As it was stated in the IoTWeek 2018, “the adoption of the IoT by Manufacturing is first and foremost a cultural and a management issue, rather than a technology issue”. Thus, this session is aimed to introduce projects and initiatives that deal with the deployment of IoT technologies in manufacturing and help developing the cultural and managerial framework. Experts from the industry, the academy, and the research on applied technologies will offer complementa...

Welcoming Remarks Co-ChairsSébastian Ziegler, Chairman, IoT ForumBrian Bech Nielsen, Rector, Prof. Aarhus UniversityKarsten Dehler, Commercial Director, It-Forum, Denmark

Acting on the core aspects of UNs Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); to curtail inequality issues, diminish environmental degradation and provide a secure and resilient livelihood, remains a complex challenge for civil society and United Nations member states.While the SDGs inherited a wide array of pending targets from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), member states are increasingly using the SDGs as a comprehensive and adaptable f...

Much of the potential of the IoT will be realised through value-added services, but this is being held back by fragmentation and limited interoperability. W3C is addressing this through developing web standards for things that decouple applications from the underlying IoT technologies. Applications will no longer need to be developed around the details of the myriad IoT technologies and standards. This means that developers can create applications more easily, ...

This session will explore the concepts of big data analytics and AI and delve into the intersection between them. Accordingly, this session will also examine how AI related technologies could enhance big data analytics and business applications.

This session will highlight the importance of IoT in the tourism sector and of the Tourism sector in IoT developments. Tourism is one of the sectors where innovation and technology adapt and evolve very quickly. Tourists, as new digital customers demand digital services and digital destinations. This session will serve to discover a new sector where IoT has a lot to say, it will break down walls and beliefs one has of t...

Experience the welcome reception at either ARoS Art Museum or Aarhus City Hall with a glass of champagne in one hand and a snack in the other. Round off day with a bit of networking, good vibes and speaches from Jacob Bundsgaard, MayorCity of Aarhus, Bo Sejer Frandsen, CEO of Local Host it-forum and Fredrik Ostbye, Group Vice President, Head of Digital Transformation at Event Partner, Grundfos. 

Digitalization is disrupting consumer businesses we experience this in our daily lives. As digital technologies got more mature, industrial companies also starting to take advantage to create new unique selling points. In many cases this starts with increasing efficiency, flexibility, quality and speed. Recently we also see more business model innovation leveraging digitalization in the industrial space. IoT and Analytics is often the entry point fo...

In 2018, the Government of Denmark signed a partnership with the World Economic Forum’s ‘Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution’ in San Francisco. In collaboration with WEF C4IR and its partners, the Government of Denmark is exploring safe and secure ways to integrate dynamic IoT data and real-time positioning in the public sector. The project is anchored within the Danish Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency, which holds the responsibility for major parts of the Basic Data Program a...

Thethird pillar would be to build have a closer look at what it means in concrete terms for a business to implement such technology.Setting foot in the farmer’s shoe and considering the investment in IoT technology wheighed with the possible benefits but also the constraints in terms of training and re-organisation. It’s not only about IoT technology, it’s also addressing competition aspects, production aspects, and f...

The increasing connectivity provided by the Internet of Things (IoT) enables new business opportunities for the stakeholders engaged in the transformation – no matter the area. Gartner Inc. predicts more than 25 billion IoT devices worldwide in 2020 and another million new IoT devices online every hour.This has an enormous potential and a huge impact on the economy by transforming many enterprises into digital businesses and facilitating new business models, improving efficiency and...

ABOUTAfter the successful launch of the first edition of the workshop on “Internet of Things (IoT) for Smart Cities & Communities Convergence” at IoT Week 2017 in Geneva, and the two-day follow-up in Bilbao in 2018, we are now inviting you to join the next level of convergence to support cities and communities at IoT Week 2019 in Aarhus, Denmark – organised jointly by an alliance of international institu...

ABOUTAfter the successful launch of the first edition of the workshop on “Internet of Things (IoT) for Smart Cities & Communities Convergence” at IoT Week 2017 in Geneva, and the two-day follow-up in Bilbao in 2018, we are now inviting you to join the next level of convergence to support cities and communities at IoT Week 2019 in Aarhus, Denmark – organised jointly by an alliance of international institu...

This session will provide the audience with the EU’s vision and strategy for IoT Research and Innovation, moving into the Horizon Europe timeframe. Both sides, offer and demand, will be considered as the origin of many upcoming research opportunities in the fields of industry, smart cities, energy efficiency, big data, applications for health and care, agriculture and trusted IoT platforms, among others.

According to the Global research Institute IDC, the Brazilian IoT market will be worth $9bn this year, corresponding to 20% of the overall IT market in Brazil estimated $52bn. The Danish Innovation Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is launching initiatives to support the expansion of IoT startups and R&D environments into this promising market. In this first activity, we f...