IIC Journal of Innovation 7th Edition | Page 100

What’s New at the IIC I NDIVIDUAL C ONTRIBUTOR A WARD The Steering Committee awards program recognizes some of the innovative contributions driven by IIC members. The award category for this quarter was the Technical Innovation Award. The award was given to Mr. Dirk Slama (Bosch Software Innovations). Dirk was recognized by his peers for his leadership and innovative work for the Business Strategy and Solutions Working Group. His nomination cited his ability to define and execute focused projects meaningful to the industry. Specifically, his contributions to business modeling and his initiative to build the I 3 C portal as part of the Industrial Internet Interoperability Coalition (I 3 C), a member initiative within the Industrial Internet Consortium IIC members gain experience they could never have as a non-member. They experience member meetings unlike any local meet-up groups. Looking for ideas on how to get involved and make a difference?      N EW VIDEOS We have seven new videos featuring and promoting the work of IIC Members. These are available on the IIC public website, and they may also be used by members to bring additional visibility to the work of featured employees and the overall IIC ecosystem. Be sure to check out these great promotional tools featuring many familiar faces:  Business Value of Membership  Why We Build Testbeds  Journal of Innovation  IIoT Challenges & Opportunities  Industrial Analytics Framework  Security Demonstrator, in conjunction with Plattform Industrie 4.0  Importance of Time Sensitive Networking/TSN Testbed Demo IIC Journal of Innovation V ALUE OF P ARTICIPATION - 99 -      Engage your customers and end users by inviting them to IIC Public Forums, or consider testbed participation. Help increase IIC presence at vertical industry events by referring us to program committees and applying to CFPs. Promote testbeds and collaborate with testbed teams, nominate your testbeds for strategic industry awards. Explore new and engage with existing liaison organizations. Create education and awareness of IIC foundational documents through social media and on your public websites. Promote more cross-IIC integration by contributing Use Cases, Experience Reports and Insights documents. Invite additional participation within your organizations – solution architects, marketers, PR, product managers and technologists (to name a few) can all participate in various IIC Working and Task Groups. Map foundational documents to verticals. Engage your marketing team with the IIC Marketing Working group to learn about Events, Forums, Speaking Opportunities, Webinars, etc. Promote yourself and your colleagues as IIoT advocates/evangelists.