Archive of Past Events

The October 10 Industry Event was a full day of valuable content, knowledge-sharing and networking with peers, including the following presentations:

• Event-Driven Systems as a Vehicle for IoT and Digital Transformation
  Marty Sprinzen, CEO – VANTIQ
  Video Presentation
  
• Key Traits of Leading IoT Platforms
  Dima Tokar, Co-Founder and CTO – MachNation
  Video Presentation
  
• A Conversation With Your Connected Industrial Chiller
  Vaidyanathan Venkiteswaran, Data Scientist — Johnson Controls
  Video Presentation
• Digital Transformation is Revolutionizing Manufacturing
  David Vasko, Director of Advanced Technology — Rockwell Automation
  Video Presentation
  
• Cisco Kinetic – Extracting Value From IoT Data
  Naveen Manicka, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer — Cisco
  Video Presentation

The May 3 Industry Event and Poster Session was a full day of valuable content, knowledge-sharing and networking with peers, including the following presentations:

• Best Practices in IoT Solutions
  Joe Kann, Vice President Global Business Development, Rockwell Automation
• IoT Organizations: Avoiding Common Pitfalls
  Mark Benson, CTO, Exosite
• Challenges and Solutions in IoT End-Point Security
  Professor Younghyun Kim, UW–Madison
• Industry 4.0 Meets Workforce 2.0
  Ashis Khan, Area VP, IoT and Digital Transformation — L&T Technology Services
  and Ramarao Garikapati, CEO and Founder — ExTech Ideas

The day concluded with a student poster session, featuring projects on real-world IoT applications by multidisciplinary student teams in the introductory IoT course.

The March 7 Industry event included peer-to-peer networking, breakout sessions and featured the following thought-provoking presentations from industry and academic experts:

• High-Performance Flexible Electronics
  Professor Jack Ma, UW–Madison
• Using Virtual Reality to Simulate Real World Environments
  Professor Kevin Ponto, UW–Madison
• Benefits and Use Cases of IoT Edge Computing, Including the Newly Launched AWS Greengrass
  Thomas Jean and Julian Dale, Solstice     
• Cycle-Based Signal Modeling for Equipment Condition Monitoring
  Professor Shiyu Zhou and Salman Jahani, UW–Madison 
  
• Pratical Insights on IoT Security: The Big Little Things
  Steve Knackers, Sub-Zero Group

The December 7 Industry Event was a full day of valuable content, knowledge-sharing and networking with peers, including the following presentations:

• IoT in Manufacturing: A Progress Report
  Joe Kann, Vice President Global Business Development, Rockwell Automation
• Emerging Data Science Capabilities: Opportunities and Challenges 
  Tobin Jansenberger, Data Science and Analytics Lab Manager, American Family Insurance
• Update on UW IoT Lab Activities and Projects
  Dr. Raj Veeramani, Executive Director, UW IoT Lab
• IoT Enablement of Legacy and New Equipment
  Anurag Garg, Founder and CEO, DATTUS, Inc.
• Mixed and Augmented Reality Featuring Microsoft Hololens 
  Greg Levenhagen, Principal Consultant, Skyline Technologies

The day concluded with a student poster session, featuring projects on real-world IoT applications by multidisciplinary student teams in the new IoT course.

The Industry Event on September 14 featured presentations from Ipsen USA, Sysmex America and L&T Technology Services. Addtionally, Dr. Raj Veeramani provided an update on UW IoT Lab projects and activities.

The day also included a group discussion on forming a collaborative learning work group focused on IoT security.

The June 23 Industry Event was a full day of valuable content, knowledge-sharing and networking with peers. The day’s program included insightful presentations (including one by Curt G. Joa Inc., a world leader in engineering and building specialty machines for producing disposable products, such as diapers). Participants also learned about emerging wireless communications technologies from Professor Xinyu Zhang(Electrical and Computer Engineering Department) and Blockchain and Its Implications for IoT from Dr. Thomas Yen (Technical Director, UW IoT Lab).

The day included breakout sessions for the Industrial IoT and Consumer IoT Work Groups to review progress and discuss next steps for the applied research projects focused on Smart and Connected Enterprise (predictive diagnostics of equipment) and Smart and Connected Home use cases.

The Consumer and Industrial IoT Work Groups met February 24 to continue work on the recently launched applied research projects. The Industrial IoT project is focused on Smart and Connected Enterprise (predictive diagnostics of equipment), while the Consumer IoT Work Group is taking on Smart and Connected Home use cases. In both of these projects, the work groups’ approaches are based on “learning by doing” using real-world scenarios to address and learn about common issues of interest pertaining to IoT infrastructure, analytics and customer value.

The day kicked off with updates on lab activities and the results of company interviews conducted by the lab. Next, Professors Shiyu Zhou and Kaibu Liu each gave presentations addressing IoT analytics challenges. In the afternoon, attendees broke into parallel work group sessions to develop study designs and activities and determine next steps.