Internet of Things SFL - March Meetup
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Please join us Tuesday March 24 for the next installment of the SFL IoT Innovation Entrepreneurs (Internet of Things – SFL)!
After a long respite, we've assembled several interesting speakers and topics that are sure to expand your knowledge of the Internet of Things and help you network with South Florida’s rapidly expanding IoT ecosystem.
Be sure to RSVP if you're interested in attending!
Topics and Speakers
Fleet Location Management: Polaris eBikes with Kika Enterprises
Mark Savage, VP of Business Development, Kika Enterprises
Kika Enterprises is an innovative South Florida technology company that provides wireless data devices to wholesale and retail carrier stores, MVNOs, rural carriers, and M2M service providers. Kika recently partnered with Polaris, Inventure Track Systems and Verizon Wireless to offer Polaris eBikes with built-in wireless tracking.
Mark will discuss how Kika developed the eBike solution and the markets they are serving with this M2M solution.
IoT Platform: Connecting any Devices, any API, any Protocol with Octoblu
Chris Fleck, VP of Mobility Solutions, Citrix
Citrix is a mobile collaboration solution company located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Citrix solutions power the mobile workspace and transform how industries, enterprises and small business employees work together.
In December 2014, Citrix acquired Octoblu, a startup building an IoT platform to connect any device, of any protocol to the Internet of Things. Octoblu is a pioneer in real-time connections and communications management across systems, people and physical devices.
Chris will talk about the capabilities of the Octoblu platform and the potential seen by Citrix for Octoblu and applications of the Internet of Things.
Display Exhibitor
Inventure Track Systems - Battery powered Asset Tracking solutions
Joe Parisi, CEO, Inventure Track Systems
Inventure Track is a technology company providing multi-sensor asset tracking solutions, located in Delray Beach, Florida. Inventure Track designs and manufactures battery powered wirelessly connected tracking devices and an enterprise grade management portal for tracking, reporting and geo-fencing of important assets.
Joe’s team was responsible for developing the tracking device used by Kika in their eBike offering. Inventure Track Systems designs and manufactures their products in the USA. They will display their hardware and discuss the challenges with designing fully featured remote location monitoring devices and the application categories they are well suited to serve.
Agenda
6:00 Doors open for networking
6:45 Introduction
7:00 Presentations
8:15 Networking & conversations
Why Attend?
The number of connected devices is skyrocketing. This phenomena is positively affecting consumer, healthcare, industrial, enterprise and public sector markets in multiple ways. South Florida companies are driving many of the innovations emerging in this exciting new sector.
The South Florida IoT Innovation Entrepreneurs (IoT – SFL) brings together people from multiple disciplines spanning business, technology, software, design, data science, cloud, security, privacy, education and investing to explore, share and learn about this rapidly expanding sector, and to build connections with entrepreneurs and others working in the SFL region and beyond who are involved in the IoT ecosystem.
Getting Here
The Citrix office is located in Ft Lauderdale just West of I-95 on Cypress Creek Rd.
Citrix Headquarters
851 W. Cypress Creek Road
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
Internet of Things SFL - March Meetup