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IoT WR - Emerging Business Models in Blockchain and IoT

https://www.meetup.com/Internet-of-Things-Waterloo/events/249498497/

Join IoT Waterloo and local thought leaders as they discuss Emerging Business Models in Blockchain and IoT.

Special thank you to the Lazaridis School of Business & Economics for sponsoring the event and hosting in their beautiful new facility at Lazaridis Hall, 64 University Avenue West, Waterloo.

Presenters:

Karl Schroeder, Author, Futurist

Karl Schroeder is an award-winning Canadian science fiction writer and futurist. Karl is now collaborating with Stephan Tual and Atlas Neue on the Deodands project, an initiative to use blockchain, remote sensing and IoT technologies to give self-ownership to Earth’s natural systems.

Karl will present his theory on creating artificial intelligences that are rational actors and will pose the decisive question about what they can do, and importantly - what they think they are. Karl will argue that identity is not a choice, but a hardwired trait. If this is true of AI, then part of the deep design of an AI’s preconscious should be the assignment of what it thinks it is. There is no reason why consciousness should identify itself with the substrate that gives rise to it; deodands are a notional class of AIs that identify themselves with and as natural systems. How this is possible, what it means, and how we can start to build deodands now will be the subject of the talk.

John Morris, Business Development and Sales Specialist

Why are we all in the technology business, especially the IoT technology business? At the beginning of the technology adoption curve you have people who like to build things. And we want to match what we build with people who can buy things. They have a budget. And authority to act. Now. And an appetite for risk.

John Morris' talk will explore practical ways of getting beyond that risk. How can we help early adopters get comfortable with our technology. How can we find them? And how can we even afford to engage with them? Let's not forget "we're not in the free education business"!

John Morris is a business development and sales specialist with practical experience developing successful new business relationships with customers, based on new technology. John's customer wins have been in business services, financial services, manufacturing, field service, supply chain, and CRM & B2B marketing, gained representing IDC, DEC, Magic RAD, Oracle middleware, Intalio open source BPM, and since 2012 multiple technology startups, including Bosch Software IoT.

Event details

Format: IoT Waterloo events consist of two twenty-minute presentations and networking breaks. Presentations will begin at 7pm, and the event typically ends around 9pm.

Location: LH3094, LH2094 (entrance from 2nd or 3rd floor) in the Lazaridis Hall, Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at 64 University Ave West, Waterloo.

Parking: Attendees can park anywhere on campus after 5pm. There is limited parking in the lot behind Lazaridis Hall. Balsam St. also offers street parking, with a 3hr limit.
When
Thu May 3, 2018 7pm – 10pm Eastern Time - Toronto
Where
Lazaridis School of Business & Economics, 64 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON (map)