Oakland, California, and Portland Maine. Deloitte released a collective assessment showing 86% of enterprises are looking toward smart factories as the dominate driver of competition by 2025. However, 65% reported they have not made much, if any, progress. Element and HighByte  are delivering an integrated solution based on AWS's Industrial Data Fabric. "Together, HighByte and Element leverage the power of AWS to provide industrial organizations a solution to free their trapped plant data and turn it into business value," said Andy Bane, CEO of Element.

Off to Seattle, where, if it were back in my day, I would be watching Gary Payton lob it up there to Shawn Kemp, but the past is behind us. Although it is nice to reminisce, the past should not bind us. According to Seamus Heaney in his epic “The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone”, he writes, “Bear with the present; what will be will be. / The future is cloth waiting to be cut.” And here at our stay in Seattle, we will be in the moment with AWS IoT and take a little peak of that cloth waiting to be cut.