Judges
Magnus Melander
Co-founder & Evangelist at THINGS, Deeptech Advisor at Deep Tech Alliance
Magnus Melander has 40 year’s experience from International IT and Telecom business including IBM and executive positions in Apple and 3Com as well as co-founder of BrainHeart Capital.
READ MOREHe pioneered WiFi and IoT and his most recent focus has been on IoT, Digital transformation, ecosystems, circular innovation and collaboration between smaller and larger companies in sectors like industry, infrastructure, utilities, mobility and space. He is a co-founder of the deeptech hub THINGS and founder of the alliance for Swedish IoT companies SMSE, Deeptech advisor at Deep Tech Alliance, evangelist in Stream Analyze, advisor to MTEK Industry and a GLOMO awards jury member since 2016.
John Healy
VP GM IoT Platform Management and Customer Engineering, Intel Corporation
John Healy is a vice president in the Internet of Things Group (IOTG) and general manager of Platform Management and Customer Engineering at Intel Corporation. He has overall responsibility for creating products and solutions that align with Intel’s data-centric strategy within the IOT domain.
READ MOREHealy leads the organization responsible for product planning and product management, user and developer experience, and customer solution engineering capabilities for IOTG.
Healy has more than 30 years of leadership experience in the technology industry, spanning engineering, network deployment, transmission planning, product marketing, and business strategy. His prior roles at Intel include serving as the VP of the Software Defined Datacenter Solutions Group and leading the software-defined network business in the Network Platforms Group. Before joining Intel, Healy held various engineering management and business development roles at Telecom Eireann and Eircom Ltd. Healy earned a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering and telecommunications from the University of Limerick in Ireland. He is a chartered engineer in Ireland and a chartered European engineer.
Björn Hansen
Head of Commercial of Division X at Telia Company
Björn Hansen leads the commercial unit within Division X, the growth & innovation arm of Telia Company, where he is spearheading the commercial and solution design efforts in areas such as IoT, Data Insights.
READ MOREPrior to joining Telia in August 2018, Björn spent eleven years at Ericsson, and five of them was in Switzerland. Furthermore, he has worked for Telenor, Samsung, DigitalRoute and Nokas primarily in sales and commercial product management.
Originally from Sweden, Björn received a Master of Business Administration, leading innovation from the Stockholm School of Economics and has since spent time studying leadership, marketing, and sales in various settings.
Ken Figueredo
Founder at More-with-Mobile
Dr. Ken Figueredo works with organizations that are developing new markets at the intersection of business strategy and technology innovation. Mobile communications and standardization are central to Ken's work.
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He advised the GSMA to develop and launch its Connected Living market-development program and propel the mobile industry into the IoT and adjacent-industry sectors. Later projects range from market-testing mobile communications to distribute Central Bank Digital Currencies and, research into the market dynamics that are shaping 6G opportunities. In the context of cross-silo IoT systems, Ken has also worked on the use of open-standard data-exchanges to enable multi-party collaboration in smart city (UK) and multi-modal transportation networks (USA).
Ken regularly publishes and speaks at industry events in Asia, Europe and North America. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a PhD in Self-learning Control Systems from the University of Bath (UK).
Alain Louchez
Principal Research Associate, Georgia Tech
Alain Louchez is the co-founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT - pronounced "sea-date") within the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Atlanta, United States.
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CDAIT engages in collaborative efforts with both applied and academic researchers spanning Georgia Tech colleges, centers, and labs and works to provide thought leadership and connection with IoT-focused business and industry partners. More broadly, CDAIT aims to foster industry creativity, productivity gains, and growth while addressing critical societal issues such as inclusivity, privacy, trust, ethics, regulation and policy.
Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Alain held various executive positions including Vice President for BellSouth (now AT&T) Europe; Executive Director of BellSouth France, and General Manager of GTE/Verizon Media Ventures’ wireless video operations in Hawaii. He also was Vice President of Strategic Management at Numerex (now integrated with Semtech), a company focused on machine-to-machine communications (M2M).
Paul Wilson
Chief business officer, Connected Places Catapult
Paul is Chief Business Officer, Connected Places Catapult, the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership. He’s also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol’s Smart Internet Lab.
READ MOREPaul has more than 25 years’ international leadership, sales and marketing experience in the B2B Technology Media Telecom sector, including being CMO of $3Bn SunGard Financial Systems and of the global digital transformation association TM Forum. Paul was a founder of the multi-award-winning Bristol Is Open smart city project in 2014 and co-created the widely endorsed City as a Platform Manifesto a couple of years later. He went on to advise the UK Government on the design of its £200m 5G Testbeds & Trials Programme, and on how the Programme should evolve.
Paul has lived in London, Hong Kong and Geneva, and worked extensively in America. These days he enjoys living with his family in rebel-city Bristol, England.
Helena Lisachuk
IoT Global Lead, Management Consulting at Deloitte
Helena Lisachuk is a Partner at Deloitte Consulting. She leads the IoT practice globally and is focused on value creation for her clients by leveraging digital technologies (IOT, AI, 5G, Edge, etc). She is co-leading Vodafone Centre for Health with Deloitte and is a member of advisory board of IOTSWC.
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Barbara Pareglio
Executive Director Advance Air Mobility & IoT Technical Director, GSMA
Since 2014, she has been the technical lead for the Internet of Things within GSMA, working on several aspects of IoT for different industries, like utilities, automotive, industrial, aviation, etc. Looking at a variety of IoT aspects and applications, from the massive IoT to the more critical applications that requires low latency.
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Also currently exploring the upcoming work in 5G-Advanced and how the different IoT applications will benefits from the evolution of 5G.
Barbara is also leading several activities and communities with the GSMA members, like the activities related to smart mobility and advanced air mobility. The latter by leading the GSMA Drone Interest Group, to investigate and help the mobile industry to create a trusted solution for commercial unmanned aircraft. Exploring features and capabilities of 4G and 5G needed for the aviation.
Barbara has over 20 years of experience in the mobile industry. Before joining the GSMA, Barbara worked in R&D in several areas of telecommunications. She also participates and actively contributed to, several standards, particularly related to IoT. Web site: https://www.gsma.com/iot/
Matt Hatton
Founding Partner, Transforma Insights
Matt is a well respected commentator and technology industry expert with over 20 years experience at the cutting edge of technology research and consulting. He is a thought-leader in Digital Transformation and the Internet of Things. He is widely quoted in trade publications and frequent speaker at conferences.
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Matt was formerly a Founder and the CEO of Machina Research, the world's leading IoT and Big Data analyst firm, which was acquired by Gartner in 2016. Prior to founding Machina Research Matt was a technology industry analyst, working at firms including Analysys Mason and Yankee Group.
Matt holds an MSc in Telecoms from University College London.
Damion Rose
Senior Product Manager, BICS
Damion has been active in the telecommunications world for almost 20 years, spanning the US, Caribbean and Europe. He believes in the power of data science to create opportunities for innovation, drive growth and to push the boundaries of the potential of communications in the digital era.
READ MOREIn his role at the global communications platform company BICS, Damion established the company’s data-as-a-service product portfolio, and spearheads the organization’s artificial intelligence and advanced analytics solutions.
Damion is passionate about unlocking the potential of data and is a seasoned contributor to industry discussions on topics of Industry 4.0, IoT and 5G nextgen services.
William Webb
CTO at Access Partnership
William is CTO at Access Partnership. He was one of the founding directors of Neul, a company developing machine-to-machine technologies and networks, which was formed at the start of 2011 and became CEO of the Weightless SIG, a body standardizing IoT technology. Prior to this William was a Director at Ofcom where he managed a team providing technical advice and performing research.
READ MOREHe has worked for a range of communications consultancies and spent three years providing strategic management across Motorola’s entire communications portfolio, based in Chicago. He was IET President 2014-2015.
William has published 17 books, 100 papers, and 18 patents. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IEEE and the IET and a Visiting Professor at Southampton University. He has been awarded multiple honorary doctorates by the UK’s leading universities and in 2018 was awarded the IET’s prestigious Mountbatten Medal for technology entrepreneurship.
Ali Nicholl
Founding Team & Engagement, IOTICS
A founding team member at IOTICS, Ali has been working across transport, logistics, utilities, the built environment, and defence, focusing on interoperability of IT & OT and digital cooperation across enterprise boundaries. Deploying decentralised, federated approaches that leverage semantics, selective sharing of data and connected digital twins.
READ MOREAli is actively working on projects supporting the co-creation of co-creation of transformative services and solutions at the intersection of market sectors and industries - with an interest in ESG, sustainability, and essential sharing networks.
Ali has acted as a mentor and facilitator of IoT innovation programmes in health, smart spaces, and connected transport. Passionate about the role of data for the public good, Ali is co-chair of the UK’s Digital Twin Hub Community Council and a member of the Advisory board and serves on Industry Advisory Boards to academia and industry working groups.