Industrial tech builders, pressed on how it works.
Industrial IoT Spotlight puts executives and founders from industrial and enterprise technology companies in conversation with Peter Rohde-Chen or Erik Walenza. Recent conversations range from neuromorphic edge chips and satellite data links to AI labor for factories, cleaner delivery fleets and why software quality has become a boardroom matter.
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Industrial IoT Spotlight is a conversation show about the companies building enterprise and industrial technology, and it gives the builders the floor. In recent episodes, one host talks with one guest. Peter Rohde-Chen and Erik Walenza lead those conversations, and the guests are executives and founders rather than commentators. The first thing to notice is the range. On the hardware side, a guest explains a neuromorphic approach to edge AI: an event-based design that exploits sparsity and does no computation at all while streaming data stays unchanged. When the host asks how that beats a conventional setup that wakes a second chip on demand, sparsity is the first answer. A conversation with Iridium splits satellite IoT into consumer and industrial business and names heavy equipment and regulated fishing, including catch reporting, among the industrial markets. That episode also turns on choosing what goes over the satellite link and processing the rest at the edge to hold down costs. Factory floors come up twice, from two different angles. In one conversation about labor shortages, a guest calls AI a question of timing, not relevance, and the discussion moves on to sensor pricing and wireless IO-Link. In the other, Sahitya Senapathy, introduced on air as the 22-year-old founder and CEO of Endeavor, pitches AI labor that does the manual workflows people run in SAP, Oracle and customer portals for manufacturers and wholesale distributors. Logistics arrives with Richard Savoie. That conversation includes the claim that articulated big rigs are 1 percent of vehicles but 15 percent of transport emissions, then walks through AI insights that flag which delivery routes suit an electric van pilot. Software quality gets its own case: a guest argues that QA cannot be left to a testing team inside IT when a glitch can ground an airline or stop a bank's customers from moving money. What ties all of this together is the interviewing. The hosts ask what a customer or investor would ask: how the product differs, how it actually works, what a funding round will be spent on, how a simulator helps a fleet plan. The answers stay in business language, with thin margins, partner channels and go-to-market sitting next to the engineering. One quirk of naming: at least one episode introduces itself as the Digital Asia Spotlight and then signs off as the Industrial IoT Spotlight. Episodes close on a standard sign-off that points to a case-study database on IoT1.com and invites practitioners with deployment stories to get in touch. The back catalog is large, so the episode titles make a useful map. For the hardware end, 'Neuromorphic for LLMs on the Edge' is a natural first pick. For strategy, 'Why Quality Assurance Is Now a CEO-Level Concern in APAC' makes the boardroom argument outright.
Made for: Suits a listener who evaluates, buys or sells industrial and enterprise technology and wants executives and founders to explain their products, markets and funding plans in plain business terms.
What sets it apart: It puts the builders themselves in the guest chair and asks operational questions, like how a product differs, how it works and where the money goes, across a span that runs from neuromorphic chips and satellite links to delivery fleets and board-level software quality.
The Industrial IoT Spotlight Podcast shines a light on digital solutions that are impacting businesses today. Our mission is to feature the companies that are building the next generation of enterprise technologies, from architecture design to data management to business model innovation.Our hosts, Peter Rohde-Chen and Erik Walenza, are friends and entrepreneurs based in Shanghai, China. The Industrial IoT Spotlight is produced by Asia Growth Partners, a group of technology experts and business leaders, who help technology companies and corporates navigate technology development, implementation, and adoption in Asia. Don't forget to follow us on LinkedIn @asia-growth-partners-agp or visit ou…
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A clear argument for treating software quality as a boardroom-level business risk.
Quality assurance is framed here as business continuity, not a back-office IT concern. Damien Wong, Senior Vice President for APAC at Tricentis, makes the case that software now sits so close to the core of the enterprise that failures can quickly become operational crises, from…
A clear, practical discussion of neuromorphic chips and their promise for power-conscious edge AI.
Industrial IoT Spotlight frames neuromorphic computing around a practical edge-AI problem: getting more capable models to run locally without burning power on constant computation.
A grounded look at making brownfield factories more AI-ready while keeping deployment and organizational realities in view.
Manufacturing's labor shortage is framed here as a systems problem, not a simple hiring gap. Mike Rormoser, VP of Product Management for OEM Solutions at Digi, keeps the focus on how factories actually adopt new capability: timing, deployment, cost, and the people who translate…
Satellite AIoT is treated as a practical cost and data-routing decision for remote IoT.
Satellite AIoT is framed as a practical sorting problem: what information is worth sending over a satellite link, and what can be handled closer to the asset.
A practical look at using fleet data to test cleaner delivery within existing logistics systems.
Industrial IoT Spotlight frames cleaner delivery as an operational problem, not just a climate ambition. Through Richard Savoy, co-founder and CEO of Ediona Tech, the episode gives weight to the numbers: articulated big rigs are 1% of vehicles yet produce 15% of transport…
Emerging tech after the buzzword phase.
Conversations with the people wiring everyday objects to the cloud.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Interview with Brian Du Bois, Director of Industrial AI at Rovisis, discussing autonomous AI integrating deep reinforcement learning and machine teaching for industrial applications.
Damien Wong, Tricentis Senior Vice President for APAC, argues that software quality has become a board-level concern because airline and banking outages can create existential business problems.
Industrial IoT Spotlight host Eric Walenza interviews BrainChip CEO Sean Hare and Chief Development Officer Jonathan Tapson about neuromorphic processors for edge AI and LLMs.
["Industrial IoT Spotlight EP 225 pairs Eric Walenza of AGP with Mike Rormoser of Digi to examine how AI, IoT, edge computing, and automation can address manufacturing labor shortages.
Industrial IoT Spotlight's conversation with Iridium's Ian Itz focuses on satellite AIoT, NB-IoT, and edge processing over a global LEO network.
Richard Savoy says articulated big rig trucks are only 1% of the vehicle population but account for 15% of transport emissions, so electrifying freight has outsized impact.
Sahitya Sanapati, the 22-year-old founder and CEO of Endeavor, describes moving from childhood programming and an age-11 FEMA project to AI work at AWS and Palantir.
Barzan Mozafari, associate professor at the University of Michigan and co-founder of Keebo.ai, explains how “data learning” uses warehouse telemetry to automate cloud database optimization.
Industrial IoT Spotlight host Eric Walenza interviews Jonathan Bjork, co-founder of Longterm, about persistent AI memory built from editable, portable JSON.
Sandeep Aluwalia, Chief Product Officer at TDK Sensei, explains how the EdgeRx platform uses vibration and temperature sensors, gateways, dashboards, and AI models running at the edge for machine-health monitoring.
Industrial IoT Spotlight interviews former Toronto CTO Lawrence Eta about digital infrastructure, public-sector technology, and smart-city governance.
Industrial IoT Spotlight examines LTE-M’s long-term viability with Dima Feldman, VP of Product Management and Marketing at Sony Semiconductor Israel.
Jan Burian, an IDC manufacturing analyst with 15–20 years in manufacturing and supply chain, tells Eric Walenza that automation combined with artificial intelligence will shape the next decade of production.
Industrial IoT Spotlight examines manufacturing and energy technology readiness with Onofrio Pirotta, Kindle's United States Manufacturing and Energy leader, alongside hosts Peter Rodergen and Eric Valenza.
Industrial IoT Spotlight host Eric Walenza interviews Techies CEO and founder David Hurchfield about applying AI to software delivery, customer-facing products, and organizational strategy.
Chris Bayard, CEO of OpConnect, explains how the company grew from connecting portable convenience-store ATMs into a turnkey cellular IoT provider serving nearly 1.2 million locations across about 50 verticals.
Industrial IoT Spotlight EP 212 examines how PECAN uses predictive analytics and generative AI to help traditional companies adopt machine learning.
Industrial IoT Spotlight examines Joey Hiller’s explanation of Helium’s decentralized LoRaWAN network, which had 300,000 active gateways and used blockchain rewards to coordinate coverage.
Omer Brookstein, CEO and co-founder of Excite, explains how connected-device manufacturers can move from one-time hardware sales toward subscriptions, premium features, and usage-based pricing.
Industrial IoT Spotlight host Eric Walenza interviews SEMA founder Matt Van Itteli about measuring GenAI use in software development.
Industrial IoT Spotlight host Eric Walenza interviews Jeremy Snyder, founder and CEO of Firetail.io, about API security across cloud, on-premise, edge, AI, and IoT systems.
Paul Davis of Atmosic Technologies explains how ultra-low-power chips can reduce battery size by three to four times or eliminate batteries in selected IoT devices.
Robert Plotkin, a patent lawyer with nearly 30 years focused on AI and software, explains how AI companies can protect algorithms, outputs, and know-how.
Bert Beick, co-founder and CEO of TimeSphere.ai, explains why industrial IoT and OT time-series data require specialized quality controls before organizations use it for AI, billing, arbitrage, or data sharing.
Industrial IoT Spotlight host Eric Olenza interviews Barbara CEO David Perron about edge computing for industrial AI.
Industrial IoT Spotlight host Eric Walenza interviews Falconry founder and CEO Nikunj Mehta about turning industrial AI from projects into scalable software.
Ron Koneczny, CEO of Digi, describes a nine-year transition from reliable hardware toward integrated hardware, software, connectivity, and services, with 25% of Digi's revenue now recurring.
Eric Walenza interviews Mike McCammon of the NFC Forum about a three-to-five-year roadmap covering power harvesting, range extension, device-to-device connectivity, multi-tap interactions, and Digital Product Passports.
Kenta Yasukawa, Soracom co-founder and CTO, argues that GenAI can help connect sensor, image, and partner data across IoT systems that currently operate as separate company intranets.
Eric Walenza interviews Samuel van der Velde, CTO of POSIX, about lowering ultra-wideband tracking costs for scalable asset and animal monitoring.
Industrial IoT Spotlight host Eric Walenza interviews Eric Deimler, CEO and co-founder of Conexus AI, about computing enterprise data models for the AI era instead of designing them manually.
Industrial IoT Spotlight host Eric Walenza interviews Matt Kleiman, CEO of Cumulus, about reducing field-work errors through digital procedures, connected tools, and sensors.
Andrea Aranguren, CEO of Mindhub, explains why the $11 trillion physical commodity market still relies heavily on paper, Excel spreadsheets, and email.
Industrial IoT Spotlight host Eric Walenza interviews Quantum Chief Development Officer Brian Pawlowski about managing the growth of unstructured data for AI, media, science, and connected devices.
An interview with David Hartman, CEO of Helio Additive, discussing how simulation software makes 3D printing scalable and improves production efficiency.
Interview with Matt Oberdorfer about modernizing industrial data architecture and applying generative AI to industrial environments.