IoT Coffee Talk

Leonard Rob Stephanie David Marc Rick
IoT Coffee Talk

Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk where we talk about all things related to the Internet of Things and other digital technologies. This program was started by a group of friends who just happen to be thought leaders, experienced practitioners and business leaders in the technology and communications services industries and more. This channel will feature weekly recordings of our casual conversations on topics of the day with the hopes of delivering engaging and thought-provoking insights to our audience. We hope you enjoy program. Please, like and share! Thanks!

  1. MAY 3

    247: Tech is Not a Religion

    Send us a text Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #247 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter. This week, Kris Watson, Stephanie, Pete, Tom, Olivier, Bill, Debbie, Bill, Rob, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:   🎶 🎙️  BAD KARAOKE! 🎸 🥁  "Don't Start Believing", IoT Coffee Talk semi-original (our version of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing") 🧅 Why "Don't Stop Believing" is the wrong song for the age of generative AI 🧅 Olivier pretends to sing for 2 seconds 🧅 Why experience matters as an analyst because your job is to clarify 🧅 How much AI generated video content is for porn? 🧅 RedCap finds a day in the sun with Semtech certifying with AT&T 🧅 What is the role of LoRaWAN today? 🧅 Evolving connectivity architectures for IoT 🧅 The economics of visibility at the very edge of the edge 🧅 Dimitri gets controversial - Leonard say LLM are B.S.? 🧅 The future of free expertise 🧅 Building your own personal Tay off your data junk 🧅 Rob tells the key how to deploy Llama 3.2 7B on the edge 🧅 The problem of believing tech 🧅 The scaled-out AI avatar burden of proof - that you are not a jerk 🧅 GenAI - How will it impact education and how we learn? It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech! Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

    55 min
  2. MAY 3

    245: Stargate (The WeWork of AI?)

    Send us a text Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #245 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter. This week, Pete, Tom, David, Bill, Debbie, Rob, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about: BAD KARAOKE! "Round n' Round", RattEveryone needs to go to the Edge AI Foundation event in Austin in a month!Stargate - The ultimate $500 billion AI press release ever!Will quantum hype deflate Stargate into the WeWork of GenAI?Will the AI titans be able to quantum teleport themselves out of collapse?What are the historical implications of bad tech bets and bad timing?Leonard invents the "fake economy."OpenAI's Operator AI agent - savior or catastrophe in the making?Why 5G will matter again, especially when you try to podcast at 85 mph. The tech-savvy proclamations of the app-savvy generations.Is the debt or any debt good or bad for your economic health?What is the value of a TikTok economy?The race to find power to fuel the great GenAI supercomputing data center black holeWestern AI superiority under threat by DeepSeek - True disruption and riskIt's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech! Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

    58 min
  3. MAY 3

    243: CES 2025 Recap!

    Send us a text Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #243 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter. This week, Pete, Olivier, Rob, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about: BAD KARAOKE! "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)", Big & RichRob shares the songs that he sings to get banned at an open mic night!OPEN INVITIATION - We are recruiting for younger IoT Coffee Talkers to replace us!What is up with wireless (cellular and Wi-Fi) services in Las Vegas!?!?Old Fashions make Leonard's mouth run endlessly. It's terrible!Pete kicks off our CES 2025 recap with an edge AI slantThe immense "Okay-ness" of incremental. It's really not a bad thingRob shares his strange picks from CES 2025 - It's a such a must miss you can't miss it!CES, the great hype and techno nonsense generator!The illusion of progress and how we go backwards when we think we are going forwardAI, the augmenting technology that gets us to 95%What happened to the Rabbit and the Humane.AI Pin?Where is the high margin GenAI workload?Progress is iterative (the same thing just a little better)Rob and Olivier launch a new venture to create AGI using Visual Basic, the 1995 versionThe agentic SaaS catastrophe  It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech! Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

    1h 1m
  4. MAY 3

    242: The Year of Analog

    Send us a text Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #242 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter. This week, Dimitri, Jan, Debbie, Rob, Ryan, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about: BAD KARAOKE! "Summer Breeze", Seals & CroftsDJ Rob T ushers in 2025 with some killer Yacht Rock!Analog is the key to the future of artificial uber intelligenceAgentic AI in the billions - the key to logarithmically scaling out 5% error rate in your business!The first rule in responsible AI, don't say irresponsible things about AIAgentic AI - GenAI + RPA on steroids with all the side effectsThe job of the future is to be an AI plumberDon't call your IoT business a "GenAIoT" business in 2025! Don't do it! AppleTown - Apple jumps the smart home shark?The next exponential product from Apple: iHomeiFactory Dogecoin will become the new U.S. currency in 2025? Huh?The next era of Digital Twins is Seals and Crofts. Start the hype cycle!What is the opportunity for edge AI infrastructure in 2025?It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech! Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

    1h 1m
  5. MAY 3

    241: 2024 The Year of Logarithmic Hype!

    Send us a text Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #241 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter. This week, Marc, Debbie, Rob,  Bill, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about: BAD KARAOKE! "Purple Haze", Jimi HendrixThe logistics and gastrointestinal science of Santa’s global, personalized gift delivery systemThe missing link discovered: how the Tio came aboutThe historically accurate nativity scene for your Catalonian homeWhat happened to the Helium Network? What happened to crypto?Is there a business in a People’s Network, or is it all about the crypto?How does our view on IoT when everything connects by Wi-Fi?The old thesis of massive IoT for high-fidelity digital twins - a failed case?Who is up for betting and gambling on quantum computing? - the next nonsensical hypeHow did that prompt engineering doctorate work out?What did Rob do in 2024? You want to know!Bill puts a grill on digital twin in 2024 with True North!The Data Divas deficit and 500,000 downloads!See you in 2025! It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech! Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

    59 min
  6. MAY 3

    240: Our 5th Christmas Special!!

    Send us a text Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #240 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter. This week, Olivier, Debbie, Rob, Pete, Bill, Ryan, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about: BAD KARAOKE! "Jingle Bells", The IoT Coffee Talk OrchestraOlivier explaining how he doesn't know the lyrics to Jingle BellsTay is back with a vengeance!!What do we not get about garbage in, garbage out?What is determinism and why is it a new concept for a lot of folks?Are we Luddites or do we know something you don't?Human speed versus machine speedWas 2024 the year of GenAI revolution results, denial, or experimentation?How to get the Wizard of Oz out of the loopOlivier and Leonard have a Hololens and Vision Pro shoot out!!Metaverse is dead. It's all about memories.Samsung's Project Moohan - Metaverse not revisitedWe are way past 1984 and we let it happen and are disturbingly OK with itPleasure, Convenience, FOMO - the key drivers shaping our future?The dynamic of collective stupidityIt's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech! Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

    58 min
  7. MAY 3

    239: Revolution Calling

    Send us a text Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #239 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter. This week, Olivier, Debbie, Rob, Pete, Bill, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about: BAD KARAOKE! "The Needle Lies", QueensrycheRob knows Geoff Tate!Debbie's Data Diva podcast hits 500,000 downloads!!Olivier gives his take on IoT. What is it and does it need a name?Why is it so easy to say "solution" but difficult to mean "solution"?The big GenAIoT issue - latencyThe need for specialized AI for the specialness of edge use casesAutonomous is not around the corner. Sorry!Techno digestion issues and enterprise tech barfingWhat happened to BIG DATA!!?!?!?!The influence of privacy and pricing on on-premises big dataThe fabric trend in ludicrous data lakes and housesCloud has been eating open source's lunchRegulation is the 900lb constraint in the roomZero Trust IoT - what is it?It's a great episode. Grab an extraordinarily expensive latte at your local coffee shop and check out the whole thing. You will get all you need to survive another week in the world of IoT and greater tech! Thanks for listening to us! Watch episodes at http://iotcoffeetalk.com/. We support Elevate Our Kids to bridge the digital divide by bringing K-12 computing devices and connectivity to support kids’ education in under-resourced communities. Please donate.

    1 hr

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk where we talk about all things related to the Internet of Things and other digital technologies. This program was started by a group of friends who just happen to be thought leaders, experienced practitioners and business leaders in the technology and communications services industries and more. This channel will feature weekly recordings of our casual conversations on topics of the day with the hopes of delivering engaging and thought-provoking insights to our audience. We hope you enjoy program. Please, like and share! Thanks!

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