Dear C-PET,
Few Americans have followed the deeply important discussion of the "Internet of Things" - variously termed by companies the "Internet of Everything" and the "Industrial Internet."
SHAPING THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET
Our next DC event offers a high-level briefing and discussion of questions of profound significance to both policymakers and corporate America. Join us onWednesday August 7 at our G Street offices - from 2:15 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Register here. The roundtable will end with a reception.
Key panelists will include:
Daniel Caprio (McKenna Long & Aldridge; formerly Department of Commerce)
Michael Nelson (Bloomberg Government; formerly IBM, FCC)
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This from a recent McKinsey report sets out one perspective:
In most organizations, information travels along familiar routes. Proprietary information is lodged in databases and analyzed in reports and then rises up the management chain. Information also originates externally-gathered from public sources, harvested from the Internet, or purchased from information suppliers.
But the predictable pathways of information are changing: the physical world itself is becoming a type of information system. In what's called the Internet of Things, sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects-from roadways to pacemakers-are linked through wired and wireless networks, often using the same Internet Protocol (IP) that connects the Internet. These networks churn out huge volumes of data that flow to computers for analysis. When objects can both sense the environment and communicate, they become tools for understanding complexity and responding to it swiftly. What's revolutionary in all this is that these physical information systems are now beginning to be deployed, and some of them even work largely without human intervention.
We hope you will join us! Register here
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Later in the fall we are co-hosting a 3-day conference here in Washington on this question as knowledge partner in an international consortium.
Details here
Best,
Nigel Cameron
President and CEO, C-PET
