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IOTC Partner Universities Awarded PIT-UN Funding
In October 2022, members from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and Cleveland State University (CSU) attended the PIT-UN Convening in New York City. Among those who attended were IOTC Co-Directors and PIT-UN designees, Nick Barendt and Shilpa Kedar. A highlight of the event was the announcement and celebration [...]
IOTC Co-Executive Directors Tech Predictions for 2022 Featured in Crain’s
The most recent edition of Crain's Business Cleveland features interviews with several Northeast Ohio experts regarding their predictions surrounding tech trends in 2022. Among those interviewed were IOTC Co-Executive Directors Nick Barendt and Shilpa Kedar. According to Nick Barendt, who also serves as Executive Director of ISSACS at Case [...]
Cleveland Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center Partners with IOTC
In a press release published today, Case Western Reserve University announced that a federal institute for smart manufacturing has selected the Institute for Smart, Secure and Connected Systems (ISSACS) at Case Western Reserve University to lead a Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center (SMIC) in Cleveland. IOTC co-Executive Nick Barendt will direct [...]
IOTC’s Brian Ray co-Authors Post on “Privacy and Digital Contact Tracing”
Professors Brian Ray (Director, Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law) and Jane Bambauer (University of Arizona) were recently invited to contribute the post “Privacy and Digital Contact Tracing” to Cornell Tech’s Critical Reflection’s blog. The post expands the argument that privacy critiques of digital [...]
IoT Collaborative-Supported Team Wins NSF CIVIC Award
Last spring, the Internet of Things Collaborative (IOTC), the Institute for Smart, Secure and Connected Systems (ISSACS) and the CSU T.E.C.H. Hub convened a group of researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University, and community partners from the Fund for Our Economic Future and Cuyahoga County to [...]
IOTC’s Shilpa Kedar Discusses Pervasiveness of Tech in the Face of Cleveland’s Digital Divide
Shilpa Kedar, Co-Executive Director of the IoT Collaborative (IOTC) and Executive Director of Digital and IoT Innovations and the CSU T.E.C.H. Hub at Cleveland State University, talked about the pervasiveness of technology across all sectors in our geography, even as Cleveland copes with its marked lack of digital equity. [...]
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IOTC’s Brian Ray co-Authors Post on “Privacy and Digital Contact Tracing”
Professors Brian Ray (Director, Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law) and Jane Bambauer (University of Arizona) were recently invited to contribute the post “Privacy and Digital Contact Tracing” to Cornell Tech’s Critical Reflection’s blog. The post expands the argument that privacy critiques of digital [...]
CSU/CWRU INTERNET OF THINGS COLLABORATIVE ESTABLISHING PAIR OF TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH HUBS
$3.1 million grant from the Cleveland Foundation will support engaging with industry and community CLEVELAND (October 20, 2020)—Cleveland State University and Case Western Reserve University have received a $3.1 million, two-year grant from the Cleveland Foundation to further advance the Internet of Things Collaborative (IOTC), an initiative forged [...]
Google.org Impact Challenge
The IoT Collaborative congratulates the winners of the Google.org Impact Challenge Ohio and recognizes the great work the nonprofits do across the state to create economic opportunity. The IoT Collaborative’s Co-Executive Director, Shilpa Kedar served as a judge and introduced the five winners today - each receiving $125,000 to [...]
2020 Chicago Regional EDA University Center Showcase
The 2020 Chicago Regional EDA University Center Showcase was held this past month online, due to social distancing measures. The conference was hosted by the Center for Economic Development at Cleveland State University and covered things like small business entrepreneurship and the online economy. The videos and presentations have been [...]
Staff Spotlight: Dr. Nicholas Zingale
Nick Zingale, Ph. D., is an associate professor of Urban Studies at Cleveland State University and serves as both the Public Sector Liaison and the incoming Academic Director for the IOT Collaborative. Dr. Zingale’s primary interest includes how individuals adjust, interpret, and make meaning out of their life experiences. [...]
Riding the fourth wave to economic transformation
IoT Collaborative co-Executive Directors Shilpa Kedar and Nick Barendt are featured as guest bloggers in the May 29th, 2020 edition of Crain's Cleveland Business. The article explores the paths Greater Cleveland must take in order to capitalize on technological innovation, supported by a skilled workforce and research and development. [...]
Where in the World is IOTC?
Smart City Presentation at the University of Maryland’s National Center for Smart Growth
On September 26, 2019 Dr. Sasa Drezgic, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Rijeka and Dr. Nicholas Zingale, Associate Professor at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University presented their work on smart cities at the University of Maryland’s [...]
Digital Strategy for Manufacturers
A panel led by Dr. Ken Loparo, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University, was recently featured in Crain's Cleveland Business. Dr. Ken Loparo, IOTC Academic Director for Case Western Reserve University, moderated a panel of Northeast Ohio executives at the Digital Futures Conference [...]
Where in the World is IOTC?
Zingale Shares Research in Croatia “Smart Governments, Regions, and Cities” was the focus for the 2019 Economics of Digital Transformation (EDT) Conference. Organized annually by the University of Rijeka, the conference was held June 2nd-4th in Opatija, Croatia. Local and international attendees came [...]
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IOTC Partner Universities Awarded PIT-UN Funding
In October 2022, members from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and Cleveland State University (CSU) attended the PIT-UN Convening in New York City. Among those who attended were IOTC Co-Directors and PIT-UN designees, Nick Barendt and Shilpa Kedar. A highlight of the event was the announcement and celebration [...]
Cleveland Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center Partners with IOTC
In a press release published today, Case Western Reserve University announced that a federal institute for smart manufacturing has selected the Institute for Smart, Secure and Connected Systems (ISSACS) at Case Western Reserve University to lead a Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center (SMIC) in Cleveland. IOTC co-Executive Nick Barendt will direct [...]
CSU/CWRU INTERNET OF THINGS COLLABORATIVE ESTABLISHING PAIR OF TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH HUBS
$3.1 million grant from the Cleveland Foundation will support engaging with industry and community CLEVELAND (October 20, 2020)—Cleveland State University and Case Western Reserve University have received a $3.1 million, two-year grant from the Cleveland Foundation to further advance the Internet of Things Collaborative (IOTC), an initiative forged [...]
Dr. Kenneth Loparo on Navigating Life During the Pandemic
Dr. Kenneth A. Loparo, the Arthur L. Parker Professor at the Case School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, joined NPR host Rick Jackson on August 10, 2020, to discuss how people can use community-level risk assessment from data-driven modeling to help with making day-to-day decisions during the pandemic. [...]
Google.org Impact Challenge
The IoT Collaborative congratulates the winners of the Google.org Impact Challenge Ohio and recognizes the great work the nonprofits do across the state to create economic opportunity. The IoT Collaborative’s Co-Executive Director, Shilpa Kedar served as a judge and introduced the five winners today - each receiving $125,000 to [...]
IOTC’s Dr. Kenneth Loparo to Lead Team Selected for DoE CESMII Innovation Project Award
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII) announced selections for five projects to identify ways to use smart-manufacturing technologies to improve productivity, precision, performance and energy efficiency. A team led by Dr. Kenneth Loparo, Arthur L. Parker Professor in the Department of Electrical, [...]