The Internet of Everything - Mobile Week - CTO Talks

In the near future all objects that you interact with will be “smart.” What does that actually mean? Objects like doorknobs, coffee makers, water bottles, etc. will be fitted with sensors to make our lives even more easy but more importantly they will be capturing data on us.

The IOT, brings us to a data intensive method. The amount of data being gathered by those sensors will change the way scientists test. High processing industrial computers were created to simulate many processes to scale. In the near future we will not have to simulate, we will be able to measure what we want.

SPIMES are objects that be aware of space and time. All sensors are SPIMES. This leads to the Big DATA evolution. What matters is the data, because now technology has become cost effective. 

The Role of CTO has been integral to the success of a company but often the CTO has often been relegated to the kid’s table in the C-Suite. As technology has advanced to the point now that CTO is more important than ever before. IT departments have been steadily growing as traditional companies are becoming more focused on technology infrastructure, cloud computing, etc. There are a number archetypes that the CTO has fallen under: the founder, the pitch man, the quiet one. However the role of the CTO is to remain a visionary. They have to take in a vision of what will happen and how to manage the advances as they come.

Matt Quinn predicts that the future of digital business will be fought between who is the fastest to an insight.  

My takeaways from the mobile week conference are:

The Internet of Things, is really the Internet of Everything.

SPIMES - objects that are aware of space and time, were basically only humans until recently.

The Role of the CTO is evolving and becoming exponentially more important as time passes.