What is the Chinese focus in IoT and digitalisation? How is the Made in China 2025 plan impacting the market so far? Who are the companies most ready to move beyond pilots to real deployments in IoT? What are the trends for companies using IoT to differentiate their business and how does that impact IoT solution providers?

In this episode, Hunter Dong of SAP discusses the challenges in China market for IoT implementations — unique characteristics in the market that give rise to unique challenges. He also gives advice to companies that are taking the first steps of assessing an IoT solution. 

What are the adoption barriers and barriers to growth in IoT? Should hardware and software be split into two companies, or integrated to achieve synergy? Clint Bundy outlines the 4 main barriers to adoption and growth in the IoT market, and gives advice for companies who want to increase their valuation.

How do investors assess small and medium cap companies? Clint Bundy of Bundy group explains to use the valuation methods for 3 categories of automation companies: hardware & software, controls & engineering, and IoT. Clint Bundy is the Managing Director of Bundy Group, in an investment banking advisory role for owners and executives of privately held firms who are seeking a business sale, acquisition, or financing (equity and debt). Bundy Group is a boutique investment bank specializing in representing clients in the lower middle market ($100 million or less in revenues). Bundy Group's primary services include advising owners in the sale or acquisition of a business as well as assisting clients in raising equity or debt financing. http://www.bundygroup.com

How to engage stakeholders using data generated and achieve ROI within 6-12 months for 65% of customers? What are the key findings from tracking use cases in terms of applications, ROI, and successes? Will the super intelligent edge and data commons become a reality soon? Vinay Nathan of Altizon explains to us his learnings over the past 5 years of stakeholder engagement and generating fast ROI. We also discuss trends on the horizon for IoT. Vinay Nathan is the CEO of Altizon.

What are the trends in the IoT enterprise platform market over the past 5 years? How has Vinay leveraged his patents in connectivity technology into a platform company that has attracted 4M USD of investment? Learn about the various market structures and situations in Asia and the US, and how this affects the development platform market. Vinay Nathan is the CEO of Altizon.

How does mining data from an earthquake make us human seismographs? How does cars use Terbine technology to generate micro weather maps all over the city at a granular level? David explains how to take and use data from everyday objects to make sense of the world in a way that has nothing to do with the original purpose of the object.

Is distributing data just the same as distributing a book in an Amazon warehouse? Is blockchain just a buzzword or is it the solution to accelerate the adoption of IoT via data? Is simultaneity really the most useful way to use data?

David challenges some intuitive assumptions we have around IoT and data, and explains how Terbine deals with these issues to record, store, and price data. 

Is building a data marketplace same as building a plane or inventing the telephone?

David Knight describes the big void above the IoT stack and what he envisions as a big exchange in the sky that would interconnect all the sensors and facilitate transfer of data in a curated way. 

Smart cities: How do cybersecurity loopholes and data marketplaces exist in harmony to create value for both the public and private sectors? Even as IoT matures and develops, is its full potential still dependent on something as basic as human trust? Regulations and standards: Are they necessarily a good thing for IoT adoption? How can agile start ups scale in fragmented environments? We discuss these two issues surrounding the future of IoT With Chirayu Wadke, Partner at SeedPlus.

How to address the growing need for simplified solutions that solve complex problems? Should you challenge the ecosystem fundamentally? What is the best location to start an IoT startup and how should you scale your startup? What are the differences between Asia and Europe/US? Should you move to Asia? Chirayu Wadke, a partner with SeedPlus, tells us about his proteges and what he would do if he would start his own business.

What does a VC look for when they evaluate a product’s viability? Is there a difference between a hardware and software startup? How do you build the right team to develop a coherent IoT solution that differentiates and delivers real outcomes?

Understand from Chirayu Wadka of SeedPlus on what makes a startup scale, and why Ofo and Mobike succeeded despite the failure of other bike sharing companies. Plus, we hear his thoughts on starting a VC fund, and the landscape of tech VC in South East Asia. 

Peter tells us about a rollercoaster case of an IoT implementation gone wrong with a happy ending for a manufacturing firm. We also discuss the penalty of innovation, and the future of the cloud vs. edge relationship. 

How do data markets affect future business models? Is it possible to use AI and Machine Learning to differentiate and create competitive advantages in an aging workforce? What are the ways to scale AI solutions and create business value? Peter Bourne explains how he uses his technology suite to differentiate his business. We discuss the viability of data exchange marketplaces and the poster child of technology in business. 

How does purposefully designing service into the product help developers differentiate their product offering? How has the interface between SaaS vendors and end users changed over the past 5 years from science project to agility? Understand how to integrate service and technology to create a customer value proposition that proactively scales the business from BrightWolf CEO, Peter Bourne. 

How does international mobility and connectivity empower IoT and M2M providers to offer logistics companies a solution for their end customers? We see a practical use case of a single management platform for tracking parcels with real time updates across borders and carriers. With BICS' connectivity solutions, Hanhaa reduced the lead time of developing a global footprint network from months to just weeks. Carlos Villanueva is the head of market intelligence and strategic partnership at BICS. 

How is roaming for IoT devices different from roaming from our consumer smartphones? What are the factors that come into play to determine the end to end solutions for an increasingly connected and networked world? What does this mean for the technologies that are on the rise in the horizon?

Carlos advocates reliable and high quality connectivity matters, even though it's been traditionally overlooked in the value chain, and explains how to build and monetise connectivity services for IoT businesses. We also discuss the technology roadmap for BICS and connectivity businesses to approach new rising technologies.

Carlos Villanueva is the head of market intelligence and strategic partnership at BICS. 

Where are we in the IoT adoption cycle? What are the key IoT challenges for industries and enterprises to improve business models or find new revenue streams? Is the technology available to enable use cases to solve the different challenges?

In the first of three interviews, Carlos Villanueva helps us understand more about global cross-border IoT deployment and ecosystem solutions to achieve total international connectivity to drive business performance. 

The Industrial IoT ecosystem is a truly dynamic space and a large part of that dynamism can be attributed to the investment and venture capital space that provides the financial impetus to drive innovation in niche fields like edge computing, cybersecurity and blockchain. 

In the second episode of our "Ventures in Industrial IoT" series with GE Ventures, we are pleased to welcome Nicholas Pappageorge, IoT market analyst at CB Insights to the show. Brace yourself for a highly engaging and data-driven conversation as Nicholas shares his findings on the latest trends impacting the venture capital space surrounding the Industrial IoT market.

According to the 2017 Gartner Hype Cycle, many emerging technologies linked to IoT like machine learning, cognitive computing and IoT platforms find themselves in the "peak of inflated expectations" phase. At such an inflexion point, it is vital to accurately evaluate the promise these technologies hold for us. 

In the first part of the very first episode of this exciting new series, Mike Dolbec, Managing Director of venture investments and M&A at GE Digital has a candid discussion about edge computing, blockchain and other nascent technologies in the Industrial IoT space.

The Industrial IoT world is seeing soaring adoption rates of edge analytics solutions as a means of staying ahead of the IoT curve. In fact a recent report by Transparency Market Research estimated that the the global edge analytics market is expected to be worth US$25.569 billion by 2025. It is vital that your business is aware of the benefits that edge analytics solutions can bring to your firm's IoT portfolio. In the third and final part of this episode, Foghorn's CEO David King who will run us through a use case of how their edge analytics technology is being implemented.