BERLIN INNOVATION MEETUP Recruit Technologies
Tokyo, 29 May 2014

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

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

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

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.

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

THE INTERNET OF
THINGS (IOT)

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

JAPAN &
GERMANY

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

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

THE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR THE
INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)

BERLIN

COMBINES GERMANY'S HIGH TECH WITH
INTERNATIONAL CREATIVITY

ACTIVE STARTUP ECOSYSTEM

YOUNG, QUICKLY GROWING
HARDWARE/IOT SCENE

COMPARATIVELY CHEAP TO
OPERATE IN

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

WELL POSITIONED AS A LEADING
EUROPEAN IOT HUB

CENTRAL HUB FOR EUROPE TO
LAUNCH FROM

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

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

EXCHANGE OF IDEAS + SKILLS
+ PEOPLE

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

WHAT'S NEXT?

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

Let's build the future together!

Image sources: Adrian McEwen, Designing
the Internet of Things

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!