IoT Congress spotlights challenge and opportunity for India

24th August 2019
IoT  Congress spotlights challenge  and opportunity for India

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Top from left: Mike Carr, President IET; Ajay Prakash Sawhney, India IT Secretary; Nigel Fine, Chief Executive IET and Sir Robin Saxby former  Chief Executive,  IET addressing the media.
Bottom: From left, Nigel Fine and Ajay Sawhney and  delivering their keynotes

Bangalore, August 25, 2019: The fourth edition of India’s largest conclave on IoT, the IoT India Congress, 2019,  concluded  yesterday  after 80-plus speakers  and  10 panels  focused on  Internet of Things  in Energy, Healthcare, Defence, Standards and Regulatory, Retail, Digital Communication, Skills and Development, Agriculture, Manufacturing and Smart Cities. 
Ajay Prakash Sawhney,
Secretary, Indian Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, delivering  the Chief Guest’s address said: “IOT is something that has enormous potential for India and the world. A combination of technology can help us solve problems that we never imagined we could solve. We must understand the combination of emerging technologies like IoT, blockchain, 3D printing etc, pluck them out of their spaces and deploy them to solve problems. IOT will be the champion in adding to the proliferation of data."
Mike Carr, President IET, UK, Nigel Fine, Chief Executive,  and Sir Robin Saxby, former CEO and former Chairman ARM, made for a strong representation from the organisation.
Highlights of  the  2-day event:

  • IoT Live Zones: A Healthcare Live experience zone where attendees could touch, feel and experience IoT.
  • Use Cases: Bonafide IoT implementations from the Indian industry, including cases presented by Tata Communications, Unlimit, MG Motors, QuicSolv Technologies, SemTech and SenRa.
  • Future Tech Spotlight: Leading R&D speakers provided a sneak peek into the future of IoT and its real-time applications. Spotlights conducted by Dr Atsuhiro Nakagawa, Tohoku University Hospital, Dr Aloknath De, Samsung R&D Institute and Prof David De Roure, University of Oxford.

Aruna Sundararajan ( till recently Secretary of IT and Electronics, Department of Telecom), Arvind Tiwary, (Chair IoT Forum, TiE) and Dr Dhananjaya Dendukuri, (CEO and Co-founder, Achira Labs)  were recognised for their excellence and leadership in the IoT space. They received the Thought Leadership Awards from Sir Robin Saxby, Technology Entrepreneur, Ex-Founding CEO and Chairman, ARM Holdings plc.
The IET is one of the world’s largest engineering institutions with over 168,000 members in 150 countries. It is also the most multidisciplinary – to reflect the increasingly diverse nature of engineering in the 21st century. It started operations in India in 2006, in Bangalore. Today,  it has 13,000 members and  is the largest membership base for the IET outside of the UK.