Biography

Charlie Key is co-founder and CEO of Losant. He focuses his day-to-day responsibilities on working with Losant’s enterprise partners and customers. Charlie has spent more than a dozen years in the software and technology space. He has worked with a variety of Fortune 500 companies to build business-changing software and applications.

Charlie is able to demonstrate the value of IoT by connecting the properties of technology to critical business outcomes. His unique background as a CEO and engineer enables him to eloquently communicate how IoT can serve as a viable solution to common business challenges, including how to survive and compete in an ever-changing landscape.

In addition to starting Losant, his team and he has founded Modulus and Switch on the Code (SOTC). Modulus was a robust general platform for running software at scale anywhere around the world. Modulus was acquired by Progress Software ($PRGS) in 2014, where Charlie stayed on as Senior Director of Business Development. SOTC was primarily a content site for tutorials on how to create software with a variety of technologies. In 2012 SOTC was acquired by Tech.pro for the content library and site traffic.

Description

Learn how you can improve your spaces using innovative IoT approaches to enhance environments, understand resource utilization, and create safer places for everyone. In this presentation, I’ll talk about the practical solutions that leading enterprises have implemented to make their environments intelligent.

These applications include:

• Tracking valuable indoor assets across facilities.
• Utilizing smart lighting for real-time notifications.
• Understanding resource utilization of edge computers.
• Contract tracing for individuals.

Curious what’s possible and how to get started, then this is the talk for you