Dublin’s IoT Week finally kicked off on June 20, 2022, an event originally scheduled for 2020, but was rescheduled twice due to COVID-related complications.
Spirits were high during the opening reception, the Lord Mayor of Dublin herself even made an appearance and welcomed delegates with open arms for the first time in two years.
“We have 600 amazing delegates. IoT is something that we very much promote as a city. We’ve integrated it into our way of working as a local government, so it’s fantastic. I look forward to learning more from the discussions that are happening here and also for meeting some of our delegates,” Lord Mayor Alison Gilliland shared with me.
The Global IoT Summit was a big part of Dublin’s IoT week’s educational schedule, featuring both Latif Ladid, President of the IPv6 Forum and Dr. Craig Wright, Chief Scientist of nChain, as keynote speakers. The pair covered limitations in IPv4 (internet protocol version four) and how Dr. Wright’s vision of Bitcoin and the ability to do peer to peer transactions will allow the improved IPv6 to reach its full potential.
During Ladid’s keynote, he explained how the internet’s original end-to-end model has been disrupted, the consequences of the disruption and why IPv6 is necessary for an IoT-powered world.
“Now between people is not secure. That’s why even our emails are not secure. This is really very bad,” elaborated Ladid after his presentation.
“But I think IPv6 will restore the…
