Talk delivered to the DECT forum in Barcelona on May 30th 2016.

1. Horizontal thinking
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
designswarm
alex@designswarm.com
@iotwatch

2. About me
Open source hardware
distribution & design services
Consultant Founder
Tinker London
(2007-2010)
designswarm Good Night Lamp

3. Over 10 years of working with R&D & research clients

4. 10% projects
8K members
11 events / year
meetup.com/iotlondon
London Internet of
Things Meetup
(2011-)
Design-led exploration
of the future of home living.
thegoodhome.org
The Good Home

5. A moment
of reflection

6. (Insert as appropriate)

7. (with plenty of capital
investment)

8. (but that was ages ago)

9. (so now what do we do?)

10. How do you create the conditions for
change

11. How do you create the conditions for
possible success

12. Let’s ask R&D

13. Let’s ask everyone else.

14. Developed in 1999, open sourced in 2011, now an OASIS standard.

15. Emerged out of government funding in the area of internet of things.
Applying to British Standards Institute as a ‘Smart city’ standard.

16. Napa project (2014) developed hardware to switch between Galileo & GPS
on the go for the visually impaired.

17. The UK Catapults are government funded to ensure innovation models between
SMEs, academia and corporations.

18. GE opened up thousands of its patents to the Quirky inventor community
in 2013.

19. Let’s change.

20. The Things Network are helping grow a global community around LoRa that
companies like Sigfox struggle with as they focus on the deployment.

21. The Arduino & Rpi have helped grow an ecology of
open hardware platform development.

22. Let’s learn

24. (a word of warning)

25. In 2011, Pachube (founded in 2007) a data sharing platform for user
hardware projects was sold to LogMeIn and turned into Xively.

26. Community-less, business-focused, the Xively community is dying, its
London office shut and leadership team have left.

27. Think about
What you can share with the world (and support well)
What others have that you could engage with (and grow or continue
to support)
Who you could work with outside your immediate circle.
How you could get closer to other’s processes.
How you create the conditions for success but don’t expect it at all
costs.

28. Language affects ideas
Avoid saying: ‘We tried that 15 years ago.’
Try saying: ‘Who can we show this to now?’
Avoid saying: ‘I’ve never heard of them’
Try saying: ‘Oooh I’ve never heard of them!’

29. Good Luck.
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
designswarm
alex@designswarm.com
@iotwatch
@GNLamp
@iotlondon
@GoodHomeProject
@KnowCards