Chuck Brooks is the Principal Market Growth Strategist for General Dynamics Mission Systems for Cybersecurity Systems. He is also Adjunct Faculty in the graduate Applied Intelligence Program and Graduate Cybersecurity Program at Georgetown University. LinkedIn named Chuck as one of “The Top 5 Tech People to Follow on LinkedIn”. He was named by Thompson Reuters as a “Top 50 Global […]
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The scourge of ransomware is not new, but recent months have seen a spate of fresh attacks on city governments. One high-profile example is Baltimore, which faced a lengthy system outage in May and June after refusing to pay the ransom demanded. The attack did come with a hefty price tag of an estimated $18 […]
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Mike Miracle is Senior Vice President Marketing and Strategy at BlackRidge Technology, with extensive experience in networking, security, virtualization, and storage software. He has built and led global marketing operations, most recently at SevOne, and he has consulted for and advised over 25 technology companies on strategy, operations, and M&A. Mr. Miralce led corporate development for […]
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Contributing Author & Director of Smart Cities & Wireless Mobility Designs, Engineers & Plans Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Smart Homes, IoT and IIoT Solutions Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Facilitating on Continuous Improvement & Kaizen Events Consultant & Trainer on a Variety of Key Initiatives: Smart Cities, IoT, IIoT, Wireless Comm
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Industrialization has long been a central pillar of global economic development. Industrialized economies are strong, stable, resilient, highly skilled and globally competitive. It’s no surprise then that Middle Eastern countries have set their sights on industrialization as a key component of current growth and diversification strategies aimed at ensuring sustainable development. Across the region, ambitious […]
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In 2018, Leading Cities, a global nonprofit for Smart City growth and collaboration, launched AcceliCITY—a global Smart City startup competition that provides potential capital from a network of investors as well as the tools and knowledge of how to do business with cities. In this year’s edition 50 semi-finalists were selected from more than 500 […]
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Michael Lake is the President and CEO of Leading Cities, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and with operations in 10 countries around the world. As President and CEO, Michael establishes and develops relationships with municipal governments, businesses and universities around the world, creating a global network of partner cities dedicated to implementing Smart City solutions that […]
Read moreWhat is SCADA? Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have been in existence three decades and have long been considered the de facto method for interfacing with PLCs and providing alarming, logging, trending, and operator interface functionality. Today most SCADA packages include web and mobile interfaces and tout these features as their Industrial Internet […]
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Edge platforms are beginning to play a vital role in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. Businesses deploying IoT solutions recognize that many optimally designed IoT solutions, especially those in the industrial vertical, take advantage of one or multiple edge components. In fact, MachNation research suggests that most IoT solutions in verticals such as manufacturing, […]
Read moreThe 50thAnniversary of the Apollo 11 mission is an event that will forever be etched in the sands of time. The United States of America’s winning the space race and putting a man on the moon, can be referred to as the greatest leap of systems engineering in the history of humankind. 2019’s EnergyTech Conference, […]
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