Keynote Speakers

Alicia Asín co-founded Libelium in 2006 with David Gascón and has been its CEO since the beginning. She is focused on how IoT is becoming the next tech revolution, starting with Smart Cities. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences on issues related to Smart Cities, Wireless Sensor Networks and the IoT. She is a computer engineer by the University of Zaragoza and graduated by ESADE Business School.

Alicia is also the first woman to receive the National Young Entrepreneur at the 2014 meeting of the Spanish Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs (CEAJE).

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CEO of Genuine Concept, a startup working on connected solutions for Africa. Christian Cédric TOE is a Tech-Entrepreneur and TEDx speaker. He has a  in Industrial Systems Engineering; with 3 years experience in designing smart systems for the benefit of the health sector in Africa. He is the winner of the Innovation Award at the Rebranding Africa Forum

Sylvain Ekel is an IoT Solution Architects Manager within the Partner Devices and Solutions organization at Microsoft Corp. His team is responsible for working with partners across EMEA to help them build IoT solutions using Microsoft’s Azure IoT cloud services and other products and technologies. Sylvain has more than 20 years of technical and business experience in the embedded and Internet of Things market. Prior to Microsoft, Sylvain was an embedded and electrical design engineer and for the last 15 years in Microsoft, he has held multiple technical sales leadership positions, managing teams and partners across industries and device categories. Amongst other, he held roles driving projects in commercial electronics and media devices, industrial and manufacturing systems, retail, healthcare, and mobility.