This meetup was held in Mountain View on 25th March, 2018. Title: AI Trends towards a Driverless World Mrs. Sudha Jamthe is the CEO of IoTDisruptions.com and a globally recognized thought leader at the junction of IoT and Autonomous Vehicles. She brings twenty years of digital transformation experience from building organizations, shaping new technology ecosystems and mentoring leaders at eBay, PayPal, Harcourt, and GTE. She teaches the IoT Business course and "The Business of Self-Driving Cars" Course at Stanford Continuing Studies Program and enjoys mentor industry professionals to shape emerging technology ecosystems. She advises corporate and city leaders on regional economic development using technology with a focus on innovation gaps and social equality.

Internet of Things is ready to create business growth of $16 Trillion globally with 50 billion devices by 2020. That is the old story. This proliferation of IoT is creating many cloud platforms and tons of data carrying business growth insights and new machine learning applications leading to Robots, Drones and Bots. Come hear from Sudha Jamthe about the next wave of IoT Disruptions and how this is leading to growth in Artificial Intelligence to a new works of business opportunities.

At the end of October students of Barcelona Technology School participated in the BTS Transformation Series event, focused on Internet of Things. Students met 3 international experts from IOT industry who shared their experience and insights about this technology. Presenters were as follows: 1. Sudha Jamthe – CEO of IoTDisruptions.com and a member of Strategic Advisory Board at Barcelona Technology School 2. Karsten Jensen – Director of Innovation at Insero 3. Christian Mastrodonato - Chief Technologist at Konica Minolta and a member of Strategic Advisory Board at Barcelona Technology School

Sudha Jamthe is going to share with BTS students the main conclusions of her article "Breaking the barrier humans and machines" published recently on TechCrunch. Sudha is member of the BTS Advisory Board as well as IoT author and Mobile business Leader.

As part of the Transformation Series event, Sudha Jamthe, technology futurist, with experience as Mobile Business Leader in E-bay and CEO of IoT Disruptions, came from Silicon Valley to Barcelona Technology School to speak with the students about how certain technologies are creating disruptions and how the digital transformation is changing different fields and perspectives of seeing today’s businesses. She introduced to BTS students some leading technologies and explained where are those being applied in variety of industries nowadays: Internet of Things, machine learning, artificial intelligence, automated vehicles.

Sudha Jamthe is the CEO of IoTDisruptions.com and a globally recognized Technology Futurist with 20+ year mix of entrepreneurial, academic and operational experience from eBay, PayPal, GTE, and Harcourt. She is the author of "2030 The Driverless World: Business Transformation from Autonomous Vehicles" and 3 IoT books, teacher of IoT and Autonomous Vehicles business courses at Stanford Continuing Studies and at DriverlessWorldSchool.com. She enjoys shaping new technology ecosystems and mentoring leaders on digital transformation. She chairs the strategic advisory council of Barcelona Technology School and an Ambassador for FundingBox Impact Connected Cars (H2020) Community. She has an MBA from Boston University. Contact Sudha: Web: IoTDisruptions.com Twitter: @sujamthe YouTube: http://bit.ly/2yh1Epp LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujamthe/ Contact Avrohom: web: http://asktheceo.biz Twitter: @avrohomg Instagram: @avrohomg INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS: [01:25] What is Cognitive IoT? IoT + AI. [05:22] Cognitive IoT applications in Smart Cities. [06:00] Facial recognition will become our ID. [07:22] Medical applications for Cognitive IoT. [11:03] Cognitive IoT focus is to save lives. Example: Stop treadmill based on multiple data sources which indicate the person is having heart problems. [16:48] Topics covered in Sudha's course. [21:38] Intelligent toasters & refrigerators! [22:38] Pivoting your career to IoT & student success stories. [29:21] Discussion on some of the guest speakers. [30:00] Connected doorbells. [32:20] Blockchain for supply chain - smart refrigerator.

All things around us are coming to life with sensors and Internet connectivity. As a result there is the opportunity in this new world to create disruptive innovations to enhance your customer value. Plenty of questions arise as a result.  Where do you create value and how can you make technology the enabler of your connected customers journey?  What role does data play and help autonomous machines make decisions to change our lives, industries and future. How can you tap into this to build customer intimacy and understand customer intent to serve them better? Sudha Jamthe is a technology futurist, CEO of IoT Disruptions, an instructor at Stanford Continuing Studies and author of "IoT Business Primer Book" and "IoT Disruption 2020." She is a thought leader in IoT space, focusing on guiding companies with innovation to adopt IoT and to build ecosystems for Digital Business Transformations. She shares her research on IoT with her weekly "The IoT Show" on YouTube. Sudha serves on the advisory board of Blockchain university and Barcelona Technology School.

You are at this conference because you believe in the power of the Internet of Things as things on us and all around us become smart to change how we live our lives. Come join this session to learn what does it take to create a Business Disruption with IoT •Listen to case studies of successful IoT Entrepreneurs who have been able to take IoT Products and make them into successful Business Applications. •What are some on the Disruptions in Wearables, Health, Retail and our very way of life? •What current businesses are being impacted by IoT and who is able to adapt to this transformation and Why? •Get ready to be inspired by the shift coming up on Human Machine with IoT and AI Speaker Sudha Jamthe CEO, IoT Disruptions and Instructor Stanford Continuing Ed School Sudha Jamthe is the CEO of IoT Disruptions and an entrepreneurial mobile product leader with 20+ years experience building Consumer Mobile and eCommerce Products for Business Growth. She is the author of the book IoT Disruptions and the upcoming new book “The Internet of Things Business Primer”. She hosts a weekly show called “The IoT Show” on YouTube and is an instructor at Stanford Continuing Ed School for the class Building a Successful Business with Mobile and Internet of Things. Sudha is a champion for Girls Who Code and hosts mentor programs for kids at Devcamps and hackathons. She believes that coding is a fundamental skill similar to reading for the future and inspires kids to learn coding with educational programs in schools and corporate partnerships. She has been a venture mentor at MIT and Director at Bay Area Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ Meetups. She writes for TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm and Venturebeat as a respected technology futurist. You can always find her latest opinions at coolastory.com, LinkedIn Pulse, Periscope and @sujamthe. She is an advisor for Blockchain University and Barcelona Technology School. Session Tags: End-User, Enterprise, Small / Medium Enterprise Mobile, IoT, IoT Business Applictions, IoT Disruptions, The Internet of Things Business Primer, IoT and AI CxO, VP / Director, Middle Management, Business Line Management Advanced, Intermediate Retail, Manufacturing, Telecom, Healthcare, Consumer, Government / Public Sector, Pharmaceutical / BioTech, Automotive IoT Slam 2015 Internet of Things Conference