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Title:

On the road to the Internet of Things

Stream:

Messaging (3)

Speakers:

Dave Locke

Abstract:

The number of devices in the world is dramatically increasing, there are those you see and hold like smart phones and those that sit in the background improving our lives. As the number of devices increase a number of challenges emerge; scalable connectivity, massive data volumes and security being key. This talk covers trends driving the internet of things, some of the challenges that ensue and how IBM is addressing the challenges. Technologies like MessageSight and the yet to be seen IBM IoT Cloud will covered along with some real world solutions.

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Bio:

Dave Locke:

Dave Locke works in the IBM Hursley development lab in the United Kingdom. He has worked there for the past 25 years on a range of systems from the mainframe based CICS transaction processing system, working his way down through a variety of projects on mid range, down to desktop and now focuses on small footprint pervasive devices. His focus for the past 15 years has been on helping connect the physical world of mobile, sensors, actuators and controllers to the more traditional digital / IT world. His current job in the product management team involves defining IBMs Internet of Things offerings and helping build out the surrounding eco-system.

In addition to the day job he is project lead and committer on the Paho MQTT open source project at Eclipse. He carries the title of Senior Inventor having accrued enough patents together with mentoring of others around innovation and invention.

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