2024 Emerging Trends

Omar Qaise used to work at the European Space Agency and the German Aerospace Center, as a spacecraft engineer, working on deep space and telecommunication missions. He then joined SES and O3b, where he sold more than $100M in satellite capacity and services, over a four-year stay. It is at that time, while getting exposed to the energy sector, that Omar realized how misaddressed were the needs for industrial IoT users. He learned about CubeSats which were already successful with Earth observation and wanted to bring them into telecommunications. After having reviewed the different available technologies addressing IoTs, he realized that no one cracked the wireless technology in the field and decided to launch OQ Technology.

Now in the 25th year of his technology sales career, Rob is the Thales Group (www.thalesgroup.com) North Carolina/South Carolina Sales Manager for Data Protection solutions. His IT experience includes being a distributor, a reseller, and a services and managed solutions provider. Several years ago, Rob fell in love with the realm of cybersecurity, providing various assessments and managed security solutions to state agencies and higher education institutions. Today, Rob and his Thales team educate private and public sector organizations throughout the Carolinas on the challenges and solutions around protecting sensitive data: Encryption, Key Management, Data Discovery and Classification, Hardware Security Modules, and Secure File Sharing (https://cpl.thalesgroup.com/data-protection).

Executive management consultant with 30 years of experience advising and delivering digital business solutions to Fortune 500 companies. Specialize in technology-driven business innovation, IT and business strategy, governance, planning and portfolio management and IT operations transformation. Formerly a Managing Partner with Gartner Consulting's High-Tech, Telecom and Media practice.

Specialties: Business strategy & transformation, business model innovation, social business, mobile computing solutions, 3D manufacturing & supply chain, M&A and divestitures, product innovation and development, program management, IT strategy & governance, IT operating model optimization, technology architecture and planning, and globally integrated enterprise (shared service) strategies and solutions.

"The art of innovation is not rooted in the desire to be disruptive, it is inspired by the passion to be revolutionary. Change lives, change the game!"

"In order to survive in today's digital world, you need to have a voracious appetite for change."

“Honesty is the best gift you can give someone and yourself. It is the currency that buys you trust.”

"Have a plan, but plan on that plan not going according to plan."

"Be comfortable with being uncomfortable."

"Thought-leadership is a first-of-a-kind thing. It's not an observation of the past. It's about creating something new, whether it is an idea, a point of view, a philosophy or way of doing things."

There are no experts on "disruption", just victims and stone throwers. Let the first of us who have launched their Tesla into Martian orbit cast the first stone. 🙂 #nextcurve

I would rather be called ignorant than full of shit. Humility, learning heart, judgement, integrity.

Lemmings follow. Thought leaders tell the herd not to go over the cliff.

Don't get it twisted, I'm an optimistic futurist. I arrive there through healthy skepticism, not sustained and compounded ignorance.

Don't trust, verify! Why? Trust is earned. Seems people have forgotten this very wise adage.

Specialty – Working with Executives, Entrepreneurs and Funding Groups in the IoT space to grow their businesses and investments through IoT strategies and Go to Marketing Planning!

• Wireless/IoT/M2M Industry Expert
• 40+ Years Distribution & Reseller Channel Experience
• 30+ Years Mobile Industry Experience
• 20+ Years M2M…IoT Experience

Dynamic Entrepreneur with Unprecedented Market & Industry Knowledge.

I have worked on an amazing and fun array of topics over the years. Deep expertise in data science, AI, ML and big graphs applied to multiple domains: IoT, Eldercare, Watson Health and Watson Financial Services (NLP). Consultant to national and international clients. All had deep technical elements and most involved business elements working with senior executives. Recognized dynamic speaker with clients at conferences and classes.

I am a member of IBM's Academy of Technology (800 of IBM's top technical talent) and an IBM Master Inventor with 47 issued patents.

I have recently earned a PhD in computer science, with research focused on the AI of multi-agent systems and a formal logic of "commitments". This kind of research has tremendous potential in our increasingly interconnected world.

I am an author of multiple published books and refereed academic papers.

I am also a prolific programmer. Current favorite technologies are Java, Python, Jupyter, Spark, TensorFlow, Groovy, Gremlin, Gradle and TDA (topological data analysis).

I blog about these topics at knowledgereactor.ai/blog.