IoT Talks January 2015

Entrance: 18:30

Start: 19:00

After-Talk-Party: 22:00-23:00

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AGENDA

• The Humanoid NAO Robot
by Bernhard Löwenstein

• Perfectly creating the wrong product - How continuous user research & design thinking help teams to focus on the important stuff
by Chris Foraita

• The Physical Internet of Things
by Erik Unger

• Brewfactory: full-stack homebrew with IoT and Node.js
by Péter Márton

ABSTRACTS

The Humanoid NAO Robot by Bernhard Löwenstein

Beim NAO der französischen Firma Aldebaran Robotics handelt es sich um den fortschrittlichsten humanoiden Roboter für den Ausbildungsbereich. Er hat 25 Motoren, zwei hochauflösende Videokameras und WLAN an Bord, wird von einem Intel Atom-Prozessor angetrieben und erfasst seine Umgebung mittels verschiedenster Sensoren. Neben Sprach-, Gesichts- und Objekterkennung kann der NAO-Roboter auch mehrsprachig kommunizieren. Die Programmierung ist in unterschiedlichen Umgebungen und Sprachen möglich. Der Vortrag gibt eine Einführung in den NAO und dessen Programmiermöglichkeiten - und die beiden Superroboter Frank und Naomi werden einmal mehr demonstrieren, wie gut sie tanzen können.

Bernhard Löwenstein ( bernhard.loewenstein@java.at )
ist Experte für Java Enterprise-Technologien und als selbstständiger IT-Trainer und Consultant für verschiedene Unternehmen und Organisationen tätig. Ende 2011 gründete er das Institut zur Förderung des IT-Nachwuchses, das sich seitdem zum größten aktiven MINT-Förderverein in Österreich entwickelt hat. An den mittlerweile mehr als 200 altersgerecht gestalteten Technologie-Workshops nahmen insgesamt rund 3000 Kinder und Jugendliche teil.

Perfectly creating the wrong product - How continuous user research & design thinking help teams to focus on the important stuff by Chris Foraita

IoT Startups can be very development driven and execution focused which cause issues with expectation of investors, stakeholders, team members and customers. In this talk Chris will explain some common problems in product development and how design thinking & continuous research can help the team to focus on the important stuff to build the right thing for the people.

Chris Foraita has designed software services and web applications for the past 18 years. His work has a wide variety of projects between automotive, financial services, healthcare, insurances, publishers, scientific societies and start-ups. He started his career as an interface designer for a hard & software company in the field of Security Management Systems, Head-End Equipment, Field Equipment and Building Management Systems. Currently Chris is working for a design consultancy based in Vienna.

In 2011 he was part of an Agile multi-partner team where he got to the heard of Agile. This was the starting point that changes the way of how he worked. "Agile is a human way of working". It's fast, visual, collaborative and continuous.

Chris is passionate about digital experiences to satisfy people. He is Coaching, exploring & evolving Goal-Directed Design, Agile & Lean UX principles.

The Physical Internet of Things by Erik Unger

Using drones to build a transport network for physical packages modeled after the intelligent package forwarding system of the internet.

Erik Unger As son of a commercial pilot involved in aviation since childhood. Attained glider and motor-glider license as teenager. Avid builder of RC model planes. Professional software engineer with over 15 years of experience. Largest project in aerospace was the 3D graphics engine for mission planing and the cockpit map display of the Eurofighter Typhoon jet.

Brewfactory: full-stack homebrew with IoT and Node.js by Péter Márton

An IT engineer and a med student walks in to a bar. They get disappointed by the corn infested MegaBrews, so comes the motivation to put up a fight.
Brewfactory's story about their IoT brewing machine: Node.js, SparkCore, MongoDB, AngularJS, React

• What is Brewfactory

• How to beer a brew (very short version)

• Why Node.js is cool for IoT

• Brewfactory system / modules (more technical)

http://brewfactory.org/

Péter Márton
Software engineer @RisingStack, specialised in full-stack and isomorphic JavaScript, mainly: Node.js, AngularJS and React.Brewing beer with a full-stack JavaScript and IoT: http://brewfactory.org/