IoT Central is introducing its IoT Author Series with our February event featuring Maciej Kranz author of Building the Internet of Things:Implement New Business Models, Disrupt Competitors, Transform Your Industry.
As billions of standalone devices across the world are getting connected, theInternet of Things (IoT)has become one of the most talked about technology trends. But IoT is not really about technology and connected devices. At its core it is aboutbusiness outcomes and people; it is about new ways of doing business, talent and change management; it is about migration to open technologies and open business structures based on co-development and ecosystems of partnerships; it is a multi-year, multi-phase journey.So how do you get started?How do you implement IoT totransform your business,adopt new business modelsandgrow new revenue streams? Maciej Kranz's book and his talk is about these things.
Maciej Kranz is currently the Vice President, Corporate Strategic Innovation Group at Cisco.In this program Maciej Kranz will share his insights gained from his experience in running Cisco's ConnectedIndustriesGroup (a business unit focused on theInternetof Things)and fromtraveling over 1M miles for meetings with companies and entities on their adoption of IoT solutions.
About Maciej Kranz
Maciej Kranz brings 30 years of networking industry experience to his position as Vice President, Corporate Strategic Innovation Group at Cisco. He leads the group focused on incubating new businesses, accelerating internal innovation, and driving co-innovation with customers and startups through a global network of Cisco Innovation Centers.
Prior to this role, Kranz was General Manager of the Connected Industries Group at Cisco, a business unit focused the Internet of Things. He built a $250M business from the ground up in 18 months and relentlessly evangelized the IoT opportunity across Cisco and the market, making IoT one of Ciscos major priorities.
Previously, Kranz led efforts across Cisco to define, prioritize, and deliver Borderless Network Architecture and roadmaps. He also drove business and product strategy for the wireless and mobility business and led product management for the stackable Ethernet switching business unit through its expansion from $400M to $6B in revenues.
Before coming to Cisco, Kranz held various management positions at 3Com Corporation, where he drove a $1B Ethernet network interface cards (NICs) product line. He began his professional career at IBM Corporation.
In his book, Building the Internet of Things, Kranz offers practical advice to business decision makers on how and why to implement IoT today.
Agenda
6:00pm Arrive, Pizza, Demos, Networking
6:30pm Welcome & Introduction Mitchell Golner, IoT Central
6:40pm Maciej Kranz,Building the Internet of Things
Author of the recently launched book: Building the Internet of Things
Vice President, Corporate Strategic Innovation Group at Cisco
7:25pm Q&A with Maciej Kranz
7:40pm Member Announcements
7:45pm Networking
9:00pm End of Event
Pricing for this event is discounted to $15 until January 20 and will be available online for $25 after January 20. Student discount available upon request.
We thank our general IoT Central sponsors for this eventMicrochip(which acquiredAtmel).
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