This video was recorded at virtual Code BEAM V America conference, which took place on 10-12th March 2021 - https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-v-america-2021/ More great virtual tech conferences - https://codesync.global​ --- EEF - looking back at 2020 and forward at 2021 by Peer Stritzinger --- SPEAKER - Peer Stritzinger Peer helped start the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation and serves it as a member of the board. He is Founder and Director of Peer Stritzinger GmbH which created GRiSP www.grisp.org, a platform to run Erlang on small embedded systems and focusses on building Automotive, Industrial IoT and Smart Cities applications and tries to use Erlang technology wherever useful. Also work package lead for H2020 LightKone EU research and innovation project, which researches Edge Computing. Peer's previous experience ranges from low level device drivers to functional languages in industrial and automotive applications, he initially mastered in physics at the Technical University Munich. He has been working self-employed as a developer since 1987 and also consulted in applied cryptography and protocol design and implementation. He is currently living and working in the idyllic countryside west of Munich, Bavaria. --- Code BEAM V America Website: https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-v-america-2021/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodeBEAMio