Mars, the Earth, and Your Car: IoT at Genius of Things, Boston

Michelle Barbee-Vargas, Global Client Reference Manager for IBM Watson Internet of Things, gives us her impressions of the Genius of Things event in Boston earlier this month. I arrived in Boston fresh off the train from my small town early Wednesday morning excited to hear about what IBM and our clients are doing in the IoT space. As a Client Reference Manager my day consists of hearing about how our clients are transforming the world using Watson IoT solutions, and I was eager to see some of our work in action. After getting my badge and finding a seat, I made small talk with the person sitting next to me about how IoT is impacting every aspect of our lives. We talked about how amazing it is that companies are intelligently filtering and leveraging massive amounts of data in that pursuit. This ended up being a nice segue into the opening remarks, given by Deon Newman, Vice President of Marketing for Watson IoT.