TechXLR8 Highlights: Tuesday 13th June
IoT World Europe 2018 is part of TechXLR8, combining eight industry-leading events into one all-encompassing Festival of Technology.
Here are today's highlights from TechXLR8 and London Tech Week, where a wide range of companies including Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Shell, Gravity and the FBI all took the stage to speak.
Who spoke at IoT World Europe?
Get the story behind our speakers today: their thoughts, opinions and what their companies are doing with IoT.
Shell Boosts Business by Drilling for Data
Natural resources may be Shell's stock-in-trade, but data and digital channels are fast becoming equally valuable commodities. Shell IT CTO Johan Krebbers tells us how IoT is essential for capturing data, but is otherwise a relatively small part of their overall digitalization agenda, in this exclusive interview.
How Supply Chains Innovate to Keep Pace in a Digitised World
DHL CIO Paul Richardson writes on how DHL, its collaborators and its competitors are reinventing their supply chains to benefit end users courtesy of the IoT, and transforming the logistics sector in the process.
Bosch Could Be Eliminating Industrial Mistakes in 2-3 Years via IoT
Industrial internet leader Bosch tells us about the IoT power tool products their working on and how long until these solutions hit the mass market.
London Tech Week Headline Stage
The LTW Headline stage was opened for Day 2 by Caroline Hyde, the European Technology Anchor from Bloomberg. The morning featured Bibop Gresta from Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and Rouzbeh Farhoumand from Huawei, as well as a panel from Jodi Goldstein and Fiona Murray CBE.
The afternoon was a highlight for all with keynotes from Richard Browning of Gravity, Robert Thomson of News Corp and Hans Zimmer, composer.
Fiona Murray CBE
"We are increasing our virtual network of learning at MIT, looking at a more global perspective."
Hans Zimmer, Composer
"Composers are geeks, we love taking technology to the absolute limit."
Robert Thomson, CEO, News Corp
"We need to think more about algorithms and how we are manipulated by them as a society."