on February 29, 2016
People are buzzing about the Internet of Things, and it’s hard to tell who’s bringing value to the conversation. It’s ok. We’ll tell you:
- Vala Afshar recently tweeted a helpful chart of recent Forrester research on IoT, and his oldie but goodie intro to IoT is still relevant.
- Michael Wolf is an industry analyst and creator of the Smart Kitchen Summit. And he knows a lot of people.
- Brad Russell at Parks Associates is monitoring IoT privacy and security like a boss.
- Chuck Martin regularly takes the stage to address IoT news.
- Stacey Higginbotham is a seasoned tech journalist with a really great podcast.
- Justin Grammens is an actual IoT professor and publishes IoT Weekly News.
- Ken Briodagh is not afraid to wear a kilt. He’s also not afraid to speak his opinion on IoT Evolution.
- Anita Bunk works at a little company called Bosch and provides great perspective on IoT on a global scale.
- Jess Groopman at Harbor Research is closely watching how our culture shifts with IoT. Pretty interesting.
- Dana Blouin is…a student? But also an IoT genius.
- We can’t have this list without Peggy Smedley, editor at Connected World Magazine. She even hosts her own radio show!
- Bill McCabe recruits IoT experts because he understands this stuff really well.
- Daniel Burrus is kind of an IoT super star. He’s got great insight into where we are headed and how to stand out in the crowd.
- Food Tech Connect isn’t really a person, but if it were, it would be the coolest IoT foodie ever.
- Rob Tiffany’s list of awards and speaking engagements on IoT is crazy long.
- Don’t have time to read a bunch of different sites for IoT updates? Check out Rick Sturm’s IoT Daily for a curated newsletter.
- Mashable’s Pete Pachal is fun. Just like us. And likes steak. Just like us.
- Chris Curran knows how to speak to the C-suite, showing how best a business can adopt emerging technologies.
- Kevin Ashton actually coined the term “internet of things” and has a short video to describe it.
- Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino has a hand in many IoT projects and has been in the industry before it was cool.
- Glen Gilmore is a social media giant—with good reason. He’s following IoT and especially how it’s affecting security.
- Eamon Aston Kunze is Editor-in-Chief of WT Vox, where he’s leading the way to turning us all into robots. But in a cool way.
- Ronald van Loon is a big data nerd, which is kind of a big deal in IoT.
- Carrie MacGillivray is a VP at IDC, where she churns out some serious industry analysis.
- Ian Moyse is a sales dude, and he must be good at it because he’s been named one of the top 100 influencers in IoT, particularly in the cloud space.
- Noah Lorang at Basecamp calls himself a “data monkey”, but we think his practical data science advice is brilliant.
- Theo Priestley, used to work at Forbes and likes Star Wars. Enough said.
- Computer Business Review’s João Marques Lima is quickly becoming a name to follow for IoT news.
- Are we allowed to say us? Ok, good.
We’ve included almost all of these folks in a Twitter list. Feel free to subscribe to see what they’re talking about. Did we miss someone? Let us know!