Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 30, 2015: Cisco announced today that John Chambers, Executive Chairman of Cisco will be attending the 3rd Internet of Things World Forum (IoTWF) to be held in Dubai from December 6, 2015, at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
According to a press release Chambers will deliver the keynote on how the Internet of Things (IoT) was creating a new world of possibilities, and how, as the world moved into an era of digitisation, countries, cities and corporations were going to need to rethink how they approached national infrastructure on a grand scale.
In addition to the CISCO chief’s keynote, the IoTWF promises to have a packed schedule. With 13 keynotes, more than 28 breakout sessions, four customer deployment case studies and over 35 hours of networking opportunities and four customer deployment case studies, the IoTWF is being advertised as “the perfect platform” for over 1500 industry leaders in the public sector, private business and education from around the world to collaborate, network, partner and share the latest developments and emerging applications of global IoT strategies and deployments.
With a strong list of globally respected IoT experts sharing the latest developments and emerging applications, the range of topics during the keynote sessions will include:
- The Internet of Things and the Next Fifty Years of Moore’s Law by Doug Davis, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Internet of Things (IoT) Group at Intel Corporation, Intel
- Scalable Industrial IoT Technologies Enhance the Connected Enterprise by Keith Nosbusch, Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Automation
- A Web of Systems for a Digital World by Prof. Dr. Siegfried Russwurm, Chief Technology Officer, Siemens AG
- Powering a New Era of Operational Intelligence with the Internet of Things by Dr. Prith Banerjee, EVP and Chief Technology Officer, Schneider Electric
- The Industrial Internet and the Power of Service Transformation by William Ruh, CEO, GE Digital & Chief Digital Officer, GE
- 3M IoT World Conference Keynote by Ashish Khandpur, Senior Vice President, Research and Development, and Chief Technology Officer, 3M Company
Finally, attendees will have the opportunity to experience multiple ‘Proof of Concepts’ (PoCs) in Dubai as part of the Smart City Tour. On this tour, attendees will be able to see how the urban services of a city come together into a single infrastructure. Attendees will be able to experience the path of the city of the future transformation on either a walking or self-guided tour around Dubai World Trade Center or bus tour to Dubai Design District(d3).
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