member H. Brent Baker, Sr. , Vice President of PTC Inc
Panel Member H. Brent Baker, Sr., Vice President of PTC Inc. Worldwide Federal Aerospace and Defense (FA&D) Major General – USAF (retired)
Brent is responsible for first to market software solutions to include the Internet of Things and Augmented Reality. 

7. SESSION DESCRIPTION The Internet of Things (IoT)
The Internet of things (IoT) is the network of industrial machines, vehicles, consumer devices, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and connectivity which enables these things to connect, collect and exchange data.
IoT describes a world where just about anything can be connected and communicate in an intelligent fashion. In other words, with the Internet of Things, the physical world is becoming one big information system.

8. Internet of Things (IoT) Projects
What is the scope of IoT?
Activity of sensors
Advanced (smart) connector networks with security
The Platform the sensor data goes to
Applications and Analytics
What are IoT Projects???
Should be based on Business goals
Process of collecting data and turning it into useful information
Think big, start small, scale fast

9. SESSION LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This session will discuss some of the challenges of implementing IoT in your company.
Some facts about IoT
Some ways to deal with the challenges

10. Facts about IoT Brownfields innovation
The reality is that 95% or more of industrial IoT innovations are incremental improvements over existing – and critical – production systems.

11. Question 1
Q: “Many IoT innovations are designed to improve existing and important processes. What kinds of brownfield improvement projects have your teams worked on, and what were their lessons learned?”

12. Facts about IoT Anticipating and managing complexity
IoT systems are very complex.
Some of this draws from the fact that most are brownfield innovations that inherent the technical debt of the existing production environment.
That said, even net new IoT innovations are very complicated.
Most include data from many sources, driving decisions in a manner that is more complicated that most business systems.

13. Question 2
Q: “IoT systems are quite complex. What are some development and deployment challenges that your teams have encountered? What would your advice for anticipating and managing those issues be?”

14. Facts about IoT
Talent
It is very difficult to find architects or technical team members that are fluent in all of the components of the IoT solution end-to-end.
When you consider the skills required are:
Sr. IT skills (i.e. Architect), Cloud PaaS experience (relevant to IoT development) and embedded compute experience then the number of available individuals in the US in is literally under 100.
If you add in brownfield specific knowledge (such as process or ICS expertise) these folks become unobtainable.
This requires building multi-disciplinary teams that cross-train and collaborate.

15. Question 3
Q: “IoT architects and developers are hard to recruit. What strategies are your clients using to address this problem?”

16. Wrap Up Slide
Promise of IoT
Final thoughts on getting started

17. Thanks to: James B. McClellan
Technology Infusion Chief
NASA – Office of CIO
Phone:
Stephan Biller Vice President, Watson IoT
phone:
Kent Cunningham
CTO, U.S. Federal Civilian Govt.
Skype:
H. Brent Baker Sr. VP, Worldwide FA&D phone:  

18. QUESTIONS? THANK YOU