Our guest Taha Memon is the founder and CEO of Dunia and CloudiTwins. He has over 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur, speaker and as a business development consultant to startups in Pakistan and the US.  In this episode, Taha and Bruce discuss:

• The tech behind smart contracts.
• How to create a smart contract and if this means lawyers will soon be made obsolete.
• The role of platforms (middleware) to deploy smart contracts.
• The Golden Triangle: the valuable connection between smart products – smart business models – smart contracts.
• A few interesting use cases for smart contracts.
• The benefits, risks and minefields of smart contract deployment.
• A real estate case study that quantifies the value and cost of smart contracts.

Related links you may find useful:

• Season 2: Episodes and show notes
• Season 2 book: The Private Equity Digital Operating Partner
• Season 1: Episodes and show notes
• Season 1 book: IoT Inc
• Training: Smart  digital transformation certification

Our guest Daniel Young is Senior Manager of Product Standards at Toshiba America and is part of Toshiba’s global Digital Innovation Team that is focused on accelerating the growth of Industrial IoT systems and developing best practices using industry standards.  In this episode, Daniel and Bruce discuss:

• The benefits of eliminating (subjective) human judgement.
• The unexpected but important HR benefits from improving defect inspection efficiency.
• Applicable use cases and industries for this type of AI inspection.
• The cost and time to implement an AI/machine learning inspection system.
• Different tech architecture options to implement machine learning inspection within the manufacturing facility.
• The role of inspection and AI standards.

Related links you may find useful:

• Season 2: Episodes and show notes
• Season 2 book: The Private Equity Digital Operating Partner
• Season 1: Episodes and show notes
• Season 1 book: IoT Inc
• Training: Smart  digital transformation certification