IoT For All Podcast

In this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Patrick Ferriter, SVP of Product at Agora, joins Ryan Chacon to discuss building real-time voice AI experiences, even on bad networks. The conversation covers what physical AI means, moving from controlled demos to the real world, architecting a voice AI experience for high latency networks, physical AI uses cases, AI companions, using edge or cloud for AI, privacy and security, and the future of conversational AI devices.

Patrick Ferriter is the SVP of Product at Agora. He brings over 20 years of product management experience, having led roadmaps, product developments, and go-to-market strategies across media, VoIP, and telecom companies. He is experienced in scaling companies from $10M to $100M to $1B+ in revenue.

Agora (Nasdaq: API) is the global leader in real-time engagement, providing developers with simple, flexible, and powerful APIs to embed real-time conversational AI, voice, video, interactive live streaming, and chat into their applications and IoT devices. Agora powers over 80 billion minutes of voice and video per month on its ultra-low latency software-defined real-time (SD-RTN) network, and over 3 billion devices.

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In this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Yanshi Tao, VP of Public Safety & Vision Systems at Jabil, joins Ryan Chacon to discuss the future of AI-powered public safety. The conversation covers the shift from surveillance to intelligence, what makes AI-powered public safety possible, automated decision-making, flock cameras, balancing security and privacy, and the technical challenges of AI solutions.

Yanshi Tao leads a multinational business spanning Asia, Europe, and North America, with responsibility for up to $2 billion in annual revenue and full P&L ownership. Throughout his career, Tao has built trusted C-suite partnerships, developed and executed long-term growth strategies, and successfully expanded business performance through commercial transformation, operational optimization, and supply chain innovation. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, an MBA from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and completed the Executive Leadership Program at UC Berkeley.

Jabil is a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Jabil's commitment extends beyond business success as the company strives to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

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In this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Wienke Giezeman, CEO and co-founder of The Things Industries, joins Ryan Chacon to discuss how IoT is finally delivering what it promised ten years ago. The conversation covers what changed technically and commercially, the ROI of IoT, why deployments failed in the early days, criticism of IoT, what companies still get wrong about LoRaWAN, and The Things Conference 2026.

Wienke Giezeman is the CEO and co-founder of The Things Industries, one of the leading LoRaWAN infrastructure providers worldwide. Alongside CTO and co-founder Johan Stokking, he has spent the past 10 years enabling enterprises to build scalable, secure sensor-to-cloud solutions using LoRaWAN.

The Things Industries provides enterprise-grade LoRaWAN solutions that help organizations worldwide deploy and scale secure IoT infrastructure. Its LoRaWAN Network Server, The Things Stack, powers millions of devices across industries such as utilities, logistics, agriculture, and smart cities.

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In this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Martin Nord, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Com4, joins Ryan Chacon to discuss IoT in 2026 and what enterprises need to consider. The conversation covers what enterprise IoT buyers actually need, the crowded IoT connectivity market, the 2G/3G sunset, how roaming in IoT is broken in subtle ways, the nature of IoT connectivity failures, prioritizing financial stability in IoT partners, satellite IoT, and the future of IoT connectivity.

With over 20 years of experience in the cellular and IoT industry, Martin Nord is a visionary leader and passionate technologist. He has a proven track record of driving innovation and leading high-performance teams. As CTO and PTO, Martin plays a pivotal role in shaping Com4's product vision and strategy. He oversees the entire product lifecycle, ensuring that Com4’s solutions not only meet market demands but also drive value for customers in an ever-evolving IoT landscape. By combining his deep technical expertise with a customer-focused approach, Martin ensures that Com4’s offerings remain at the forefront of innovation in IoT connectivity.

Com4, part of Wireless Logic Group, is a world leading provider of managed IoT connectivity services, with over 13 years of experience working with enterprises around the world. Com4 exists to provide not only the right tools but the most fitting solutions to its customers for beneficial IoT connectivity and control. Customers around the world trust them to cost-efficiently build and operate both large-scale and smaller IoT connectivity projects. All SIM cards are delivered, already activated within a few business days. Com4 supports all radio standards (2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G as well as LPWA technologies such as LTE-M and NB-IoT).

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In this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Matthias Wagner, Founder and CEO of Flux, joins Ryan Chacon to discuss AI-assisted hardware design for IoT. The conversation covers the historical challenges of hardware design, the current capabilities of AI tools, compressing the hardware iteration cycle, integration challenges, the limitations of AI, and enabling IoT innovation.

Matthias Wagner is the Founder and CEO of Flux, the world’s first AI hardware engineer. He is a maker, a hands-on technical leader, and an entrepreneur leading a grassroots revolution in hardware design. Under his leadership, Flux has grown to more than 1M sign-ups and has powered more than 6M hardware projects to date.

Flux is the world’s first AI hardware engineer. Just as AI coding has transformed software development, Flux is transforming hardware design with agentic AI by allowing anyone to design PCBs with natural language prompts. Flux is able to understand schematics, PCB layouts, and component constraints, helping teams design, review, and optimize hardware in real time. It makes professionals faster and gives non-engineers the ability to build products they could only dream of in the past. With more than 1 million sign-ups and more than 6 million projects created to date, Flux is pioneering a new era of AI-native hardware design.

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