Wilfried Steiner, Corporate Scientist at TTTech Computertechnik AG, talks about the required skills and mindset needed to manage and develop fog. Acknowledging the difference in this technology today and preparing for the future, the training curriculum must change accordingly. Steiner explains fog computing technologies for industry 4.0.

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Co-presenters Yogev Shimony, Director of Embedded and loT Solutions Marketing at Dell, and Phil Hummel, Data Scientist at Dell EMC, spark a discussion on the disruption that IoT’s data generates and how to make things smarter for the IoT ecosystem. From edge to core to cloud, IoT data management needs to consider security, automation, storage and more. Following their talk, Shimony and Hummel answer questions from the audience. Recorded at the inaugural Fog World Congress.

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Co-presenters Matt Vasey from Microsoft and Dale Seed from InterDigital kick off the technical track, speaking individually about the growth of fog computing in tandem with IoT, cloud and edge, as well as its opportunities and challenges. Vasey sets the stage for the remaining technical tracks, while Seed goes in-depth on the standardization, manageability and interoperability of these multiple platforms.

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Panel moderator Dr. Mehmet Ulema, the Director of Standards Development at IEEE Communications Society and Professor at Manhattan College, leads the panelists into a discussion on the challenges and potential solutions in Vehicle to Everything , also known as V2X communications. Panelists includeNurit Sprecher, Outgoing and Founding Chair at ETSI MEC, Stan Schneider, CEO at Real-Time Innovations (RTI), and Tao Zhang, Co-Founder and Board Director of the OpenFog Consortium, and CIO and Board Governor of the IEEE Communications Society.

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Seval Oz, CEO of Aurima, talks about what’s missing in today’s vehicle automation landscape and what we need to implement for self-driving cars in the very near future. Oz discusses the mindset of transportation as utility when considering smart cities, big data and automated vehicles. The convergence of technology, behavior and new business models are driving the change necessary to build tomorrow’s accessible computing.

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Hilton Romanski, SVP and Chief Strategy Officer at Cisco Systems, speaks about the tremendous impact that fog is having and disrupting across several industry platforms today. Romanski emphasizes the need for turning the use cases into reality, and facing the implementation challenges. Romanski briefly interviews special guest, Sastry Malladi, and fields audience questions.

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Co-presenters Farid Singh, Outgoing Co-Chair of the Edge Computing Working Group at Facebook Telecom Infra Project, and Raghu Kondapalli, Data Center Group CTO Office at Intel Corporation, speak about rethinking Edge computing for data mining. Singh and Kondapalli also touch on Edge architecture in regards to opportunities and threats with NFV and 5G technologies. Following their presentation they take questions from the audience.

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Coming from various industries, such as geo-energy, renewable energy, seismic monitoring, oil and gas, and space exploration, a panel of experts shares use cases and how fog computing provides benefits for managing real-time network operations. 

Moderator WenZhan Song kicks off the discussion, followed by panelists Abhishek Dubey, Arun Subramaniyan, Sharon Kedar, and Goutham Kamath. Brief Q&A session at the end of the panel.

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Co-presenters Eileen Healy, the CEO of Healy & Co, and Aakanksha Chowdhery, Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University, speak about fog computing in the arena of public safety. Specifically how fog can support public safety, and challenges that come with the technology. Each speaker explains use cases, such as improved response times for EMTs and agency communications for police.

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Panel Moderator Maria Gortalova, Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University, leads the discussion on analytics and fog, from a practitioner’s point of view. Panelists include Aaron Behman, Senior Director of Marketing & Applications at Toshiba Memory America, Ahmad Fattahi, Group Leader of Technology Enablement at OSIsoft, Rhonda Dirvin, Director of IoT Vertical Markets at ARM, and Steve Jennis, Senior VP of Marketing at ADLINK. The speakers take questions from the audience to close this session.

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Christian Renaud, Research Director of Internet of Things at 451 Research, presents his talk on defining and sizing fog computing, as well as reviewing the vertical market applications such as healthcare and industrial. Renaud looks at fog’s projected growth of Fog as a Service (FaaS). Following his presentation, Renaud answers questions from the event attendees.

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Panel Moderator Latha Kant, Chief Scientist & Director at Vencore Labs leads this discussion regarding government initiatives and fog with panelists Alex Poylisher, also from Vencore Labs, Robert Bohn, Cloud Computing Program Manager at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and Sandip Kundu Program Director, Division of Computer Network Systems; Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at National Science Foundation. Q&A following their individual presentations.

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Panel Moderator Mitchell Golner, Founder of IoT Nation, leads the discussion on considerations of privacy in the wake of IoT technology and beyond. Panelists include Akyut Dengi, Director, Internet of Things Collaboratory from Arizona State University, Bert G. Kaminski, Esq., Chief Commercial Counsel at GE Digital, Dr. May Wang, Co-founder and CTO at ZingBox, and Frank Michaud, Technology Strategist, Corporate Strategic Innovation Group at Cisco. Golner presents the speakers with questions, which each panelist address from their own perspective.

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Tao Zhang, General Chair of Fog World Congress, delivers his keynote presentation on how fog computing has changed everything in the past fifteen years. Its foreseeable future in computing disrupts existing industry landscapes and brings transformation to every area of technology. Zhang explains how fog computing works in tandem to handle the big data of IoT, 5G, AI and more.

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Chuck Byers, Principal Engineer and Platform Architect in the Corporate Strategic Innovation Group at Cisco, presents a broad survey of fog areas to consider with design tips for each area, such as hardware, software, testing, security, partitioning and more. Byers offers a guide for what to focus on in fog computing, keeping in mind scalability, standards, interoperability and requirements to follow.   

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Mung Chiang, The John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue University, emphasizes that cloud computing is here to stay and how fog is rising up to complement it. Chiang illustrates three main points: What is fog? Why do I care? And what can I do with it? He explains that fog is a superset of edge computing and how it works as network architecture.

Marcelo Yannuzzi, Principal Engineer – Chief Strategy Office at Cisco Systems, gives his presentation on the fusion of cloud, network and fog management based on open standards. Yannuzzi reviews use cases and challenges, as well as explaining the paradigm shift needed to accomplish this unified solution for future cities with fog computing.

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Chairman of the OpenFog Consortium, Helder Antunes, along with the IEEE Communications Society’s VP of Industry and Standards, Rob Fish, collaboratively speak about standards for fog computing and networking. Reviewing the latest transformations, they consider what the standards process looks like moving forward.

Sastry Malladi, Chief Technology Officer at FogHorn Systems, speaks about challenges in implementing fog solutions and the FogHorn approach that overcomes these challenges. Malladi also reviews a background of the company in Edge Intelligence software for Industrial IoT. Following his talk, Malladi takes questions from the event attendees.

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Flavio Bonomi, CEO and Co-founder at Nebbiolo Technologies, speaks about the long journey that fog has taken from vision to reality. Bonomi explains how fog computing is at the convergence of IT and OT networking technologies and that enabling hierarchical control aides in the industrial automation process. He recognizes vertical applications for the market that brings plenty of opportunity for fog engineering. Following his talk Bonomi answers questions from the audience.

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Panel Moderator Rhonda Dirvin, Director IoT Vertical Markets at ARM, leads the discussion presenting various use cases that illustrate why fog is so important. Panelists include Eli Tiomkin, VP Business Development at NDG Systems, Sam Bhattarai, Director, IoT Technology & Business Enablement at Toshiba Corporation, and Matt Vasey, Director of IoT Business Development at Microsoft. Dirvin provides the initial questions, with audience Q&A and dialogue following.

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Panel Moderator Charles “Chuck” Byers, Principal Engineer and Platform Architect in the Corporate Strategic Innovation Group at Cisco, leads the discussion based on the architecture and interoperability of open fog. Panelists include Jim White, Distinguished Engineer of the CTO Office at Dell and Technical Steering Committee at EdgeX Foundry, John Zao, Associate Professor at Taiwan Chiao-Tung University and member of the IEEE Standard Working Group on Fog Computing Architecture Framework, and Maria Gorlatova, Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University. Q&A follows their individual presentations.

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Moderator Don Banks,Senior Principal Engineer/System Architect from ARM, leads the panelists into their individual presentations on fog computing in industry, followed by a Q&A session with the event attendees. Panelists include Wilfried Steiner, Corporate Scientist at TTTech, Sam Bhattarai, Director of IoT Technology & Business Enablement at Toshiba Corporation, and Flavio Bonomi, CEO and Co-founder at Nebbiolo Technologies.

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Panel Moderator John Zao, Associate Professor at Taiwan Chiao-Tung University, leads the panelists through a discussion about security issues, with each speaker focusing on a different aspect. Panelists include Bridget Martin, Software Engineering Manager at Intel Corporation, Riaz Zolfonoon Technical Lead of Emerging Technology Group at RSA, Susanto Irwan, Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Sensify Security, Frank Michaud, Technology Strategist of Corporate Strategic Innovation Group at Cisco, and Don Banks, Senior Principal Engineer/System Architect at ARM. Q&A and audience dialogue follows their individual opening statements.

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