In the session, Vijay Sankaran, Manager, Enterprise Technology at Ford Motor Company will discuss the emerging ecosystem of Pervasive Computing and the role that emerging force will play in the processes of research and innovation.  Pervasive Computing represents a vision of modern computing and communications that is represented by an environment where powerful computing devices outnumber people, are frequently mobile and embedded in seemingly non-digital objects, and are connected to advanced networks such as Internet2, and also each other.