The Things Conference India — Taking India a step closer to a Smart future with LoRaWAN™
Imagine a Smart World where you can operate all the Things around with just a click from your smartphone. This would be a time where billions of devices are connected to each other enhancing and easing up every aspect of our lives. This smart world is going to be a reality in near future. And, it’s going to happen soon because of the cutting-edge technology LoRaWAN™.
LoRaWAN is a Long Range Wide Area Network which connects up to 10,000 smart things within a radius of 10 km. Sure, the advent of LoRaWAN is a technological revolution!
In November this year, iB Hubs and CyberEye, together, brought The Things Conference to India for the first time. This conference is dedicated to IoT and LoRaWAN. The conference has been a grand success and witnessed 500+ attendees, 50+ esteemed speakers and tech experts, 40+ workshops, and 50+ media houses, making a mark globally.
A glimpse of The Things Conference India 2018!
This 2-day long global conference, dedicated to LoRaWAN and IoT, brought technology leaders, governments, academia, research organisations and industrialists from all across the world onto a single platform to discuss and explore the potential of LoRaWAN in India.
A Quick look of The Things Network and CyberEye:
The Things Conference is an initiative of The Things Network, which is the largest and fastest-growing LoRaWAN community in the world with 50,000+ developers and a strong network in 95+ countries. The Things Network provide a set of open tools and a global, open network to build secure, scalable and smart applications.
CyberEye envisions to build a smart and secure world. CyberEye is working on building cutting-edge technologies in Cyber Security and IoT that impact billions. Also, providing a secure private network, CyberEye enables to build highly efficient smart and secure networks with diverse sensor integrations. CyberEye is end-to-end assisted by iB Hubs.
CyberEye is taking steps to build a strong LoRaWAN community in India.
The Things Conference India — A Beginning Step for a Bright LoRaWAN™& IoT Culture in India
This biggest LoRaWAN conference in India stood as a beginning step for strengthening the LoRaWAN culture in India.
Completely focused on learning and spreading knowledge on LoRaWAN and its incredible applications in IoT, the conference kept the attendees busy and learning all the time with an amazing lineup of talks, hands-on workshops, intriguing panel discussions and exhibits from across the world.
The conference kick-started with best wishes and congratulations from Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Law and Justice, Govt. of India. Following which, began the 2 days of immense learnings in the advanced technologies.
Insightful Talks and Panel Discussions: Learning from the Best in the World
50+ tech-experts who are playing prominent roles in IoT and LoRaWAN domains shared their experiences and insights on the technology and inspired the attendees to build Smart Things.
All the attendees were equipped with knowledge on LoRaWAN’s potential and its applications, how LoRaWAN empowers IoT, how to deploy LoRaWAN, what sets this technology apart from the rest of the technologies, how smart cities can be built using LoRaWAN, potential of this disruptive technology in India and many more.
Along with delivering insightful talks, the experts interacted with tech-enthusiasts one-on-one and gave a whole new perspective on the potential and applications of LoRaWAN. These experts also bagged several insights from fellow speakers.
Open and Exclusive Workshops: Deep Diving into LoRaWAN™and IoT
40+ workshops to enhance the knowledge on IoT and LoRaWAN technologies!
The Open Workshops were always fully packed with tech-enthusiasts. These workshops covered everything in detail from setting up an own private network to designing ultra low power nodes and beyond. Everyone went full hands-on with the fundamentals of LoRaWAN technology.
During the ‘Exclusive Workshops’, the masters in the IoT & LoRaWAN fields taught the advanced concepts themselves. Both the Open and Exclusive workshops helped the attendees level-up their skills and also provided them with a wonderful opportunity to get up-close and personal with the experts.
Ask Me Anything: More than 20 experts to Answer the Questions!
This one-of-a-kind candid style ‘Ask Me Anything’ session with speakers stole the spotlight of the conference. All the esteemed speakers have come together onto the Center Stage, addressed all the queries posed by every enthusiast and gave a clear picture on how IoT powered LoRaWAN applications could achieve wonders in this smart era.
Wall-of-Fame and Exhibits: Tech Wonders at One Place!
Various LoRa and IoT enabled innovations from across the world that drive us to the smart tomorrow were displayed on the Wall-of-Fame. There was excitement and enthusiasm in the attendees to learn about the brand new innovative products. This has become a favourite selfie spot!
The Exhibits spaces too were very interactive. Governments, MNCs and Startups explained about their exhibits and their roles in building a smart future. The attendees were left inspired after listening to the support provided by governments and the way early players are creating ripples in the Smart Space.
CEO of The Things Industries and Co-Founder of The Things Network, Mr. Wienke Giezeman said, “I’m amazed at the scale and quality at which this conference has been done and it was amazing to witness such tremendous growth in such short time. At this pace, phenomenal things can be achieved in the near future.”
The Things Industries India: Further Strengthening the Tech Culture across India
Along with bringing the cutting-edge technology to India, The Things Conference India laid the foundation for a Smart Nation. It was announced that CyberEye is the face of The Things Industries India at the conference.
Together with iB Hubs and The Things Industries, CyberEye will provide professional services to transform India into a smart nation, alongside building a stronger and collaborative IoT and LoRaWAN ecosystem country-wide for the tech culture to thrive and prosper.
Speaking about the conference, the CEO of CyberEye, Ram Ganesh said “Many countries across the world have recognized the potential of LoRaWAN and are implementing the technology to build Smart Nations. The changes it could bring in India are immense. LoRaWAN can reduce the costs involved in building Smart Cities multifold. With this technology, a Smart India is not very far.”
“Through ‘The Things Conference India’, we have set up a platform for people to come and discuss problems and bring out solutions. We are excited to take this disruptive technology forward in India. We are committed to building tech communities across the country and together, we will realize the vision of a Smart & Secure India. I’d like to thank everyone for supporting and boosting the conference. iB Hubs has been supporting us end-to-end throughout the journey since our inception. Without their unending support ‘The Things Conference India’ wouldn’t be possible.” Ram added.
Kavya, CEO, iB Hubs quoted “It’s great to see such a huge response for the first ever ‘The Things Conference India’. We are very glad that CyberEye is taking successful steps in bringing the new-age technology to India. It gives us a boost to see startups making such a difference. We would be supporting many more startups in future which can drive the nation forward.”
The first-ever ‘The Things Conference India’ has ended on a high note but this is just the beginning for a bigger, better and stronger LoRaWAN culture in India.
Become part of the upgrading technology landscape in India and be at the forefront of advanced technologies. Join us at The Things Conference India 2019: https://www.thethingsconference.in/
