Ramp Up Your Internet of Things Business

Economics Workshop at IoT Week in Venice

The international Internet of Things Community will get together at the IoT Week 2012
in Venice (Italy) from 18-22 June 2012. By listening to presentations from high-level
representatives of industry, academia and politics and by participating in workshops
and panel discussions around the Internet of Things participants will get great
insights into recent IoT developments and a unique opportunity to network and meet
IoT experts from all over the world. The objective of the annual event is to offer a
platform for exchanging the latest news on research topics and revealing political and
societal insights.

The IoT Week 2012 is complemented by the second event of the IoT International
Forum that will take place on 20-21 June 2012 at the same venue. Participation for
the IoT International Forum event only is free of charge.

The Economics Workshop is part of the IoT International Forum. Its objective is to provide insight into how to run an IoT company by discussing business models, best practices and practical guidelines with the participants.

The following speakers will have dedicated talks:

1. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Maass, Chair in Business Administration esp. Information and Service Systems, Saarland University, Germany
2. Dr. Stefan Ferber, Director Communities & Partner Networks, Bosch Software Innovations GmbH
3. Rob van Kranenburg, Founder of Council, Chair of the Working Group Society of the IoT Forum & IoT Expert at EU commission
4. Jürgen Hase, Vice President M2M Competence Center, Deutsche Telekom AG
5. Alessandro Bassi, Alessandro Bassi Consulting, Acting (for Hitachi, Ltd) as Technical Coordinator for the “IoT-A” project

Organization

• Session: IoT Forum WG Economics
• Chair: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Maass, Saarland University, Germany
• Date & time: Thursday, 21st of June 2012, 9 to 11 a.m.
• Location: Venice, The Scuola Grande San Giovanni
• Room: Salone San Giovanni

Registration for the IoT events is now open at: www.iot-week.eu/iot-week-
2012/registration.

Invitation to participate in Survey on Internet of Things Services

The IoT-i project released a short survey to identify critical privacy factors of Internet of Things (IoT) services. Everyone is invited to participate and and win an Amazon Gift card!

We need your help to identify critical privacy factors of Internet of Things (IoT) services. IoT services are sensor-based applications that use identification technologies such as radio frequency or global satellite communication. An example would be an application that tracks the temperature of food along the way to a retailer. In this study, you will evaluate one IoT service.

Overall, this study should not take more than 15 minutes and you can win 1 out of 5 Amazon Gift Cards worth 20 to 50 Euro.

Thank you for your kind consideration. We hope you will help us with this study by completing the questions on the following pages until the end of June 2012:

http://n.ethz.ch/~kowtobia/surv/index.php?sid=25424

With kind regards on behalf of the IOT-i consortium

Next IoT Forum event #2

After a very successful first Forum event in Berlin, take the chance to participate to the next event in June in Venice.

The IoT Forum Event # 2 will take place during the IoT Week 2012
18-22 June 2012 (exact dates to be confirmed)
Scuola Grande, Venice, Italy