Keynote Speakers ew conference

Kevin Dallas, Wind River  

Keynote: Challenges of Digital Transformation for the new intelligent edge (Thursday, 04 March 2021, 15:30 - 16:10)

Digital transformation comes at the intelligent edge, providing faster, more responsive computing. As computing becomes cheaper and smaller, this kind of system becomes ubiquitous. But edge computing comes with challenges. Edge devices have vast variations between devices, many of them having been tailor-made for a specific purpose. Integrating the system for applications becomes more difficult. Another example is security. While access to physical data centers can be limited, edge devices are located in disparate locations, where they can be accessed and dismantled. To combat all of these issues, digital frameworks and architectures have to be examined and restructured to adapt to the new workspace. This requires new skills, such as deployment paradigms, to keep up with the edge. Combining skills, toolchains, methods from both cloud environments and embedded domains becomes increasingly important. We need to rethink how these systems are built, and retool ourselves to prepare for them.