Thought Leadership

After Embedded World 2018

Every year I depart from Embedded World with a feeling of awe – mainly inspired by the scale of the event. I observe that, this year, the show saw over 32,000 visitors from 78 countries. Although the show halls are large, this number explains why the place seemed to be packed all the time. The conference, as usual, was quite well managed and also very busy. All of my talks were well attended. Again, the numbers are impressive: over 2000 participants and speakers from 52 countries.

Mentor was quite active at the show …

On the Mentor booth, a selection of technologies were on show from various parts of the company. One particular area of interest is industrial automation, which, of course, is tied in with IoT. The announcement of Mentor Embedded IoT Framework was made at the time of the show and this technology sparked a lot of interest. My colleague, Ricardo Anguiano made a demonstration, which can be seen in a report by Rich Nass or here:

My own contribution to the event was primarily 4 presentations in the conference. I provided details of these in a previous posting.

Embedded World is in my diary for next year …

UPDATE: Mentor won the VDC Research Embeddy Award for Software!

Colin Walls

I have over thirty years experience in the electronics industry, largely dedicated to embedded software. A frequent presenter at conferences and seminars and author of numerous technical articles and two books on embedded software, I am a member of the marketing team of the Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division, and am based in the UK. Away from work, I have a wide range of interests including photography and trying to point my two daughters in the right direction in life. Learn more about Colin, including his go-to karaoke song and the best parts of being British: http://go.mentor.com/3_acv

More from this author

Leave a Reply

This article first appeared on the Siemens Digital Industries Software blog at https://blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com/embedded-software/2018/03/12/after-embedded-world-2018/