16 IoT Influencers You Need to Follow
The Internet of Things is precisely at the stage where people are eager to discuss it, but it’s often difficult to know who is worth listening to. Here are 16 people and organizations you need to know in the IoT space.
May 3, 2016
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Just getting started in the Internet of Things (IoT) space and looking for a definitive list of who you need to know? Click through the slideshow for 15 different people and organizations that will help you understand IoT implementation, market trends, and more.
Penton's new IoT Institute provides information on the latest IoT trends, analysis and case studies for smart cities, Industrial IoT, and more. The IoT Institute also hosts a live event, IoT Emerge, and ongoing research with strategic partners such as the Industrial Internet Consortium.
Twitter: @iotipenton
Website: http://www.ioti.com/
Dan Shey researches the M2M, IoT and enterprise mobility with a focus on devices, connectivity, platforms, applications, big data/analytics, convergence, and strategic analysis of the IoT and mobile services value chain.
He helps clients decipher the complex relationships and opportunities across the “digital first” and “physical first” domains. His company, ABI Research has released a number of great whitepapers over the past few years addressing IoT topics such as Smart Cars, the Internet of Everything, and human-machine interfaces.
Twitter: @abi_shey
Website: https://www.abiresearch.com/
Aeris Communications is the only cellular network built exclusively for M2M traffic. The Twitter updates from its social media manager Michael Sim and whitepapers from the company provide some useful insights on product innovation and trends in the M2M space.
Twitter: @chicagodesign, @AerisM2M
Website: http://www.aeris.com
Stacey Higginbotham’s byline as a tech journalist has been found on Fortune’s website and GigaOm, but she also hosts the IoT Podcast, where she has landed interesting guests including Eero CEO Nick Weaver and Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg.
Twitter: @gigastacey
Website: http://iotpodcast.com/
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino is an interaction designer, product designer, entrepreneur and speaker that focuses on the internet of things. She was named second in Onalytica’s list of top 100 IoT thought leaders. Her company, designswarm, co-hosted a workshop in March 2016 with Studio Dott aimed at capturing the design processes of IoT startups. It also researched the landscape of UK IoT startups and their requirements for the Digital Catapult, a data sharing initiative. Her Twitter account provides useful updates from the world of IoT.
Twitter: @iotwatch
Website: http://designswarm.com
Bill McCabe is a talent manager or recruiter for the IoT industry, and he also publishes an extraordinary amount of content on Twitter and his LinkedIn blog that is worth checking out. If you’re interested in building an IoT team, his content is definitely worth checking out to ensure your team has the required skills.
Twitter: @billsoftnet
Borcea and Wiltgen are the co-hosts of Farstuff, a podcast about how IoT will be transforming our lives by interviewing people involved in the transformation.
Twitter: @AndreeaBorcea, @CharlesWiltgen
Website: http://farstuff.com/
The IEEE is the organization behind standards for IoT, which will help further IoT functionality, interoperability and security. IEEE’s aims to drive forward standards makes it an important organization to watch. It also regularly releases original research and reports.
Twitter: @IEEEIoT
Website: http://iot.ieee.org/
Chevalier is behind alltheinternetofthings.com, a site and weekly newsletter that provides links to all the top IoT news. The corresponding Twitter account has more than 52,000 followers, making it one of the most-followed sources for IoT news.
Twitter: @TheIoT
Website: http://weekly.alltheinternetofthings.com/
NOTE: Some other popular IoT news and commentary aggregators on Twitter include IoT●OPINES, IoT Channel, IoT Now, and Industrial IoT.
Jim Tully, Ph.D., leads Gartner's Internet of Things research agenda. He focuses on strategic and tactical advice related to the IoT for both users and vendors. Just this year, Tully has released several reports: Cool Vendors in the Connected Home, 2016, Internet of Things Primer for 2016, and IoT: Key Lessons to Date and Action Plan for 2016.
Twitter: @Gartner_inc
Website: http://www.gartner.com/analyst/8101
Machina Research is the world’s leading provider of market intelligence and strategic insight on emergent M2M, IoT and Big Data technologies. Morrish is Machina Research’s founder and chief research officer, and his name features on many of the company’s research notes and whitepapers.
Twitter: @MachinaResearch
Website: https://machinaresearch.com/
Smedley hosts a weekly IoT broadcast (live every Tuesday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. ET) where she shares her opinions and engages in interviews with industry leaders. She’s now at more than 450 episodes.
Twitter: @ConnectedWMag
Website: http://peggysmedleyshow.com/
Boston-based Xively provides IoT connectivity solutions. Lester, their director of product marketing has helped provide useful real-world examples of IoT implementations through webinars and case studies.
Twitter: @XivelyIOT, @ryanjlester
Website: https://xively.com/
Having originally come from a journalism background, Nye is a principal researcher on Frost & Sullivan’s IoT analysis team. She regularly posts Twitter updates around IoT developments along with research notes and blog posts.
Twitter: @sheridannye
Website: http://www.frost.com/reg/people-finder-result.do?id=3337754
ThingWorx creates tools for the creation and deployment of applications for smart devices. It’s a subsidiary of PTC, a 1.4 billion global software company that provides technology platforms and solutions for IoT. Their Twitter account features many updates from the industry, and their blog has summaries and commentary on the latest IoT industry news.
Twitter: @ThingWorx
Website: http://www.thingworx.com
Zuora provides a commerce platform for today’s subscription-based businesses, but with his eyes on the future, Parekh (who heads an award-winning security team) wrote an IoT security guide called “Breaking and Entering IoT and Security: Understanding the risks of a Connected World”.
Twitter: @zuora
Website: https://www.zuora.com/
Zuora provides a commerce platform for today’s subscription-based businesses, but with his eyes on the future, Parekh (who heads an award-winning security team) wrote an IoT security guide called “Breaking and Entering IoT and Security: Understanding the risks of a Connected World”.
Twitter: @zuora
Website: https://www.zuora.com/
By David Hamilton
One of the most exciting – albeit frustrating – aspects of an emerging technology is the constant barrage of new industry updates and best-practices.
The Internet of Things is precisely at the stage where people are eager to discuss it, but it’s often difficult to know who is worth listening to. Most of the major tech companies have excellent Twitter channels dedicated to IoT including Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Samsung, and SAP, but we wanted to provide a few sources that would provide a different perspective and that – unlike some other sources – are meant to be sincerely helpful.
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