Fog Computing Meetup Outline & Talking Points

1. Fog Computing Meetup
May 2016

7. Overview
Group’s objectives:
1. Further the development of Fog Computing through education and
professional networking
2. Hold quarterly meetups with interesting speakers/topics
3. Add maximum value to members through education and professional
networking opportunities
Definition of Fog Computing:
An architecture that uses one or a collaborative multitude of end-user clients
or near-user edge devices to carry out a substantial amount of storage,
communication , and control, configuration, measurement and management.

8. Fog vs. Cloud

9. Potential Discussion Topics
- Vertical and horizontal Applications
- Technology Standards
- Software-defined Storage
- Fog Ecosystem
- IOT
- International fog computing applications
- Data analytics technologies

10. Fog Computing Architecture

11. Impossible to separate FC From IOT

12. Key Questions
- What are the top 3 technical benefits of Fog Computing?
- Which industries are most in need of Fog Computing?
- How many years until the architecture/ecosystem is ready to scale?
- What are the major technical hurdles?
- What are the major adoption hurdles?