NTIA Plans September Workshop on IoT Benefits, Challenges, Government's Role

NTIA plans a workshop Sept. 1 on potential IoT benefits and challenges and the government's role in possibly helping advance those technologies. In a notice to be published in Thursday's Federal Register, the agency said it will post on its website a detailed agenda on the workshop, with several panels and speakers. The workshop, open to the public and scheduled for 9 a.m.-3 p.m., will provide input to the Department of Commerce's upcoming IoT green paper, the notice said. The meeting will be at the Patent and Trademark Office, 600 Dulany St., Alexandria, Virginia. In a blog post last week, Angela Simpson, NTIA deputy assistant secretary-communications and information, said (see 1608020060) the agency also is planning to launch a new multistakeholder process to help consumers better understand IoT products that support security upgrades -- building on a June request for comments on IoT benefits and challenges and one last year on cybersecurity.