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Executive Summary
Smart Cities for Good
Fall 2018 ~ Austin, TX
www.iot6exchange.com
November 2018 Prepared by Compass Intelligence
www.compassintel.com
2018
Smart Cities for Good 1 #IoT6
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 3
SPONSOR DETAILS & ATTENDEE DEMOGRAPHICS ............................................... 4
Our Sponsors & Partners .......................................................................................................................... 4
Attendee Companies ................................................................................................................................ 5
KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF IOT6 2018............................................................................ 6
The 5 Smart City Pillars & Evolving Ecosystem ......................................................................................... 6
Stephanie Atkinson - Keynote “Smart Cities for Good” ............................................................................ 7
Ricky Singh - Keynote “Who is smarter, the city or its citizens?” ............................................................. 8
IoT6 Advisory Board Roundtable ............................................................................................................ 10
Smart City CXO Roundtable .................................................................................................................... 12
Blain Mathieu - Keynote “Building the Real-Time City” .......................................................................... 14
ADDITIONAL SESSIONS:..................................................................................... 17
IOT6 SMART CITIES WRAP UP ........................................................................... 19
IOT6 INFORMATION .......................................................................................... 20
Keynotes, Fireside Chats, Panels and General Sessions: ........................................................................ 20
Case Study Boardroom Sessions: ............................................................................................................ 20
1:1 Meetings: .......................................................................................................................................... 20
Networking Receptions: .......................................................................................................................... 20
PARTICIPATING IOT6 ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS .......................................... 21
The Fall Smart Cities Advisory Board ...................................................................................................... 21
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About Compass Intelligence
Compass Intelligence is one of the leading market analytics and consulting firms specializing in metrics-
driven market intelligence and consulting focused on the mobile, Internet of Things/M2M, green
technology, and emerging technology markets. Compass Intelligence provides a number of key services
including strategic advisory, market sizing/modeling, competitive benchmarking, executive-level
consulting, and turn-key survey services. Providing quality services over 10 years, many of the top
technology vendors rely on Compass Intelligence’s expertise and insights to make better and more
informed planning, strategy, and development decisions. For more information, visit
http://www.compassintelligence.com
www.iot6exchange.com
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Introduction
A smart city includes bringing together
individuals, community, smart
infrastructure, advanced technology and
IoT, and sustainability practices to
advance and progress quality of life,
improve city efficiencies, better manage
resources, protect and secure citizens and
assets, and improve overall governance.
This fall’s, “Smart Cities & Communities for Good: Building the Smart in Life, Work and Leisure” IoT6
Exchange Summit brought together thought leaders, executives, advisory board members, and vendors
to explore, learn, exchange best-in-class ideas, technology, solutions, and solve real issues around smart
cities and digital communities. Smart city technologies and solutions are being recognized and followed
by government, communities, industry, and universities. Cities can’t be smarter unless they work towards
being 'better,’ but filtering through the noise and deciding on where cities need to be better is the first
step. Only then, can enabling technologies such as IoT begin to support a city in becoming ‘smart.’
On October 17-19th, attendees participated at IoT6 Exchange, a hosted and invite-only conference focused
around, “Smart Cities for Good.” The uniqueness of IoT6 involves an integrated approach to deliver hard-
hitting content, a packed full and lively agenda, actionable use cases, one-on-one engagement, and unique
learning experiences like no other IoT conference, and focused on decision-makers and influencers. This
year, nGage Events produced and held the exchange summit at the Hyatt Lost Pines Resort in Austin,
Texas.
Key themes this year included the following:
Cities must become technology
epicenters if they plan to survive and
thrive, else risk becoming modern day
ghost towns. Creating the avenues to
become a smart city is both a business
and an ethical mandate for municipal
leaders.
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Sponsor Details & Attendee Demographics
This is the 4th annual IoT6 conference (2nd event in 2018, 5th IoT event overall), and we were excited this
year to produce two IoT6 Exchange Summits with this spring focused around smart infrastructure, a
stepping stone to our fall event focusing on smart cities. This fall we brought some of the brightest minds
in smart cities including city CIOs, data engineers/analysts, IT managers/directors, network engineers,
innovation leaders, our esteemed advisory board, and executives across technology companies and
sponsors. Our keynote sponsors included Sprint and VANTIQ, along with other sponsors including
Gemalto, Swim.Ai, ClearBlade, Subex, Inseego, and Darktrace. Conference partners included Smart Cities
Dive, Insights.us, Compass Intelligence, The Silent Intelligence, CIO Executive Council, IIoT World, and
Mind Commerce.
Our Sponsors & Partners
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Attendee Companies
Our attendees included a range of thought leaders and executives from the following companies.
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Key Highlights of IoT6 2018
This fall we dove right into smart cities, which was a great stepping stone to our spring smart infrastructure
event held in Ponte Vedra, Florida. From an overall theme, we wanted to focus in on “Smart Cities for
Good” as a way to better engage and explore key solutions to support in improving city services,
enhancing the community experience, and support in better infrastructure efficiencies with overall
positive projects where community buy-in is front and center.
The 5 Smart City Pillars & Evolving Ecosystem
There are 5 primary pillars for smart cities including community and culture, health and wellness, work
and economy, safety and reliability, and accessibility and inclusive. These pillars are the foundation for
future smart city projects, investments, and community involvement. A common theme shared at IoT6 is
the need to lead with the community, as community and citizen support is paramount for the future
success and scale of smart city projects, funding, and implementation.
The primary stakeholders revolve around 4 areas including city departments/agencies, the community,
the vendors and providers, and the decision-makers and influencers. The smart city leaders and visionaries
stakeholder group continues to add new titles such as data scientists, data engineers, special projects,
and innovation leaders, as evolving specialists are needed for smart city projects.
When looking at the four stakeholder groups, the most challenging area for smart city adoption lies within
the city itself, and more specifically the need for cross-agency communication, data sharing, integration,
and coordination. Many projects fall across multiple departments and agencies, and the critical need for
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coordination will drive more successful projects and reduce the number of projects that start and fail
quickly. Just as in the spring, a great bit of discussion from the event centered around the concept of
collaboration across different entities for projects and funding. This included varying parties such as
government officials, IT and technical managers, vendor companies, department leaders, standard
bodies, and citizens or community involvement. Disparate decision-making does the opposite of working
towards “open government,” and closed or siloed projects will slow progress for scaling and synergies.
To dive a bit more into some of the themes, we will highlight some of the key learnings and information
that resulted from the event and share links to our YouTube channel to watch and learn more.
Stephanie Atkinson - Keynote “Smart Cities for Good”
The event kicked off with a key note from our chair, Stephanie Atkinson. Stephanie noted there are 4
steps to reach smart cities for good including (1) Redefine (2) Rethink (3) Reorganize and (4) Relate. We
must start with redefining the city, and city goals and plans must include innovation and projects to
embrace automation and tech. We must redefine funding and procurement mechanisms, the new way
must push boundaries on public-private partnerships (3Ps or PPP) and other partnership models. Lastly,
we must redefine through evaluating the entire ecosystem – what can we leverage with existing
infrastructure, assets, and resources – what has to change?
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For Rethink, we must throw out legacy and antiquated thinking, embracing design-thinking, process
improvement, and other innovative collaborative approaches. We need to rethink new ways to perform
old tasks, new ways to serve citizens, new processes to improve performance, and new tools to bring new
experiences to the community. Focusing on health, sustainable practices, and citizen facing services will
be huge drivers for projects, so rethink priorities is a must.
For Reorganize, we need to reorganize to pool from synergistic resources, as cities are becoming software
and application centric. The developer community is vital to reorganizing, so think about opening up
opportunities and involving competition with application and software developers. New interfaces and
real-time community experiences will only come from the thriving developer world. Cross-collaboration
and working outside normal boundaries will be imperative, cross department---cross agency---fed-state-
local---partnering with non-traditional tech companies.
For Relate, early wins must be tied to the citizen and community…think traffic, safety, mobility,
information access, city services automation. If you start without the citizens and your residents in focus,
then you may find failure, as citizen buy-in will be vital to advancing smart cities for good. Simply start
with solving problems now, and future monetization and funding models will evolve.
For the full keynote, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwF2VMD3FdY&list=PLcQcea-Qg-
X3NCLfnxRQ0xZmB6hoF2Vg7&index=1
Ricky Singh - Keynote “Who is smarter, the city or its citizens?”
Sprint’s Ricky Singh, Chief of Products & Solutions, presented our 2nd keynote on Day 1. Ricky shared that
IoT or the Internet of Things is about capturing data, bringing immediate intelligence, and changing lives.
As businesses evolve from connecting people to connecting things, you need to be able to turn data into
immediate intelligence and the IoT has the power to change lives if you do it properly. Ricky asked the
question about who is smarter, man or machine and he shares coming trends that help us answer this
question. Ricky shared additional trends driving the future including:
Compute power of smartphones and personal computing devices is growing at a fast pace
Data centers are smarter than we are, very efficient but they are immobile
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5G – This is the bridge between human intelligence and the intelligence sitting in the data center
87% of the population live in cities, cost savings in energy management, traffic, reducing pollution
is a driver (Walmart is changing 200M a year just by changing their lightbulbs to LEDs)
$5-$10M in annual city savings is expected to be realized through traffic management solutions
100B will be spent on smart cities over the next 5 years across 500+ projects, 32% of these projects
will not be implemented, 78% of these projects will not scale, and 2/3rd of projects will focus on
improving city services
Ricky noted there are a number of key issues as to why we are leaving money on the table and projects
are not reaching true potential. First there is a cost/benefit mismatch as some projects are either not
obtaining proper funding or the benefits are really just not apparent, so essentially, we need to realize
true outcomes for smart cities. The people paying for the technology may not be the ones benefitting
from the technology. Second, technology is difficult, but it does not have to be if we work together with
the right partners and have a good resource team for execution. “We are heavily focused on teaching
people technology instead of teaching technology to work with people,” states Mr. Singh. Lastly, people
are happy. This essentially means that
people-driven projects must
communicate the real value
proposition of how smarter cities
improved citizen lives. Citizens may
perceive that things are okay now.
Getting to the goal of providing
actionable intelligence to cities
continues to drive the evolving IoT
market. We are seeking seamless
global connectivity and require
security at the device and data levels.
In addition, IoT solutions must scale
from small businesses and
governments to very large cities and
corporations. This will require a greater investment and involvement with the developer community, and
out of the box solutions. Lastly, we need smart city solutions to scale with using connectivity, hardware,
software, security, and services. Sprint launched a number of services to address this including a dedicated
IoT core, secure IoT operating system, a digital factory for SMB IoT solutions, and a number of Sprint IoT
solutions across industries. The Sprint Curiosity™ IoT platform was launched back in September to provide
both the dedicated IoT core and secure IoT OS, essentially a dedicated, fully virtualized and distributed
IoT core network and OS. The primary goal is to improve how people live, businesses operate, and society
evolves.
For the full keynote, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKtcHhAC4-I&list=PLcQcea-Qg-
X3NCLfnxRQ0xZmB6hoF2Vg7&index=2
For the full keynote, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwF2VMD3FdY&list=PLcQcea-Qg-
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IoT6 Advisory Board Roundtable
One of the highlights of IoT6 is hearing from our esteemed group of advisory board members. This session
not only sets the stage for a number of key themes for the 2.5 day event, but gets our audience further
engaged and challenges the thinking through ideation, use case stories, and real-world recommendations.
Cities run like an operating system according to Daniel Obodovski, CEO of The Silent Intelligence. They
share multiple infrastructures but these infrastructures are not speaking to one another, predicting, or
even providing intelligence to the city and community. Cities already store and pull large volumes of data
today, but really are not at the level of improving citizen experiences as they love, work, and play.
Bill Pugh share additional details around public-private partnership and mentioned many cities are asking
why it is taking so long. He stated today we don’t have a flood of stimulus or federal monies coming to
support smart city projects. We are now getting very creative with finding funding through the 3Ps (Public-
Private partnership). Bill also shared the statistic quoted by Cisco that 67% of pilot projects die and some
of this is due to lack of funding, lack of integration, unsuccessful planning, and drawn-out unsuccessful
execution strategies. Outside of the trend with 3Ps, he did mention opportunities provided through NIST,
and US IGNITE, as they are rallying to try and provide funding for citizens wanting to roll out smart city
projects.
Daniel agreed with Bill stating the creative funding mechanisms taking place today, as some projects even
have zero investment. Because carriers need to deploy 5G infrastructure (femtocells, high urban density
cells, fiber optic cable), there is a multibillion investment in city infrastructure underway. Wireline and
cable providers are also investing in fiber optic cable in cities. This requires a great amount of
administration and the push to get city permits. So, the providers need access, meanwhile the city needs
projects funded. This will drive many smart city projects through the exchange of things like right-of-way
and tower permit approvals. Daniel states that utility companies are facing challenges but have larger
cash piles and are starting with investments around EV charging infrastructure. They are essentially
looking at services to launch with cities as they will be funding them, outside of grid services.
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Nadine Manjaro, CEO of Beyond M2M Communications, discussed bringing in 3rd party companies and
doing revenue share through the companies. She also mentioned smart city funding is currently being
backed by companies like Cisco (Billion Dollar Fund), with operators taking the lead and 3rd parties coming
in to manage the products. There was essentially a consensus, that 3Ps is a driving force and most of the
funding for smart city projects will be around creative multi-party funding mechanisms.
Sam Lucero, Senior Principal IoT & M2M Analyst of IHS Markit, shared details around a recent United
States Conference of Mayors survey with 51 cities participating. He stated that small cities (150K residents,
150-1M residents is mid-sized cities) are funding projects with more tax dollars, with about an estimated
80% coming from public funding and about 10% private, with only 10% using 3P funding. However, large
cities (1M residents and up) are funding projects with about 15% using private funding and about 35%
using 3P funding, with the remainder coming from public funding. Larger cities appear to be more
interested in exploring new and creative funding models for smart city investments. He mentioned that
public-private partnerships are critical in the U.S., as we don’t have central government resources similar
to Europe and China (see Horizon 2020, $32B dispersed in China). Sam stated there are roughly 300 smart
cities in China with strong central backing. Sam also shared details around oneTransport in the UK making
progress around transportation projects and essentially providing a data exchange so data can be
discovered, federated, and used by different 3rd parties.
A few additional highlights included the following
See projects driven about Vision Zero, a focus on no fatalities or serious injuries involving road
traffic
Look from the inside out (per Bill), you must take a step inside the city first
Cities are drowning in data (per Daniel), we must get smart with data sharing and data
monetization
o Big data from IoT sensors means increased growth, 20% CAGR in big data growth, 36% by
2025, doubling every few years
Cities need data scientists, but don’t have the volume to handle this
o Stephanie states there is a major gap in data scientists, and we need collaboration with
the colleges to cultivate and retain talent
o Nadine agreed there is a shortage and the larger tech companies are getting the talent
over cities. She mentioned we need to educate outside of colleges in addition to meet the
need. China is addressing this, and the U.S. need to as well
Cities are exploring not only 3P funding, but also zero investment projects. We expect this to
continue.
Cities must understand their existing infrastructure around areas they want to become smart. (i.e.
If you have no inventory of your existing traffic light vendors, who to you move forward.)
Current smart city projects focused around traffic congestion and management, public
transportation, citizen services, and infrastructure automation
Privacy concerns will impact city compliance and planning and become top of mind. However, the
generational gap may lighten this up a bit as younger generations are more accepting
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There is interest around projects driven around social capital (Hector Dominguez, City of Portland
– says their city cares about social capital over economic capital, but this is difficult to translate
and residents are skeptical, so they need to generate strategies to generate trust, privacy comes
in the center of that)
IoT security remains a concern (mention of California’s IoT security bill)
For the full session, please visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq_SZbLq9pk&index=3&list=PLcQcea-Qg-
X3NCLfnxRQ0xZmB6hoF2Vg7
Smart City CXO Roundtable
This session is our end-customer (CIO) panel where we get perspectives from smart city leaders. Top
initiatives and priorities revolve defining smart cities and setting the stage (erasing the lines of delineation
says Chris Chiancone), traffic management and integration with GIS, making public safety more efficient,
making data more transparent and cleaning the data (Keith Robinson says we need good data first),
developing a smart city strategy (reduce cost, make revenue, find new revenue), and digital inclusion
(serving all residents in the city), and understanding impact to public right of way with providers (master
license agreements, states Tony Batalla) as connectivity moves into the city at a faster pace. Delivering
services to benefit cities is a common theme across some of the priorities and primary projects taking
place.
The city is a problem solver. Keith Robinson of the city of Atlanta mentions Atlanta’s Together Safer Roads
initiative. The city of Atlanta worked with IBM, AT&T, and even private sector companies like UPS to gather
goals and feedback. In addition, the city worked on gathering feedback across multiple agencies or
departments, which aided in an overall more successful collaborative project. The project started off with
an initial focus on providing safer roads for citizens. By focusing on the problem first, this helped lead to
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a better solution where innovation is front and center and the end resulted in internal buy-in and provided
more value to the city.
Tony Batalla of the city of San Leandro mentioned cities tend to identify additional opportunities
sometimes on the fly, especially when it comes to roll of IT and other departments as they consider
working together and having access. The city of San Leandro rolled out a city-wide smart light network by
replacing all street lights with LED bulbs, and this project is expected to reach $8M in cost savings over
the next 15 years. The smart lights have smart nodes and can be controlled remotely from the server. As
a result, other departments like public works began to show interest in working together with IT and
discover other applications with smart lighting. Some things will be an afterthought, as cities roll out a
point-based solution that is later identified as having additional opportunities and applications for the
city.
Chris Chiancone of the city of Plano says each city has a different definition and approach to smart cities.
He says the handoff from one division to the other can be a challenge, as you need a systemic and
collaborative approach across stakeholders and agencies (could be up to 10). He further emphasized the
advisory board’s consensus that cross department and agency collaboration is critical. The city of Plano
decided to take a unique stance to smart cities, by not focusing on smart cities but rather a data-first
approach. He said yes, they are doing some initial projects such as putting LTE in traffic lights and using
IoT sensors for the Plano school district. Chris believes the data-first approach will help the city better
understand the final end-game before they move forward and build out IoT or smart city solutions. He
mentions Plano is expected to be more effective because data is driving what the needs are for the city.
Tony Batalla mentions city problems are regional problems and need regional approaches. Driving forward
to working together and is very challenging for all cities. Standardization might be needed in IT and being
collaborative is needed or none of this happens. Chris says most citizens love the “green wave” (i.e. all
green lights to work). Some cities may become more advanced in smart cities around traffic and
transportation, and if another adjacent city does not meet those same standards, then satisfaction will be
challenging, and the experience is not seamless. The smart city is a business workflow problem, so we
need to define the business process first says Chris Chiancone. He says this may help early on to support
in city to city seamless experiences. Keith Robinson says the technology piece is easy, but the government
collaboration part is what is hard. Elected officials need to understand the regional issues.
For the full session, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAn5wAhSU3g&list=PLcQcea-Qg-
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Blain Mathieu - Keynote “Building the Real-Time City”
As cities become smarter and adopt automation and IoT technologies, we need to consider some of the
non-technical aspects that are impacted. More specifically culture, change management, and
organizational models become very important when having the technology discussion. Blaine Mathieu,
running products and marketing for VANTIQ, shared additional insights around this at IoT6 held in the fall.
Cities will need to embody the type of change that is necessary to get us to “smart cities for good.” Outside
of IoT, edge computing will play a pivotal role in data processing, analytics, and computing. Using Machine
learning (Artificial Intelligence), deep learning, and neural networks to make data intelligent and produce
outcomes. Blaine mentions the important for producing outcomes to benefit the city and its residents.
Cities are increasingly interested in “as a Service” as opposed to buying infrastructure or products, and
this in turn is ultimately used for citizens or residents of a community. We are operating our cities through
digital twins, or an exact replica of the city, to help understand, learn, and control how the city runs more
efficiently. We are moving away from batch processes to real-time or event-driven processes or actions.
Use cases for smart city fundamentally are about moving away from batch processes and operations.
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Some of the core challenges are presented below by VANTIQ:
Source: VANTIQ, Blaine Mathieu
The solution is real-time, event-driven applications or taking event streams and producing real-time
actions. The data coming off the sensors, devices, handhelds, people are all events that are flowing in and
around the city. We need to process the data as it is flowing in (with context), understand the issues-
concerns-problems, then take action based on the events. Actions can be taken by people (first
responders, dispatchers, maintenance, HAZMAT, etc.) or machines (the connected device, cloud,
smartphone, computing device, vehicle, equipment, etc.).
Source: VANTIQ, Blaine Mathieu
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“The city requires event-driven applications that connect your city’s devices, systems, and people together
in real time,” says Blaine. In addition, cities require security, scalability, and flexibility and this is especially
the case for mission critical applications (emergency communications and response, catastrophes, utilities
and city services, etc.). Lastly, these applications need to run anywhere and distributed from the cloud to
the edge and human-machine collaboration is a must for the success of smart city projects.
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Additional Sessions:
To watch this session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoiYP8v3PfQ&list=PLcQcea-Qg-
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To watch this session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJvFynTE0Qg&index=6&list=PLcQcea-Qg-
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To watch this session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts2U1onFJw0&list=PLcQcea-Qg-
X3NCLfnxRQ0xZmB6hoF2Vg7&index=8
To watch this session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJHr99A4KMs&index=9&list=PLcQcea-Qg-
X3NCLfnxRQ0xZmB6hoF2Vg7
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IoT6 Smart Cities Wrap Up
The future is now for smart cities. We must embrace the developer community and lead with the citizen
or community. Involving residents and visitors by focusing on their well-being, satisfaction levels, and
overall city experience is the primary goal for smart city advancement. In addition, exploring creative and
non-governmental funding sources for partnerships and funding models is needed to reach scale across
departments and agencies. Public-private partnerships and evolving funding models will emerge and
provide life to siloed smart city projects. City governments will need to think beyond their city and think
about changes that benefit regions and corridors outside of their own city boundaries. Embracing
software development (the developer community) and the application marketplace is also a key driver for
smart city advancement. Finally, innovation will require cross coordination and collaboration across city
departments and agencies, as well as neighboring communities and cities.
Use Case Examples shared during Stephanie Atkinson’s keynote:
Source: Vendors, Providers, Compiled by Compassintel.com
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IoT6 Information
STAY TUNED FOR OUR 2019 EVENT DATE!
The unique, invitation-only hosted format of IoT6 Exchange, conducted in an upscale resort setting like
the Ponte Vedra Resort and Inn or Hyatt Lost Pines Resort & Spa, provides an engaging platform for use
case presentations and keynotes, small group discussions, industry specific and vertical-focused topics as
well as one-on-one conversations with leading vendors and peers on the latest solutions, strategies and
topics around the Internet of Things within the enterprise.
IoT6 Exchange has many avenues for our attendees to gain insight into how these investments will
improve their overall digital strategy. Key aspects include:
Keynotes, Fireside Chats, Panels and General Sessions:
IoT6 Exchange keeps things simple by having only one conference track to focus on. Attendees will sit in
on a variety of sessions covering the latest topics, industry news and respected insights from leading
solution providers, industry experts and end user executives.
Case Study Boardroom Sessions:
These highly interactive sessions presented by solution providers to an intimate group of executives give
an inside view of the implementation and strategy of an actual customer use case. These sessions not
only provide the vendors with feedback on end user wants/needs, but also promote candid discussions
for end users to gain perspective from their peers within various industries.
1:1 Meetings:
Our 1:1 Meeting Zone allows our end user attendees, solution providers, and industry experts the perfect
opportunity to connect with one another for 20-minute face-to-face meetings, which makes sourcing
solutions painless for our executive attendees and makes connecting with prospective clientele cost-
effective for our sponsors. Respected industry analysts and experts will also be present to discuss your
needs and to help you move your own digital strategy forward.
Networking Receptions:
Connections can be made at a traditional trade show, but with our unique format, lasting relationships
are forged through a multitude of networking opportunities. Attendees network over 2.5 days and dive
more deeply into discussions that cannot be had walking a trade show floor. Regarding the number of end
user attendees and solution providers, we believe that quality over quantity adds a higher value to the
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conversations had, because only the most-qualified attendees are invited to attend and only vendors that
can deliver solutions to major enterprises are eligible to sponsor.
Participating IoT6 Advisory Board Members
The unparalleled content and agenda of our IoT6 Exchange summit are the result of the esteemed
advisory board comprised of independent analysts and respected research firms whose combined
knowledge and decades of experience make these events invaluable. Attendees and Sponsors not only
benefit from an expertly designed agenda, but also have the opportunity to sit down face-to-face with
these industry experts to discuss strategy and solutions.
The Fall Smart Cities Advisory Board
For More Information and information on our 2019 events please contact:
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nGage Events
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