Kevin Ashton
Biography
Kevin Ashton is the co-founder of the Auto-ID Center at MIT, has led three successful startups of tech companies including Zensi, and is the author of How To Fly A Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery, which was described by the Toronto Post as "the last book about creativity you’ll ever need to read,” getting named as the 2015 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year. Within the fields of science and engineering, he is predominately known for coining the term Internet of Things, which describes the phenomenon in which all objects will inevitably become linked to the internet. Today, the theme presented by the Internet of Things has impacted businesses to incorporate higher standards of technology into their operations. In addition, this increase in objects becoming connected to the internet has created a heavy demand amid engineers and scientists of a broad spectrum, and has affected the global community in a dramatic fashion.