Is this a daunting challenge? Yes, absolutely – but we have run multiple massive scale workshops, conferences and hackathons before going back since at least 2015 – using all sorts of connected devices, operating systems, networking challenges and hardware. We’re talking about having up to 10 speakers simultaneously, with a total of up to 60 speakers, and including the capability for those speakers to interact with the audience – all while the speakers and workshop administrators stream from their homes and apartments from multiple locations and different varieties of machines. Have virtual conferences been done in the past? Yeah, sure – but not on the scale and magnitude that we’re going for here.

Rather than not go forward with the conference – we thought to ourselves – well, as engineers – what can we do to move humanity forward in the face of this great challenge? We thought that rather than delaying and postponing a conference indefinitely to a date that may never come in the age of social distancing, we should, “make lemonade out of lemons,” and put all of the, “Internet of Things” skills that we have been working on over the past several years to good use and build a completely new form of conference.

Sadly, as everyone not living under a rock right now knows – all events worldwide have been cancelled, for very good reasons. Paul and greater midwest tech region, the IoTFuse Conference has been the go-to place to get together and network with others living at the intersection of the digital and physical space.

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