May rhymes with... IoT Day!

What will you be doing in May? For me, the answer is flying to California, meeting with people and talking about open source and open standards for building IoT solutions. I can't wait!

The Eclipse IoT Day taking place May 13, 2019, is co-located with IoT World 2019 - the world’s biggest IoT event! The IoT Day is organized by the Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse IoT Working Group, in collaboration with the IoT World 2019 team. There, you will learn from world-class industry experts how open source software can help you build devices, edge nodes, and IoT cloud platforms. Check out the speakers and their talks and register today!

I will have the privilege to welcome the attendees and open the program. My talk, titled Eclipse IoT - State of the Union will enable me to share with you what happened in the Eclipse IoT Ecosystem in the last year and what is the Foundation's roadmap for the future. You will learn about major project releases; discover new projects such as ioFog, fog05 and Sparkplug; hear about our new and upcoming working groups.I hope to see you there!

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