EXPERT GROUP
The EU-IoT Expert Group gathers top international experts in relevant technical/technological, research, business, policy, standardisation and legal aspects. It was established in 2021 as a community of specialists tasked with providing guidance to the EU-IoT project in concrete areas in order to guide its principal actions. The experts lend their experience, expertise and professional opinions to provide strategic guidance in their areas of expertise to ensure that the work undertaken by the project has a full consideration of the ongoing challenges, trends and initiatives.
If you want to be part of the EU-IoT Exper Group, please fill out our survey:

Joao Ferreira
Assistant Professor with Aggregation; head of IoT Lab, Instituto Universitario de Lisboa
Area(s) of expertise: Far Edge, Edge and Security
Representation: Academia
Country: Portugal

Alexander Willner
Director of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Center, Fraunhofer Fokus
Area(s) of expertise: Standards and interoperability and 5G
Representation: Academia
Country: Germany

Matthias Kovatsch
Senior Researcher, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH
Area(s) of expertise: IoT applications, enabling technologies, standards and interoperability, Edge, Far Edge andIIoT
Representation: Corporate
Country: Germany

Fu Xiaoming
Professor and Head of Computer Networks Group, Georg-August-Universität
Area(s) of expertise: IoT applications, Data processing architectures, Enabling technologies, skills and training, Far edge, Edge and AI
Representation: Academia
Country: Germany

Georgios Karamanolis
Chairman of Hellenic Blockchain Hub, Hellenic Blockchain Hub
Area(s) of expertise: Enabling technologies and IoT applications
Representation: Corporate/SME
Country: Greece

Dr Ioannis Psaras
University Lecturer and EPSRC Fellow, Protocol Labs
Area(s) of expertise: Ethics and Privacy
Representation: Academia/Non-profit
Country: Italy

Luca Bolognini
President, Istituto Italiano per la Privacy
Area(s) of expertise: IoT applications, enabling technologies, standards and interoperability, Edge, Far Edge andIIoT
Representation: Corporate
Country: Germany

Wael Elrifai
Global VP, Solution Engineering
Area(s) of expertise: Enabling technologies, IoT applications and business models
Representation: Corporate
Country: Switzerland
Dr. Christian Winkler
Senior Principal Expert IoT, Corporate Technology, Siemens AG
Area(s) of expertise: Edge, Business models and Far Edge
Representation: Corporate
Country: Germany
Rui A. Costa
CEO, Ubiwhere
Area(s) of expertise: IoT applications and Green deal
Representation: Corporate
Country: Portugal
Dr. Tiziana Ferrari
Director, EGI Foundation
Area(s) of expertise: Enabbling technologies and data processing architectures
Representation: Academia/Non-profit
Country: The Netherlands
Prof. Michael Boniface
Professorial Fellow of Information Systems, Head of the IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton
Area(s) of expertise: Data processing architectures, Enabling technologies and Policy
Representation: Academia
Country: UK
Eiko Yoneki
Head of Data Centric Systems Group, University of Cambridge
Area(s) of expertise: Data processing architectures, Enabling technologies and Edge
Representation: Academia
Country: UK
Rob Van Kranenburg
Director, IoT Council
Area(s) of expertise: IoT applications
Representation: Association
Country: Belgium
Matthias Wählisch
Head of Internet Technologies Research Group, Freie Universität Berlin
Area(s) of expertise: IoT applications, enabling technologies, standards and interoperability, implementation and Far Edge
Representation: Academia
Country: Germany
Ladid Latif
Founder & President, IPv6 Forum
Area(s) of expertise: Standards and interoperability and IPv6
Representation: Academia/Non-profit
Country: Luxembourg
Prof. Joerg Ott
Professor, Technische Universität München
Area(s) of expertise: IoT applications, Data processing architectures, Edge, Far Edge and AI
Representation: Academia
Country: Germany
Joerg Widmer
Research Professor and Research Director, IMDEA Networks Institute
Area(s) of expertise:Enabling technologies, Implementation and 5G
Representation: Academia
Country: Spain
Jonathan Fürst
Research Scientist, NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH
Area(s) of expertise: IoT applications, enabling technologies, standards and interoperability, implementation and Far Edge
Representation: Academia
Country: Germany
Charles Sheridan
EMEA Technical Director for Industrial IoT, Google Cloud, Google
Area(s) of expertise: Data processing architectures, IoT applications, Enabling Technologies, business models, Edge and AI
Representation: Corporate
Country: Ireland