1Mby1M Udemy Courses with Sramana Mitra: Domain Knowledge

At 1Mby1M, we believe in learning from case studies of successful entrepreneurs. These case studies involve discussions on opportunities and challenges specific to the domain such as Generative AI, E-Commerce, Digital Health, Cyber Security, and FinTech. 

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 1)

David discussed IoT in the context of SAP customers, and also points out open problems that entrepreneurs can work on. Very interesting discussion on the nuances of the industry.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s introduce you to our audience. What is your role at SAP? Where do you come from? What kind of background and perspective do we have here?

David Parker: I’m a Global Senior Executive at SAP responsible for Big Data and Internet of Things go-to-market, which revolves around supporting customer interactions, deciding our partner ecosystem and strategy, and more importantly, helping customers transform and re-imagine their business to come up with new business models. In terms of my background, I’ve been in the industry for the better part of 35 plus years. I started out in financial services. In more recent times, I’ve been in other industries such as oil and gas, mining, utilities, pharma, retail, etc. As you know, we focus on over 24 different industries. My role is to work with executives, understand their current state, and advise them on what the future state looks like, both from an industry perspective and more importantly, how they can leverage their SAP footprint or non-SAP footprint to build out new business outcomes and decisions. >>>

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Michael Martin, CTO of nfrastructure (Part 1)

If you think large enterprises are readily rolling out IoT solutions, think again. They are not, they should not. Find out why.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company.

Michael Martin: I’m the CTO and CIO at nfrastructure. nfrastructure is a technolgy services and solutions company. We help customers design, build, and operate infrastructure and application solutions from the core of their enterprise all the way out to the edge. We do a lot of technology services to support that mission— everything from networking, collaboration services, cloud, edge device services, IT service management, and a variety of services that are aligned with helping an organization connect their technology to their users in support of their business.

Sramana Mitra: So this discussion is about Internet of Things. What do you do within that space?
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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Daniel Raskin, VP of Strategy at ForgeRock (Part 1)

Daniel enlightens us on the identity side of IoT and discusses use cases in automobiles and transportation in this interview.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some introduction about yourself as well as ForgeRock.

Daniel Raskin: I’m the VP of Strategy at ForgeRock. I have a long history in the identity and access management space, stemming from Sun Microsystems, which was one of the largest commercial open source identity and access management businesses. I was their Chief Identity Strategist and ran their identity portfolio. I’m continuing to do all kinds of great things in identity here at ForgeRock.

ForgeRock has very strong ties to Sun Microsystems. Many know that Sun was this phenomenal company in research and development around software and hardware. What a lot of people don’t realize is that Sun had one of the largest commercial identity and access management businesses in the world. >>>

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Luke Schneider, CEO of Silvercar (Part 1)

This is a discussion with Luke Schneider, the former CTO of Zipcar, on the future of transportation, and how IoT will be playing into that universe.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some introduction about Silvercar as well as yourself.

Luke Schneider: I’m the CEO of Silvercar. Silvercar is about three years old now. We were founded in 2012 with a pretty straightforward mission. The mission statement was to change the way the world hits the road. We are, in the way customers experience us, an airport car rental company. We are not traditional or conventional in any way in that the concept was born of one too many frustrations at the airline car rental counter. You just never seem to know what you’re going to get. There are very long lines and inconsistencies in the process. There are redundancies and a constant upsell of everything from GPS devices to different kinds of cars. >>>

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Tony Paine, CEO of Kepware (Part 1)

Internet of Things has actually been around for a while, especially in the industrial automation space. Kepware Technologies has been catering to the needs of that industry for 20 years. Let’s discuss why things are accelerating now and where the gaps are.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as Kepware.

Tony Paine: I’m the CEO of Kepware Technologies. Kepware is a software company focused on communications software for the industrial automation market. We’ve been around since 1995. We started Kepware in order to fulfil the need in the market for a low-cost human machine interface product for the industrial space. Such a product would allow you to visualize what’s going on within a plant. When we started the company, standards to exchange information between applications from different vendors >>>

Building an Internet of Things Platform Company from Zaragoza, Spain: Alicia Asin, CEO of Libelium (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: So all the selling that you do around the world is done through your Spanish operation. You sell on the phone and web.

Alicia Asin: Yes, most of the sales are direct sales due to inquiries through our websites. This year, we started opening distribution channels. Now, we have existing distributors covering most of the European territory, Singapore, China, Japan, South Korea, India, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, and US as well. This list is growing every month.

Sramana Mitra: Excellent. I think I’ve got your story. Is there anything else you want to share?
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Building an Internet of Things Platform Company from Zaragoza, Spain: Alicia Asin, CEO of Libelium (Part 1)

Spain, as you know, is in a terrible economic mess. Entrepreneurs like Alicia are vital to the country’s economic future. She has built a steady, cutting edge technology company with 60+ people from Zaragoza. Impressive!

Sramana Mitra: Tell us about your beginning. Where were you born? Where did you grow up and in what kind of background?

Alicia Asin: I was born in Zaragoza, Spain. I went to the University of Zaragoza. This is where I met David Gascon my co-founder. We founded Libelium. We’ve been always tied to the same location. In fact, starting a new business gave us the motivation of staying in our city. It was like a rebel act of saying, “It has to be possible to be high tech in a city like ours.”

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Coby Sella, CEO of Sansa Security (Part 1)

The Internet of Things (IoT) trend is significant, and will blossom over the rest of the decade. Imagine, however, with so many connected devices, how the security issue becomes critical! Let’s explore with Coby Sella.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Sansa Security.

Coby Sella: I have been the Managing CEO for Sansa Security for the last four years. Sansa Security is a security-oriented company focused on IoT. We see ourselves as solving deep security problems in a smarter way.

Sramana Mitra: When you say focused on security in the IoT world, tell us more about specifically what the security issues and what kind of challenges the IoT world is facing vis-a-vis security? What part of that are you solving?
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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Danny Yu, CEO of DainTree (Part 1)

Enterprise Internet of Things is getting a lot of hype these days. I sat down with Danny Yu, CEO of DainTree, a company that is actually selling an energy management solution for controlling the energy usage at commercial facilities. Very interesting window into a segment of the industry that is likely to create a couple of very large companies.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with a bit of context for our audience. Tell us about you and the company.

Danny Yu: DainTree is a provider of smart building control and energy management solutions. What we bring to our industry is the simplification of building energy management, which allows for tremendous energy and operational cost reduction and simplification of how enterprises run their business.

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