Jesús Arias García

Membership & Business Development, KNX Association

Jesús Arias is a Business Developer with engineering background who assists organizations to develop technological solutions based on the KNX standard. Jesus has been involved with KNX since 2007, when he started a technical department about home and building automation at Eurocontrol. Ever since, he has been working in technical and management positions at hardware manufacturers and system integration companies, as well as delivering KNX training across four continents. Jesus strongly shares the values of the KNX technology, and as a result he has contributed to increase its awareness with dozens of articles and one book, titled ‘Enhancing LEED certification through implementing KNX technology’. Thanks to this multidisciplinary profile, Jesus was involved in flagship projects in Africa, which lead him to win the KNX Award International Category in 2014. Currently, Jesus runs a startup Incubator for KNX Association.

Bruno Johnson

CEO, Cascoda

Bruno is an expert in the conceptualization, design and development of standard products for the electronics industry. He began his career on the graduate program of Hitachi Europe, where he participated in the development of system-on-chip DAB radio receivers. His subsequent experience at Semtech covers positions of responsibility in business units involved in wireless, communications, human input devices and sensing. Bruno holds a BEng from the University of Sussex, an MSc in Microelectronics from the University of Southampton, and an MBA from Imperial College Business School.