Special report: Tour New Design Center of Excellence with Rich Nass Inside Avnet's Design Center of Excellence in San Jose Avnet recently opened its Design Center of Excellence, a place where customers and partners can see their ideas transform into products. Avnet is supplying all the tools needed to develop a prototype and even transfer that design into manufacturing.  Introducing the Avnet Design Center of Excellence Rich Nass, Executive Vice President of Embedded Computing Design, joins VIPs for an advance reveal of Avnet’s Design Center of Excellence. The driving force behind the Center Scott MacDonald, Global Vice President of Integrated Solutions with Avnet, talks about the makings of Avnet's Design Center of Excellence. Intel and the virtuous cycle of IoT growth Dhiraj Mallick, Vice President of Architecture & Chief Technology Officer of the Data Center Group at Intel, explains his company's vision of a virtuous cycle of growth in the Internet of Things.  Kontron's IoT evolution Kontron’s General Manager Kevin Rhoads discusses IoT with Rich Nass, Executive Vice President of Embedded Computing Design, at Avnet's Design Center of Excellence. Touch it, feel it, and login to it with Supermicro Rich interviews Ismail Sayeeduddin, Vice President of Supermicro, at the grand opening of Avnet's Design Center of Excellence. Taking a tour of the Avnet Design Center of Excellence Rich Nass interviews John Beimfohr, Vice President of Global Integration at Avnet, who takes him on a quick tour, including review of an intelligent license plate camera. Microsoft customers can transform IoT Michael Kuptz, General Manager of IoT Device Sales at Microsoft, discusses IoT transformation along with the value their customers receive by using Avnet's Design Center of Excellence. Inside the "brilliant blender" with MSC Technologies  Dominik Ressing, President of MSC Technologies, explains how companies are taking everyday objects - like a blender - and building IoT service models around them with help from the Avnet Design Center of Excellence. Get the design training and solutions you need Michael Kuptz, General Manager of IoT Device Sales at Microsoft, explains the solutions and training available at the Avnet’s Design Center of Excellence. Prototype to production at the Avnet Design Center of Excellence Brandon Quintana, Director of Advanced Solutions Engineering at Avnet, discusses prototyping. Mr. Dell's deal on IoT Kirsten Billhardt, Marketing Manager for IoT at Dell, discusses investment in the IoT, how the company's partnership with Avnet is fostering such endeavors, and hints at some CES 2018 news while speaking with Rich. Behind the scenes John Fossett, General Manager of Integration at Avnet's Design Center of Excellence in San Jose, takes Rich on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Center's production facility.