ThingsCon Amsterdam 2016 Keynote: A responsible IoT

ThingsCon: Peter Bihr (The Waving Cat) from ThingsConAMS on Vimeo.

This week I’m in the Netherlands for ThingsCon Amsterdam, the largest ThingsCon event this year (and one of an ever-growing number, see the event list <3).

The local team around Monique, Marcel & Iskander kindly asked me to give the keynote. I was honored and psyched obviously – here’s my slide deck for now.

Here are my slides:

ThingsCon Amsterdam: A responsible Internet of Things from Peter Bihr

The super short executive summary: – We need to build IoT in a responsible & human-centric way, and we founded ThingsCon to promote this goal. – It’s hard to get right because HARDWARE IS HARD, NETWORKED SYSTEMS INTRODUCE DYNAMICS OF POWER & CONTROL, and WE DON’T HAVE GOOD LANGUAGE TO DISCUSS IoT. – The ThingsCon community tries to tackle this, and we think it’s both a duty and a privilege to do so. In fact, this is our chance to have a massive positive impact.

A proper write-up will (hopefully) follow later!

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