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Olivier Bloch

ISSAQUAH, United States

Advisor, fractional CTO, Explaining and helping you navigate the complex world of IoT from Embedded to Edge to Cloud to address your very needs and objectives . #IoT Advisor, #IoTShow host, ex-Microsoft, MSFT MVP

Available For: Advising, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Seattle, WA
Speaking Topics: Internet of Things, Digital Transformation, OT/IT integration, Edge Compute, Edge AI

Speaking Fee $7,500 (In-Person), $2,500 (Virtual)

Olivier Bloch Points
Academic 0
Author 209
Influencer 98
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 20
Total 327

Points based upon Thinkers360 patent-pending algorithm.

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Company Information

Company Type:
Minimum Project Size: Undisclosed
Average Hourly Rate: Undisclosed
Number of Employees: Undisclosed
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed
Media Experience: 19
Last Media Training: 01/11/2021
Last Media Interview: 05/13/2025

Areas of Expertise

Digital Transformation 32.14
Digital Twins 94.20
IoT 31.88

Industry Experience

Automotive
Cross Industry
High Tech & Electronics
Manufacturing
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Professional Services

Publications & Experience

1 Advisory Board Membership
OB Tech LLC
OB Tech LLC
May 01, 2023
Whether you are starting your digital transformation journey or already have an IoT solution, platform or product, OB Tech can help you achieve your goals.
With over 20 years of experience in the IoT industry, from Embedded to Edge to Cloud, OB Tech can advise you on strategy, review your architecture, propose plans for evangelizing your solution, engaging with IoT developer audiences, and create technical content such as demos, videos, and blogs.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

32 Article/Blogs
The Future of Edge AI: Why Neural Processing Units (NPUs) Are Changing the Game
Linkedin
February 18, 2026
While cloud computing remains excellent for training AI models, the real magic happens when AI interacts with our physical world at the edge. Running inference locally offers tremendous advantages: reduced latency, less dependency on connectivity, enhanced privacy, and significantly lower operational costs.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Why the Future of Edge AI is "Sparse": A Conversation with Sam Fok (femtoAI)
Linkedin
January 22, 2026
What struck me most was Sam's explanation of "Sparsity"—a brilliant concept inspired by how our brains actually work. While our artificial neural networks are often depicted as fully connected, dense systems, our biological brains are much more selective. They focus energy only where it matters.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

From Frustration to Innovation: How Scrutiny Debugger is Transforming Embedded Development
Linkedln
January 14, 2026
What makes Scrutiny Debugger great is its approach to debugging by instrumentation. Instead of relying on external hardware probes that halt execution, Scrutiny injects a small piece of code into your firmware that provides real-time insight without disrupting critical operations.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

A Decade of Impact: The Things Conference 2025 Confirms IoT's Maturity and Critical Role in the Future
Linkedin
October 26, 2025
What an incredible experience! I just got back from The Things Conference 2025 in Amsterdam, and honestly, the energy is still buzzing. It was an honor to be invited by co-founders Wienke Giezeman and Johan Stokking of The Things Industries to MC this special 10th-anniversary edition—a perfect opportunity to see how far our ecosystem has come

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

A Decade of Impact: The Things Conference 2025 Confirms IoT's Maturity and Critical Role in the Future
Linkedin
September 26, 2025
What an incredible experience! I just got back from The Things Conference 2025 in Amsterdam, and honestly, the energy is still buzzing. It was an honor to be invited by co-founders Wienke Giezeman and Johan Stokking of The Things Industries to MC this special 10th-anniversary edition—a perfect opportunity to see how far our ecosystem has come.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Unified Namespace vs Digital Twins: Stop Blurring the Lines
Linkedin
September 08, 2025
Let’s get one thing straight: Unified Namespace (UNS) is not a Digital Twin. And a Digital Twin is not just a pretty dashboard with a 3D model and some sensor data. Yet in far too many conversations, these two concepts get mashed together like they’re interchangeable. They’re not. And treating them as such is holding back real progress.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

What's an IoT Advisor and why you probably need one (even if you don't know it yet)
Linkedin
July 09, 2025
After 25 years in the tech industry—starting in embedded systems, evolving from the edge up to the Cloud, and eventually helping shape Microsoft’s Azure IoT platform—I’ve spent the last two years doing something a little different: being an IoT Advisor.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Poor quality data produces bad Vision AI models for the Edge
Linkedin
May 06, 2025
In the rapidly evolving world of Vision AI, the quality of your data can make or break the success of your projects, especially when working with constrained devices. As highlighted in a recent episode of the IoT Show, where I interviewed Kais, a computer vision engineer and a winner of the Edge AI Foundation's challenge, the focus on data quality, precise image labeling, and thorough annotations is paramount.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Charting the Path Forward in Computer Vision: Insights from the Edge AI Foundation's Wake Vision Data Challenge
Linkedln
April 24, 2025
In today's world, artificial intelligence is reshaping the tech landscape, and the Edge AI Foundation's recent challenge in computer vision has highlighted the thrilling potential of vision models and their transformative capabilities. This initiative united data scientists, AI engineers, and researchers to utilize open-source datasets for model training and refinement, driving innovation and partnership.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

A gentle introduction to IT and OT integration
Linkedln
February 10, 2025
Ever wondered about merging your operational activities with your IT infrastructure, business applications and the cloud? What if I told you you can consolidate your data and simplify complex processes with minimal effort. This is the promise of Azure IoT Operations.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

The 3 laws of Edge AI
Linkedln
January 31, 2025
If we were to create 3 laws to secure and regulate the development of Edge AI to ensure Edge AI is developed in a way that serves humans, that can't hurt humans, and that's contributing to preserving the environment, what would these 3 laws be?

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Unlock AI Power in less than 5KB with Neuton!
Linkedln
January 07, 2025
Ever pondered the feasibility of implementing machine learning on minuscule sensors? I know I did—and then I stumbled upon something truly extraordinary. Picture executing powerful AI models on just a handful of kilobytes and with limited power resources. It sounds like a plot from a futuristic sci-fi novel, doesn't it? But it's not fiction; it's reality. This development is poised to revolutionize our understanding of smart devices.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Was Predictive Maintenance Overhyped?
Linkedln
December 02, 2024
Have you ever been excited about a new app or technology, only to find out it’s not living up to the hype? Predictive maintenance was supposed to be the hero of IoT. Remember the buzz around it? But what if it’s not all it’s cracked up to be?

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Experiencing the Bomb Cyclone: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest Power Outage
Linkedln
November 25, 2024
Recently, a bomb cyclone swept through the Pacific Northwest, leaving half a million people without power for days (some are still without power almost a week later). As an IoT advisor working from home, this experience was quite a wake-up call. Here are some thoughts and lessons learned from my three days in the dark.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Can your water meter tell you there is a leak?
Linkedln
October 03, 2024
Underneath the surface of utility modernization lies a fascinating world of IoT, LPWAN technologies, and digital meters. In Germany, a city like Erfurt is already stepping into the future with advanced metering projects. But what's really going on? From the power challenges of LTE to the connectivity issues of Wi-Fi, the path to smart metering isn't straightforward.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Make your IoT connection "chic"
Linkedln
October 02, 2024
SCHC, or Static Context Header Compression, is a compression technology that makes your networking protocols more efficient. It's not just about compressing data and reducing the amount it has to go through a pipe. This technology is about optimizing for specific needs, like energy efficiency, accommodating more devices in a network, or lowering latency.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Don’t we all need and deserve a little rugged and customizable IoT gateway in our lives?
Linkedln
August 02, 2024
As seasoned developers, architects, and tech enthusiasts, we know that IoT isn’t just about smart fridges and talking toasters directly connected to the Internet. It’s about connecting the dots—sensors, devices, assets, equipment, and the rest of the world (a.k.a. the cloud or the Internet).

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Code Portability in IoT: The Meadow Advantage
OB Tech
May 24, 2024
Code portability is about creating code that can adapt and function across various platforms with ease. In the diverse ecosystem of IoT, code portability takes on a new meaning. It’s no longer “just” about running the same piece of code or binary on different CPU architectures or Operating Systems. Embedded systems, with limited resources, close hardware interaction and huge variety of form factors, present a whole new set of challenges to developers who aim at writing portable code.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Is mioty the next leap in LPWAN technology?
OB Tech LLC
May 08, 2024
As an IoT expert with a rich background in embedded development, I’ve witnessed the evolution of communication technologies that power our interconnected world. Today, I’m discovering mioty – a promising entrant in the Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) arena. Let’s dive into what makes mioty stand out, how it stacks up against LoRaWAN, and other LPWAN technologies and the scenarios where it can truly shine.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

POV: you’re an embedded developer trying Meadow for the first time
Linkedln
March 28, 2024
As promised, here is the first of a series of articles aiming at diving into Wilderness Labs’ Meadow and the promise of bringing a modern development framework and tools to IoT devices: .NET.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Is “Internet of Things Developer” still… a thing (pun intended)?
Linkedln
March 19, 2024
In a rapidly evolving tech landscape, recent decisions by industry giants to revise their IoT strategy (refocusing on mainstream services and industry standards instead of Cloud services and solutions specialized for IoT) have sparked discussions about the role and relevance of IoT developers.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

It's been a fun ride!
Linkedln
March 07, 2024
Yesterday I was informed that my position at Microsoft was eliminated. I have to admit that my feelings are mixed. I have really enjoyed my almost 17 years with Microsoft and really feel grateful for the chance I had to work with some of the greatest minds and colleagues one can hope to have.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Wilderness Labs takes .NET for microcontrollers seriously and you should too!
OB Tech LLC
February 09, 2024
What if I told you there was a way to use the full .NET library to code for microcontrollers and

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Industry 4.0 is a gold rush and Litmus Edge is a highbanker and dredge combo
OB Tech LLC
December 21, 2023
Industrial IoT data is like raw dirt, mud, and rocks: you know there is gold in there, but you need tools to extract it productively. If you are looking for a great highbanker and dredge combo for extracting gold from IIoT data, you might want to check out

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

RANT ALERT: Can someone go fix the real issue in Home Automation?
OB Tech LLC
September 26, 2023
Gosh, home automation is such a big mess! Why hasn’t anyone yet cracked the problem?

I believe that while the industry was focused on fighting over which communication protocol was the best for home automation (Zigbee, Z-Wave, BLE, Wi-Fi, RFID…), we all missed the point: Home Automation is not a communication protocol issue, it is a device modeling issue.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

59 Podcasts
Bringing Brains to the Edge: Unleashing NPUs with Mobilint
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February 18, 2026

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Sparsity: The Key to Ultra-Lean Edge AI with femtoAI
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January 22, 2026

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Next-level embedded debugging and testing (no probe required!) featuring Scrutiny Debugger
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January 14, 2026

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Fighting the Fakes: Is Your IoT Career Being Targeted by Scammers? feat. Jay Jones
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January 07, 2026

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Wi-Fi HaLow by Morse Micro: High bandwidth, long distancer for IoT 2.0
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December 16, 2025

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Random IoT chat with Leonard... and Marc
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December 11, 2025

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Software defined connectivity for IoT with Monogoto
Youtube
December 09, 2025
In this episode of the IoT Show, we sit down with Itamar Kunik, co-founder and CEO of Monogoto, to explore how connectivity is evolving from a static utility into a dynamic, software-defined asset.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Job market scoop: IoT is not immune of fake jobs and candidates
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December 04, 2025

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Simplifying IoT Security: Secure Boot, Updates & Edge AI with Window Snyder
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December 02, 2025

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The State of Multi-Radio IoT with DP Technics (Walter)
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November 27, 2025

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Do you know EmbedOps?
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November 25, 2025

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Edge AI made simpler for embedded developers
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November 14, 2025

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IoT Show live from IoT Stars in LA
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November 05, 2025

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Modern IoT platforms with Akenza and Tago
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October 28, 2025

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SAP and IoT walk into a bar...
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September 16, 2025

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I(o)t takes a village
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September 05, 2025

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No AI powered Smart Buildings without Digital Twins
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August 26, 2025

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Wienke tells us what's new at The Things Conference 2025
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August 19, 2025

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Guess who'll host The Things Conference 2025?
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July 29, 2025

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, IoT

Tech is Like a LEGO Store: Limitless Sensors & AI!
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July 21, 2025

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IT vs OT: Why These Tech Teams Are Always Fighting!
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July 03, 2025

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IT vs OT: Discovering We Speak a Different Language!
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July 02, 2025

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Could IoT solve the IT/OT Clash of The Clans
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July 01, 2025

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Is tech ready for Edge AI prime time?
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June 27, 2025

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Low Latency, High Impact, Huge Potential for Vision AI
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June 26, 2025

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