2021

117: 9th December 2021, 5.30pm – 9pm (IN-PERSON) 

The 117th London IoT Meetup returned as our first IN-PERSON meetup since April 2020, as part of Hardware Pioneers Max.

  • Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Author & Consultant at designswarm and Low Carbon Design Institute … Presentation: Smart homes or smart logbooks? Can the home of the future actually be about integrating all layers of data in new ways?
  • Ken Munro, Partner, PenTest Partners … Presentation: Getting the Smarts Wrong: How Not to Build Hackable Products
  • Nick Hunn, CTO, WiFore … Presentation: Providing an Introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy Audio

116: 23rd November 2021, , 7pm – 8.30pm BST 

  • Caroline Laurenson, Kindspace / TL Tech
    Presentation: “    Is voice the key to unlocking the smart home?”
  • David Tishcler & Elizabeth Epton, Balena
    Presentation: “balenaHub Updates and a Chance to Win £2500!”
  • Stephen Tulip, ACT – The App Association
    Presentation: “Could standard-essential patents put your IoT innovation at risk?”

115: 26th October 2021, 7pm – 8.30pm BST 

  • Leonie Maria Tanczer, Lecturer in International Security and Emerging Technologies at University College London’s (UCL) Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) – “Gender and IoT (GIoT): The Implications of Smart, Internet-Connected Devices on Victims and Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence”
  • Ruby Steel, Co-Founder & Creative Director, Studio Exception – “Design for one and create for all: Inclusive Innovation”
  • Marco Mantoan, Technical Solutions Architect, akenza.io – “Introduction to the akenza low-code IoT platform”

114: 21st September 2021, 7pm – 8.30pm BST |

  • Dimitrios Spiliopoulos, Senior IoT Go-To-Market Manager, EMEA, AWS – “The IoT Ecosystem and AWS: Support for Startups, SMBs and Enterprise” 
  • Tim Dowling, Co-Founder, Stacuity – “Software-defined mobile connectivity for IoT”
  • Joanne Thurlow, Global Head of IT, Industrial Applications Solutions,Siemens Gas and Power, Siemens Energy  – “How IoT and Digitalisation is helping transform the Energy Industry”

113: July 27th 2021 

  • Alison Lowndes, AI DevRel, NVIDIA – “Taking AI off-Earth”
  • Matthew Handley, Product Manager – Transport, Consumer IoT, Vodafone – “Getting consumer IoT products to Market”
  • Surender Sampath, Software Engineer, AND Technology Research Ltd. – “SOTB revolutionising energy related product development”

Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/xYXNBX88ac0wTmkt-R4cUA2yrybeJlRz7oAJGO5IeRt7s6rXY0gzgUvdntXJINpA.9Ob7zH0Q2CEUaj7t Passcode: D&@8$6Mq

112: June 29th 2021

  • Sarah Gallacher, Engineering Lead & Co-Founder, Urban Data Collective  – “Sharing Real-time Urban Data”
  • Pierre Kil, Co-Founder, OpenRemote – “Turning Data into Meaningful Applications with a 100% Open Source (new and really free) IoT Platform”
  • Carl Thomas, Design and Technology (Imaging) Outreach, Kickstarter – “How Kickstarter is helping Arm the Creators”

111: May 18th 2021

  • Justyna Zubrycka,Co-Founder, Vai Kai / Founding Pioneer, Toy Pioneers Club – “Designing Playful Connected Things”
  • Joy Poole, Founding Partner, Emergence Partners
    – “Introducing the concept of Techposter Syndrome”
  • Sumit Kohli, Senior Strategic Partner Manager, HERE Technologies – “The IoT Evolution… invest wisely. Start SMALL, Think BIG, Scale FAST is still the winning mantra”

110: April 20th 2021 

  • Cigdem Sengul, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Brunel University
  • Paul Wealls, Founder, IoT North & Senior Product Manager, ADLINK
  • Mo Haghighi, Developer and Ecosystems Advocacy Leader – EMEA, IBM

109: March 23rd 2021

108: February 23rd 2021

107: January 19th 2021