Peter Bihr helps companies with strategy and runs technology conferences, including ThingsCon about the Internet of Things (IoT). He discusses opportunities for collaboration between Japan and Germany in IoT, noting their shared strengths in engineering. Berlin is highlighted as an active startup ecosystem and hub for IoT in Europe. Future exchanges of ideas, skills, and people between the two countries are proposed to build the IoT industry together.

1. BERLIN NIGHT @ TOKYO
Samurai Startup Island
Tokyo, 02 June 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
Twitter: @peterbihr

3. 2 THINGS

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

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

6. WHERE TO LOOK?
On the fringes: technologists, startups, researchers, scientists, artists,
makers. All of you!
Then, innovation can they get amplified through corporations.
Both sides need each other.

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

8. THE INTERNET OF
THINGS (IOT)

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

11. SUPER EXCITING!

12. JAPAN &
GERMANY

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

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

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

16. BERLIN

17. COMBINES GERMANY'S HIGH
TECH WITH INTERNATIONAL
CREATIVITY

18. ACTIVE STARTUP ECOSYSTEM

19. YOUNG, COLLABORATIVE &
QUICKLY GROWING
HARDWARE/IOT SCENE

20. COMPARATIVELY CHEAP TO
OPERATE IN

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

22. VERY INTERNATIONAL &
WELCOMING

23. WELL POSITIONED AS A
LEADING EUROPEAN IOT HUB

24. CENTRAL HUB FOR EUROPE TO
LAUNCH FROM

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

26. THE KEY TO SUCCESS IS
diversity, mutual
understanding & a global
mindset

27. EXCHANGE OF IDEAS +
SKILLS + PEOPLE

29. THINGSCON 2014 VIDEO:
J.MP/THINGSCON

30. WHAT'S NEXT?

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

32. Let's build the future together!

33. Image sources:
▸ Adrian McEwen, Designing the Internet of Things
▸ Good Night Lamp
▸ Panono

34. 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!