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The Internet of Things: Sensors Everywhere ***SOLD OUT***
When
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
6:00pm – 7:00pm – Networking and Refreshment
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q/A
Where
Arbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium at Stanford Business School
 
Event Description:
Today, an increasing number ofpervasive and connected sensors are intelligently monitoring our dailylives and contributing to the rapid dissolution of the divide betweenour physical and digital worlds. This sensor revolution is creating anew layer of the Internet — what some analysts and researchers callthe “Internet of Things”.
Driven mainly by innovations inpower consumption, size and ubiquitous connectivity, sensors aregathering and reporting data on a variety of areas including medical,transportation, energy, security, general consumer and industrialmanufacturing.
Gartner reports “By year end 2012, physical sensors will create 20 percent of non-video internet traffic.”
Come discover how new companies are addressing sensor-based market opportunities.
- What sensors are currently embedded in the world, what data are they producing and how are businesses leveraging that data?
- The coming 5 years promises to hold an explosion of ubiquitously embedded devices and sensors. Where will these sensors be and what will they do? And how will the data and analytics be of value to businesses and consumers?
- What will be the primary pain points in a world characterised by sensors everywhere?
- What are the top opportunities for start ups in the space and what will business models look like?
MODERATOR
Michael Chui, Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute
PRESENTER
Anant Agrawal, Co-Founder, Cantaloupe Systems
PANELISTS
Dr. Peter G. Hartwell, Senior Researcher, HP-Labs
Warren Hogarth, Venture Capitalist, Sequoia Capital
Henry Holtzman, Chief Knowledge Officer, MIT Media Labs
Andrew M. Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Proteus Biomedical
BIO’S
Michael Chui, Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute
Michael Chui is a Senior Fellow of the McKinsey Global Institute. He is based in San Francisco, CA, where he directs research on the impact of information technologies, such as Web 2.0 and the Internet of Things, on business and the economy. He has served clients in the High Tech, Media and Telecom industries on strategy, innovation and product development, IT, sales & marketing, M&A and organization. His research has been cited globally in publications such as Fast Company, The Times, and Les Échos.
Michael holds a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, and a M.S. in Computer Science, from Indiana University. His Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For: Web Searching as Query Refinement,” examined Web user search behaviors and the usability of Web search engines.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Michael served as the first Chief Information Officer of the City of Bloomington, Indiana, where he re-architected the enterprise architecture using Open Source technologies and led a project that resulted in Bloomington becoming the first community in the world to offer both live and archived video streaming of public meetings on the Web.
Before that, Michael was founder and executive director of HoosierNet, Inc, a nonprofit cooperative Internet service provider that provided dial-up and broadband access to the Internet to consumers, nonprofits, governments and businesses.
PRESENTER
Anant Agrawal, Co-Founder, Cantaloupe Systems
Anant Agrawal is the Co-founder, Director and Head of Sales and Marketing for Cantaloupe Systems, Inc. of Berkeley, CA. Cantaloupe Systems is the leading provider of wireless remote machine monitoring systems and software management services for the Vending industry. More than 120 of this country’s largest vending operators employ Cantaloupe’s “Seed” Wireless Monitoring and SaaS Solutions. Currently, these vendors have equipped over 40,000 of their machines with Seed units and between 3,000 and 4,000 new units are being added each month.
Since its inception in 2002, Cantaloupe Systems has received numerous industry awards for its innovative technology and its achievements as well as being recognized by leading business publications. Forbes Magazine, in its December 14, 2009 edition, began its two page article on Cantaloupe with the headline; “Cantaloupe Systems brings order to vending’s chaos.” In addition Cantaloupe has been profiled in the prestigious Inc. 500 and the SF Business Times Fastest Growing Private Companies lists.
Anant has held several leadership positions including supply chain management, financial controls, product management and engineering before heading up Cantaloupe’s Sales and Marketing efforts. Anant holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Economics from UCLA.
PANELISTS
Dr. Peter G. Hartwell, Senior Researcher, HP-Labs
Dr. Peter G. Hartwell is currently a senior researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. As a member of the Information and Quantum Systems Lab, he is the lead of the Central Nervous System for the Earth (CeNSE) team developing a broad sensing system to bring environmental awareness to information technology infrastructure. CeNSE was selected one of 20 “World Changing Ideas” in the December 2009 issue of Scientific American. Peter has extensive experience in commercializing silicon MEMS products, working on advanced sensors and actuators, and specializes in MEMS testing techniques. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1992 with a B.S.E in Materials Science and from Cornell University in 1999 with a PhD in Electrical Engineering. He did brief post doctoral work at HP Labs before joining the staff in 2000. His work at HP has been documented in numerous technical papers, patents, and articles in publications such as The New York Times, Forbes, IEEE Spectrum, and EETimes.
Warren Hogarth, VC, Sequoia Capital
Warren is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital focusing on clean technology and energy investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2008, Warren completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering, where he developed fuel cell technology. During this time, he was a visiting Fulbright Scholar to Princeton University and a Guest Scientist at Germanys Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. Warren has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland. In addition to being early stage investors in such companies as Apple, Cisco and Google, Sequoia’s current investments in the wireless/sensor space include eMeter, eCardio, SynapSense, Jasper Wireless, Quantenna and Ruckus Wireless.
Henry Holtzman, Chief Knowledge Officer, MIT Media Labs
Henry Holtzman has been a member of the MIT community since 1981, joining the Media Lab as a researcher when it opened in 1985. Currently, he is the Lab’s Chief Knowledge Officer, director of the Digital Life consortium, and director of the Information Ecology research group. In addition, Holtzman directs the Lab’s CE 2.0 initiative, a collaboration with Media Lab sponsor companies to formulate the principles for a new generation of consumer electronics that are highly connected, seamlessly interoperable, situation-aware, and radically simple.
Holtzman has led research projects in the areas of tangible networking and image compression, resulting in desktop applications for RFID such as the Smart Mousepad, multicast network architectures for multimedia, IP television, scale-free image representation, and knowledge-based video representation. As a member of the MPEG standardization committee, he helped to define MPEG-2 video technology, used in DirecTV, DVD, digital cable, and digital TV broadcasting. Holtzman has been granted multiple patents for his inventions.
Holtzman has extensive experience with RFID, computer programming, hardware design, operating systems, and network architecture. He was founder, CEO, and CTO of Presto Technologies, Inc., a Media Lab spinoff that introduced the “Internet of Things” to the market, including many novel uses for RFID. He received his MS in media arts and sciences, and his BS in computer science, both from MIT.
Andrew M. Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Proteus Biomedical
Mr. Thompson is President, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Proteus Biomedical and has led the company since inception. His vision for Intelligent Medicine is focused on expanding global access to care, dramatically increasing the value delivered by drugs and creating a sustainable model for innovation that leverages computer technology in healthcare.
Mr. Thompson began his career as an industrial trainee at Metal Box PLC. Later he was a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton specializing in operations management. For the last 20 years he has lived in Silicon Valley and focused on the start-up and development of technology based medical businesses. Companies that have completed successful IPOs or have been acquired by Fortune 100 businesses where he played an important role include: Cell Genesys (NASDAQ IPO), Cytotherapeutics (NASDAQ IPO), Abgenix (NASDAQ IPO), CardioRhythm (acquired by Medtronic), FemRx (NASDAQ IPO, acquired by J&J), Northstar Neuroscience (NASDAQ IPO) and QRx Pharmaceuticals (ASX IPO).
Andrew Thompson grew up in the United Kingdom and was educated at Cambridge University, where he gained an M.A. in engineering. He was a United Kingdom National Engineering Scholar from 1982 to 1985. He also holds an M.A. in education from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
He is married with five children and lives in Portola Valley California. Andrew is active in his community as a soccer coach, Sunday school teacher, Cub Scout Den Leader and School Board Member.
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