Gusts Kossovics

Managing Director, eu.bac

Gusts Kossovičs is the Managing Director of eu.bac, the European Building Automation and Controls Association. With a strong background in European affairs and architectural technology, he offers a comprehensive perspective on the policy and practical applications of smart building solutions. Under his leadership, eu.bac has been instrumental in advancing efficient building practices within European policy. Notably, his team’s advocacy has led to the inclusion of mandatory building automation and control system requirements in the EU regulatory framework—an essential step towards achieving Europe’s ambitious decarbonization goals.

Jonathan Marshall

Founder and Director, SafeShark

Whether in his earlier role in BBC R&D or latterly in commercial innovation, Jonathan has played a key role in the invention and dissemination of many of the interactive technologies we now take for granted - Red button TV, hybrid TV (internet + broadcast) and integration of programming with Social networks and online trends. To do so has required a leading level of creative and truly multidisciplinary understanding and vision, working with other visionaries, writers, programme makers, technologists and broadcasters. The result of his work has been to significantly extend the reach and possibility of the creative industries in both broadcast and online environments.

Duarte Roquette Geraldes

General Manager, Atouch Winwel Lda

Have had the pleasure of working across industries, countries and cultures, recently leading teams and promoting M&As in Grupo Bernardo da Costa, particularly Atouchinter Lda and Winwel Lda becoming Atouch Winwel Lda (horizontal acquisition). Aggregating and complementing corporate capabilities in the Smart Connected Home industry creating it the biggest Portuguese dedicated manufacturer. To do so leveraged the implementation of ISO9001 certification to communicate to merged team the process, the product, KPIs thus the way forward ! As an industrial engineer, with several years of experience from General Management, Business Development, Business Strategy, Innovation and Plant Management I was responsible to develop products, industrial and residential applications, working with teams in industries from metal forming, plastic injection, composite materials, and having the pleasure to learn such technologies as electronics Hardware (PCBAs), software (Java, C, Angular, Bash, SQL) amongst others. During this time choices of organic Vs inorganic growth were made in dimensions ranging from outsourcing, offshoring, reshoring, Internal R&D and capital allocation as well as alliances were made to achieve international headlines both as the first Portuguese KNX Manufacturer as well as the first world KNX manufacturer to present a KNX IoT Touch panel having been featured in worldwide newsletter and invited as speaker for the World Iot Solutions Congress in Barcelona. In this way Atouch Winwel leverage in-house and an alliance to be the first mover worldwide capitalizing far most in branding than if had spent 10x the amount in marketing campaigns. It is crucial to understand and manage all stockholders, to align them into to a common vision, understand the mandate and how our decisions make it or break it, keeping in mind all stakeholders, and listening to clients and market trends. With this experience I can show the way with focus on finding solutions !

Chris Swan

Engineer, Atsign

IT mixologist, cloud gazer, security guy, open source shepherd and Wardley mapper. Making tomorrow better than yesterday. Helping people feel safe so that they can take risk and grow. Explaining WHY, so that people want to join the transformation journey.

Hemayun Bazaz

EMEA Director, HPE Aruba Networking

Channel strategist with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry for over 15 years. Strong Sales professional skills in Enterprise Sales, Customer Relationship Management and Go-to-market Strategy.

Bram Roelandts

CEO at Allorado

23 years old | Software developer | Passion for IoT

Bruno Johnson

CEO, Cascoda Ltd

Bruno is an expert in the conceptualization, design, development of standard products for the electronics industry. His experience covers a range of wireless devices, gained through previous positions in Semtech, Acapella and Hitachi Microsystems (now Renesas). Since forming Cascoda, Bruno has been responsible for defining and implementing the company vision, strategy and communications. Bruno was recently Chair of the Marketing & Communications Work Group of OCF and Chair of the Regional work group of the Thread Group. Bruno holds an MSc in Mircoelectronics from the University of Southampton, and an MBA from Imperial College Business School.

Xabi Aláez

inBiot, CEO & Co-Founder

My name is Xabi and I am an engineer by profession and personality. Entrepreneurship is my vocation. Efficiency, ambition, and positivity are my main qualities. Equality, innovation, and transparency are my values. I began the project of my life with inBiot, where I have been developing my professional and personal skills as CEO at a rapid pace since 2018. With our IoT solutions for monitoring and managing indoor air quality, we help people breathe in healthier environments and organizations achieve their challenging ESG and energy-saving goals.