Mobility & Connectivity
Mobility and Connectivity in IoT Center of Excellence (MCIoTCoE)
The MCIoTCoE aims to collectively provide IoT practitioners, IoT strategy development and implement best practices across corporate, enterprise and industrial sectors.
Our Mission and Purpose
Our CoE is a meeting place for IoT thought leaders to collaboratively create value by providing a continuous feedback loop into the design, production, application of IoT with the intent that we make ’things’ more connected and mobile.
What we do
Mobility and Connectivity Center of Excellence will engage industry thought leaders to enable community learning, best practice sharing, and provide actionable guidance for IoT networking and infrastructure practitioners
How We Succeed
Our charter is to provide meaningful and actionable insights around the topics of Mobility and Connectivity. We will provide industry input to established IoT frameworks and standards, provide industry master classes, use-cases, and best practice advice. This CoE will bring together a team of IoT icons whose knowledge in the Mobility and Connectivity domain is helping to shape the future of the IoT.
- Live conferences and on-demand dissemination – to include the introduction of a yearlong master class series hosted by world leading experts
- Learning portal and knowledge platform – to include business use cases, presentations, best practices
- Create expert thought leadership teams to identify, study and develop best practices and industry deliverables to support the IoT practitioner.
The initial areas of coverage that form the MCIoTCoE pillars of excellence
- Industry / Applications
- Connected Devices
- Connectivity and Interoperability
- IoT and Platforms
- Edge-to-Cloud-Computing, HPC, Data Analytics, AI / ML
Mobility and Connectivity in IoT CoE Leadership Profiles
Dr. Divya Gupta brings over 11 years of experience in cloud computing, distributed systems, fault tolerance, big data analytics, technical consulting, and business collaborations. Divya is Senior Solutions Architect at SAS Global IoT Division. Her current work involves the integration of SAS Event Stream Processing in the cloud/on-premises platforms using Kubernetes and Containers, providing architecture solutions to customers to solve their business problems using various technology solutions and bridging the IoT edge to the clouds. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Cloud Computing, from Université Grenoble Alpes, France.
Rahul Vijay is Head of Global Telecom Sourcing at Uber, a key partner to business development teams in managing partner-supplier ecosystems. He is also a Key partner to CFOs to successfully achieve total cost of ownership reduction goals, a Key partner to CTOs for technology renting and buying strategies, a Key partner to chief legal officers for risk reduction, compliance and contracting. Rahul has end-to-end source to pay experience including partnerships, sourcing, procurement, supply chain, logistics, contract law, systems, market drivers, understanding of cost structures and sales incentives. Regularly engages in executive presentations, reporting, capital and expense planning, cost modeling, inventory planning and analytics.
Rahul is a seasoned deal-maker and negotiator and is well networked in high-tech industry with a deep understanding of key players and emerging technologies and trends. He possess a trusted network of global peers and mentors and regularly partners with organizational presidents and directors to develop business cases, perform due diligence analyses and Buy vs. Rent vs. Build strategies. He is an expert in supplier management and risk management. Have led teams to effectively partner up with cross-functional teams to ‘get things done quickly’ in complex large organizations. Rahul is adept at internal selling and have built teams from scratch. Managed multiple complex global teams and initiatives by hiring best talent, building strong working relationships with key internal and external partners, securing ‘a seat at the table’ with stakeholders, and acting as a trusted adviser. Former business development professional, management consultant, media professional and engineer.
Stephen works for Spirent’s strategy organization heading the 5G practice, helping to define technical direction, new innovative solutions and market leading disruptive technologies. With over 20 years’ experience in telecommunications, Stephen has been at the cutting edge of next generation technologies and has worked across the industry with service providers, start-ups and network equipment manufacturers, helping them drive innovation and transformation. Stephen is an ardent believer in connected technology and strives to challenge, blur and break down the silos that prevent innovation and business success.
Jim is an experienced Executive with over 20 years in the Enterprise Software, Life Sciences, Healthcare, and Manufacturing industry. He is the Director, ACE Industry Solutions, Healthcare and Life Sciences at ServiceNow. Previously he lead the T-Systems North America Healthcare and Life Sciences vertical. He has been engaging with clients on DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION through numerous projects leveraging: Cloud, Big Data, and IoT.
He has a background and experience in Clinical Development; Supply Chain Management; Manufacturing; CRM (Sales and Service); IoT; Big Data / Analytics; Cloud Computing; Blockchain, and Regulatory Standards. He is leading the effort for applying IoT for various businesses that use SAP, Oracle and Microsoft solutions.
Bob Proctor is the co-founder and CEO of Link Labs, a leading provider of an end-to-end IoT platform for tagging, locating and monitoring equipment, supplies and assets anywhere at any time. With a PhD in applied physics and 25 years of entrepreneurial and business leadership, Proctor is also a founding principal of Blu Venture Investors, a venture capital investment company that supports early-stage entrepreneurs in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S., which gives him a unique point of view on a wide range of emerging technologies and their novel applications and potential market viability.
How to get involved?
The IoT Community is a collaborative and dynamic group of thought leaders working to make the deployments of IoT solutions secure. If you think you have something to offer and would like to get involved please send us an email to info [at] iotcommunity [dot] net