Scale By The Bay 2020: Dirk Slama, AIoT: Why now? And How To?

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Both IoT and AI are not new, and some have always assumed that one includes the other. Combining them for real on the industrial level means huge opportunities, but also huge challenges: Few proven business models (or is this a paradox itself?), cultural challenges and technological complexity. This talk builds on a couple of real-world examples, and then introduces an AIoT good practices framework. Dirk Slama Bosch VP Co-innovation and IT/IoT Alliances Dirk Slama is Vice President Co-innovation and IT/IoT Alliances at Robert Bosch GmbH. As Conference Chair of the Bosch ConnectedWorld, Dirk helps shaping the IoT strategy of Bosch. As Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), he helps creating the leading ecosystem for the Industrial Internet. Dirk has 25 years experience in very large-scale IT projects, System Integration and Business Process Management. His international work experience includes projects for Audi, Daimler, Lufthansa, Boeing, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, HBOS and others. Dirk is a frequent speaker at conferences, as well as co-author of these successful books: Enterprise BPM, Enterprise SOA, Enterprise CORBA, and Enterprise IoT. He holds an MBA from IMD Lausanne as well as a PhD in Information Systems and a Diploma (MSc equivalent) in Computer Science from TU Berlin.