IndyIoT Roadshow: The News Crossroads of IoT: Make, Move, Grow
from Wednesday, April 18, 2018 10:30AM to Wednesday, April 18, 2018 12:00PM
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The award-winning IndyIoT is going on the road, with it's first stop in Hancock County. IndyIoT is a symposium-style conference aimed at bringing innovators from Indiana and the Midwest together. Winner of the People’s Choice “Best Tech Event” at the 2017 Mira Awards, IndyIoT hits the roads. The Internet of Things relies on connectivity, uniting the provider, the product, and the consumer. IndyIoT offers attendees the opportunity to hear how companies in our region are plugging into the power of IoT. Hear from industry leaders and network with other innovators. While lunch is served, we will have speakers discussing IoT advancements in the state, the nation, and the world. Speakers: 1. Keynote: John McDonald, CEO, ClearObject John McDonald is the CEO of ClearObject, Inc. Magazine’s fastest-growing IT company in Indiana for the last four years. The company has also received the following awards: 2017 Entrepreneur Magazine 360, 2017 Deloitte Fast 500 in Technology, the 2017 CRN Next-Gen 250 and 2015 and 2016 IBM Beacon Awards (the highest honor given to an IBM business partner). Formerly a technical sales executive at IBM for over 20 years, he is one of the founding members of (and currently serves on) the steering committee of the 450+ member Cloud Customer Standards Council. John also serves as a board member for the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, co-chair of the Indiana Chamber’s Technology and Innovation Council, a board member and president-elect of the Venture Club of Indiana, a board member of TechPoint, a member of the IBM PartnerWorld Global Business Partner Advisory Council, Forbes Tech Council, and a member of the Industrial Advisory Council for Computer and Information Technology at the Purdue Polytechnic. Outside of work, John is a lay minister and author of a book about the Internet of Things along with two local history books about Indiana. He lives in Fishers, Indiana with his wife and children. 2. Chris Baggott, Co-Founder & CEO, ClusterTruck Chris Baggott is an extraordinary entrepreneur in both the software industry and the food industry. In the food industry, Chris taught himself to farm, determined to change agriculture as he did marketing and disrupt food production monopolies. His ventures in this area include Tyner Pond Farms and ClusterTruck. As an email marketing leader and content marketing innovator, he co-founded two companies that both sold to publicly traded companies in 2013: ExactTarget and Compendium Software. He writes a highly praised blog, which was called the “Best of the Web” by Forbes and quoted by several publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and ADWEEK. A native of Pittsburgh, Chris now resides near Indianapolis with his wife and four children. 3. George Plisinkski, Manager, Telecon Operations, NineStar Connect George Plisinski, II is the Manager of Telecom Operations at NineStar Connect, with responsibility for the engineering, construction, and installation of predominately fiber-based network infrastructure. George’s 15+ years in various positions at NineStar (and its previous iteration, Hancock Telecom), has provided him with intimate systems knowledge in many broad disciplines involved in building and operating communications networks for delivering residential & business-class services, as well as, electric/water metering and grid operations. NineStar Connect is an Electric, Telecommunications, and (most recently) a Sewer/Water member-owned, a cooperative service provider with customers in 10 counties in Central & East-Central Indiana. George resides in Greenfield with his wife (Joyce) and two sons (Trey & Alek) and is heavily involved in many business and philanthropic organizations in the area. 4. John Mascoe, Business Developer, Agriculture Technologies
NineStar Connect South Campus Event Center
2243 East Main Street Greenfield IN USType: Eventbrite