Networking
An invaluable part of our event is the chance to build a network with like-minded people experiencing the same or similar difficulties within their business, wanting to improve their skills and knowledge base and bring back something to their business.
Attending the event is a chance to take a break from your work and sharpen your skills by gaining new ideas and approaches that make you more effective and efficient at your work.
We offer the opportunity to be in the same room to meet experts and leaders and listen to how they approach business that you can benefit from. You’ll have the chance to mix with the other attendees and form new relationships over a coffee, lunch or drinks and make a connection with the perfect provider or even prospect.
Learning new tools and techniques from industry leading providers who have the products and services that will make you better, faster or even different from competitors and give you the cutting edge. Meeting face to face and asking questions or getting hands on with a demonstration specific to your business struggles is an unparalleled experience to reading brochures and websites.
Ultimately, our event provides you a unique opportunity to network, learn and have fun all in one place.
Drinks Reception
At the close of Day 1 we’ll host a drinks reception for all attendees which gives you time to relax and discuss the days insight and opinions. It’s a great ice breaker with people you may not have had a chance to speak to during the day.
Breakfast, Lunch, Refreshments & Networking Breaks
We’ll make sure you’re fuelled and charged for the day starting with breakfast and refreshments followed by regular breaks scheduled throughout the day.
We’ll provide the food and refreshments during lunch and breaks which are great networking opportunities to connect with other attendees in a relaxed atmosphere and informal discussions.
Mobile App
We’ll provide you with a mobile app so you can take full advantage of the event with an immersive experience for all attendees. Through the app you’ll be able to start networking with other attendees before you arrive at the event and continue after the 2 days come to a close.
Connect through One-on-One chats and arrange personal meetings or converse with a group chat to discuss wider subjects and opinions, either way you’ll start to forge your long-term relationships before you arrive and long after you leave.
1-2-1 Meetings
We’ll arrange 1-2-1 meetings for you with the expert providers so you can get face to face time to discuss specific requirements and tailored advice on how their products and solutions can alleviate your problems and improve your business.
Innovation Den
Join us for the Innovation Den where the latest and most innovative start-up companies disrupting and transforming technology and business as we know it will pitch their innovative product or solution to the audience followed by a Q&A from a panel of hand-selected judges. You, the audience, are then given the chance to vote on which one you believe is the most innovative through our conference app and the winner will then be announced the following day before lunch.
Three Tracks of Content
To ensure you leave with a holistic view of what is needed to build, implement and leverage IoT products and solutions, you’ll have access to move freely in-between the three content tracks: Business Strategy, Engineering and Design.
Business Strategy
Dive into how to build buy-in for creating and leveraging IoT products and solutions. Then hear details of the partners, value chains, organizational and business models needed to achieve ROI.
Engineering
CTOs, Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Network, Infrastructure and Security teams meet to learn how to build and implement the technology leading today’s data-driven business. Leave with the technical insights to answer critical questions on IoT hardware and software development, Build vs. Buy, Agile vs. Waterfall, B Digital Twins, Edge to Cloud infrastructures and much more.
Design
How to excel in IoT Product and UX Design. Product, User and Customer Experience teams join to discern best practice in building and designing connected products. Leave with the qualities needed to navigate the complex IoT ecosystem and refine key product and UX design skills for Human to Machine (H2M), Machine to Human (M2H) and Machine to Machine (M2M) design.
LF Edge Workshop
Spend 90 minutes with LF Edge leaders as they run an interactive workshop session.
LF Edge is an umbrella organization that aims to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. By bringing together industry leaders, LF Edge gives insight into the common framework for hardware and software standards and best practices critical to sustaining current and future generations of IoT and edge devices.
Pinpoint lessons and examples from multiple industries including industrial manufacturing, cities and government, energy, transportation, retail, home and building automation, automotive, logistics and health care — all of which stand to be transformed by edge computing.
