OEN PubTalk: What’s the Thing with the Internet of Things?

By now, we’ve all heard of the Internet of Things, but what does it really mean? What’s at stake, and what are the biggest opportunities and risks? Join us for our October PubTalk to learn about the scope and future of IoT. Our October PubTalk is in partnership with Thing PDX.

Details

The OEN PubTalk™ is our flagship monthly happy hour — a perfect starting point for new community members and a great place for established members to make new connections.

As always, the program will be preceded by time for networking and will include free appetizers and pizza. Registration begins at 5:15 p.m. Our PubTalks usually kick off with a short pitch from an OEN member, followed by audience Q&A.

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Cost: $10 for OEN members; $20 for non-members. *Sorry, no refunds.*

Not yet an OEN member? Join today and you can get a free pass to our October PubTalk!

Panelists

Frank D’Andrea, Amazon.com—Frank likes motivating self-organizing teams, eliminating wasteful practices, and delivering digital solutions that are designed to be flexible and that are developed in a sustainable way. He believes in engaging clients as partners, demonstrating the value of iterative delivery, and bringing award-winning products and services to the marketplace.

Scé Pike, IOTAS—Scé started her career during the 90s in Silicon Valley, designing and developing the first ecommerce sites for GM, HP, Blue Cross and others. Soon thereafter she joined VeriSign to focus on internet security then later joined Palm to work on the first smartphone, Treo, and wi-fi handheld device, Tungsten.

Surj Patel, Rigado—Surj previously worked on IoT product strategy for Sharp Electronics and was founder of SmartMocha, an early M2M IoT platform. Prior to his IoT experience, Surj was VP of development at GigaOm and a student at the MIT Media Lab.

Vera Sell, Senrio—Vera Sell is the VP of Marketing at Senrio (http://senr.io/), a cybersecurity company focused on protecting connected embedded devices (aka “Internet of Things”) in industrial control, med-tech, and corporate IT applications. She specializes in customer validation, new product development and product marketing. Prior to her work at Senrio, Vera held product marketing and marketing communication positions at Tektronix, Biamp Systems and Avnera with a focus on connected and distributed technologies.

Sponsors

Our October PubTalk is sponsored by: Ater Wynne, Hesslink Ventures, and Vacasa.