François Ambrosini, IBIT François Ambrosini obtained his engineering degree in electronics and signal processing combined with a master's degree in computer networks and telecommunications from ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France, in 2003. Among other activities he was involved with radio tech‐ nology development at Sagem Défence & Sécurité and later in the standardisation of mobile TV systems at Motorola. Mr. Ambrosini operates an office for consulting in information technology and telecommunication security since 2012. His current activities span Reconfigurable Radio Systems security, IoT security, attribute‐based cryptography for access control, and language‐theoretic security. Mahdi Ben Alaya, Sensinov ‐ ‐ Member of the Programme Committee Mahdi Ben Alaya, PhD, is an international expert in IoT and M2M architectures. He is the Founder and CEO of Sensinov. He obtained a Ph.D in Networks, Telecommunications, Systems and Architectures from the Federal University of Toulouse and the LAAS‐CNRS laboratory in France. He serves as Vice Chairman of the oneM2M Testing Group. He is co‐founder and technical manager of the open source project Eclipse OM2M at the Eclipse foundation. He presented IoT tutorials in summer schools and universities worldwide including France, Taiwan, and Korea. He initiated and managed several R&D projects at LAAS‐CNRS and Sensinov including ITEA2‐USENET, ITEA2‐A2NETS, and H2020‐ LSP5‐AUTOPILOT. He has authored more than 20 refereed publications in international journals and conferences, as well as more than 50 contributions to IoT standards. Gil Bernabeu, GlobalPlatform Mr. Bernabeu was elected GlobalPlatform's Technical Director in 2005, after serving as Chair of the Systems Committee for over two years. His main role is to drive the development of GlobalPlatform Specifications to deploy secure digital services and devices and promote open ecosystems. As well as acting as GlobalPlatform's central technical liaison point, he coordinates the efforts of the organization's three technical committees (SE, TEE and Systems), aligns the GlobalPlatform Task Forces with external partners, and oversees the Certification Secretariat to ensure all elements of GlobalPlatform‐based solutions are secure, interoperable and retain backwards compatibility to ensure ROI. Maite Bezunartea, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Maite Bezunartea obtained the master degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA) in 2014. She is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Kris Steenhaut at the Department of Electronics and Informatics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She has contributed to different projects, such as the IAPP European project Scanergy, with a focus on SmartGrids, the Flemish‐funded LH2ORA project, with a focus on using the LoRa radio technology for metering applications, and the Horizontal‐IoT project, with a focus on horizontal integration of different application and radio technologies. Her current research interests include the design, implementation and evaluation of long‐range Wireless Sensor Networks for environmental monitoring and smart grids, and their combination with more classical short‐range radio technologies for IoT applications. Josef J. Blanz, Qualcomm Josef Blanz, a principal engineer at Qualcomm, is responsible for M2M/IoT standards, related design work and interfacing to product management/engineering. In 1990 he started to design mobile radio ICs at the Center for Microelectronics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. 1993 he joined the Research Group for RF Communications, University of Kaiserslautern, to investigate multi‐antenna receivers for 3G. Josef joined Qualcomm 1998 initially working on smart antennas. 1999–2009 he was Qualcomm’s lead in 3GPP for radio/baseband performance. He led R&D projects on lower layer enhancements, like MIMO for HSDPA/LTE. Since 2009 he leads Qualcomm's M2M/IoT standards work. He helped creating oneM2M, serves as a Technical Plenary Vice Chair, and is Qualcomm’s oneM2M lead. Josef has 25+ years of experience in communication systems design and worked 18 years in standardization. He holds Master (Dipl‐Ing.) & Ph.D. (Dr‐Ing.) degrees in EE, both from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Nicolas Damour, Sierra Wireless Nicolas Damour is Senior Manager for Business and Innovation at Sierra Wireless, where he has been working for the last six years. He holds a telecommunications engineering degree and a master degree in innovation management. Before Sierra Wireless, he has worked in the IT and telecommunications industry in North America and in Europe, notably for Nortel Networks and for the Kapsch group. At Sierra Wireless, he is responsible for M2M standardization activities and for advanced projects with partners and prospective customers to keep exploring new ideas and solutions in the M2M industry. Nicolas is also chairman of the architecture working group at oneM2M and member of the board of directors at the Open Mobile Alliance. He also attends other standardization and related industry fora such as the 3GPP, the GSM Association or the European Smart Metering Industry Group. He is currently based in Toulouse, France. Laura Daniele, TNO ‐ Member of the Programme Committee Laura Daniele is a scientist in the area of ontology engineering and semantic technologies. She graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Cagliari (Italy) and developed her MSc thesis at the University of Twente (NL) by means of the European Socrates/Erasmus program. In 2011, she obtained her PhD from the University of Twente on model‐driven development of context‐aware mobile applications. Since 2011 she works at TNO, the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research. Her interest is to provide data integration solutions to enable semantic interoperability among various organizations that need to share data, but use different terminologies, standards and/or heterogeneous IT systems. Her research focuses on the application of semantic technologies in the Internet of Things, especially in the Smart Home environment. Laura has developed a number of ontologies in several domains (http://ontology.tno.nl/) and is the creator of the Smart Appliances REFerence ontology (SAREF) for the European Commission and standardized by ETSI. Laura is active in several European research projects and has authored many international publications. Vinncent Danno, Orange corporate Vincent Danno is Director of Standards in Orange. His responsibility includes all wireline networks and home networks, as well as the IoT platform. In his role, he defines standardisation strategy and policy, and leads Orange’s standardisation activities to set the direction and lead the transformation of future networks, including in such areas as convergence in 5G, softwarisation, transport networks and machine‐to‐machine…. Vincent has held various roles, covering both fixed and mobile networks, both at the access and core level. He has been involved in numerous Standard Development Organisations and Industry Associations, such as ETSI, 3GPP and the GSMA. His contribution has been recognised by multiple industry awards. Francisco Da Silva, Huawei Technologies Sweden ‐ Member of the Programme Committee Francisco is since 2009 a Senior Councillor for Standardization and Technical Regulation in Huawei Technologies Sweden. Before he had been with Portugal Telecom. Francisco was Chairman of ETSI General Assembly and of ETSI Board. He is now participating in the ETSI delegations of Project Coordination Group of 3GPP and in the Steering Committee of oneM2M. Before. He has also been Vice‐ Chairman of EURESCOM and member of the ETNO Steering Committee. One of his focus has for a long time been the road between Research and Standardization. Nowadays, in the ETSI Board, he focus also on issues like Open Source and IoT including the “Smart Appliances Initiative” and its Reference Ontology (SAREF), an EC project developed in collaboration with ETSI. Ian Deakin, iconectiv Ian Deakin, Head of Innovation and Emerging Technology at iconectiv, is responsible for in‐depth market research and analysis of new and disruptive technology within the telecommunications market. He specializes in identifying emerging technology trends for connected device security, authentication and fraud prevention across telecoms, IoT and enterprise services. As the authoritative partner of the communications industry for more than 30 years, iconectiv’s market‐leading solutions enable the interconnection of networks, devices, and applications for more than one billion people every day. A US‐based company, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., doing business as iconectiv, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ericsson. Deakin has a 30 year career in the communication industry. Prior to iconectiv, he held executive and management positions with mobile and telecommunications companies including: CMG Telecommunications, Motorola O2 and more. As founder of a startup company ‘Pervenio’ he successfully commercialized a patented solution for automated mobile device identity tracking. Jean‐Pierre Desbenoit, Schneider Electric Jean‐Pierre Desbenoit works for Schneider Electric since 2002. He is in charge of ICT standardization and Industry Relations in the Industry and Government Affairs team of Schneider Electric and involved in several standard organizations and industry alliances working in the IoT space in particular: member of the Strategic Committee Digital Information and Communication of AFNOR,