Start Your IoT Revolution Now
**Editor’s Note: It’s not too late to register for the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, the gathering place for the technology services community, April 10-13, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.**
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow mindshare of partners and customers alike. No surprise. Gartner forecasts that 8.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2017 – up 31 percent from 2016 – and will reach 20.4 billion by 2020.
The IoT opportunity for partners is big. In 2017 alone, businesses are expected to employ 3.1 billion connected things. Services, i.e. design, implementation and operating IoT, play a critical role in kicking the IoT market in gear.
And, there’s a lot more that partners need to know about IoT. “The Experience Area Live: IoT,” on the Jive Big Stage at next week’s Channel Partners Conference & Expo in Las Vegas, will feature a panel discussion on the opportunities, challenges and next-gen offerings, that partners won’t want to miss.
Rick Beckers, president of CloudTech1, will be the session moderator. He’s joined by Ken Conor, vice president, sales engineering at Kore; and Tim Cook, CEO at BluLogix. We caught up with Beckers and Cook to preview their session. Read more…