Event Description

Industrial IoT technology (IIoT) or in other terms Industry 4.0 is here and it is becoming increasingly available. Available not only for big manufactures that have extensive R&D budgets but also for small and medium sized businesses that rely on ROIs between 1, 5 and 3 years. Still, a lot of questions arise when manufacturers approach Industrial IoT technology:

What products to use? Where to buy them and how soon can one reap the benefits? How secure is the use of the technology?

In order to start answering these questions, the Chicago Connectory as the Mid-West’s biggest IoT innovation space is hosting its first IIoT After Work bringing together an ecosystem of manufacturers, solution providers, facilitators and other interested organizations.

Come and join us for a thought provoking session and get in touch with new people dedicated on fostering technology to improve and keep a competitive and prospering Mid-West.

Agenda

5:45 – 6:30 pm: Networking with pizza and drinks

6:30 – 7:30 pm: 5 Industrial IoT use case pitches (5 mins pitch, 5 mins Q&A)

7:30 – Open End: Networking 

Speakers

Adam Tilton, CEO at Cyclic

Cyclic has developed embedded intelligence for power-constrained edge devices. Due to on-device computing, storage, and power limitations, applications must off-load their machine learning to the cloud. The key challenge to delivering embedded intelligence is to run the complex machine learning algorithms within the power envelope of small, inexpensive edge devices. Cyclic overcomes these power limitations by using a fraction of the computational resources to achieve the same performance as cloud-based solutions, and further delivers unique benefits such as lower latency, increased reliability, user personalization, and lower total cost of operation.

Sachin Lal, Co-Founder & COO at Amper

Amper helps manufacturers improve the performance of their operations by tracking machine operations in real-time and giving insight to areas of improvement. Their machine monitoring system reports performance metrics like downtime, OEE, and cycle-time by translating the electrical signals into machine metrics. Using their non-invasive IoT system and a modern dashboard, any kind of machine can be monitored without IT or PLC integration, deployment takes a few minutes.

John Almlof, Director of Strategic Alliances and Business Development Americas at Nozomi Networks 

Nozomi Networks is the leader of industrial cybersecurity, delivering the best solution for real-time visibility to manage cyber risk and improve resilience for industrial operations. With one solution, customers gain advanced cybersecurity, improved operational reliability and easy IT/OT integration. Innovating the use of artificial intelligence, the company helps the largest industrial facilities around the world See and Secure™ their critical industrial control networks. Today Nozomi Networks supports over a quarter of a million devices in sectors such as critical infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, mining, transportation and utilities, making it possible to tackle escalating cyber risks to operational networks (OT).

Matteo Dariol, Business Developement Lead at Bosch Rexroth 

We at the Bosch Group are shaping the Industrial Revolution, enabling the industrial community using cutting edge technology.   As both a lead operator and supplier of Connected Industry products and solutions, we are uniquely prepared to help machine builders and manufacturers make Connect Industry a reality.  Our embedded core team is made up of diverse professionals, drawn from real world background such as mechanical, industrial, electrical, controls and computer engineering; all with a passion for continuous improvement. We embrace the opportunities that big data analytics and Connected Industry offer and we are excited to help our customers and partners realize those opportunities.  Bosch Rexroth…helping to drive the next industrial revolution.  Now, Next, Beyond.

Tomas Subatis, Strategic Sales at Tulip

Tulip is a manufacturing app platform that empowers process engineers to turn workflows into instrumented, data collecting, digital processes that increase productivity, quality, and efficiency, without having to know how to code or do any complex system integrations.