About
Keeping Over-the-Air Updates for firmware dependable has been a major challenge in the fight to reduce servicing costs and improve the security lifecycle of IoT devices. But now, a flood of new techniques is coming to the rescue, including signed firmware, A/B partitioning, local caching, hardware keys, and bootloading. This session will discuss how networks and firmware are combining to take the fear out of OTA updates.

Moderator: Matthew Duke-Woolley, Technology Researcher, Beecham Research
Panelists:
- John Alexander, General Manager, Techship Inc.
- Bob Blumenscheid, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Digi International
- Marco Stracuzzi, VP Product Management, Cellular IoT, Telit Cinterion
When
Thursday, October 30, 2025 · 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (US & Canada) (GMT -4:00)
Presenters
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Matthew Duke-Woolley
Technology Researcher, Beecham Research
Matthew Duke-Woolley is a Technology Researcher at Beecham Research, specialising in IoT, telecoms, and edge computing. His work focuses on market trends, technical challenges, and commercial opportunities across B2B and B2B2X technology sectors. With a background in IT support for enterprise, NHS, and Police systems, Matthew brings practical, real-world experience to his analysis and industry engagement.
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John Alexander
General Manager, Techship Inc.
John Alexander, General Manager at Techship Inc, serves the embedded wireless community with quality products and services. John has spent his career as both a manufacturer and supplier learning how to address the unique challenges of bringing a new device to market. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his family and enjoys spending time outdoors.
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Bob Blumenscheid
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Digi International
Bob Blumenscheid is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Digi with over three decades of experience in technology fields. His roles have included sales engineering and sales management as well as product marketing and business development. In his second stint at Digi, Bob plays a key role in driving product marketing for Digi embedded products.
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Marco Stracuzzi
VP Product Management, Cellular IoT, Telit Cinterion
Marco Stracuzzi is the VP Product Management, Cellular IoT and is responsible for working with product leadership and sales teams to execute go-to-market strategies that drive global awareness and adoption of Telit Cinterion’s products and solutions. Marco identifies customer use cases, generates product specifications and builds business cases for new products. He also synthesizes and analyzes the competitive landscape to drive Telit’s future product strategy and roadmap. Marco started at Telit in 2012, during this time he has held various positions in project and product management. Before Telit, Marco was a technical trainer and professional services engineer with K Labs. K Labs specializes in information technology and telecommunications technical training with a focus on cloud computing, LTE, mobile networks, performance testing and more. Marco graduated with honors from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in telecommunications and engineering.
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