Rob Tiffany
Research Director @ IDC • Author • Keynote Speaker • Father of IoT • Digital Twin Pioneer • Inventor of Hitachi Lumada IIoT • AI Builder • Navy Veteran
- Role
- Advisory Board Member at Iot World Today
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rob Tiffany
As a Research Director at IDC, Rob is a cloud infrastructure analyst and strategist. He\'s held executive leadership roles at Ericsson, Hitachi, and Microsoft and is a globally recognized pioneer and leader in IoT and Digital Twin technologies.As Vice President and Head of IoT Strategy at Ericsson, he drove 5G connection management with the IoT Accelerator and participated in global M&A activities. As Chief Technology Officer at Hitachi, he received the Presidential “Product of the Year” award for designing the Lumada Industrial IoT platform which landed in Gartner’s “Leaders” Magic Quadrant. Spending most of his career at Microsoft, Rob was Director and Global Technology Lead for the Azure IoT cloud platform which also made it to Gartner’s “Leaders Quadrant.” Prior to Microsoft, he co-founded NetPerceptor developing one of the industry’s earliest Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) platforms for smartphones.As a bestselling author and keynote speaker, Rob is a frequently sought-after source of insights globally. He’s been featured in Wired, Forbes, CIO, Fierce Wireless, Inc. Magazine, Dataconomy, Thinkers360, Onalytica, Mobile World Live, Techonomy, and SXSW.Rob is a U.S. Navy Submarine veteran.
Experience
Advisory Board Member
Oct 2020 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Delivering Internet of Things, Digital Twin, AI, and Digital Transformation content for in-person and online events.
Education
Excelsior University
Bachelor of Science - BS
Skills
- Windows Phone
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Mobile Devices
- Submarines
- Cloud Computing
- Navy
- Entrepreneurship
- Mobile Strategy
- Internet of Things
- Mobile Technology
- Strategic Planning
- Architectures
- Javascript
- Windows
- Integration
- Html5
- Sqlite
- .net Framework
- C#
- .net
- Strategy
- Data Synchronization
- Microsoft Technologies
- Databases
- Architecture
- Start-Ups
- Soa
- Digital Marketing
- Wireless
- Wcf
- Public Speaking
- Product Management
- Microsoft Azure
- Management
- Consulting
- Social Media Marketing
- Wordpress
- Sql
- Asp.net
- IT Strategy
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