Day 1 Speaker

After briefly retiring from corporate life after a 43-year career that included 26 years of Big Company life mixed in with an exciting 17-year entrepreneurial journey, George is currently the Founder and CEO of InfoNet of Things LLC, an IoT solutions company and also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Turbostart Global , a global venture fund and accelerator focused on investing in and enabling early-stage tech-driven startups. Prior to that, as Founder, President, and CEO of GlobeRanger, George was responsible for growing the company from a venture-backed start-up based in Dallas to a global player in the RFID and IoT markets. GlobeRanger was acquired by Fujitsu in May 2014. George continued to serve as its CEO, guiding the company through its integration phase and global growth. George’s vision of the ‘enterprise edge’, born out of his pioneering work in the wireless world, is the foundation of GlobeRanger’s market leading iMotion platform. Prior to co-founding GlobeRanger in 1999, Brody served as Vice President and General Manager of Nortel Networks’ Wireless Network Solutions division where he managed a series of entrepreneurial start-ups including Wireless New Business Ventures, a business incubator. During his tenure at Nortel, as Vice President of Wireless Technology, Brody was responsible for its global wireless product development programs and the management of the Bell Northern Research Labs in Richardson Texas, a world-class research and development organization that employed more than 4000 professionals. Brody holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He also earned master’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Brody is a member of the advisory council for the Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas, a Charter Member and Board Member of TiE Dallas and a founding member of its flagship Angel Network called TiE Dallas Angels. Brody currently serves as the President and Director of IISc Foundation dedicated to helping his alma-mater, the Indian Institute of Science. Brody was inducted into the Tech Titans Hall of Fame and was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from his Alma-Mater, the Indian Institute of Science, both in 2024. His current professional interests lie in the areas of entrepreneurship, angel investment and the creation of new ventures at the intersection of wireless technology with medical and enterprise applications involving IoT, 5G, AI as well as Augmented Reality/Virtual reality.