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Event Organizers

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 25 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.

The Forum Europe team consists of multilingual EU policy and events specialists and our strategic services can maintain and develop your networks at EU level while delivering forums where key issues can be aired and debated.

You can find out more about us by going to www.forum-europe.com

Platinum Sponsors

AT&T www.att.com

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) helps millions around the globe connect with leading entertainment, mobile, high speed Internet and voice services. We’re the world’s largest provider of pay TV. We have TV customers in the U.S. and 11 Latin American countries. In the U.S., our wireless network offers the nation’s strongest LTE signal and the most reliable 4G LTE network. We offer the best global wireless coverage*. And we help businesses worldwide serve their customers better with our mobility and secure cloud solutions.

ESOA www.esoa.net

ESOA is a non-profit organisation established with the objective of serving and promoting the common interests of satellite operators from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the CIS. The Association today represents the interests of 21 satellite operators who deliver information communication services across the globe. Together ESOA Members provide invaluable communications services to the whole world including emergency communications, live broadcasting, maritime and aero communications, secure services for governments, 24-7 monitoring of industrial processes such as energy plants and a whole range of other communications capabilities that society has come to rely on.

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.

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Qualcomm www.qualcomm.com

Qualcomm is the driving force behind the growth and progress of the global wireless industry. It is the world’s leader in patents and other intellectual property that provide the technological basis for the global wireless communications industry. That goes for existing 3G (third-generation) technology that makes wireless Internet data as well as voice transmissions practical around the world. It also applies to next-generation, 4G technology, which delivers an even more enhanced and seamless user experience.

 

In addition to licensing its intellectual property to more than 170 companies worldwide, Qualcomm also manufactures highly sophisticated chips that are the engines of some of the most advanced wireless handsets and devices on the market. The company is the driver behind the very latest next-generation devices, which combine mobile communications, computing, and consumer electronics, that are now coming to market.

Implement Consulting Group implementconsultinggroup.com

Implement Consulting Group is a Nordic-based management consultancy with global reach and 550 employees. We help organizations change – faster and with greater impact. We are in the business of making change with impact. Crafting business possibilities and opportunities that get implemented. Solving problems so they stay solved.

We find that this happens when we truly combine our clients’ knowledge with our own expertise, and carefully adapt best-practice solutions to match the capabilities and unique challenges of our clients’ people and organizations.
Therefore, we engage with our clients on the basis of a mutual commitment to creating sustainable impact.

 

Our clients can expect:

Us to be passionate and take personal responsibility for creating impact together

To be challenged and inspired by senior consultants with leading-edge functional expertise

The change expertise and operational experience required to make fantastic solutions become reality and we expect our clients to do the same: to challenge us and to expect nothing but the best.
We have applied our approach to thousands of projects in most industries over the years, and the results are clear: faster change with greater impact.

We call this collaborative consulting.

Gold Sponsors

AINMT www.ainmt.com

AINMT is an international telecommunications company. Its focus is wireless data communication services, the fastest growing business segment within the telecom sector. Its unique business model, with focus on low frequency bands, allows the company to offer wireless broadband to large geographical areas while maintaining an effective network infrastructure.

 

Low frequencies have long reach and require fewer base stations to cover large areas. This is a perfect match for rural districts, areas with varied topography and markets with underdeveloped telecommunication infrastructure. Altogether, this allows for high quality wireless data communication at a very low cost per bit. In Norway, where the company owns higher frequency bands, we also offer a full range of mobile services without having legacy networks to maintain and support.

 

Today, AINMT has license coverage to reach 380 million people worldwide. The company is already well established in Scandinavia and has developed partnerships in Indonesia and the Philippines. It is actively pursuing international expansion opportunities, aiming to satisfy the pent-up demand for internet access and data consumption in developing countries.

 

AINMT's majority owner is Access Industries, a privately held industrial group with long-term holdings worldwide. Its industrial focus spans four sectors: naural resources and chemicals; media and telecommunications; technology and e-commerce; and real estate.

ARM www.arm.com

ARM is at the heart of the world’s most advanced digital products. Our technology enables the creation of new markets and transformation of industries and society. We design scalable, energy efficient-processors and related technologies to deliver the intelligence in applications ranging from sensors to servers, including smartphones, tablets, enterprise infrastructure and the Internet of Things.

Our innovative technology is licensed by ARM Partners who have shipped more than 50 billion Systems on Chip (SoCs) containing our intellectual property since the company began in 1990. Together with our Connected Community, we are breaking down barriers to innovation for developers, designers and engineers, ensuring a fast, reliable route to market for leading electronics companies.

Bosch www.bosch.com

Having established a regional presence in 1906 in North America, the Bosch Group employs some 31,000 associates in more than 100 locations, as of December 31, 2015. In 2015, Bosch generated consolidated sales of $14 billion in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. For more information, visit www.boschusa.com, www.bosch.com.mx and www.bosch.ca.

 

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 375,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2015). The company generated sales of $78.3 billion (70.6 billion euros) in 2015. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 440 subsidiaries and regional companies in some 60 countries. Including sales and service partners, Bosch’s global manufacturing and sales network covers some 150 countries. The basis for the company’s future growth is its innovative strength. Bosch employs 55,800 associates in research and development at roughly 118 locations across the globe. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to deliver innovations for a connected life. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Bosch creates technology that is “Invented for life”.

 

Additional information is available online at www.bosch.com, www.bosch-press.com and twitter.com/BoschPresse.

 

Silver Sponsor

Wireless Registry www.wirelessregistry.com

Wireless Registry Inc. charts the Signal Graph™ of the Internet of Things ‒ an unprecedented, dynamic dataset of wireless devices in the real world ‒ to provide identity and intelligence solutions for the IoT.  For more information, visit www.WirelessRegistry.com or follow Wireless Registry on Twitter (@WirelessRgstry).

Lanyard Sponsor

Camgian Microsystems www.camgian.com

Camgian is a recognized leader in developing advanced sensing and information processing technologies that deliver real-time, actionable intelligence.  Leveraging innovations in the areas of multi-sensor signal processing, data analytics and information fusion, Camgian is pioneering a new generation of IoT products and services that address key needs in the military, government and industrial markets.

Supporting Partners

AIM www.aimglobal.org

AIM…Leading the way for AIDC innovation, collaboration and growth.

 

For more than 40 years, AIM has been the leading industry association and worldwide authority for automatic identification & data capture (AIDC) innovation and technologies, serving members around the globe as a trusted resource and dedicated industry advocate.

 

AIM members are manufacturers, distributors, resellers, academics and end-users of barcode, RFID, Internet of Things (IoT), RTLS, NFC and mobile computing technologies and solutions.

 

AIM’s mission to serve as the unbiased resource for networking, education, advocacy and standards helps members grow their businesses by fostering the effective use of AIDC solutions.  This commitment is supported by AIM’s vision to advance the adoption and effective use of AIDC to promote global sustainability and success around the globe.

 

Visit AIM’s website at www.aimglobal.org  to learn more.

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.

DC Tech Meet Up www.meetup.com/DC-Tech-Meetup

The DC Tech Meetup convenes technologists, entrepreneurs, investors and the broader innovation community regularly to learn and share. Each month, 400+ innovators gather to see demos, launch products and meet their future co-founders, partners and funders.

E!Sharp www.esharp.eu

E!Sharp is an online magazine delivering thought provoking analysis on the affairs of the European Union and Europe’s place in the world. Through commentary, debate and humour, it demystifies the complexity of the EU.

IoT Central www.iotcentral.co

IoT Central’s mission is to inspire, engage, and connect entrepreneurs, investors, professionals & enthusiasts worldwide who are active in the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT Central hosts regular in-depth sessions both in-person and online that are at the intersection of IoT and Industry Verticals or Horizontals such as enabling technologies. It has local chapters in cities including New York City, Seattle, Austin, Boston and Washington D.C. To find a chapter near you, visit www.iotcentral.co

IoT DC www.meetup.com/Internet-of-Things-DC

Internet of Things DC is the Washington DC Area community for entrepreneurs, developers, manufacturers, service providers, investors and users involved in the Internet of Things. We hold meetups and events to learn about IoT technologies and applications, and to network with others in the industry.

Join IoT DC at http://www.meetup.com/Internet-of-Things-DC

oneM2M www.onem2m.org

oneM2M is the global standards initiative that covers requirements, architecture, API specifications, security solutions and interoperability for Machine-to-Machine and IoT technologies. oneM2M was formed in 2012 and consists of eight of the world's preeminent ICT standards development organizations: ARIB (Japan), ATIS (North America), CCSA (China), ETSI (Europe), TIA (North America), TSDSI (India), TTA (Korea), and TTC (Japan), together with six industry fora, consortia or standards bodies (Broadband Forum, CEN, CENELEC, GlobalPlatform, Next Generation M2M Consortium, OMA) and over 200 member organizations. oneM2M specifications provide a framework to support applications and services such as the smart grid, connected car, home automation, public safety, and health. oneM2M actively encourages industry associations and forums with specific application requirements to participate in oneM2M, in order to ensure that the solutions developed support their specific needs. For more information, including how to join and participate in oneM2M, see: www.onem2m.org

RAIN RFID www.rainrfid.org

The RAIN RFID Alliance is a non-profit organization founded in April 2014 to promote awareness, increase education and support the universal adoption of UHF RFID technology. RAIN RFID is a wireless technology that connects billions of items to the Internet of Things. RAIN RFID enables businesses and consumers to identify, locate, authenticate and engage items. RAIN Alliance is a global collection of companies and organizations which develop and advocate RAIN technology solutions addressing applications across many vertical markets. RAIN uses the GS1 UHF Gen2 protocol which ISO/IEC has standardized as 18000-63.

 

For more information, please visit www.RAINRFID.org.

National U.S. - Arab Chamber of Commerce www.nusacc.org

The National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce (NUSACC), established nearly 50 years ago, is America’s longest serving organization dedicated to U.S.-Arab business. NUSACC is widely regarded as the voice of American business in the 22 countries of the Arab world, and is the premier portal to the United States for Arab commercial enterprises.  The vast majority of NUSACC’s stakeholders are small- and medium-sized enterprises based in the United States. 

 

NUSACC recently received the 2016 President’s “E” Award for Export Service, the first time in the 54-year history of the award that it went to a chamber that is dedicated to U.S. – Arab relations.

Telecommunications Industry Association www.tiaonline.org

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) represents the entire supply chain of communications - more than 300 companies including the service providers, manufacturers and software developers, distributors and integrators, consultants and educators-- that build and support the communications and information networks of today and tomorrow. TIA’s mission is to advance global connectivity and accelerate business growth by convening the industry through a number of initiatives, including the development of industry standards, policy and advocacy, producing market intelligence research, and creating new business and networking opportunities. Learn more at tiaonline.org and TIANow.org. 

Knowledge Partners

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.

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.

The Providence Group www.providencegroupdc.com

The Providence Group advises companies and organizations globally on how to manage enterprise-wide cybersecurity risks and we provide insight and counsel into the complex and changing cybersecurity regulatory, reputation and threat environment.

Exhibitors

Information Technology Industry Council www.itic.org

The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) is the global voice of the tech sector, celebrating its 100th year in 2016 as the premier advocacy and policy organization for the world’s leading innovation companies. We advocate for global policies that advance industry leadership, open access to new and emerging markets, promote e-commerce expansion, drive sustainability and efficiency, protect consumer choice, and enhance worldwide competitiveness of our member companies. 

Losant www.losant.com

Losant’s platform makes building complex IoT solutions easy by unifying devices, data, and services into a single development experience. Connect and manage thousands of devices. Collect, aggregate, and understand data from disparate sources. Build complex business logic with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Bring connected solutions to market faster, reliably, and more securely with Losant.