When Scott Everett started pitching his company, Eigen Innovations, more than five years ago, he was trying to explain to rooms of manufacturing executives and potential investors about the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT).

It was an industry that was going to be worth huge amounts of money, and he knew it.

“I remember some of the first pitches that I gave about how the Industrial Internet Of Things is going to be worth trillions of dollars and this is what’s happening, and how artificial intelligence and machinery is going to be such a powerful component of this,” says Everett, the company’s co-founder and CEO.

“There were just crickets in the room.”

But now in 2019, the industry is more than listening. . . .

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