May Security of Things Meetup

We'll be meeting at the Microsoft NERD for our May meetup. We have two great speakers for our meetup: Helium and The Mathworks.

Helium (https://www.helium.com): Mark Phillips will speak about Security at the intersection of IoT and Blockchain. Helium was founded in 2013 by Amir Haleem, Shawn Fanning, and Sean Carey, with a mission to make it easier to build connected devices.

The Mathworks (https://www.mathworks.com/products/thingspeak.html): Hans Scharler will speak about ThingSpeak and other things IoT at The Mathworks. ThingSpeak™ is an IoT analytics platform service that allows you to aggregate, visualize, and analyze live data streams in the cloud. With MATLAB® analytics inside ThingSpeak, you can write and execute MATLAB code to perform preprocessing, visualizations, and analyses.

About Helium / Mark: Helium has raised equity funding from some of the most prominent Venture Capital firms in the world to make this vision a reality, including GV (formerly Google Ventures), Khosla Ventures, FirstMark Capital, HSB/MunichRe Ventures and others. Mark Phillips is the VP of Business Development at Helium. Previously, he was the Director of Community and Developer Evangelism at Basho.

About The Mathworks / Hans: Internet of Things Platform Architect - co-designer of ioBridge, RealTime.io, and ThingSpeak.com platforms for connecting devices, apps, web services, and people together in real-time. - developed early IoT patents and technology - built large-scale connected systems for millions of devices and developers.