Event
organizers announced the lineup of more than 60 presenters, session tracks,
tutorials and panel sessions for
Fog World Congress 2018, produced by the
OpenFog
Consortium in
collaboration with
IEEE Communications Society. The
event
takes place in San Francisco, Oct. 1-3.
Fog World
Congress is the world's largest gathering of fog leaders and edge influencers
focused on these ground-breaking technologies. Attendees will include
technologists, data scientists, application developers, educators, researchers,
analysts, VCs and investors, service providers, government agencies and
enterprises representing a multitude of industries.
The event is
uniquely focused on fog computing use cases, architecture, standards,
developments and research. Use cases will highlight how fog and edge are
enabling advanced digital applications in IoT, 5G and AI. Applications in smart
cities, transportation, robotics, smart energy and manufacturing will be
explored.
"The speaker
lineup and topics for this year's conference are designed to address the
challenges in fog computing, including security, interoperability and standards
- and its impact on the industry," said Helder Antunes, Chairman of the OpenFog
Consortium and Senior Director, Cisco. "The subsequent discussions will be
critical to driving standards, evolving the industry and unlocking the full
potential of fog," said Antunes, who will also deliver one of the keynotes at
Fog World Congress.
The current
schedule of keynotes includes Robert MacInnis, CEO of ActiveAether, Mung
Chiang, Dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue University, Ashish
Nadkarni, Group Vice President of IDC, and Tao Zhang, Visiting Chair Professor, National Chiao Tung University. More keynotes
are being confirmed.
In addition,
the event will feature more than 60 presentations covering a wide range of topics related
to intelligence on the edge, machine learning, infrastructure-as-a-service,
smart grid, intelligent IoT services, 5G, security, the OpenFog reference
architecture, AI, smart city, network/messaging, software infrastructure,
mobile edge computing, and more.
An exciting
highlight from last year, Fog
Tank will once again
culminate this year's Fog World Congress. The winner of this year's Fog Tank
will receive a prize of $25,000. The Fog Tank contest showcases leading
innovators in fog technologies and applications as they take the center stage
with investors and VCs. The call for entries is underway and applications must
be submitted by Aug. 29. More information can be found here: www.fogcongress.com/fog-tank.aspx.