The Future, and IoT, and Blockchain

100 years ago the world was revolutionized when we could turn air into bread. New technologies allow us to perform miracles--if only we can be imaginative enough.

1. The Future
IoT and Blockchain and..?
Jeff Katz –Feb 2019 –The Factory –Berlin Germany

2. Jeff Katz
•Serial entrepreneur, having founded companies
in Finance, IT, Physical Security, Education,
Gaming, and Blockchain
•Founded HARDWARE.co meetup & accelerator
•Background in Electrical Engineering and
Embedded Development, Business
•More than a decade of international speaking
engagements on IoT, Privacy, and Security
•American living in Germany for seven years

3. TheHaber-Bosch Process: 100 Years

4. The Keeling Curve

5. IoTand Blockchain: Better Together

6. Many Use Cases, Few Business Cases
“…when you analyze both blockchain and trust, you quickly
realize that there is much more hype than value. Blockchain
solutions are often much worse than what they replace.” –
Bruce Schneier
“I do think that scalability is one of the key problems that is
standing between the blockchain technology hype, which we
already have, and the blockchain technology mass production”
–VitalikButerin
“William Ruh, who leads GE Digital, described the changes at
the business as a pivotrather than a retreat.”

7. New Ways of Thinking
•40 Hour Weeks
•Vested Interests
•Careers
•Retirement
•Value
•Society
•Government
•Economics
•Virtual Goods
•Industry 4.0
•Digitalization
•Globalization
•Regulation
•E-Commerce
•Electric Cars
•Sharing Economy
•GDP
•Cold War Superpower

8. Use Case #1: Spectrum Auction

9. •Connected Devices (Phones,
Machines, Sensors)
•Infrastructure
•Connectivity/Data
•Management and Firmware
Update
•Big Data Processing
•Ledger of spectrum allocation
•Hyper-local allocations and
payments
•Pure usage-based billing
•Account Ownership
•Data Permissions
Blockchain
Spectrum Auction
IoT

10. Use Case #2: UrbanFarm

11. •Sensors for agriculture and
aquaculture
•Energy management
•Automated and localized usage
of fertilizer and medicines
•Environment management
•“Lights out” operation
•Shipping and Logistics
•Supply Chain Provenance
•Co2 Tracking
•Food Safety
•Community Participation
•Tokenized, Self-perpetuating
business
Blockchain
Urban Farm
IoT

12. This is Our Generational Challenge
“Governments around the world must take ‘rapid, far-reaching
and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society’ to avoid
disastrous levels of global warming” –UN IPCC Report
“We appear to be making vast tracts of land inhospitable to
most forms of life, and are currently on course for ecological
Armageddon. If we lose the insects then everything is going to
collapse.” -Prof Dave Goulsonof Sussex University
"High concentrations of carbon dioxide cause fish to become intoxicated…
essentially, the fish become lost at sea. The carbon dioxide affects their
brains and they lose their sense of direction and ability to find their way
home” -Dr Ben McNeil of UNSW Climate Change Research Centre

13. Connected Device
Strategies and
Insights from JKVC
HowdoIoptimizemybusinessprocesses
withIoT?What’sthebestwaytobuilda
modernengineeringteam?
JKVC isaboutiqueconsultingagencybasedin
BerlinGermanywhichcananswer these
questions, and many more. We can help you
successfully execute your IoT vision from
conception to prototyping through to design
for manufacturing and logistics. We offer one-
on-one sessions to ease and troubleshoot the
initial bumps every startup encounters—
navigating funding rounds, production, and
strategy. Even (especially) if you're a
"Corporate Startup". We can also run
corporate workshops or trainings on topics
from IoT through Blockchain.
Thanks!
Jeff Katz
[email protected]
Limitedavailability2Q2019