Joel Hans

Blockchain in supply chain: Walmart and IBM are using blockchain to track pork in China, but the effort will need to scale to realize business value.

Financial institutions are looking to blockchain for benefits in trade finance, KYC, and payment settlements.

AI technologies have clear value paths in marketing, including sales and enhancing customer experience.

Device, data, and systems integration is crucial for just about every use case in the industrial IoT.

Cognitive computing services might include everything from predictive maintenance to customer experience and medical diagnoses. But there’s a skills gap.

A fiber-optic network can link far-flung manufacturing operations. Use cases include production optimization and supply-chain management.

Data governance and metadata synchronization can prevent Hadoop data from going dark.

The GPU has been around since “Space Invaders” — but it’s now capable of visualizing billions of data points in real time.

In some use cases, it is impossible for humans to replicate the performance of artificial intelligence. But businesses will need a lot of data for AI systems to be effective.

Pay-how-you-drive models are gaining traction. Here’s why:

How Aruba used a low-power wide-area network to form the backbone of its smart grid efforts.

The IIC hopes to develop standard procedures for saving energy in cities.