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AIoT – the AI-IoT fusion driving economic and societal impacts
We’re in the thick of massive digital transformation, catapulting human and commercial processes, endeavours, and interactions into cyberspace to mingle with artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital applications. But that’s not all – the physical things and spaces around us are also undergoing digitalization and, through the Internet of Things (IoT), are also ending up in cyberspace to cohabitate with the humans and digital entities already there. And – AI is an indispensable technology that creates meaning from IoT-generated data and underpins the robust IoT construction itself – a marriage called out as AIoT.
AIoT drives tremendous economic and societal benefits but poses significant pitfalls, requiring innovation and governance attention to reap the benefits and mitigate risks.
This session overviews IoT and AI (AIoT) and delves into their applications within sustainability, public safety, and economic groupings. It also exposes AIoT’s tangible societal risks and impacts and any effects on human agency. It further postulates the impact of AIoT’s tangible benefits and pitfalls on potential broader human and economic transformations and its link to Society 5.0.
By Walter Knitl, CEO at Praxiem, VP at AIoT Canada
At Praxiem, Walter consults in market research, commercialization, and business development in the ICT sector, including focusing on the Internet of Things. He is a vice president and a board member at AIoT Canada, and he co-chairs the National Strategy Council (NSC), which guides the development of an AIoT strategy for Canada. As founder at iotNorth, he hosts the ThingsHappen podcast to foster Canada’s Internet of Things conversation and growth.
Some of Walter’s work includes reports on national and regional Internet of Things ecosystems to inform exports and Foreign Direct Investment attraction efforts, authoring rural broadband high-speed Internet blueprints, and moderating and facilitating roundtables on opportunities, challenges, and solutions of AIoT. He is a co-creator and instructor of an IoT workshop leveraging Design Thinking for IoT technology and governance innovation and a co-founder and producer of the IoT613 Conference (2015-2019).
Before Praxiem, Walter had extensive and diverse experience in ICT product management, hands-on software and hardware research and development, commercial and account management, standards development, and technology acceleration at several global corporations and a provincial center of excellence.
Walter is a proponent of physical digitalization as a lever for economic growth and social good.
Some background on Walter can be found in the following video:
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