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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Internet of Things space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Max Keiser
Founder of StartCOIN Holdings
Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT, an English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news; presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London’s Resonance FM; and writes for [The Huffington Post](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/huffingtonpost). Keiser is the CEO and co-founder of [StartJOIN](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/startjoin-2). He is also a co-founder of HSX.com. Max Keiser invented “Virtual Specialist Technology,” a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
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About Heisenberg Capital, StartCOIN Holdings: Provides you with the world’s first rewards-based crowdfunding for startups.
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Oliver Oram
Founder & CEO of Chainvine
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Christian Lane
Founder and CEO of Smarter
As the CEO of Smarter, Christian Lane is a seven-time award-winning Entrepreneur and has over 15 years experience in building successful companies. As a retail expert, Christian was mentored by Theo Paphitis via an investment in his first company which revolutionised design and acquired listings in thousands of stores worldwide. Now on a mission to connect the future of buying groceries, Christian has secured retail listings with the world’s largest retailers to deliver a new way of shopping. “Our technology has enabled a traditional industry to grow as the future is based on the connection between people”. Smarter is now a leading connected home company and has been voted by ‘Tech Track’ as one of the fastest growing startups in London.
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About Smarter: Smarter develops connected kitchen products that bridge the gap between the traditional and smart kitchen.
Paul Walton
Founder/CTO of Boundary
Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.
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About Boundary, Oodls, Prodsight, Seed Haus: Boundary is an IoT Home Security company providing a smart burglar alarm system that can be controlled over mobile devices.
Robin Knox
Founder and CEO of Boundary
Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.
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About Boundary, Intelligent Point of Sale, Intelligent Point of Sale, iZettle, Seed Haus: Boundary is an IoT Home Security company providing a smart burglar alarm system that can be controlled over mobile devices.
Alexandros Marinos
Founder & CEO of Balena
Alexandros Marinos is the Founder & CEO at resin.io
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About Balena: Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices.
Martin Blinder
Founder and CEO of Tictrac
Martin is an Internet and Digital Health entrepreneur with a focus on consumer web. He is co-founder and CEO of Tictrac, a leading Connected Health platform that engages people in their health, through their data. Tictrac is at the forefront of the consumerization of healthcare, centralizing an otherwise fragmented sector around the consumer, under the credo: consumer engagement is the key to better health outcomes. Tictrac won Best New Company at Health 2.0 in 2012. Martin was named among the 15 most influential in Digital Health, and has been featured in Wired, NYT, BBC, CNBC, Fortune, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, among others. He is also an active member of YPO, London chapter. Prior to Tictrac, Martin cofounded one of the first online financial services sites in Europe and has advised Prime Ministers and other state officials on innovation, foreign direct investment and entrepreneurship.
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About Tictrac: Tictrac is a connected health platform that engages people in their health through their data.
Oliver MacCarthy
Founder and Chief Creative Technologist of Tictrac
Oliver MacCarthy is the Founder and Chief Creative Technologist at Tictrac
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About Tictrac: Tictrac is a connected health platform that engages people in their health through their data.
Dan Hubert
CEO & Founder of AppyWay
Dan initially founded AppyParking after experiencing first-hand the pain of parking caused by a fragmented and broken market when trying to park near the Royal Albert Hall for a concert. From this was born the AppyParking mobile app, but more questions quickly arose… What if we could digitise parking spaces? And not just spaces – but all of the UK’s kerbs? What opportunities would that unlock? How could a digitised, dynamic kerb not only meet the ever-growing demands of urban transport today – but shape that of tomorrow? From that lightbulb moment onwards, Dan was hooked and with AppyWay, he’s leading the charge to help cities thrive, from the kerb up.
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Dominique Guinard
Co-Founder & CTO of EVRYTHNG
Dominique Guinard is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of EVRYTHNG, the Internet of Things Smart Products Platform that connects any consumer product to the Web, and manages real-time data to drive applications. He is also a co-founder of WebofThings.org. Prior to that, he worked at MIT Auto-ID Labs, SAP, Auto-ID Labs Zurich, and Sun Microsystems. Guinard holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science. Later on, he obtained a PhD from ETH Zurich. He was listed 5th amongst the top 100 IoT thinkers by Postscapes. Early in 2012, his PhD research was granted the ETH Medal.
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About Blockchain Research Institute, EVRYTHNG, Webofthings.org: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Cassandra Harris
Founder of Venturespring
Founder at Venturespring
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About Venturespring: A digital transformation firm and early growth venture capital fund that match makes corporates with game changing startups.
Ian Hetherington
Co-Founder of WRLD
Ian has been involved in the video game industry since 1982. He founded and was Managing Director of Psygnosis Limited, which became one of the most successful UK based publishers. Psygnosis was sold to Sony in 1993 and Ian was retained as the Managing Director of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe from 1994-1997 where he was instrumental in the design and implementation of the hardware and software for Sony’s new Playstation console, and oversaw the development of the European launch catalogue (80% market share at launch).
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About Midoki, Realtime Worlds, WRLD: A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
Nigel Chadwick
Founder and CEO of Stream Technologies
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About Stream Technologies: Stream Technologies is a pioneer in machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things.
Khoa Phan
CEO & Co-Founder of Backbone Labs, Inc.
Khoa’s entrepreneurial spirit and engineering experience drives the strategic vision of Backbone Labs, as well as the development of its products. Before he launched Backbone Labs, Khoa founded a successful marketing agency specializing in search, content and social media ad campaigns for acquiring customers and users. He has also co-founded an indie mobile game studio. When he’s not building companies, Khoa is an avid collector of rare sneakers.
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About Backbone Labs, Inc.: Identify at-risk behavior in the workplace and recommend actions to promote and maintain overall back-related wellness.
Pilgrim Beart
CEO & Founder of DevicePilot
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About 1248, DevicePilot: DevicePilot provides Service Monitoring for connected devices
Rob Dobson
Chairman and Co-Founder of DevicePilot
Rob founded Actix (actix.com) in 1991 and as CEO (1991-2005) grew it to over $50m revenue by 2005. More than 90% of the world’s mobile phone customers have their networks optimized by Actix software and Rob has worked with many of the world’s leading mobile operators and infrastructure vendors. In 2005 he sold a majority stake in the company to PE firm Summit Partners at a $100+m valuation. He has invested in a further 30+ startups and has had five very successful exits (he’s not counting failures as they come with the territory). Rob is chairman of Robotical (robotical.io) and DevicePilot.com. He’s also the founding chairman of Singletrack.com and a supporter of the unique orchestra SouthbankSinfonia.co.uk. As an inveterate tinkerer in software and hardware, he’s fascinated by IoT, 3D printing and the maker movement (as you can probably see from his personal website (robdobson.com). Rob is a Fellow of the IET and has a 1st class honours degree in Electronic Engineering.
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About 1248, Float: DevicePilot provides Service Monitoring for connected devices
Tom Horne
Co-Founder/Director of L’Estrange London
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About L’Estrange London: Reimagining smart-casual for the man on the move.
Sam Bose
CEO / Founder of IntelliSense.io
Sam got exposed to the world of Machine 2 Machine some 10 years ago. Back then he could see the potential of technology in changing the world around us, but change came with numerous obstacles. After encountering the challenges of first generation technologies, IntellISense.io was started as one of the first next generation IoT solutions companies. The technology and solution were selected as one of the eight IoT solutions to be showcased by the UK government.
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About IntelliSense.io: An Industrial AI company focusing on the Mining sector increasing efficiency sustainability & safety with trusted & transparent AI solutions
Tim Stone
Partner & Co-Founder of Breed Reply
Tim is one of the founding partners of Breed Reply, who are an active operational investor dedicated to early stage businesses in the Internet of Things. He leads the bespoke support programme to develop and accelerate the commercialisation of their growing portfolio of seventeen companies. His career started in sales and rapidly moved through to Executive roles covering all aspects of creating and operating a successful business. His key roles have ranged from Business Development Director, CCO and CEO in both corporate organisations and startups, with a focus on the Telecoms industry A thread throughout his career has been creating success through partnerships. In Vodafone Tim created from scratch the wholesale strategy, then executed this taking market share from 0 to 30%+ in less than three years. This success was delivered through the strategic development of major new brands. He has also seen a significant exit to a major operator from one his startup ventures.
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About Breed Reply, Graystone Strategy: Breed Reply is Europe’s active operational investors for early-stage companies delivering ‘internet of things’ solutions.
Eliza Becton
Co-Founder | Head of Product of Bevi
Eliza Becton is our CEO and product lead.Her background is in user-experience design at various startups,with end-to-end experiences from ideation to market research to prototyping. Eliza graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a Masters in Industrial Design, and from Yale University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.
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About Bevi: Bevi is a smart water dispenser that customizes flavored and sparkling beverages on demand.
Sean Grundy
Co-Founder, CEO of Bevi
Redesigning the beverage supply chain @Bevi. Previously, 3 years experience managing environmental projects.MIT Sloan MBA, Princeton undergrad.
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About Bevi, Hydration Labs: Bevi is a smart water dispenser that customizes flavored and sparkling beverages on demand.
Oliver Tucker
Co-Founder & CEO of Wireless Logic
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About CVC Capital Partners, Wireless Logic: Wireless Logic is an M2M & IoT managed services provider delivering multiple bearer connectivity and value-added services.
Oli Marlow-Thomas
Founder & President of Ad-Lib.io
Founder & President of Ad-Lib.
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About Ad-Lib.io: Powering Creative Effectiveness
Paul Sheedy
CEO & Founder of Unifi.id
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About Reward Technology, Unifi.id: Unifi.id is digital engagement through our Smart card long-range card detection, data interrogation and communication protocols.
Vernon Dias
Founder and Managing Director of Made by Fire
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About Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Eve Tamraz Najjar
Co Founder and Chief Scientist of Sensio Air
Graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris where she wrote a thesis on the neuronal interactions during the development of the cranial circuits, Eve also has a scientific background in Toxicology, Health and Environment. Her interest in cutting edge technology led her to specialize in Synthetic Biology, an emerging research area at the convergence of advances in chemistry, biology, computer science, and engineering. She is now an Allergy UK ambassador and focuses all of her time on bringing high-end laboratory equipment to the end users in order to simplify allergy and asthma prevention.
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About Sensio Air: Sensio Air is a healthcare analytics company that helps people with asthma and allergy predict prevent and manage their symptoms.
Patrick Bergel
Co Founder of Chirp
Making things sing. Research Associate at UCL, Founder + Partner @animalsystems, Lord Creator @chirp_io. Looking forward to meeting you.
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About animal systems: Chirp uses existing speakers and microphones to enable frictionless M2M communication to seamlessly and securely transfer data via sound.
Jimmy Kyriacou
Founder & Director of Unbox
Jimmy Kyriacou is the creator of #BehindTheFace and UNBOX, which is a collective of like minded entrepreneurs, creatives, scientists, artists and film makers with a shared vision of the future. UNBOX merges art, music & cutting edge technology with a specific focus on Augmented Reality. Enquiries & INFO : hello@unboxlondon.com
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About Unbox: Unbox is a blog site about electronics and the way they work and operate.
Clara Vaisse
Founder & COO of Pony
Clara Vaisse is the Founder and COO at Pony.
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About Pony, Sibberi: Pony is the first shared micro-mobility scheme to decentralise ownership of its vehicles.
Yodit Stanton
Founder and CEO of OpenSensors
Software and Data engineer working to helping people understand their physical space. Currently growing OpenSensors. OpenSensors aggregates data from a variety of sensors for the next generation of smart Building Management Systems. Our dashboards help you make the most effective use of your office space. With experience in helping more than 100 companies to combine data from new workplace sensors seamlessly, interoperating it with existing and familiar mobile and desktop systems, we aim to give you a fully comprehensive overview.
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About OpenSensors: OpenSensors is an internet of things company that builds a connected world that puts people first.
Malcolm Sparks
Founder of OpenSensors
Founder at OpenSensors
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About JUXT, OpenSensors: OpenSensors is an internet of things company that builds a connected world that puts people first.
Amit Pate
Founder & CEO of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Olly Paulovich
Co-Founder & VP Marketing & Sales of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Phong Vu
Co-Founder & CTO of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Steve Marsh
Founder and CEO of GeoSpock
Steven Marsh is a Co-Founder of GeoSpock Limited and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Steven Marsh is also the lead architect of the Collide platform and co-lead architect of GeoSpock DB. He has experience of building real-time and highly-scalable systems he has overseen the creation of GeoSpock’s state-of-the-art geo-location and social networking mobile development platform. Steven Marsh is a computer scientist. As part of his research, Steve is part of a team building a customisable FPGA-based super-computer designed to carry out real-time simulation of extreme-scale neural networks such as the brain. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
Patrick Beraud
Founder & CEO of bemoir
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About bemoir: Bemoir is a social media platform that enables its users to share their stories with photos and videos.
Eric Masaba
Founder, CEO of Texxi Global
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About Texxi Global: Largescale Dynamic Real-Time Ridesharing + Computational-CryptoCurrency + Predicitive Analytics (AI)
Leon Doyle
CEO & Co-Founder of WIFIPLUG
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About myma.io, WIFIPLUG: myma.io – the IoT cloud that powers WIFIPLUG
Graeme Dixon
Founder & CEO of Octopus Intelligence
Graeme Dixon is the Founder and CEO at Octopus Intelligence.
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About Octopus Intelligence: Octopus Intelligence Answering questions when you just need to know. Creating certainty, insight, & growth with Competitive Intelligence
Richard Parker
Founder & CEO of Altitude Angel
Richard is the Founder & CEO of Altitude Angel. He created the company in December 2014, with a singular vision: integrate drones into the airspace, safely, using cloud technology. An experienced software engineer, Richard has a deep technical background with both software and electrical engineering expertise and is currently training to become a private pilot, too.
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About Altitude Angel: Altitude Angel makes drones safer by providing the data and cloud services needed to safely unlock their potential.
Siraj Ahmed Shaikh
Founder and CSO of CyberOwl
Siraj is currently a Reader in Cyber Security at Coventry University, UK. He has been involved in research, development and evaluation of large-scale distributed secure systems for over fifteen years. He is currently involved in a three-year (2014-17) EPSRC-Funded project App Collusion Detection (ACiD), in collaboration with City and Swansea University, and McAfee (part of Intel Security).
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About CyberOwl: CyberOwl offers an early warning system for cyber attacks through real-time monitoring of high value targets for malicious behavior.
Aviel Sela
Co-Founder & VP, Products of ESquare
Aviel Sela is a co-founder and the vice president of products at ESquare.
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About ESquare: ESquare is a Cyber protected platform for the industrial segment.
Jonathon Valentine
Founder and CTO of ThingCo
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About ThingCo: Telematics, Cars, IoT, SaaS, Insurance, ADAS, Intelligent voice,Automotive
Peter Mildon
COO & Co Founder of Vivacity Labs
Peter is responsible for the commercial delivery of Vivacity. After graduating from Cambridge University, Peter joined a leading systems engineering consultancy, leading projects across the oil, civil nuclear, and renewables industries. With substantial process-driven experience under his belt, Peter leads operations at Vivacity, ensuring we deliver on time and to specification, every time.
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About Vivacity Labs: Vivacity Labs makes intelligent cameras to gather transport data, using the latest machine learning & computer vision techniques.
Josh Baah
Co-Founder of Joos
Josh Baah is the Co-Founder at Joos.
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About Joos: Rent a power bank, charge your device on the move, and return anywhere in our multi-sector network; all through our app.
Hann Zhao Liu
Co-Founder of Joos
Serial angel investor/entrepreneur in a wide variety of sectors, including: hospitality, retail, technology, real estate.
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About Joos: Rent a power bank, charge your device on the move, and return anywhere in our multi-sector network; all through our app.
Serge Lubensky
Founder | Executive Managing Director of ReTool Ventures
Serge is a geek who enjoys finding pragmatic solutions to difficult problems. Along the way, he managed to become a successful entrepreneur with a track record of starting, growing and selling technology companies. Serge grew up in a family of scientists and artists. Not smart enough to become a scientist and not creative enough to be an artist, Serge chose to pursue a computer engineering degree in his hometown of Minsk strictly to avoid being drafted into the Russian Army during the Soviets’ invasion of Afghanistan. Serge’s first successful exit, from a failing 70-year old startup called the USSR, occurred in 1988. Fresh off the boat, Serge joined a computer company in Queens, NY, developing software for service contractors. Architecting and supporting a system that businesses relied on allowed Serge to learn the intricacies of the commercial repair and maintenance trades and ways to apply technology to solve real-life challenges for business owners and their field technicians. In the process, Serge and the company’s founder, Steven Gottfried, became friends and business partners and started to formulate plans for their next business venture. In 1999, Steven and Serge founded a cloud-based facilities management platform, ServiceChannel, with the goal of transforming the highly inefficient multi-billion dollar commercial repair and maintenance industry. As with their previous company, which was successfully sold, Steven was the idea generator and a master salesman, while Serge worked behind the scenes as CTO to help ServiceChannel achieve a dominant position in the global facilities management marketplace. In 2016, Serge moved to London to accelerate ServiceChannel’s expansion in Europe. In the summer of 2017, Accel, an elite technology VC firm, invested $54M in ServiceChannel continuing to fuel its growth and allowing Steven and Serge to realize a highly successful exit. Now Steven and Serge run ReTool Ventures, a technology investment firm.
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About Equip ID, ReTool Ventures: ReTool Ventures is a new technology investment firm that seeks to retool the facilities management industry by curating a “digital toolbox”
Armaan Mehta
Co-Founder of Odore
Armaan Mehta is the Co-Founder at Odore.
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About Odore: We bring digital and data to sampling, providing data driven sampling solutions so brands get to know their customers better.
Karan Gupta
Co-Founder of Odore
Karan Gupta is the Co-Founder at Odore.
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About Odore: We bring digital and data to sampling, providing data driven sampling solutions so brands get to know their customers better.
Florian Hoven
Founder of KeyNest – Smart Key Exchange
As an Airbnb host and frequent user when travelling, I know the struggles for both sides (hosts & guests) when key exchanges are badly coordinated or flights are delayed. Helping hosts & guests to enjoy the Airbnb experience is my every day motivation.
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About KeyNest – Smart Key Exchange: Smart key management solutions for Airbnb hosts, short-term rental operators and estate agents
Marc Figueras
Founder of KeyNest – Smart Key Exchange
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About KeyNest – Smart Key Exchange: Smart key management solutions for Airbnb hosts, short-term rental operators and estate agents
Alison Wedgwood
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of eWaterPay
Alison Wedgwood is CEO and co-founder of eWATERservices, a tech start-up which is revolutionising the delivery of water in Sub-Saharan Africa. Under Alison’s leadership, a growing global team has developed and deployed a technology and service enabling 265,000 people to access affordable, reliable and clean water near their homes. 660,000,000 litres of water have been dispensed- increasing by the second.
eWATER harnesses the ‘Internet of Things’ to monitor the water systems it installs, and manages the revenue which is generated from users paying affordable fees. The team of locally recruited and trained engineers are then able to maintain the systems resulting in over 90% reliability.
This approach is a consequence of Alison’s years of experience as an economist in the water sector and her visionary leadership to deliver a credible solution which is genuinely game-changing. The service ensures that if a dispenser fails, there is the technical expertise and capital necessary to fix it quickly, making the system sustainable for the future. Using local engineers also provides employment and development.
eWATER’s 24/7 service means improved health, education and economic prosperity for the communities it serves. Young girls don’t miss out on education walking for hours to collect water, as taps are nearby. This drastically improves their prospects and earning potential for their whole lives. Families are sick less often, meaning children are in school more and parents are able to work regularly and earn more income, improving their living standards. Midwives have told us they can now deliver babies safely at any hour as taps aren’t locked at night.
eWATER is also delivering a real impact in the battle with climate change. As communities can access clean water, they no longer need to burn wood or charcoal to boil their water to clean it. This dramatically reduces emissions produced. Finally, when communities pay for their water, it also means that far less water is wasted than at free taps.
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About eWATERservices: Using mobile technology for the accountable collection of user fees to pay for the maintenance of water supply systems forever.
Gregor Hoefter
Founder of GridDuck
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About GridDuck: GridDuck is a cloud-based hardware, dashboard & API enabling control of your clients’ energy
Nektarios Liolios
Co-Founder and CEO of Startupbootcamp InsurTech London
Co-founder & Managing Director of Startupbootcamp FinTech, the leading innovation program in the financial industry, providing funding, mentorship, office space in the heart of London and access to a global network of investors and VCs, for up to 10 selected FinTech startups. More than 15 years in the business, they last three with Innotribe, SWIFT’s initiative to enable collaborative innovation and running the Innotribe Startup Challenge. Driven by entrepreneurship, collaboration and the desire to transform the financial industry. Global nomad, travel geek, sneaker freaker.
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About Startupbootcamp FinTech Singapore, Startupbootcamp InsurTech London: Startupbootcamp InsurTech is the leading accelerator focused on insurance innovation.
Abraham Joseph
Founder of IOT Insights
Abraham is Founder and Editorial Director of IOT Insights. He has over 20 years’ experience in telecommunications and IT and has managed major projects for investors, regulators, telecommunications and cable TV operators, equipment vendors, independent software vendors and enterprises. Prior to founding Device Management Forum, he was Director of Consulting at Gartner and Consulting Director at Ovum. Previously he worked for over ten years in a variety of strategy, business development, marketing and product management roles at Alcatel and Nortel, and as IT manager at a major UK health district. He has written for and been featured in a range of publications including the Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Telegraph, Total Telecom and Mobile Europe. He is a frequent chairman, speaker and moderator at international conferences on a broad range of topics. He was organiser and chairman of IoT Summit at CeBIT in 2016 and 2017. He has an MBA from Strathclyde Graduate Business School and a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Polytechnic of the South Bank (South Bank University London).
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About IOT Insights: IOT Insights works with thought leaders in IOT and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication to identify market opportunities
Christian Lerke
Co-Founder of Home Run
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About Home Run, Toptal: Home Run is a same-day online grocery delivery service in London.
Matthew Hare
Founder & Chief Executive of Zzoomm Full Fibre Broadband
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About Zzoomm Full Fibre Broadband: Zzoomm is a leading Full Fibre broadband internet provider in the UK building a brand new broadband network
Christopher Roach
Founder of City Surfer
A passionate, well educated and skilled individual who produces excellent results. Organized, efficient and driven – a natural networker and team builder who thrives under high pressure situations. I enjoy creating and implementing creative communications campaigns including but not limited to, social media promotions and Out of Home advertising. In 2017 I was chosen as one of the top 30 under 30 Future Travel Leaders by TTG (Travel Trade Gazette), one of the industry s leading travel trade magazines. My focus is currently on the launch of the City Surfer app being released in Feb 2018. My duties as founder include implementing a strong PR and marketing campaign for launch.
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About City Surfer: City Surfer is your inner hipster, foodie, raver and fashion guru all combined into one simple to use app.
Michael Edwards
Managing Partner & Co Founder of Inspire Group Investments
Michael Edwards is Managing Partner & Co Founder of Inspire Group Investments.
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About Inspire Group Investments: The Inspire Group is an integrated internet group of companies that prides itself in being there from the beginning.
Andrew Kuzmych
Co-Founder and CTO of TechMagic
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About TechMagic: Top JavaScript and Serverless developers
Lucie Marchelot Shukla
Co-Founder – Managing Director of Straight Teeth Direct
Lucie Marchelot Shukla is a Co-Founder – Managing Director at Straight Teeth Direct.
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About Straight Teeth Direct: Straight TeethDirect to consumer teledentistry platform that connects users to online dentists globally enabling low cost.
Aalok Y Shukla
Co-Founder & CEO of Straight Teeth Direct
Aalok Y Shukla is the CEO and Co-Founder of Straight Teeth Direct.
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About Straight Teeth Direct: Straight TeethDirect to consumer teledentistry platform that connects users to online dentists globally enabling low cost.
Imran Shafqat
Co-Founder & CTO of ThingTrax
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About ThingTrax: ThingTrax helps manufacturers reduce downtime and increase operational efficiency with their devices capturing data from machines.
Vassilis Seferidis
Co-Founder & CEO of Zeetta Networks
Vassilis has more than 25 years of experience in the Telecom and Consumer Electronics (CE) industries mainly in Strategic Business Planning and Development roles. Before co-founding Zeetta Networks, Vassilis was VP of European Business Development for Samsung Electronics responsible for driving revenue growth and strategic development of the company’s Consumer Electronics business in Europe. Prior to Samsung, he held senior management positions with British Telecom, Toshiba Information Systems, Philips Electronics, and British Standards Institute. During 2006-2009 he was the CTO of QIO Systems Inc., a pioneer in wearable electronics based in New York City. Vassilis holds a BSc and MSc from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering from Essex University and an MBA from Cass Business School, University of London. In 2011 he was included in Euro50, a list of Europe’s 50 most influential people in Broadband &Telecoms industries.
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About Zeetta Networks: Zeetta Networks simplifies the monitoring, management and automation of complex ICT networks
Reza Nejabati
Co Founder, Director of Zeetta Networks
Reza is currently a Senior Lecturer in Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, UK. Prior to moving into academia he worked in project management and network architecture roles with leading telecom vendors. Reza has over fifteen years of experience in the field of telecommunication and computer science and has been actively involved in SDN and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) standardisation. He has made important and pioneering contributions to the research fields of Optical Networking, Software Defined Networking, Network & Data Centre Infrastructure Virtualization, Grid Networking and Large Scale Future Internet Experimentation. He has co-/authored over 150 peer reviewed papers and three SDN standardisation documents.
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About University of Bristol, Zeetta Networks: Zeetta Networks simplifies the monitoring, management and automation of complex ICT networks
Rafael Jorda Siquier
Founder and CEO of Open Cosmos
As CEO and co-founder, Rafael leads the Open Cosmos team. From leading the team to deliver the first satellite mission within eight months, to managing the expanding team and range of customers today, Rafael has overseen the overall company strategy and directed its execution, all while working towards the original mission of democratizing access to space. After studying aerospace engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona and completing an MBA, Rafael has worked at large corporations, such as Airbus Defence and Space, as well as small, innovative space start-ups. His desire to make space more accessible led him to develop Open Cosmos while at the prestigious Entrepreneur First incubator program in July 2015. For his work leading Open Cosmos, Rafael has been recognized most recently as Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 by EuroConsult.
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About Open Cosmos: Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.
Livio Hughes
Co-Founder & Director of Postshift
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About Postshift: Postshift is a digital transformation consultancy that helps organisations become 21st Century businesses
Lee Bryant
Co-Founder of Postshift
Lee Bryant is passionate about using social technology to put humans front and centre of the way we do things in the Twenty-First Century. He has been playing with words and computers since the age of 10, but it was in the mid-1990s, whilst working in international politics and diplomacy, that he discovered the immense power of the internet to influence and orchestrate change. He believes social networks, not bureaucracies, are the organising principle of the current era, and is excited about further exploring new forms of highly connected organisations. After running a web agency focused on knowledge sharing for 6 years, he co-founded Headshift in 2002 to investigate new uses for social technology inside companies and organisations, which became a leading international social business consultancy and was acquired by Dachis Group in 2009. Lee was joint MD of Dachis Group Europe from 2009 until June 2013. In the summer of 2013, he co-founded a new company, POST*SHIFT, dedicated to exploring the intersection between new social technologies and new thinking on organisational structure and culture. An accomplished speaker, Lee has delivered many keynotes, workshops and talks around the world at conferences, events and private corporate events.
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About Postshift: Postshift is a digital transformation consultancy that helps organisations become 21st Century businesses
Jacoby Thwaites
Founder & Chief Technologist of SPARKL
Jacoby is the CEO and founder of SPARKL, having previously managed insurance software company Michaelhouse until 2002. In 2006, he co-founded mashup pioneer Teqlo Inc in the US then joined core engineering at Google where he was responsible for Adsense Engineering in London until 2011. In 2012, Jacoby founded SPARKL in the UK to develop and market the Sequencing Engine technology.
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About SPARKL: SPARKL designs and develops the SPARKL Sequencing Engine, a powerful technology for managing the behavior of distributed systems.
Pedro Nuñez Porras
Founder and CEO of Eskesso
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About Eskesso: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Conall Laverty
Founder & CEO of Wia
CTO and Co-Founder at Roll TV
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About Wia: Wia unifies the IoT to help businesses better understand occupancy, air quality and energy to create smarter, safer and greener environments
Antonio Giugno
Co-Founder/Managing Director of Portrayt
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About Portrayt: We create digital strategy, experience and engagement.
Paul Green
Co-Founder, Director and Chief Science Officer of IOTICS
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About IOTICS: Enabling ecosystems of secure data interactions with digital twins
Fred de Haro
CEO & Co-Founder of Pycom
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About Pycom: The world’s most integrated IoT Platform
Bettina Rubek Slater
COO & Co-Founder of Pycom
Strategist Marketeer Tech and innovation seeker Telco, consumer electronics and IoT specialist
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About Pycom: The world’s most integrated IoT Platform
John Bowers
Founder & CEO of JCC Bowers
Changing the future of transportation as CEO of JCC Bowers. Soon all cars will be connected. Our innovative device, Cobalt Auta, makes your vehicle smarter than a Tesla. Launching 2017, Cobalt Auta turns any vehicle into an artificially intelligent, WiFi-enabled, theft-resistant vehicle capable of driving itself. Entrepreneur. Emerging technology specialist. Corporate economist. Expert strategist. Unapologetic about breaking the status quo. Tattooed dad who skipped uni to go straight into business. Let’s envision a better world together. Better yet, let’s build it.
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About JCC Bowers: Cobalt Auta delivers the future of transportation.
Tim Panton
Founder and CTO of pipe
Tim believes that experiments are the key to successful innovation. His recent work includes Artworks, Lego dogs and various Internet of Everything (IoE) devices, trying to figure out how people actually relate to their smart objects and what security features they expect from them. Last year in Berlin he co-founded |pipe| to add a secure, direct authenticated data transport layer between connected devices and their owners, having tested the practicality of these solutions in a video calling app for pets, called YoPet. Previous projects have included a training simulation for oil platforms, a time management app for a space telescope, a mobile phone network on a remote Pacific Island, and a solar-powered interactive art exhibit at the Burning Man festival.
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About pipe: | pipe | offers a security toolkit for developers which is a simple, secure, and private way to connect to the Internet of Things.
Gokhan Celebi
Co-Founder and CMO of Delphisonic
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About Delphisonic: Delphisonic is active in the development, production, and sales of hardware and software for industrial measurement technology.
Nick Allott
Founder & CEO of NquiringMinds
Nick is CEO and Founder of NquiringMinds, an award winning Technology Company specialising in the areas of IOT, Security and Data Analytics. Prior to that Nick spent 10 years in the Mobile Industry. As CTO for WAC (Wholesale Application Community Ltd), he helped set up a $30 million a cross operator industry initiative to create a web application wholesaling operation. This followed a stint as CTO of OMTP (Open Mobile Terminal Platform Ltd) mobile, where many influential industry initiatives were borne, including the universal charging interface, and trusted environment specifications. Nick has worked both for and on behalf of Venture Capital. As CTO of the $40 million start-up fastmobile, he helped see this advanced communications company through to successful acquisition by RIM. Before this he was at Motorola’s European Internet division, looking after gaming, messaging and voice recognition platforms. A broad technologist at heart, earlier industry experience covers, gaming, data warehousing, engineering, oil, publishing and consultancy having held various executive and consultancy positions at Shell, Pearson Group, Dorling Kindersley and Neural Computer Sciences. A strong advocate of open source, Nick helped set up and is Director of the Webinos Foundation. Nick has a Degree in Cognitive Science from Nottingham University, and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He is an Advisory Board Member for VisionMobile and a Member of TechUKs CTO Council.
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About NquiringMinds: NquiringMinds data sharing and data analytics company
Dave Watson
CEO and Founder of Trendalyze
Dave Watson is CTO and Co-Founder of Trendalyze and works on developing the database search and analytics platform for various IoT projects. He holds number of UK and US patents and has led engineering in database middleware, OLAP and time series databases in the past.
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About Trendalyze: Trendalyze is a cloud-based time patterns, motif search, analysis, and monitoring platform for healthcare IoT data.
Kelvin Summoogum
Co-Founder and CEO of MiiCare
Kelvin Summoogum is the Co-Founder and CEO at MiiCare.
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About MiiCare: AI-Powered Digital Health Coach designed to keep older adults healthy, safe, and more connected to their loved ones
Yasser Khattak
Founder of Den
Yasser Khattak is the Founder at Den.
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About Den: Den is designing the next generation of light switches and plug sockets.
Cameron Wall
Co-Founder & Non-Exec. Director of RainCheck
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About Clash, Codesign Cooperative, RainCheck: RainCheck is a Contextual Commerce platform that allows brands to both track & influence online product discovery to in-store sales.
Mathieu Bellanger
Technical Director and Co-Founder of Lightricity
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About Lightricity: Lightricity Ltd was founded in 2017 to commercialise its high-efficiency energy harvesting technology.
Azhar Hussain
CEO & Founder of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
Damon Hart-Davis
CTO & Co-Founder of Vestemi
Damon has a Masters in Computer Science with a focus on AI and 20 years of experience designing and optimising systems in the City. Previous start-ups included one of the UK’s first ISPs and a virtual credit company. He has also worked with DECC advising on energy efficiency from 2009.
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About Vestemi: Vestemi is a new technology product company with a social purpose.
Mark Hill
CIO and Co-Founder of Vestemi
Mark has a computer systems engineering background with 15 years of experience managing complex IT systems in the City and 7 years working in start-ups in a variety of leadership roles.
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About Vestemi: Vestemi is a new technology product company with a social purpose.
Dan Simmons
Founder and Director of Quensus
Dr Dan Simmons has a Masters + PhD in Electrical Engineering, and is an expert in water sustainability, software development and wireless technologies. Based on this skill set, he founded Quensus in 2015, which shaped a step-change in the water-saving industry.
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About Quensus: Water management system to monitor and control water infrastructure
Rishi Chowdhury
Co Founder of Incube
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About Incube, Momentum London, Your Hidden Potential: Incube specializes in the fields of commercial real estate, proptech, and smart buildings.
Miroslav Kovac
Founder, CEO of Coffee Cloud
CEO at Coffee Cloud.
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About Coffee Cloud: Coffee Cloud, IOT Software Analytics for professional HoReCa coffee industry
Roisin Meehan
CEO and Founder of Verifoxx
Róisín Meehan is the CEO and Founder of Verifoxx.
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About Verifoxx: Verifoxx is an AIoT blockchain company that enables easy and secure identity verification of customers.
Raj Sark
Founder of Connect-In Ltd
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About Connect-In Ltd: Connect is a Company Overview Innovatively Scottish technology-driven product development.
Vincenz Klemt
Co-Founder of Connect-In Ltd
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About Connect-In Ltd: Connect is a Company Overview Innovatively Scottish technology-driven product development.
Vincenz Klemt
Co-Founder of Connect-In Ltd
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About Connect-In Ltd: Connect is a Company Overview Innovatively Scottish technology-driven product development.
Peter White
Founder and CEO of Rethink Technology Research
Peter is the CEO of Rethink Technology Research and helped create the company in 2002.
Peter is the principal analyst on Rethink Energy, focusing on the transition from fossil fuels to renewables, taking in Wind, Solar, Energy storage and the new Hydrogen economy. He also touches on the digitalization of the grid, the effect of EVs on electricity supply and any new ideas in energy.
Peter’s coverage area takes in solar design including perovskite, multi-junction solar, crystalline silicon, as well as floating platforms, carbon-nanotube layering, all types of turbines and lithium ion batteries or other form of energy storage, green hydrogen production economics, undersea cabling, demand response utility systems and Distributed Energy Management Systems.
Peter was previously involved in technology since 1978. For 17 years at Rethink, his research was focused on video and digital networks. He has consulted with set top and home gateway manufacturers, encoder specialists, chip vendors, flash memory providers, security companies and TV UI specialists over that time.
If you want to email Peter, ask him a question or invite him to attend or speak at an event, then please email peter@rethinkresearch.biz
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About Rethink Technology Research: Experts in Wireless, Video and Renewable Energy. Rethink is the thought leader in emerging wireless technologies, video-based quadruple play and the energy transition.
Baris Ozdemir
Co-Founder & CTO of Trio Mobil
Baris Ozdemir is the Co-Founder and CTO at Trio Mobil.
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About Trio Mobil: Trio Mobil is a fast growing company specialize in Industrial IoT solutions targeting manufacturing, retail and services industries.
Kosta Mavroulakis
Founder and CEO of Empact Ventures
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About Empact Ventures: Empact Ventures co-designs some of the leading startup, tech and non-profit initiatives for large private or public sector organisations
William Makant
Co-Founder and CEO of Plumis
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About Plumis: Intelligence in the fabric of every building
Yusuf Muhammad
Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer (CDO) of Plumis
Yusuf is a co-inventor of Automist. He has an Honours Masters degree in Engineering and a double Masters in Innovation Design Engineering. He has won numerous design awards for a host of innovations across a number of industries including the James Dyson Award, the Toyota IQ Design Challenge & Transport Design of the Year by the Design Museum to name a few. He also starred in the BBC 2 Show ‘The Big Life Fix’.
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About Plumis: Intelligence in the fabric of every building
João Marques Lima
Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Data Economy
Fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish, João’s a hot-shot technology reporter currently serving as founding editor of Data Economy, part of BroadMedia, a Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC company. In 2019, he won the PPA 30 Under 30 award which shines a light on the outstanding efforts and achievements of the rising stars in consumer magazines and business media. At Data Economy, he manages the title across online, print, broadcast and events. João’s work has taken him around the world, reporting from locations in North America, APAC, Africa and all over Europe. With a deep interest in news, current affairs and history, prior to founding Data Economy, João experienced the reporting industry at Computer Business Review, the Daily Mail – where he delved into the investigation of five London-based Portuguese ISIS jihadists-, Channel 4 News, Channel 4, The Guardian, Antena Lusa, Future Behind and the Holloway Express. Specialised in the fields of IT infrastructure, data centres, IoT, AI, cloud and data, he has interviewed some of the world’s technology leaders and has delivered on several exclusives. At Data Economy, João manages the publication and is responsible for the majority of the editorial content. He has ranked 28 in the ‘Top 100 IoT Influencers of 2016’, ranked 28 in the ‘Top 100 M2M Influencers of 2016’, ranked 11 in the ‘Top Connected Car Influencers’, and features in the list of ‘IoT thought leaders to watch in the next four years [2016 onwards]’. At the age of just 12, he also founded his school’s newspaper and in 2012 he founded his own platform Corporation News Times International (CNT International), with an edition in English – CNTimes – and one in Portuguese – CNT Diário-, which soon attracted a vast readership worldwide. Between 2014 and 2015, João was the Head of Social Media for a UK parliamentary candidate of the general election’s winning party. João graduated from London Metropolitan University in 2014 with a BA in Journalism.
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About Data Economy: Data Economy brings what data centres have to offer closer to the enterprise and business world of cloud, data and the IoT.
João Marques Lima
Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Data Economy
Fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish, João’s a hot-shot technology reporter currently serving as founding editor of Data Economy, part of BroadMedia, a Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC company. In 2019, he won the PPA 30 Under 30 award which shines a light on the outstanding efforts and achievements of the rising stars in consumer magazines and business media. At Data Economy, he manages the title across online, print, broadcast and events. João’s work has taken him around the world, reporting from locations in North America, APAC, Africa and all over Europe. With a deep interest in news, current affairs and history, prior to founding Data Economy, João experienced the reporting industry at Computer Business Review, the Daily Mail – where he delved into the investigation of five London-based Portuguese ISIS jihadists-, Channel 4 News, Channel 4, The Guardian, Antena Lusa, Future Behind and the Holloway Express. Specialised in the fields of IT infrastructure, data centres, IoT, AI, cloud and data, he has interviewed some of the world’s technology leaders and has delivered on several exclusives. At Data Economy, João manages the publication and is responsible for the majority of the editorial content. He has ranked 28 in the ‘Top 100 IoT Influencers of 2016’, ranked 28 in the ‘Top 100 M2M Influencers of 2016’, ranked 11 in the ‘Top Connected Car Influencers’, and features in the list of ‘IoT thought leaders to watch in the next four years [2016 onwards]’. At the age of just 12, he also founded his school’s newspaper and in 2012 he founded his own platform Corporation News Times International (CNT International), with an edition in English – CNTimes – and one in Portuguese – CNT Diário-, which soon attracted a vast readership worldwide. Between 2014 and 2015, João was the Head of Social Media for a UK parliamentary candidate of the general election’s winning party. João graduated from London Metropolitan University in 2014 with a BA in Journalism.
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About Data Economy: Data Economy brings what data centres have to offer closer to the enterprise and business world of cloud, data and the IoT.
