M2M Innovation World Congress
2014 Archived Content

Dr. Angelos J. Amditis is Research Director in the Institute of Communication and Computer
Systems; member of its Board of Directors; founder and Head of the I-SENSE Group; writer of
more than fifty peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and conference papers; with
research interests in the field of ITS, Driver monitoring, Telematics, Virtual Reality and Sensors.

http://amditis.iccs.gr

Telly ANTONIOS is the Product Marketing Manager of the NFC Now offer at Oberthur Technologies. The NFC Now offer, with its core TSM, addresses the needs of the NFC ecosystem stakeholders: Telecom Operators, Financial Institutions, Transport Authorities, etc. Telly has broad experience and knowledge in Digital Security and has focused during the last years on Transaction Security and Mobile Financial Services. Before joining OT, Telly gained experience through multiple positions he held in the security software industry. Telly is trilingual and his education includes a Masters degree in Information Security from Telecom ParisTech.

After 10 years at Thales working on international projects, Didier Appell integrated Sogeti High Tech 12 years ago. He has been  managing  an entire Business Unit for now 4years and had to create a direction team and develop 4 offices (Strasbourg, Lyon, Valence and Grenoble) in order to reach a good profitability level.
He is now an active member  in Grilog Association (GRenoble Isère LOGiciel, www.grilog.fr) and is an actor in the MINALOGIC competitiveness cluster (www.minalogic.com).

Responsible for the overall strategy and business development at Aditium, Eneko is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for mobility. In 2012 he launched Aditium with two cofounders. Aditium’s goal is to help businesses bring new mobile experiences to life using NFC and contactless technology. He has a Master’s in Software Architecture from the University of Deusto and lives in Bilbao, Spain.

Mikael Ates is researcher for the innovative free software cooperative Entr’ouvert. His research fields are digital identity management and e-health. He has participated to national and international research programs. He is the project coordinator of the VEADISTA project. He is also involved in software development projects like Authentic 2.

As Senior Director, ThingWorx Global Technical Sales, Mr. Balousek is responsible for globally enabling the sales teams to fully convey the technical details of the ThingWorx platform across all opportunities. Andy started with ThingWorx early in 2011, prior to ThingWorx he was a Senior Solution Architect and Manager at Invensys (Wonderware) designing and managing enterprise wide manufacturing execution systems (MES) deployments globally. Andy came to Invensys in 2007 via the CIMNET acquisition where he also was involved in managing deployment and support services as well as product development for Statistical Process Control solutions within the MES offerings.
Andy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with a Physics concentration from a 3/2 engineering program with the University of Detroit and Kalamazoo College.

Markus Bartsch studied computer science and has worked for TÜViT GmbH since 1995. Markus Bartsch is in charge of IT topics that affect new industrial technologies like Smart Grid, Automotive Security and Process Control Technologies. Actually he is part of the team that supports the German Ministry of Economics to specify a secure smart meter system.

Since 2008, Duncan Bees has been the Chief Technology and Business Officer for HGI. He has overseen HGI’s launch of a successful test and logo programme along with initiatives on energy efficiency, quality of service, software modularity, and home networks.  Currently he is working with HGI’s members on an in-home architecture to support smart home services. 

Mr. Bernabeu is the Technical Advisor for the Standardization and Technology Department at Gemalto. In this role, he supports Gemalto’s marketing and product groups in the field of multiple application infrastructure.
Mr. Bernabeu was elected as GlobalPlatform’s Technical Director in 2005. His main role is to drive forward the development of GlobalPlatform’s smart card specifications and related technical initiatives. Mr. Bernabeu also acts as GlobalPlatform’s central technical liaison point, coordinating the efforts of the organization’s three technical committees – Card, Device and Systems – and the GlobalPlatform Task Forces. He ensures that all elements of GlobalPlatform-based smart card solutions are interoperable and offer backwards compatibility with previous technology releases. Prior to becoming GlobalPlatform Technical Director, Gil served GlobalPlatform as the Chair of the Systems Committee for over two years.

CJ Boguszewki is the Senior Director, Smart City Solutions for Silver Spring Networks.

In a career spanning 20 years, CJ brings proven, high-performing international experience with technology and telecommunications companies, handling multi-million dollar departments, and enabling ambitious revenue growth for product lines.

Since joining Silver Spring Networks in 2011, CJ has led the company’s product businesses in various capacities, including as Senior Director of the Advanced Metering Infrastructure Business and the Director of Global Solutions.

Prior, CJ was the Chief Marketing Officer at GoIndustry DoveBid plc. He has also held global, senior-level technology marketing, product management, commercial development and consulting roles for companies including Energis (now Vodafone), Oracle and Ciber.

CJ is fluent in French and Portuguese, and also speaks Italian and Spanish.

CJ received a MBA from London Business School and a B.A. from Cornell University.

Before founding Transatel, Jacques was in charge of Strategy & Bus Dev in Alcatel. He started his career at Matra Marconi Space and worked for McKinsey & Co as a Strategy Consultant in the IT area. Jacques has a MBA degree from INSEAD and an Engineering degree from ENSERG/INPG France. Jacques is the President of Alternative Mobile, the French MVNO association and EAFM, the European Association of Full MVNOs.

Manuel Botija manages product marketing at Sequans in the M2M business unit. His focus is to enable device manufactures to build successful products benefiting from LTE connectivity. Manuel has experience in marketing, sales and technical positions in semiconductor companies in the domains of wireless and video processing. Before joining Sequans, Manuel was in charge of EMEA technical sales at Stretch Inc (now part of Exar Corporation). Manuel graduated at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and also holds a MSE from Telecom Paris (ENST).

Mr. Brisbourne is President and COO of KORE, the world’s largest wireless network provider focused exclusively on the rapidly-expanding global machine-to-machine (M2M) communications market. He has more than 20 years of experience in the business of wireless, enterprise and fixed line networking in Europe, North America and Asia.  As a prolific speaker and opinion leader, and has become a staple at the semi-annual CTIA conferences and is frequently quoted as an expert on M2M communications in trade and business-oriented media.

As Sisteer Group CEO, Alain Bureau is responsible for the daily management of the company. He also oversees the strategic direction of Sisteer.
Before taking the helm of Sisteer, his career began in 1982, at Thomson-CSF group (Thales) where he took part in the integration of computerized military defense environments. In 1998, he joined the France Telecom (Orange) group to develop and manage the IT department of the GlobalStar subsidiary project (TESAM), together with the launch of the mobile IT system in 5 countries. Alcatel Services recruited him in 2000 to manage teams dedicated to the launch of mobile operators where he was responsible for the organization, processes and marketing of prepaid solutions.
Alain Bureau graduated in electronics and real time IT engineering from the Institut Supérieur d’Electronique de Paris, France.

Benjamin Cabé is IoT evangelist at the Eclipse Foundation. He has been advocating the use of open and innovative technologies for the Internet of Things for many years, and now coordinates the activities of the Eclipse IoT community. You can find him online on Twitter (@kartben) or on his blog: http://blog.benjamin-cabe.com

Lynne Canavan is the Program Director for the Industrial Internet Consortium and is responsible for the development, marketing, working group activities and day-to-day management of the organization. Since its launch in March 2014, the IIC has grown from its five founding members to over 60 members as of July 2014.
Previously, Lynne was with IBM for 17 years. Most recently, she was Senior Marketing Manager with IBM Global Alliances, where she directed and developed programs to grow IBM’s business with its largest business partners including Oracle, Avaya, Schneider Electric, Siemens, and Johnson Controls. Lynne represented IBM on the Green Sigma Coalition and also ran the first Smarter Buildings track at the Chairman-led Smarter Cities Rio event. From 2006-2008, Lynne was the lead writer for the SOA WebSphere brand, where she launched and edited the award-winning IBM SOA Newsletter. Lynne was nominated to the IBM Leader Foundation Program in 2013.

Stacy Cannady, CISSP, is technical marketing – Trustworthy Computing TRIAD (Threat Response, Intelligence, and Development) for Cisco and a member of the Trusted Computing Group’s Embedded Systems Work Group. He is an alternate board member representing Cisco.

Stacy has worked in the field of trusted computing for a number of years. As a subject matter expert in trusted computing, his responsibilities require an in-depth understanding of the trusted computing market, including advances in hardware and software security as well as vendor and customer market dynamics.

Prior to his work with Cisco, Stacy was responsible for marketing leadership for trusted computing at DMI, IBM and at Lenovo. At IBM, he played a principal role in making the TPM standard equipment in ThinkPad and ThinkCenter PCs.

Andrea Ceiner has been working in the IT and Software industry since 1991 starting his IT experience as a software developer in its internship at the Control Room of Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste. It was there that Mr. Ceiner discovered his passion for enterprise software architectures and distributed computing systems and machine remote control. 
 
His professional career started the same year with Euris Group, where he worked for 7 years as a software developer and project manager, accumulating experience in integrated software solutions and enterprise architectures. 
 
His activities at Euris were followed by 16 years of working for TBS Group S.p.A, as database administrator, support services manager, R&D manager, Technical Director, Director of Project Management and Member of the Executive Board of a controlled company. Along this career path, he lived in Italy and for a couple of years in Austria, and followed the operations in the Medical Informatics business field through out different European countries.
 
In 2014, Mr. Ceiner took over the position of Group Marketing Product Manager M2M/IoT at Eurotech Group

CEO and founder of Stream Technologies, Nigel has overall strategic responsibility & team leadership in respect of the globalisation of its IoTx connectivity enablement platform and has to date played a key role in steering Stream to the company’s current leading position within the wireless connectivity field.  A chartered accountant and Entrepreneur of the Year 2013, he has substantial experience and wide ranging expertise in the M2M and IoT sectors, frequently presenting or moderating at specific events in the USA, Far East and Europe.  Stream provides and enables global wireless connectivity designed for IoT & M2M across cellular, satellite and low power radio networks.  Stream’s IoTx connectivity enablement platform facilitates Communication Service Providers and also Enterprise clients to effectively compete and manage connectivity within the IoT sector on a global basis.

Peter leads Intercede’s sales effort in all geographies outside the Americas and has been in the computer industry for over 30 years, having spent the last 15 years concentrating on cyber, computer and IT security. His previous roles include Senior VP Sales at AEP Networks (an ULTRA company), and Head of Sales (UK & USA) at Cassidian Cyber Security, an EADS Group company.

Jean-Loup Depinay is program manager in charge of the collaborative R&D projects of Oberthur Technologies and he has coordinated or participated to 15 projects funded by French or European programs (FUI, ANR, Eniac…). Jean-Loup DC)pinay is currently a member of the Java Card Forum.

Wim D’Hondt is a Principal at IBB Consulting. He has 14 years of consulting experience with leading service providers across a variety of industries in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Prior to IBB he was a senior manager with a Fortune 500 Global Consulting firm. He has led Development and Launch of new Wireless Products, M2M Solutions, Product Requirements Analysis, Formulation of New Market Entry Strategy and Wireless Technology Strategy, Design and Deployment of large scale Cellular Wireless Networks and Network Performance Optimisation. He holds an MBA in Strategic Management for the University of British Columbia (Canada) and Belgian and UK engineering degrees in System Design and Telecommunications.

Murat Erim is a fifteen-year telecom expert of mobile solutions (strategy, development, life cycle management and seles) for enterprise and consumer segments. He has also significant corporate project experiences and well established relations with the Telco&IT ecosystem;i.e. terminal, software and system integration SPs in Turkey as well as EMEA.

Murat is the head of corporate business solutions team in Avea, focusing on presales, vertical solutions and terminal & integration management. The team address direct sales segment; i.e, strategic accounts, large enterprises and public sector. Many successful “first in Turkey” tailor-made end-to-end solutions are signed by the team. Previously, he set up value added services (VAS) project sales team for SMB segment channel and managed MVNO VAS projects in Avea.

Murat was marketing director of ReklamZ, the biggest independent digital Media Marketing Group in Turkey, marketing manager of Turkcell Superonline, the ISP of Turkcell group and base marketing manager & group product manager of Vodafone Turkey between the years 2000-2008.

Georges Falessi joined the french World Class Cluster « Secured Communicating Solutions » end of 2006 and has been named CEO & General Manager. In this rôle he has developped the cluster strategy, raising the numbers of industrial members from 100 to 300 and enabling innovation with a total of 1B€ research projets on ICT technologies with extensive markets solutions and involving top companies, labs and hundreds of SME. From 1998 to 2006, Mr. Falessi has been Vice President Business Development at KLA-Tencor, a leader capital equipement company in the microelectronic, in charge of sales and marketing strategy based in San José (CA). From 1980 to 1998, he worked at Texas Instruments in several technology assignments in France, Japan and USA with a focus on Wireless products. Mr Falessi has been elected Distinguished Member of TI Technical Staff, (top 2% of technical ladder) and co-managed in Houston the development of new mix signal IC generation technology. He is the author of more than 10 patents in microelectronic field Education 1980: Master in Solid State Physics from Ecole Normale Superieure d’Aerotechnique, France

Thierry Gadou, 45-year-old, is a graduate of the Mines de Paris engineering school. He began his career as a management consultant at international consulting firm Deloitte, where he was a partner from 1997 to 2000.
He then co-founded and became president of Hubwoo, a high-tech company listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange. In five years, Hubwoo became one of the world’s leading SAP-based electronic marketplaces, specializing in e-procurement solutions for large companies.
Since 2007, Thierry Gadou has been running Atos Consulting, the IT management consulting division of Atos.
In January 2012, he joined Store Electronic Systems as Chairman and CEO.

Herve Ganem is currently serving as a system architect at Gemalto. In this role, he is involved in several projects involving M2M communications, focusing more specifically upon the underlying security issues.
Herve holds a Phd in satellite communications from Essex University (UK), and a Maitrise de Mathematiques from Paris VII university. He also completed engineering studies at Ecole Superieure d’Ingénieurs en Electronique et d’Electrotechnique in Paris

Emmanuel Gaudin has a technical background and developed protocol stacks in SDL. He joined a modelling tool vendor as a Field Application Engineer and as a trainer to finally become technical director of the French branch. Based on that experience, he started PragmaDev in 2001 to develop an SDL and an SDL-RT tool.

Bill Gerhardt is a Director responsible for defining and executing all aspects of Cisco’s service provider strategy in the emerging IoT/M2M industry. Bill brings over 20 years of engineering, sales and product marketing experience within the telecommunications industry. He holds an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Marketing from The University of Pittsburgh and a BSEE from Widener University.

Jean-Michel Goiran is a technology evangelist managing the IoT offer for the LETI. With a wide background in Home automation, Microelectronics, Telecommunication and Digital TV, he aggregates in LETI the key technologies that will fuel the IoT revolution.

Theresa Gordon, is a Communications and Social Business Consultant with Near Field Connects and a thought leader in the RFID/NFC and m2m space. She is committed to defining approaches and developing business intelligence and collaborative partnerships to explore, support and move forward NFC and connected technology initiatives and implementations.

Operational Director of the Platform Telecom Association – Com4Innov – since October 2011, M. Claude HARY has over 25 years in the field of telecommunications.
In 2000, he left his position of worldwide business development director for the telecom network and services management solutions (e.g. TeMIP management solution) at Compaq Computer (previously Digital Equipment), to create the European subsidiary of Trendium, a startup specialized in services quality management. Then from 2004, M. HARY worked as independent telecom consultant involved in Europe, Africa and Middle East projects for the definition of telecom networks and their business and operations management structure. During these years, M. HARY was also actively involved in the TeleManagement Forum activities.
From 2009, M. HARY worked on numerous innovative projects in the domain of telecommunications and short range communicating objects (M2M) for the SCS Cluster (Secured Communicating Solutions).

Dr. Christine Hennebert has worked on several wireless communication demonstrators, especially on communication protocol and embedded software for Network on Chip. Since 2011, she has been working on the security aspects of the low power wireless standards transmission. She has realized the security system deployed in the wireless sensors of the Santander city.

Beginning of 2011 Petra Hofmeister started her career as Manager Business Development at the German leading semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies AG in Neubiberg (nearby Munich).
Petra is in charge of Business Development activities in APAC and EMEA in the field of Mobile Security and NFC within the business line “Platform Security”.
Within her role she focuses on sales and marketing of Embedded Secure Elements and is additionally in charge of the overall NFC MarCom activities for her business line.
Petra has conducted numerous speeches on NFC applications and developments.

Paula Hunter has a deep and broad background in technology association leadership, management, marketing, operations, and business development. Before joining the NFC Forum, she served for several years as Executive Director of the Outercurve Foundation, a non-profit foundation with the mission of enabling the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities. Prior to Outercurve, she was Director of Operations for the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), and director of worldwide marketing and business development for the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), where she was instrumental in driving membership growth to increase industry awareness of OSDL programs. Ms. Hunter’s experience also includes key roles in several technology companies, ranging from small start-ups to large multi-national corporations.

As the Head of Country and Partnership Development for Orange’s Mobile Payments and Contactless division, Emmanuel Jamin’s main mission is to develop mobile contactless usages (NFC, Near Field Communication) across different industries such as transportation, retail, leisure and advertising.

Sessions: Public Transport & Ticketing

After 16+ years spent in the Telecom industry, occupying various job positions such as trainer, presales & project consultant, solution architect, and bid manager, Malo Jennequin is now in charge of the M2M & Internet of Everything corporate program for the Bull Group.

Elizabeth Kerstetter is the Projects Director at OBD Experts in the United Kingdom.  Elizabeth manages licensing OBD II software to companies for use in fleet tracking, remote diagnostics and vehicle insurance. She has a computer engineering degree from McGill University in Canada and has worked in the automotive industry for over ten years.

Francois Lecomte is heading Lobary, a consulting firm focusing on marketing and operational deployment of digital proximity services for information, payment, shopping, urban travels and secured access using mobile phones. Expert on contactless (NFC) and mobile solutions, he is chairing of the Program Committee of the NFC World Congress. François Lecomte-Vagniez launched and managed the “mobile contactless services Forum” (Forum des services mobiles sans contact) from 2008 to 2012. He advised Banque Accord (Auchan retail group) for successfully issuing the first contactless EMV card in France in 2007. Previously, he played senior European executive roles in companies such as MDSI/Ventyx (mobile Workforce Management solutions), Aspective UK Ltd (eBusiness solutions) , Fujitsu Personal Systems (Tablet PC’s) and IBM France.

Patrice Le Philippe is a Senior Consultant with both technology and domain expertise. Patrice provides consultancy for a number of large companies in their deployment strategy for contactless services in the public telecoms, banking and transport sectors.

Patrice has a strong background in on-field implementation of GlobalPlatform standards. Patrice has been involved in secured elements advanced projects for more than 10 years, especially in architecture design of NFC and digital security solutions.

Thanks to this experience, Patrice has real hands on expertise in main standards of the domain, including GlobalPlatform Card Specifications and TSM messaging. As part of its activities, Patrice is also a GlobalPlatform certified trainer.

Sam Lucero is a seasoned industry analyst with over a decade of experience analyzing telecommunications and networking technology markets. He has spent the last seven years assessing the markets for machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Sam has established leading M2M market research programs and managed international teams of industry analysts.

He has authored numerous reports, forecast databases, and topical articles covering various aspects of the M2M/IoT market opportunity and has been widely quoted in news and trade journals, from the New York Times and the Economist to CNET and Wireless Week. Furthermore, Sam has moderated, presented, and judged at a number of industry events, including CTIA and Connected World. In 2014 Sam was named one of six “Augural Analysts” for M2M by Connected World Magazine.

Aapo Markkanen leads ABI Research’s Internet of Everything research service, contributing to various research activities related to M2M, Internet of Things, and big data. In his research, Aapo explores areas such as predictive analytics, quantified self, product lifecycle, contextual awareness, cloud platforms, and IoT developers.

Geoff is a Director of Alloy, an experience led design & innovation consultancy working with global brands, network operators and Governments across the world to design products interfaces and services that deliver better user experiences and business growth.

His 18 year career spans a huge diversity of sectors including private jet interiors, future warfare systems, sex toys, consumer electronics and FMCG packaging.

Jim Morrish is a Director and Founder of Machina Research. He has over 20 years experience in the telecoms industry, including strategy consulting, operations management and research. Previous experience includes strategy consulting for Booz&Co, project management and board membership at Cable & Wireless, Head of department at the BBC and also work as a freelance consultant. He has worked on-site in in excess of 25 countries through Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas.

Samuel Mueller is the CEO and co-founder of Scandit and is responsible for overall strategic direction, marketing, sales and business development. Prior to Scandit, Samuel was a management consultant and project leader for multinational companies such as Swiss Airlines, Swiss Re and IBM as well as a corporate researcher at the renowned IBM Zurich Research Lab. He has authored numerous patent applications and has published his research results in leading conferences and journals. Samuel holds a PhD from ETH Zurich and graduated summa cum laude with an MSc in Computer Science and an MA in Financial Economics, both from the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Ignacio Muttoni is an engineer specialised in innovation management in the transport and energy sectors. He joined LGI in 2013 as a Consultant. Before that, he participated in the management of innovative projects in the wind energy sector at EADS Astrium, and in the electro-mobility sector at Renault.

With more than 25 years experience in ICT services, Thierry Nagellen works in Orange Labs as Programme Manager Future Internet to integrate the latest innovative technologies in a platform-like environment enhancing new IoT services. Since 2012, he has been President of “M2M, Mobile Services and Networks” area of SCS Cluster.

Mr. Walid Negm is a Senior Executive with over 20 years of experience creating strategic change. At Accenture Technology Labs, Walid is responsible for a global R&D investment portfolio to drive growth from the Industrial Internet. In his roles at Accenture, Mr. Negm helped establish new practices in cloud services, cyber security and unmanned aerial operations. Prior to joining Accenture, Walid was CTO and co-founder of a number of hi-tech start-ups pioneering innovations in network security and mobile platforms. He also held the position of Director of Internet Technologies at Oracle where he worked with global companies to optimize supply chain operations. Walid has a Bachelors and Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Boston University, an MBA from Georgetown University and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Pirjo OJALA joined Oberthur Technologies in 2012 as Head of Product Marketing of the Solutions Business Unit. This unit covers Oberthur Technologies’ solutions to mobile operators, banks, transport operator and retailers. Prior to joining Oberthur Technologies, Pirjo worked 5 years at Research In Motion as Senior Director. Her other experiences include roles as Head of Mobility Business at Equant, Director Business Development at Alcatel, and Marketing and Product management roles at BT and IBM. She speaks five languages and as education includes Master of Science degree and MBA from INSEAD.

Sean is CEO and co-founder of Rococo Software, where he’s launching a new in-store engagement platform called LocalSocial. He is also co-founder of the Voice Services company Dial2Do (behind dial2do.com, and mysay.com). Regardless of title, his role with each is to help with the technical strategy and vision. From a technical perspective, Sean’s interests are distributed systems, mobile and wireless technology, especially proximity, and the space where the web meets the plain old telephony system.

Daniel PAKIRY has participated to the definition of the Ericsson strategy for the Energy & Utilities market segment, and is engaged in business development activities in this segment in the Mediterranean Region for Ericsson. Daniel PAKIRY has more than 20 years of experience in technical and commercial positions, addressing the telecoms and utilities industries.

Olivier Pauzet is Vice President, Marketing & Market Strategy at Sierra Wireless. Olivier brings 15 years of experience in the wireless and M2M industry. He joined Sierra Wireless from Wavecom, where he served as Sales Director in Asia Pacific. Prior to that, Olivier was responsible of the Program Management Group. Before his engagement at Wavecom, Olivier was consultant for Airbus Group in North America. He has a Master in Electrical Engineering from Supelec and a MBA from INSEAD.

Ludovic Privat is the co-founder and editor of GPSBusinessNews.com, a leading online business media dedicated to the consumer GPS and location-based services market. Created in 2007, GPS Business News has over 20,000 monthly readers in 100 countries.

Ludovic is a worldwide recognized expert in the Location-based services industry. He is providing consulting services to large and small companies in the field of location-based advertising, connected car services, GPS navigation, speedcam warning and traffic services, among others.

He has been a panel moderator and speaker at events such as the Consumer Electronics Show, Galileo Application Day, Le Mobile 2.0., GENIVI conference, Future of Nav, Metro’Num and local seminars organized by Ordnance Survey Ireland and Ordnance Survey UK.

Prior to GPS Business News Ludovic was responsible of pan-European public relations at GPS device manufacturer Navman. Earlier in his career he worked as consultant in public relations and marketing for technology companies. In that role he contributed to the launch of flagship mobile and consumer electronics devices such as the TomTom GO or the Handspring Visor and Treo. 

Ludovic holds a master degree in political science. Based in Versailles, France, he has been living in several European countries, Africa and the United States. He speaks English, French and Italian.

Bhoopathi is the Head of Big Data Analytics Practice at Infotech Enterprises. He has over 15 years of experience in Business Intelligence and Technology Management, and has spent the last several years in evangelizing the integration of Operational Real Time technologies with IT technologies primarily for Utilities and Telecom, Aerospace & Transportation.
Bhoopathi has built and run large BI systems at Infosys Limited in the past and has delivered enterprise level solutions for advanced functional and operational analytics platforms.
Bhoopathi is an active speaker, author and blogger. He has spoken on ‘the impact of BI and Big Data solutions on society in general and industry in specific’ at several international and regional forums. Details available at: www.bhoopathi.com/speaking
He holds an Engineering Degree with an MBA in Systems and Strategy from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India.
In his current role as Practice Head of Analytics, Bhoopathi is responsible for Leadership of Business Unit, Solution Delivery, Business Development and Sales Engagement at Infotech.

Laurie Reynolds is Managing Director of Aquamatix Ltd, a London-based startup pioneering new business models in water management enabled by the IoT. Laurie spent the majority of his career with a major water utility in UK with responsibility for automation and process optimisation, followed by a spell in asset management in the telecoms sector. He set up Aquamatix 3 years ago to exploit the advantages which M2M and IOT offered and to develop a platform for collaborative integration of water assets and catchments. He is a passionate supporter of open standards.

In 2001 Fabrice Robert joined Transiciel wich became later Sogeti High Tech, and was in charge of clients guidance in PLM products lifecycle management aeronautic.  Since 2010, he is working as innovation Manager in Toulouse. He is driving the R&D unit dedicated to intelligent systems (equipments and softwares), to Augmented Reality, to Big Data and to Simulation.
In September 2012, he became the Vice President of the Robotics Place cluster located in Midi-Pyrénées with all the innovation players in Robotic (research, institutions, firms, …), in charge of the innovation commission and training.

Jerome Schang is currently Cyber Security Global Segment Marketing Manager at NXP Semiconductors based in San Jose, California.
Jerome spent the last 13 years in the semi-conductor industry as a wireless product engineer then low power microcontroller marketing manager with Texas Instruments.
Jerome holds an MBA focused on marketing of innovation since 2010 and a MSEE with a major in microelectronics since 2000.

Peter Seeberg is Market Segment Manager, Factory Automation at Softing Industrial Automation GmbH. Peter studied Computer Aided Design at the University of Delft in the Netherlands and has held positions in European Marketing and Business Development Management with several Information, Communication, Technology & Automation companies for over 30 years, amongst others for Intel and Seiko Instruments. Peter is a member of the OPC Europe Advisory Council and represents Softing at the Smart Factory in Kaiserslautern as well as with the Bitkom Industrie 4.0 Interoperability working group. Softing Industrial Automation is a world leading German provider of industrial communication products and technologies for manufacturing and process automation.

Pierre-Yves Senghor, 45, holds a degree from Sup de Co (Clermont-Fd-1990) and a M.B.A. (Cleveland State University – 1991). He started his career in the Industry on Marketing and Business Development positions for Imerys and Umicore. Then, he worked in the Energy&Utility Industry on topics related to smart metering as a Management Consultant. He joined Cosmosbay~Vectis in 2000, Atos Consulting in 2007 and Capgemini Consulting as a Principal Consultant in 2009.

In 2011, Pierre-Yves Senghor joined m2ocity as a Chief Marketing Officer. He is in charge of Marketing, Product Development and Communication.

Created in 2011 as a Joint Venture between Veolia Water and Orange, m2ocity is an operator of M2M telecom networks dedicated to smart metering for water or gas and to other M2M applications. Our M2M solutions will contribute to the sustainable development of tomorrow’s smart city.

Angela Spielberg joined 7Layers in 2004 and is responsible for consultancy, development, validation and verification of test cases and test systems for Smart Services and connected devices. In the years before her main focus lay on hardware design and verification, when she worked for Synopsys in Aachen. She received her degree in communications engineering of the Technical University of Aachen, Germany in 1989.

Ernst-Joachim Steffens is research director at Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs), the central research and innovation unit of Deutsche Telekom. Together with his team of business administrators, technology experts and software developers, he is dedicated to developing novel IT concepts supporting smart business networks.

Thomas Svensson has a wealth of experience gained across EMEA, APAC and US territories while working in enterprise software sales for SAAB Aircraft AB, Volvo Corporation, Silicon Graphics and PTC over the last 25 years.  Mr. Svensson currently serves as EMEA Senior Vice President of ThingWorx, a PTC business. In this role, Mr. Svensson is responsible for driving the ThingWorx direct and indirect sales channel strategies and overall business development. Thomas holds a Master of Science degree from the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he resides.

Lars Wemme is Chair of the Payment Special Interest Group (SIG) for the NFC Forum. He also heads the marketing team of the business line Platform Security within the Chipcard & Security Division of Infineon Technologies. With more than 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, he is responsible for the deployment of security solutions within emerging markets addressing the need for security in today’s connected world. Applications targeted include Near Field Communication as well as critical infrastructure.

 Lee is the director of global marketing at Vienna-based Wyconn (www.Wyconn.com), whose radically simpler approach to M2M/Industrial Internet connectivity lowers the cost and time required for large-scale deployments for OEMs, enterprises, and telcos.  He serves on the marketing committee of the Industrial Internet Consortium.
Lee has held global marketing roles at Texas Instruments and at Nokia, and has extensive experience with new ventures as a consultant to founders, as a launch-and-grow CMO, and as an advisor, founder, and management team member.  This includes founding and serving as the CEO of AnywhereYouGo, the largest mobile application developer community and was acquired by HP, and the head of global marketing for CoreStreet, which provided identity services infrastructure to some of the world’s largest organizations and was later acquired by ActiveIdentity.

Lee graduated from the Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University.  He lives near Boston in a c. 1780 house (old by US standards) and is the founder of History Camp and The History List, two initiatives to increase interest in and engagement with history.

Rafi leads the product marketing efforts for the two main lines of business for Essence – the Smart Living and Smart Care cloud-based M2M platforms. Prior to this, Rafi held various positions in strategic marketing in a leading international security electronics company and has also managed to be part of the renewable energy revolution, developing distribution channels and investments in Solar Photovoltaic plants around the world.

Essence is a global provider of scalable; M2M based connected-living solutions for security, communication, and healthcare service providers. Over the past 20 years, Essence has built an impressive installed base, with more than 10 million products deployed and used by Tier-1 service providers worldwide. Essence is committed to developing and supporting solutions that both enhance partners’ businesses and enable people to live fuller and better lives. We provide end-to-end solutions, supporting our partners not only with our hardware equipment, but with professional services, cloud and hosting services, go-to-market strategies and planning, and logistics services, all tailored in order to drive success to our partners

Bill Zujewski has over 20 years of product strategy and global marketing experience in enterprise software and business applications. He has a proven track record of defining innovative products for emerging markets and bringing leading-edge and game-changing products to market. Before joining Axeda, Bill was Vice President of Product Marketing at Art Technology Group (ATG), the leader in e-Commerce software acquired by Oracle. Before ATG, Bill led product marketing at edocs, Siebel, and Broadvision and began his career in engineering and software development at Data General and Informix. Bill holds B.S. Degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from The Carroll School of Management at Boston College.