Today, April 9, is IoT Day. You didn’t know? Well, that’s OK. You know now. This is actually the fifth one. The M2M industry has come a long way in the last five years and the next five should be even more exciting, if even half of the predictions are even half true.
IoT Day was started by the IoT Council as a way to celebrate the industry and give you folks who are in the trenches every day, building, developing and making the IoT, a chance to get together and just share ideas and challenges with some of the folks nearby.
Today, there are dozens of events happening all over the world, celebrating the growth of the IoT and sharing ideas for making new and better M2M applications a reality. Right now, on Twitter, the IoT Council is hosting the IoT Day TweetChat at #IIC24. It’s been going on since midnight, and will go on a full 24 hours, so we’ll see you on the tweets. Also, right now, is the IoT Live free online conference. This virtual event is using panels, debates among the industry’s top thought leaders, live demo sessions and interactive polling to share knowledge and try to create solutions to the toughest problems in the IoT.
In Rotterdam, at the University of Applied Sciences, the city is celebrating International IoT Day Rotterdam 2015 with lectures, workshops, demos, posters and a hackathon to explore and discuss the impact of IoT in everyday’s city experience. Global IoT Day, Stockholm Sweden will go on from noon to midnight at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where participants will do a bunch of hacking and presentations. They’ll work on their own projects or take part in others’ work. Vienna’s IoT Day features a European conference about the “Internet of Things and Services” at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien. Back in the U.S., Washington D.C. is hosting IoT Day with a webinar and 16 speakers on a range of topics including IoT, XMPP, Cyber Physical Systems, Ontology/Big Data, Challenges in Data Forensics and Global Smart City Challenge.
India is participating with a “Smarter Society” event all day at the The Royal Plaza hotel in New Delhi and with the “IoT Initiative” in Punjab & Chandigarh, sponsored by Stack Labs and Spartan Startups X to create awareness among the developers related to IoT, wearables, electronics and M2M.
IBM is doing its own Internet of Things Livestream to talk about its solutions and give folks an entry-level course. ThingWorx and PTC are hosting a tweetup this afternoon on the Past, Present and Future of IoT for Business. Follow #IoTDay for the stream.
Spain and Columbia are doing hacking events and Switzerland is getting in touch with nature at its IoT Day at Fablab Unteres Ätzisloo / Randelab / Center for Alternative Coconut Research, where folks can have a beer and Schwartenmagen in the Schaffhausen woods, listening to the birds and watching the spring flowers with some ESP6288s, ATTinys, Arduinos and coconuts.
Arlington, Virgina will have two different events today: one will be a thought leadership discussion about the impact of sensors into society, and this evening, there will be a mixer for the IoT DC community at Artisphere.
Speaking of evening events, in New York City’s R/GA Accelerator, this year’s IoT Gotham will bring together IoT entrepreneurs, designers, developers and data scientists in New York city and New Jersey to celebrate the Global IoT Day for drinks and brainstorming. Boston will host the New England Internet of Things Meetup: Protocols and APIs in Somerville to discuss protocol/legacy device data management in two panels.
There’s a lot to do and see out there, so get moving and visit the one nearest to you today. This day only comes once a year, after all.
Want to learn more about IoT? Check out IoT Evolution Expo this August.
Edited by
Dominick Sorrentino
