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Building a global IoT ecosystem of 100K developers

30 minutes presentation
Wienke Giezeman The Things Industries

The Things Network provides a set of open tools and a global, open network to build next IoT application at low cost, featuring maximum security and ready to scale.

This secure and collaborative Internet of Things network spans across many countries around the globe, operating thousands of gateways providing coverage to millions of people. In this presentation founder Wienke Giezemans tells the story, and shares why the LoRaWan is such a strong.

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Wienke Giezeman

Wienke Giezeman

The Things Industries

Wienke Giezeman is the co-founder of The Things Network. He is on a mission to provide the entire world with a free and open internet of things data network. He managed to provide the city of Amsterdam with coverage in 6 weeks, and he is now building a global IoT data network.

He started his career with KPN but soon after he left the corporate world and founded WappZapp, a video on demand platform providing curated free and paid video. Wappzapp got acquired by Sanoma Publishing at the end of 2014.

Wienke has been fighting for a free and open internet since he founded Startups for Net Neutrality. Together with a group of people he let the EU Parliament know how important net neutrality is for starting online businesses.

He is also the founder and CEO of The Smiths, an app agency, and he is mentor at Rockstart Accellerator.

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