A presentation about the potential of a talent exchange between Japan and Germany for the IoT scene at the Berlin Innovation Meetup at Recruit Technologies Tokyo: http://atl.recruit-tech.co.jp/berlin_meetup/

1. BERLIN INNOVATION MEETUP
Recruit Technologies
Tokyo, 29 May 2014

2. HI. I'M @PETERBIHR.
I help companies with their strategy & run
conferences about emerging technology.
One conference is about the Internet of Things
(IoT): ThingsCon.
Web: thewavingcat.com
Mail: peter@thewavingcat.com

3. 1) R&D: WHAT'S NEXT?
▸ Watch cutting edge innovators
▸ Analyze the impact of emerging technologies

4. 2) TRANSLATE THE INSIGHTS INTO ACTION
▸ Into conferences. Open-ended, future-proofing.
▸ Into consulting, advisory, strategy. Applied, to solve concrete
challenges and unlock potential.

5. WHERE TO LOOK?
The most innovative things tend to happen on the fringes:
technologists, startups, researchers, scientists, artists, makers. All of
you!
Then, they get amplified through corporations.
Both sides need each other.

6. TODAY:
1. The Internet of Things (IoT)
2. Japan & Germany (Berlin)
3. An exchange of ideas

7. THE INTERNET OF
THINGS (IOT)

9. IOT = GROWTH MARKET
50 billion internet-connected things by 2020 (Cisco)
$8.9 trillion market in 2020 (IDC)

10. JAPAN &
GERMANY

11. LOTS IN COMMON!
Both excel through
1. Tradition in industrial design, manufacturing & engineering
2. High level of education

12. VERTICALS
▸ electrical engineering
▸ industrial systems
▸ high-tech manufacturing
▸ export driven

13. THE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR
THE INTERNET OF THINGS
(IOT)

14. BERLIN

15. COMBINES GERMANY'S HIGH
TECH WITH INTERNATIONAL
CREATIVITY

16. ACTIVE STARTUP ECOSYSTEM

17. YOUNG, QUICKLY GROWING
HARDWARE/IOT SCENE

18. COMPARATIVELY CHEAP TO
OPERATE IN

19. MUCH SMALLER THAN TOKYO,
BUT SAFE & LIKE TOKYO FULL
OF CREATIVITY

20. WELL POSITIONED AS A
LEADING EUROPEAN IOT HUB

21. CENTRAL HUB FOR EUROPE TO
LAUNCH FROM

22. Now is the best time to set up shop in
Berlin!

23. THE KEY TO SUCCESSFULLY
ADDRESS A GLOBAL MARKET
IS diversity & mutual
understanding.

24. EXCHANGE OF IDEAS +
SKILLS + PEOPLE

25. THINGSCON
▸ Our first IoT & hardware conference in Berlin.
▸ 250 participants from Europe, America, Asia, Africa, South America.

27. WHAT'S NEXT?

28. MORE EXCHANGE
▸ Meetups, trips & visits
▸ Build mutual trust & a shared vision
▸ ThingsCon 2015

29. Let's build the future together!

30. Image sources:
Adrian McEwen, Designing the Internet of Things

31. どうもありがとうご
ざいました。
THANK YOU!
Peter Bihr
Twitter: @peterbihr
Web: thewavingcat.com
Mail: peter@thewavingcat.com
Here today: Come say hi!