IoT Office Hours with InfluxDB 3

Session Date: Mar 17, 2026
Time: 8:00am (PT) | 3:00pm (GMT)

Got questions about your IoT data stack? We’ve got answers.

Struggling to get sensor data flowing reliably from your edge devices? Not sure how to structure your schema for thousands of Raspberry Pi nodes? Telegraf not parsing your JSON sensor payloads the way you expect?

Senior Sales Engineer, Ian Clark and Senior Developer Advocates Suyash Joshi and Cole Bowden are hosting an open Q&A session for anyone working with IoT data and InfluxDB. Come with your challenges: architecture decisions, edge device ingestion patterns, query optimization, data retention strategies, InfluxDB implementation questions, or anything else you’re working on, whether you’re prototyping a smart home setup or running an industrial fleet of thousands of sensors.

Come ready to talk about things like:

• Schema design for high-volume sensor data
• Getting MQTT, Telegraf, and InfluxDB playing nicely together
• Cardinality problems from device IDs, locations, or tag explosions
• Query optimization for real-time dashboards and alerting
• Data retention strategies and downsampling for long-running deployments

Enjoy an open conversation with engineers who’ve seen these problems before and want to help you solve them.

Not on InfluxDB 3 yet? No problem. This session is open to users on any version of InfluxDB, including Cloud Serverless, Cloud Dedicated, and V2.

Ian Clark

Senior Sales Engineer, InfluxData

Ian Clark is a Sales Engineer at InfluxData, where he works with clients ranging from seed-round startups to the Fortune 500. Prior to InfluxData, he was a Technical Solutions Consultant at Google. He holds a Master’s degree in statistics from Columbia University, bringing deep expertise in data architecture and statistical analysis to help enterprise customers design scalable time series solutions for industrial IoT and manufacturing applications.

Cole Bowden

Senior Developer Advocate

Cole Bowden is a Developer Advocate at InfluxData, where he helps the Influx community learn how to best use InfluxDB. With six years of experience in the data space, Cole is an expert in data analytics and databases, and he was previously a software engineer at Meta. You can always find him on the InfluxDB Community Slack or on Discord as datacole.

Suyash Joshi

Senior Developer Advocate, InfluxData

Suyash Joshi is a senior software engineer and accomplished developer advocate at InfluxData. His career spans leading pivotal projects at Oracle and RingCentral in the past. Holding both a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.A. in Game Design, he seamlessly blends technical expertise with a flair for creativity. Driven by his passion, he nurtures and hosts developer events in London, delivering sought-after keynote speeches and participating in hackathons worldwide. Apart from his day job, Suyash Joshi is a magician and member of the prestigious Magic Circle in London, crafting performances that ignite wonder, joy, and inspiration. Find him on X: @suyashcjoshi