During his time at Microsoft, Jim was asked to write a beginners curriculum for IoT. This is now a popular open source project with 13.5k stars on GitHub, contributors working on translations, partnership with a hardware company, is available as a book published in Chinese by TsingHua press, and was described by the CEO of a large IoT company as the best IoT training that exists today.

In this session Jim will walk through the learnings from this project - covering how he navigated a large corporation to get multiple teams involved, how he worked with outside organizations to provide hardware, how he empowered students to contribute to boost their CVs, and how he kept the momentum going.

This is a story from the coal face that will share insights into bringing such a project to life, and will share knowledge useful for anyone thinking to undertake a medium sized open source project at a large corporation.