Leadership Seminar Internet of Things (IoT)
A consortium of Case Western Reserve University, Soothsayer Analytics & INSOFE offer this unique program designed to help you establish a Data Science Center of Excellence.
This one-day seminar is designed for business leaders to understand the nuances of IoT is and how it can benefit their business. It will also provide them to gain relevant knowledge to create viable and profitable IoT business using the right IoT technology choices, all the way from products to applications and overall solutions. This is a domain-agnostic seminar designed to demystify the subject and provide strategic insight, so no technical background is required.
After this seminar you will be able to understand the market size or technology opportunities IoT brings; what key decisions you need to make and how to avoid pitfalls; where to start the IoT journey in your organization; what type of projects or use cases are suitable for an IoT implementation; and how to scale your teams and organization for an IoT ready business.
About the Seminar
The goal of this course is to provide the fundamentals and high level understanding of “Internet of Things ”. The tools and the process involved in each of them and also business level understanding with use cases of how these technologies are being used and implemented in real life scenarios.
This is achieved by providing an understanding of what Internet of Things is and why it is important to your business. What are the tremendous Business Opportunities offered by IoT and what are the underlying technologies and how to use which for particular use cases. Also how can IoT Solutions help from User, Business, Operational, Revenue and Cost Perspectives. All the above concepts will be driven from multiple use-cases perspective
Who Should Attend?
This course is meant for decision makers and leaders with P&L responsibilities who intend to start the IoT journey in their organizations or have already started this journey and would like to take it to the next level. To understand the technology and its implications to make intelligent technical and business decisions of deploying or using these methodologies in their areas to enhance existing process or capturing new business avenues.
Why Attend?
Attending this seminar will help to you systematically answer the following questions
- How to evaluate whether your company needs an IoT strategy? If yes, how to get started.
- What are the challenges that exist today to implement a successful IoT project?
- What are the parameters you need to consider like resources, who should lead the IoT projects, etc.?
- Insource vs outsource strategies? What kind of ROI to expect?
- Is ROI always cost savings vs operational efficiency.
- Once the data is obtained, how do I store it (edge vs cloud)?
- How do I use the data for creative and potential insights?
- Why securing IoT is very critical to your business.
Benefits
With the help of this course, participants would be able to lead their organizations or teams into building an IoT product or develop an IoT based idea. Technical and business knowledge earned through this course can help them making right choice at every decision making point. They will also be able to find right people and right skills-sets required to continue their IoT journey.
Mentor & Professor
Dr. Dakshinamurthy V Kolluru
PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dr. Kolluru holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Carnegie Mellon, started his career as a Rocket Scientist, and founded the #2 Data Science certificate program (INSOFE) in the world. In addition to being a globally recognized Data Science academician, he has over 2 decades of experience in research, training and consulting for companies like Abercrombie, Dun & Bradstreet, Ford, Deloitte, HP, Philips, Honeywell, D E Shaw & Co., Broadridge Financials, Microsoft, Vistakon (a Johnson and Johnson company) & many more.
Our world-renowned faculty has built hundreds of A.I. & Deep Learning solutions and Data Science Centers for several of the world’s largest companies and leading startups. Such experience has greatly influenced this seminar and enabled us to condense years of learning into a manageable time commitment that will not distract from your ongoing initiatives.