Jacob Loverich is the Chief Product Officer at KCF Technologies, a company providing predictive machinery health monitoring solutions.  He has spent the last 10 years developing core technologies that are foundational to the industrial IoT including sensor, wireless communication, and energy harvesting technologies. He is currently leading KCF Technologies in efficiently capitalizing on the information embedded in the 126 billion data points that their sensors acquired in 2015.  Jacob’s understanding of the industrial IoT is grounded by his practical background as a machinist, his Doctoral work in smart materials and optimization, experience in machine design at IBM, and MEMS sensor work as a fellow at Kyoto University, Japan.