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Karen Field

Karen Field is Executive Director, Content for Penton’s new Internet of Things Initiative and IoT Emerge event. She has 25+ years experience developing content for an audience of technical and business professionals and a reputation for challenging conventional thinking and taking a novel approach in the creation of world class editorial and conference programming.

Most recently she launched the Internet of Things Summit at the Embedded Systems Conference and has covered the emerging issues associated with the Internet of Things extensively for EE Times, EDN, and Embedded.com.

Karen has a mechanical engineering degree and a master’s of business degree from the University of Minnesota and Boston University.

Recent articles by Karen Field

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8 Questions to Go from IoT Vision to Reality

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The Downside of Getting Closer to Your Customer

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7 Traits of Highly Successful IoT Implementers

Disrupted

How to Deal with IoT? Play or Be Played.

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Confused About IIoT Standards? Then Don’t Miss This Event.

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A Glimpse at the Future of the IIoT, From the People Creating It

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Once Cutting Edge, Smartphone Sensors Not Cutting It for the IoT

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The Urgent Need to Improve Industrial Internet Security

Mixed-reality technology reminiscent of Minority Report is coming to the industrial sector.

Minority Report Meets the Factory Floor

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Why Not Deploy Your Own Network? Well, It Might Suck

We are looking for speakers for IoT Emerge.

IoT Emerge 2016: Call for Speakers Now Open

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In Free Software Era, Providers Look to Get Paid

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Who You Think Rules the IoT Universe

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Cisco Investments Tops List of Big Spenders in IoT Space

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IIoT Momentum Growing, But Concerns (Real or Perceived) Linger

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IIC Testbeds Take IoT Use Cases Out of the Lab and into the Real World

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A Cloud-Based Solution for Managing Cellular Network OPEX Costs

Industrie 4.0 Meets Industrial Internet Panel Discussion at Hannover Messe 2016

BAM! POW! Industrie 4.0 Meets the Industrial Internet!

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Partnering Up, Dell Announces Shift from IT to IoT

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With Engineers Under Pressure to Deliver, Integrated IoT Solutions Proliferate

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