IoTSWC to Feature New Blockchain and Quantum Computing Tracks

IoTSWC to Feature New Blockchain and Quantum Computing Tracks
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Next October, the Internet of Things Solutions World Congress (IoTSWC) will host its third edition and will include two new tracks focusing on innovations that will soon disrupt the technological landscape forever changing the way we produce and communicate: Blockchain and Quantum computing.

These topics will be added to the conference structure of the leading event on the industrial internet of things (IIoT) which will also cover subjects such as artificial intelligence, big data, digital transformation, cloud computing, robotics, sensors, security, smart objects, standards, new business models, data storage and analytical prediction.

IoTSWC will feature the Blockchain World Expo (BWE) jointly organized with the Blockchain Ecosystem Network, the leading global and cross-sector platform for collaboration, networking, explaining and advancing Blockchain methodologies and solutions. These topics will be added to the eight-themed conference program that will also feature tracks for Manufacturing, Utilities, Connected Transport, Healthcare, Buildings & Infrastructure and Open Industry.

From October 3rd to 5th, top international experts will explore the potential that Blockchain offers to many industries as a platform to manage any digital assets from financial data, to property management, health care data management and verification or intellectual property. The BWE will host panels with international experts on how to use this protocol in many areas.

IoTSWC has also announced some of its speakers for the 2017 edition. Among the experts that will discuss the future of IIoT are John Ellis, an international expert in connectivity and open-source developments and former Global Technologist and Head of the Ford Developer Program; Mikko Hypponen, Cybersecurity expert and Chief Research Officer at F-Secure Corporation in Finland who has lead some of the teams responsible of taking down some of the largest computer virus outbreaks in history; MiT Media Lab's Joe Paradiso, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences who directs the Responsive Environments group that explores how sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception; Joe Spagnoletti, former SVP and Chief Information Officer of the Campbell Soup Company, and an expert in the introduction disruptive technologies in large companies.

In addition, October 2017 will see Fira de Barcelona become one of the largest international exhibition platforms for industry, in both the commercial and knowledge areas, with Barcelona Industry Week. The event will comprise the IoT Solutions World Congress together with the Expoquimia, Eurosurfas, Equiplast and In(3D)ustry From Needs to Solutions trade shows, the World Congress of Chemical Engineering and the World Chemical Summit, as well as the Smart Chemistry, Smart Future event, all held at the Gran Via venue.