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Tim Brown Is Selling the Afterlife of Your Phone
The Apkudo revenue chief works in the unglamorous, consequential minutes after a phone is returned - when data, trust and a second life are all still up for grabs.
Susanna Song Still Works on Deadline - Now the Story Is 115 Million Connected Devices
The former CBS reporter moved from live television into cybersecurity and IoT without surrendering her newsroom reflex: know the audience, find the stakes, and make the complicated matter before the clock runs out.
Omer Brookstein Is Teaching the Machines in the Meeting Room to Phone Home
He started programming control systems at 14, learned the AV trade inside the family business, and built Xyte after a pandemic wrecked the original plan. Now his bet is that the quiet machines around us should behave less like furniture and more like software.
John Grady
John Grady is the CEO of Ayla Networks, a San Jose-based IoT and smart home software platform that powers over 15 million connected devices and 250 billion annual transactions for brands like SharkNinja, De'Longhi, Canadian Tire, and Schneider Electric. A Boston College and Indiana University Kelley School of Business graduate with 20+ years in technology sales and operations, Grady rose through roles at Brown Brothers Harriman, Covad Communications, Pace PLC, ChargePoint, and Solar Mosaic before joining Ayla in January 2022 as Head of Global Sales and ascending to CEO in 2024. Under his leadership, Ayla was ranked the #1 US-based Smart Home Platform by ABI Research and announced a major Google Cloud partnership in April 2025.
Remko Vos
Remko Vos is the CEO of CUJO AI, a cybersecurity and network intelligence platform protecting over 60 million homes globally by monitoring more than 3 billion connected devices. A Dutch-born engineer turned MIT Sloan MBA, Vos spent five years at Comcast before stepping into the CEO chair in April 2022, bringing rare firsthand experience as a CUJO AI customer to a company that blocks over 17,000 threats per minute. Under his leadership, CUJO AI has landed Tier-1 wins including T-Mobile USA and EE, earned recognition as a Cybersecurity Visionary at RSAC 2025, and become a voice at forums from the World Economic Forum to MWC.
Matt Webb
Matt Webb is a London-based designer, technologist, and product inventor who has spent 25+ years at the intersection of technology and ideas. Co-founder and former CEO of BERG (whose Little Printer became an IoT icon acquired by MoMA NY), former MD of R/GA's IoT accelerator, and author of the pop-neuroscience classic Mind Hacks, Webb now runs Acts Not Facts and co-founds Inanimate, making playful AI hardware like Poem/1 - a clock that writes a new rhyming poem every minute - while writing his blog Interconnected for over 25 years without stopping.