Mircea Baldean, MBA, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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Mircea Baldean, MBA, Founder and Chief Executive Officer

As the original founder of MeetVibe Inc. and avid fan of technology, he set out to overcome the hassles of planning frequent meetings. His simple concept of sharing one’s calendar availability with cross-platform synchronization, in order to eliminate the back and forth, has put frictionless planning into the hands of consumers. Mr. Baldean leads corporate […]

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Four most hard to solve IIoT security issues
· Cybersecurity

Four most hard to solve IIoT security issues

According to a forecast by Gartner, the number of IoT devices in use will reach 8.4 billion in 2017 and grow to a staggering 20.4 billion by 2020, and the market opportunity for IoT will reach US$2 trillion by 2017. With the proliferation of IoT devices and technologies in the commercial and industrial sectors, we […]

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6 Tips to Protect Your Network From Malware Attacks
· Cybersecurity

6 Tips to Protect Your Network From Malware Attacks

Malware attacks exploiting unprotected businesses can go undetected for months. Discover six ways in which you can future proof your network and protect from malware attacks. “There’s a concerning trend in these supply-chain attacks,” says Craig Williams, the head of Cisco’s Talos team. “Attackers are realizing that if they find these soft targets, companies without […]

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7 Things You Should Ask Your Manufacturing Equipment Provider
· Smart Manufacturing

7 Things You Should Ask Your Manufacturing Equipment Provider

Video should be part of every SCADA solution. In fact, all plant operations should consider adding cameras to existing operations as the technology is well understood and the returns can be significant and measurable. Troubleshooting manufacturing equipment and process upsets is extremely costly. False alarms add to this cost, especially if the equipment is remote. […]

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Connected sensors & machine learning – two current trends in predictive maintenance
· Predictive Analytics

Connected sensors & machine learning – two current trends in predictive maintenance

The emerging market for Predictive Maintenance (PdM) shows increasing growth as maintenance strategies move from what has been known as Condition-based Maintenance to Analytics-and IoT-enabled PdM, according to a report published this year by IoT Analytics, a leading provider of market insights for the Internet of Things. The Predictive Maintenance report forecasts a compound annual […]

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[Whitepaper] Integrating Security Into the IoT Strategy in the New Converged Environment
· Cybersecurity

[Whitepaper] Integrating Security Into the IoT Strategy in the New Converged Environment

Consumers want their work, home and mobile devices to communicate together to provide information that was previously not available from isolated systems. This desire is at the root of the Internet of Things (IoT). The rise of IoT started when consumers began to interconnect devices — ranging from personal computers, smartphones, tablets and wearables, to […]

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Richard Ku, SVP of Commercial IoT Business & Market Development
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Richard Ku, SVP of Commercial IoT Business & Market Development

Richard Ku has been involved in Cyber Security for over 28 years, serving as a threat researcher and engineer. He has managed and developed many security products and services across different customer segments and verticals. Richard is currently the Senior Vice President of Commercial IoT Business & Market Development at Trend Micro, a leading Cyber Security […]

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Smart City and Industrial IoT Applications
· Smart Cities

Smart City and Industrial IoT Applications

If you think cities are crowded now, just wait. Within just 15 years, more than 5 billion people will live in urban environments. Urban growth boundaries are increasingly limiting sprawl, forcing even more growth to go vertical, increasing urban density. Smart cities backed by Industrial IoT Applications will become a normal thing.. By 2020, the […]

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Benson Chan, Senior Partner at Strategy of Things
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Benson Chan, Senior Partner at Strategy of Things

Benson Chan is a Senior Partner at Strategy of Things, a transformation management consultancy helping companies innovate for a hyperconnected world. He has over 25 years of scaling innovative businesses and bringing innovations to market for Fortune 500 and start-up companies. With deep experience in strategy, business development, marketing, product management, engineering and operations management, […]

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Kelly Frey, VP
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Kelly Frey, VP

Kelly Frey, Vice President, product marketing brings more than 20 years of experience to Telogis, a Verizon Company as a senior executive and entrepreneur focused on transportation, supply chain optimization and fleet compliance solutions. Kelly was CEO and Co-founder of BigRoad and was previously responsible for directing the sales and business development for Turnpike Global […]

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· Connected Industry

Converged Networks – a Peek into the Future

What will it take? Will Operational Technology (OT) disappear as we know it today – morphed into the Informational Technology (IT) space where both areas are driven by the same disruptive technology of the IoE (Internet-of-Everything)? A transformation of the industrial network is in full swing. Sometimes referred to as the Industrial Internet of Things, […]

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David W. Viel, CEO
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David W. Viel, CEO

David W. Viel, Ph.D. is the founder and CEO of Cognoscenti Systems, LLC.  He has extensive experience in research and development of mission critical systems in a wide variety of fields including military control systems, space, modeling and simulation, computer languages, telecommunications, and distributed systems.  He also has led a number of teams in the […]

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