Piers Hogarth-Scott, national leader IoT at KPMG Digital Delta, has been appointed chairman of the executive council of the IoT Alliance Australia (IoTAA), the senior stakeholder advisory committee of the IoTAA.
He replace Communications Alliance CEO John Stanton who has held the positions since IoTAA was spun out of Comms Alliance in 2016.
The executive council is responsible for appointing IoTAA’s board of directors and providing guidance to IoTAA’s 12 workstreams: Smart Industries & Cities, Collaboration, Data Use, Availability & Privacy, Cyber Security & Network Resilience, Platforms & Interoperability, and IoT Start-ups.
It is a body of considerable size. The IoTAA website shows it having representatives from 28 organisations as members in January 2019. Hogarth-Scott has represented KPMG on the committee since October 2016 and has been national leader of IoT at KPMG Australia since 2015.
IoTAA CEO, Frank Zeichner, said Hogarth-Scott was “one of the pioneers of the industry and has built a leading IoT consulting practice at KPMG.”
Hogarth-Scott said he saw a key component of his role as “promoting collaboration at all levels between industry and government, across the SME community, start-ups and investors, between service providers and problem/opportunity owners.”
IoTAA originated as the Communications Alliance IoT Think Tank, launched in March 2015. It was spun out in January 2016to implement some of the recommendations of the Think Tank’s report on IoT in Australia, released in October 2015.
It is presently hosted and supported administratively by the University of Technology Sydney. Today it has more than 450 organisation members and 850 individual members.
