Porter Stowell, Head of Strategy & Business Development, IBM Serious Games and Gamification
This presentation was given at the 2016 Serious Play Conference, hosted by the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
IoT is one of today’s hottest business buzz words. But what does it mean? What is the real opportunity? And how can games be involved? IoT is the collection of a mass amount of sensory data. Right now, this data is being consumed through databases, spreadsheets, and at best dashboards. Boring!! Through game technologies and mechanics, we are bringing this information to life for all. This information shouldn’t be isolated to just a company’s data scientists, but placed in the hands of everyone to enhance buy in and to expedite decisions. Come learn why games are an essential piece to any IoT solution.
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Porter Stowell
IBM Serious Games & Gamification
Head of Business Development
dstowel@us.ibm.com
Twitter: @porterstowell
THANK YOU!
Notes de l'éditeur
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We are on the verge of a data explosion! Sensors will be on everything from your body to your car to the weather. The IoT era is beginning most because its now cheap enough to sense and collect all this information because of the rise of one thing…. CLOUD. Today I want to tell you what IBM is doing with IoT and how it relates to games and show how you can leverage these examples to raise the bar even further.
The question becomes what to do with all this new data.
We are on the verge of a data explosion! Sensors will be on everything from your body to your car to the weather. The IoT era is beginning most because its now cheap enough to sense and collect all this information because of the rise of one thing…. CLOUD. Today I want to tell you what IBM is doing with IoT and how it relates to games and show how you can leverage these examples to raise the bar even further.
The question becomes what to do with all this new data.
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That was more of a vent for me… and its not the real reason I titlted my presentation. When I ask are you Mad? What I am really saying is Are you a Mad Scientist? My favorite is hands down Dr Emmet Brown. We portray the Mad Scientist exactly as shown.. Old/male/wild gray hair/cooky/white lab coat. Wrong wrong wrong! Who doesn’t want to be a mad scientist? And don’t they possesses the EXACT skills we are looking for in our students? In our employees? Crazy experiments, sole focus, big payouts, passion
That was more of a vent for me… and its not the real reason I titlted my presentation. When I ask are you Mad? What I am really saying is Are you a Mad Scientist? My favorite is hands down Dr Emmet Brown. We portray the Mad Scientist exactly as shown.. Old/male/wild gray hair/cooky/white lab coat. Wrong wrong wrong! Who doesn’t want to be a mad scientist? And don’t they possesses the EXACT skills we are looking for in our students? In our employees? Crazy experiments, sole focus, big payouts, passion