MediaNama invites you to apply for a curated #NAMA open discussion on the Future of Connected Devices & the Internet of Things in India, at The Leela in Mumbai, at 4.30 pm on the 29th of May 2015, as a part of an event hosted in partnership with Akamai Technologies. Please click here to apply The discussion on the Future of Connected Devices and the Internet of Things will broadly cover the following issues (and more): 1. Role of Government: Connected devices in Smart Cities, Machine to Machine & IoT policy, Policy for ensuring security and privacy of consumers 2. Low hanging fruits in IoT and Connected devices: Choosing between IoT for consumers versus governments versus businesses, device development. 3. Standards and Interoperability: Global standards and alliances, ensuring Interoperability of products, Enabling existing devices for IoT 4. Role of the Entrepreneurial ecosystem: Role of Venture Capital and crowdfunding, Consumer demand for connected devices in India 5. Role of telecom operators: Ensuring availability of bandwidth and seamless connectivity, Use of location information in IoT, Enabling the connected devices ecosystem with open APIs, enabling payments 6. Understanding consumer demand: quality consumer experience: plug 'n play, and developing applications, ensuring security and privacy of consumers The session will be followed by dinner and cocktails. How to attend Please click here to apply. Note that this is an invitation only event, and is meant for those who are already working in this domain, or are planning to, as well as those looking to invest. We’re…
