1. Internet of things (IoT)
Skills Development WG

2. Skills Development Global Advisory Board Core Panel Horizontal Groups
Skill Development
Vertical Groups
Telecom
Energy
Healthcare
Agriculture
Smart Living
Ganga Rejuvenation
Cyber Security
Team :
Vijay Kumar (Ex Sr VP - TechMahindra)
Shivoo Koteshwar (General Manager and Site Head, MediaTek Bangalore)
Aniruddha Kannal (Founder and CEO xcelerator.ninja)
Ashish Bedekar (Head, MediaTek Labs)
Dr Loviraj Gupta (Executive Dean Lovely Professional University)
Surekha Manchikalapati (Ex -Vice President, Program Head, Tech Mahindra)
Pravin Ahuja (Delivery Head, NIIT Technologies)

3. Charter: Skills Development
Understand the multidimensional skills required to develop and implement the IOT systems (horizontal / vertical / others)
Assess the status of the availability of these skills and the processes of building of the skills (Universities/ Industry / government)
Understand the processes of ensuring the quality of the generation of the skills , and of meeting the requirements of the industry
Assess the role of IET in aiding the addressal of the skills shortage (alignment of the courses with industry requirements / augmenting the skills of the faculty/ practical exposure)

4. Technology Landscape Horizontal Skills
Intro and End to End Architecture
Sensors & Gateways ( Arduino Boards, Bluetooth, Zigbee…)
Connectivity – Networks and Protocols ( LAN, WAN , LTE, Lora, Sigfox…)
Application Enablement Platforms ( PTC, Bosch, Aries, MS ….)
UI/UX designing
Mobile App development ( MS, Java, Eclipse…)
Hosting & Deployment tools ( MS, AWS, Jenkins….)
Information Security
Vertical Skills
Business Cases for the senior users
Domain specific applications/solutions
Implementation challenges
Others
Design ( alignment of capacities, integration …)
Program management Skills ( multi partner based , large supply chain
rollout...)
Product mind set

5. Journey So Far Academia
Review of the Introductory Courses of IOT of several universities
Understanding the challenges – contents, experienced faculty, labs , practical projects
Review of the quality of the courses / Accreditation process
Suitability to the industry requirements / employability
Development of a ‘101’ Course for the Universities
White Paper
‘ Delivery Challenges of an IOT project’
Understanding the requirements of a wide range of users
Development of a product based solution
Large supply chain type of implementation rollout
Multi partner based program management

6. October 2018 Congress Workshops
For both, students and the University Administrators / Faculty
Understand the requirements of the beginners/ students
End use cases
Which of the wide range of technologies to focus on
Integration of each of them
Extent of hands on exposure
Understand the challenges of the Universities
Constantly changing contents / global trends
Appropriately trained faculty
Split between theory and lab work
Infrastructure facilities / labs set up
Advisors
Dr Pritam Singh : Academician , ex Director ( IIML)
Dr T G Sitharam : Chairman , AICTE , ( South West)
Prof Prakash Bagri : Visiting Faculty ( IIM B )– disruptive technologies
Mr L Ravichandran :President ( Tech Mahindra) – the end user
Mr Sachin Gaur : CLO, Deloitte Consulting ; and others

7. See you there October 2018 Congress Workshop – Day 1 :
Brief Overview of IOT – for beginners / students
Workshop – Day 2 :
Starting an IOT Course in the Universities – Challenges / Solutions : For University Administrators/ Faculty
See you there