Cloud and the Internet of Things

Following the success of the last themed CloudCamp London - 'Big Data Special'  - we are theming this one too, this time 'The Internet of Things'. To set the scene (and borrowed form CERP-IoT )"In the IoT, ‘things’ are expected to become active participants in business, information and social processes where they are enabled to interact and communicate among themselves and with the environment by exchanging data and information ‘sensed’ about the environment, while reacting autonomously to the ‘real/physical world’ events and influencing it by running processes that trigger actions and create services with or without direct human intervention".

Of course these discussions will be in relation to Cloud Computing , and if you have non IoT related cloud questions and opinions you'll have the opportunity to voice them.

As always the unconference will provide vendor neutral unbiased expert opinion, answering questions and discussing issues in a fun and educational way, along with the opportunity to network with cloud users, consultants and vendors.  It is a forum where you can get your cloud questions answered in a unbiased way and meet people with real cloud experieince.

We keep vendor sales pitches to a minimum by giving the audience 'red cards' - if you don't like what the speakers are saying send them off!

The Venue

• The Crypt , St James Church, Clerkenwell Close, London, EC1R 0EA.
• http://www.jc-church.org/findus.htm

The Agenda Wednesday April 18th 2012

Door open and networking from 6pm

Kick-off 6.30pm

• Introduction to CloudCamp and "Any given Tuesday" a quick look at interconnection of sensors, big data, agents (and hence ubiquitous computing) and the impact of change - http://blog.gardeviance.org/2012/02/any-given-tuesday.html. - Simon Wardley of the Leading Edge Forum
• Setting the scene: "What is IoT?" Andy Bennett, GenieDB
• Lightning Talks -

1. Raphael Cohn, StormMQ - "Electric Trucks Rule, but Batteries Suck & Mobiles Die" How to ship billions of data points over three continents Smith Electric Vehicles, the world's largest manufacturer of electric trucks had a problem. Their batteries sucked. Worse, the manufacturer's weren't paying out on the warranties. And customer's who got wind wouldn't buy but rent. And for every dead battery, that was a lost rental.
2. TBC, Betfair -  "Cloud and the Internet of Bets?!"
3. Kuan Hon, Queen Mary University of London School of Law -  "Cloud Computing, Internet of Things and…Cookies???"  What's the EU cookie law got to do with the internet of things? More than you'd think.
4. Paul Downey, Government Digital Services - "Open Source Hardware" A whirlwind introduction to the Open Source Hardware ecosystem, illustrated using a series of projects ranging from small physical projects, alarm clocks, 3D-printers, wearable devices, through to laptops, scientific equipment, cars, tractors and windmills. What are the motivations for starting such a project? What's the best way to license, collaborate, and accept contributions to physical designs? And why is this movement so important?
5. TBC Ken Boak (@monsonite) An introduction to and brief development history of the open-hardware Nanode project (based on Arduino) - a starter kit for web connectivity
6. Chris Swan, UBS, - "The IoT in science fiction" A quick  look at IoT concepts used in SF as possible signposts to what adoption will look like.

• Unpanel - cloud experts volunteer to join the panel to answer questions from the floor
• Unconference - an opportunity for everyone to further discuss the topics surfaced in the unpanel that require further discussion.
• From 8:30pm: Networking, drinks and pizza
• 9:30pm close

Organizer:
Chris Purrington (chris<dot>purrington<at>cohesiveft.com)