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About the Organisers

Below you will find more information about the organizers, sponsor companies and supporting partners for this October's Internet of Things Summit.

 

Event Organizer

Forum Global www.forum-global.com

Forum Global specializes in policy focused conferences and events, providing a platform for discussion and debate on topical issues across a variety of different sectors. These events are organized with clients and partners and aim to progress ideas and actions on important issues, all within a balanced and neutral setting.

 

Forum Global is the international arm of Forum Europe, which was founded by Giles Merritt, columnist for the International Herald Tribune, and is widely recognized as the leading EU dedicated event provider.

 

Headed by a team of events specialists with over 19 years of experience, Forum Global works successfully with businesses, institutions and governments alike. Its strategic services can maintain and develop your key policy networks, and also deliver forums where key issues can be aired and debated.

Platinum sponsors

Camgian Microsystems Corporation www.camgian.com

Named by Inc. Magazine as one of America’s fastest growing private companies, Camgian Microsystems builds award winning information systems powered from the network’s edge. The company specializes in engineering intelligent edge devices designed at the intersection of advanced sensing, real-time processing and low-power electronics. Networked with novel software applications, Camgian’s devices bridge vital information gaps between users in the commercial and government markets and their operations. Its latest innovation Egburt is a novel edge computing device for the Internet of Things (IoT) market that will be launched at this fall’s IoT Global Summit in Washington, D.C. To learn more about Camgian Microsystems, please visit www.camgian.com or follow them on twitter @CamgianMicro.

Egburt www.egburt.com

Egburt is a revolutionary edge-computing device for the Internet of Things that supports software defined sensor interfaces, powerful real-time sensor analytics, ultra-low power consumption and IP-based cellular communications. Egburt offers enterprises a fundamentally new way to implement Internet of Things solutions where all crucial data and real-time, actionable analytics remain local with higher-level information processing, visualization, and distribution performed in a secure, cloud environment. Its intelligent design creates new, more efficient ways to monitor and optimize business processes thus enabling improved performance and new forms of value to customers.  Egburt’s flexibility and interoperability will enable implementation over a broad range of applications including smart cities, agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing, facilities and retail. Egburt will be officially launched at the Internet of Things Global Summit in Washington D.C. October 27 - 28, 2014.

Google www.google.com

Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We build web applications, or “apps”, to make it simpler for people to share information and get things done together.

Verizon www.verizon.com

Verizon Communications Inc., headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to consumer, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America’s most reliable wireless network, with more than 100 million retail connections nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America’s most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers in more than 150 countries. A Dow 30 company with nearly $116 billion in 2012 revenues, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of 180,900.

Deloitte www.deloitte.com

In the United States, Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries have 57,000 professionals with a single focus: serving our clients and helping them solve their toughest problems. We work in four key business areas — audit, financial advisory, tax and consulting — but our real strength comes from combining the talents of those groups to address clients’ needs.

Qualcomm www.qualcomm.com

Qualcomm is the driver behind the mobile communications revolution, from 3G to 4G LTE and beyond. Qualcomm technologies power many of the smartphones and tablets that connect people, places and things through high-speed connectivity anytime, anywhere. And the company continues to invent and invest in wireless technology breakthroughs that support billions of connections between people and the things they care about. To date Qualcomm has invested a cumulative total of more than $31 billion in R&D into advanced mobile connectivity and computing technologies – over 20% of its revenues year-over-year and over $5 billion in 2013 alone.

 

Qualcomm has made it its business to help others build devices that reach all facets of life. By setting its sights on the future and continuously investing in innovation, Qualcomm is solving big challenges and propelling the entire ecosystem forward, faster. 

 

More information is available on the Qualcomm website, the Qualcomm corporate blog, the Qualcomm Spark invention blog, and on the corporate Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook sites.

AllSeen Alliance www.allseenalliance.org

The AllSeen Alliance is a nonprofit open source consortium to enable the widespread adoption and help accelerate the development and evolution of an interoperable peer connectivity and communications framework for devices and applications in the Internet of Everything. The Alliance manages and advances an industry-supported collaborative open source software connectivity and services framework based on AllJoyn technology accepting contributions from premier members, community members and the open source community. This secure and programmable software connectivity and services framework enables companies and individuals to create interoperable products that can discover, connect and interact directly with other nearby devices, systems and services regardless of transport layer, device type, platform, operating system or brand.

Silver sponsors

ARM www.arm.com

UPnP Forum www.upnp.org

UPnP Forum, established in 1999, is a global alliance of more than 1,000 industry-leading organizations working to enable device-to-device interoperability and facilitate easier and better home networking. The Forum promotes the adoption of uniform technical device interconnectivity standards and certifies devices conforming to these standards. UPnP Forum is an impartial group enabling member companies to participate and develop extensions to the UPnP Device Architecture, which defines how to use the Internet Protocol (IP) to communicate between devices, and Device Control Protocols (DCPs), which are services between devices. Members of UPnP Forum include market leaders in computing, printing and networking, consumer electronics, home appliances, automation, control and security, and mobile products.

Lunch sponsor - Day 1

Echelon Corporation www.echelon.com

Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON), a pioneer in developing open-standard control networking platforms, delivers all the elements necessary to design, install, monitor and control industrial-strength ‘communities of devices’ within the lighting, building automation, grid, Internet of Things, ‘maker’ and other markets worldwide. 

 

Echelon develops and sells complete systems and subsystems for target applications, plus system-on-chips (SoCs), embedded software, and commissioning and management tools for OEMs. With more than 100 million Echelon-powered devices installed worldwide, the company helps its customers easily and safely migrate existing control systems to the most modern platforms, while bringing new devices and applications into an ever-growing global Industrial Internet. 

 

Echelon helps its customers reduce operational costs, enhance satisfaction and safety, grow revenues and perform better in both established and emerging markets. More information about Echelon can be found at http://iiot.echelon.com, or www.echelon.com and at the company's blog at blog.echelon.com.

Lunch sponsor - Day 2

Egburt www.egburt.com

Egburt is a revolutionary edge-computing device for the Internet of Things that supports software defined sensor interfaces, powerful real-time sensor analytics, ultra-low power consumption and IP-based cellular communications. Egburt offers enterprises a fundamentally new way to implement Internet of Things solutions where all crucial data and real-time, actionable analytics remain local with higher-level information processing, visualization, and distribution performed in a secure, cloud environment. Its intelligent design creates new, more efficient ways to monitor and optimize business processes thus enabling improved performance and new forms of value to customers.  Egburt’s flexibility and interoperability will enable implementation over a broad range of applications including smart cities, agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing, facilities and retail. Egburt will be officially launched at the Internet of Things Global Summit in Washington D.C. October 27 - 28, 2014.

Cocktail sponsor

PubNub www.pubnub.com

The PubNub Data Stream Network provides the cloud infrastructure and key building blocks for realtime apps that scale globally to any device. PubNub enables realtime experiences such as group chat, live dashboards and streams, presence, collaboration, second-screen synchronization, Internet of Things/machine-to-machine signaling, and more. PubNub’s simple API delivers scalable, reliable realtime interactivity across mobile, browser, desktop and server, and supports over 60 environments including iOS, Android and JavaScript. With traffic distributed across 15

datacenters worldwide, PubNub currently powers thousands of realtime apps and streams over three million messages per second to over 150 million devices each month, all while adhering to 99.999% SLAs.

Exhibitors

Paradigm Creatives www.paradigmcreatives.com

The world is changing. Customers, suppliers, and partners expect to be able to interact with businesses at any time, using any device. Paradigm Creatives can make sure your company is able to compete and stay ahead of the curve in today’s marketplace with the new age connected devices. Between Smart Cities, the connected home, leveraging the Cloud to quickly grow your capacity there are many challenges to becoming an industry leader. 

 

Based in USA, Paradigm Creatives offers exceptional quality solutions which are cost-effective and tailored to your unique requirements. We have worked with a wide range of clients, including Fortune 100 companies to start-ups, to help them make the most of mobile technology. Cutting edge, connected devices and emerging technologies. Being partners with major ERP’s we understand the seamless integration into enterprise solutions or systems.

GetWireless www.getwirelessllc.com

GetWireless, a national B2B value-added distributor of cellular product solutions providing wireline functionality, without the limitations of a wired connection. We specialize in products, solutions and support for resellers and integrators serving the Industrial, Mobility, and Distributed Enterprise markets.   We offer equipment from industry-leading manufacturers including; Sierra Wireless AirLink, Option, Xirgo Technologies, NETGEAR, Axesstel, Janus RC, Antenna Plus, and Panorama Antennas.

Knowledge partners

Council www.theinternetofthings.eu

Council is a thinktank, consultancy, accelarator and forecasting group. Council hosts the full range of opinions on what will be a small avalanche of disruptive innovations. They go through the full range of emotions and conceptual breakdown that comes with grasping the territory, the full logistical, business, social and philosophical implications of the Internet of Things.  Council thinktank aims to grow into a positively critical counterpart to these negativities in focusing on the quality of interaction and potentialities of IOT for social, communicative and economic (personal fabrication, participatory finance, alternative currencies) connectivity between humans, humans and things and humans and their surroundings. Council highlights a personal history of locative media & hybrid spaces, by professionals of the i3 (Intelligent Information Interfaces) days, as well as the latest tools and applications, workshops on key issues, short keynotes and time for debate and discussion.

Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies www.c-pet.org

C-PET, the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, is a nonpartisan Washington, DC, think tank focused on innovation and the long-term policy implications of emerging technologies. As part of its program of events, C-PET has hosted conferences and roundtables addressing the future of the Internet – including the Internet of Things, cloud, privacy, and the Government 2.0 and Business 2.0 impacts of social media.

Supporting partners

4G Americas www.4gamericas.org

4G Americas is an industry trade organization composed of leading telecommunications service providers and manufacturers. The organization's mission is to promote, facilitate and advocate for the deployment and adoption of the 3GPP family of technologies throughout the Americas. 4G Americas contributes to the successful commercial rollout of 3GPP mobile broadband technologies across the Americas and their place as the No. 1 technology family in the region. The organization aims to develop the expansive wireless ecosystem of networks, devices, and applications enabled by GSM and its evolution to LTE. 4G Americas is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., with an office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Dallas. More information is available at www.4gamericas.org

Postscapes www.postscapes.com

We are passionate about the convergence of the physical world with the digital, and everything that will accompany that shift. The emerging term "Internet of Things" seems to best represent these changes taking place and the term Postscapes is inspired from a future of networked landscapes and its possibilities. Our goal is to serve the need of those interested in learning or taking advantage of IoT technologies with timely news, resources, events, and education.

The Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) www.cdait.gatech.edu

The Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, GA, USA fosters the development of interdisciplinary Internet of Things (IoT) research and education that bridges sponsors with Georgia Tech researchers and faculty as well as industry members who share similar interests. CDAIT is a global, nonprofit, partner-funded center of excellence in IoT that stimulates creativity, productivity gains and revenue generation while exploring surrounding societal issues such as ethics, privacy, trust, regulation and policy. CDAIT relies on financial sponsorship from industry and seeks sponsors whose objectives are tightly aligned with the Center’s. Like any other research center at Georgia Tech, CDAIT is a vehicle for focusing on technologies such as those enabling the Internet of Things, which are crucial to the advancement of society and leading to interdisciplinary collaboration.

Dynamic Spectrum Alliance www.dynamicspectrumalliance.org

The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance is a global organization advocating for laws and regulations that will lead to more efficient and effective spectrum utilization. The DSA’s membership spans multinationals, small- and medium-sized enterprises, and academic, research, and other organizations from around the world, all working to create innovative solutions that will increase the amount of available spectrum to the benefit of consumers and businesses alike.

futuretext www.futuretext.com

futuretext applies machine learning techniques to complex problems in IoT (Internet of Things) and Telecoms domains.

LonMark International www.lonmark.org

LonMark International is a non-profit corporation supporting the testing and certification of products, people and companies supporting the ISO/IEC 14908 body of standards and Industrial Internet of Things. Its mission is to provide energy efficiency through intelligent control for buildings, homes, smart grid, street lighting, restaurants and other markets which all connect using common information and communication infrastructure. Today, there are over 500 interoperable products certified and listed on the LonMark website and over 700 people have been certified as LonMark Certified Professionals.

Zigbee Alliance www.zigbee.org

ZigBee offers green and global wireless standards connecting the widest range of devices to work together intelligently and help you control your world. The ZigBee Alliance is an open, non-profit association of more than 400 members driving development of innovative, reliable and easy-to-use ZigBee standards. The Alliance promotes worldwide adoption of ZigBee as the leading wirelessly networked, sensing and control standard for use in consumer, commercial and industrial areas.

M2M Now www.m2mnow.biz

With exclusive analyst reports and specialist journalists, M2M Now is the leading global brand covering machine-to-machine communications (M2M), embedded devices, connected consumer devices and the Internet of Things. Delivering webcasts, bi-monthly magazines, white-papers, daily news, expert blogs and the most comprehensive IoT industry directory online, M2M Now focuses on the deployment of these technologies across the automotive, logistics, healthcare, utilities and smart cities verticals.

 

For more information, contact: Charlie Bisnar at c.bisnar@wkm-global.com

Social Media partner

HTxA www.twitter.com/HTxA

HTxA is a new communication concept that provides complementary value to physical events on a global level. Using the power of Social Media HTxA enables the flow of information and knowledge to expand in real-time across and beyond the venue boundaries. Selected information and knowledge is globally spread through various target channels using unique hashtags increasing the level of awareness about the event and its topics.