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Rex St. John
Dec 2019Armsummit

Arm AIoT Dev Summit

Two days at the Computer History Museum covering IoT from edge to cloud, intelligent and autonomous machines, and AI from development through deployment — half of it on stage, half of it hands-on with hardware in the room.

Numbers

500+
Developers

Two days, December 2nd and 3rd 2019, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Free hardware for every attendee, because a developer conference where nobody leaves holding a board is a conference about hardware rather than one that produces any.

The split was deliberate. Keynotes and panels set the frame — the latency arithmetic that makes the case for edge compute, the cost table that decides which robotics platform a hobbyist can actually start on, Ciira wa Maina on what deploying AI looks like where bandwidth and power are the binding constraints. Then everyone went into a room and built.

The last photo is the one I like most, and nobody scheduled it. People in the lounge between sessions, assembling a drone frame on a coffee table. That is the only reliable sign that a developer event worked.

Photos

  • A packed workshop room with every table covered in open laptops and development boards
    The half of the programme that mattered most. Laptops open, boards out, everyone building the same thing at once.
  • A three-person panel on stage beneath a slide reading "Deploying AI Solutions in Africa" by Ciira wa Maina of Dedan Kimathi University and Data Science Africa
    Ciira wa Maina on deploying AI in Africa — the session that most changed how people in the room framed constraint.
  • A speaker beside a slide comparing types of DIY robocars across computer vision and deep learning approaches, with hardware and cost for each
    A full cost breakdown of every DIY robocar platform, from a $90 OpenMV racer up. Price is the adoption curve.
  • A speaker on a dark stage presenting a latency breakdown slide headed "This is a Cloud-scale Problem", totalling 775 milliseconds per event
    775 milliseconds per event, round trip. The whole argument for edge compute in one slide.
  • A second workshop room mid-session, attendees at laptops with presenters working the room
  • Four attendees gathered around a laptop working through a problem together during a break
  • Attendees in the lounge assembling a drone frame on a coffee table scattered with components and Arm stickers
    Hardware in the lounge. Nobody scheduled this one.

Sources

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