In his keynote address. Kwon offered industry and policymakers two principles in addition to a ‘human-centered’ approach: to be open and collaborative. He also warned that sector-specific regulations would inherently fragment the development of IoT, impeding devices and platforms from connecting to each other.
As part of efforts to pursue cross-sector dialogue and partnerships, he announced Samsung’s role as a co-founder of the newly launched National IoT Strategy Dialogue, alongside Intel. The launch of the Dialogue, to be hosted by the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), coincides with the new Department of Commerce IoT proceeding and the pending bicameral and bipartisan Developing Innovation and Growing the Internet of Things (DIGIT) Act in Congress. This would establish a working group of federal agency leaders to provide recommendations to Congress on how to plan for and encourage the proliferation of the IoT in the US, in consultation with industry.
