Joe Barkai is a consultant, speaker, author and blogger, charting market strategies for a connected world: Internet of Things, connected cars, innovation and product lifecycle.

Joe has more than 30 years of experience in helping organizations chart their product and market strategy. His background at the union of business and technology with hundreds of organizations across diverse industries, provides a unique ability to “connect the dots” and clearly articulate the always-evolving business value of technology. Joe’s focus is on researching, forecasting and the strategic application of industrial Internet of Things (IoT) technology and the union between IoT, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Service Lifecycle Management (SLM), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and equipment diagnostics and prognostics methods.