It’s that time again for another ATARC (Advanced Technology Academic Research Center) hosted Summit. And when there is a summit, there is a research/academic panel that I moderate.
The summit is the Federal Mobile Computing Summit, my panel is on Wearables & The Internet of Things. The Summit will be August 19 & 20, this coming Wednesday and Thursday, at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington DC, my panel will be August 20 at 3:25.
It looks to be a great panel:
- Jeff Boleng, PhD, Research Scientist, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ralph Broom, Mobility and Security Engineer, representing GSA
- Peter Dewar, Director of Information Technology, District of Columbia Retirement Board
- AJ Jaghori, Chief Innovation Officer, Open Source Software Institute & CEO, Solebrity.me
We will be discussing what we think will be key developments in the coming near-term future relating to wearables as exemplified these days from Google Glass and Fitbits, to how to use such devices within a Government agency. We will broaden our discussion during the course of the panel to look at the more general topic of the Internet of Things, still another development that many claim will ‘change everything’ (as so many things have done in recent years).
If anyone has suggested questions I should make sure we discuss feel free to submit them as comments or send them to me directly at dmintz@atarc.org.