Frank Vasquez is an independent software consultant specializing in consumer electronics. He has over a decade of experience designing and building embedded Linux systems. During that time, he has shipped numerous devices including a rackmount DSP audio server, a diver-held sonar camcorder, and a consumer IoT hotspot. Before his career as an embedded Linux engineer, Frank was a database kernel developer at IBM where he worked on DB2. He lives in Silicon Valley.

Vedat Ozan Oner is an IoT product developer and software architect with a good blend of technical knowledge and experience. During his career, he participated in many IoT projects in different roles as a developer, architect, technical product manager, which let him see all aspects of developing successful IoT products in highly competitive markets. He specializes in wireless sensor networks and their applications, where he sees many technical challenges, thus, business opportunities. He has a bachelor’s degree from METU/Computer Engineering and holds several industry-recognized credentials like PMP, ITIL, and AWS Certified Developer as a lifelong learner and believer of continuous improvement. Alongside his professional life, he also enjoys IoT as a hobby and loves sharing his knowledge and experience with young people as a STEM ambassador in the UK. He has 2 daughters, one is 14 years old and leads the fun projects at home, the other one is 1 year old and is expected to join them in developing projects soon. Vedat started his limited company in 2018 in London to provide consultancy services to his clients as well as developing his own IoT products. He still lives there with his family.

Frank Bruno is an experienced high-performance design engineer specializing in FPGAs with some ASIC experience. He has experience working for companies such as Cruise, SpaceX, Allston Trading, and Number Nine. He is currently working as an FPGA engineer for Cruise.

Francis X. Govers is an autonomous vehicle designer at Bell Helicopter Textron. He is the designer of 28 unmanned vehicles or robots for land, sea, air, and space, including RAMSEE, the autonomous security guard robot. Francis helped design the International Space Station, the F-35 JSF Fighter, the US Army Future Combat Systems, and systems for NASCAR and IndyCar. He is an engineer, pilot, author, musician, artist, and maker. He received five outstanding achievement awards from NASA and recognition from Scientific American for World Changing Ideas.

Daniele Lacamera is a software technologist and researcher with vast experience in software design and development on embedded systems for different industries, currently working as freelance software developer and trainer. He is a worldwide expert in TCP/IP and transport protocol design and optimization, with more than 20 academic publications on the topic. He supports free software by contributing to several projects, including the Linux kernel, and his involvement within a number of communities and organizations that promote the use of free and open source software in the IoT.

Danny Staple builds robots and gadgets as a hobbyist, makes videos about his work with robots, and attends community events such as PiWars and Arduino Day. He has been a professional Python programmer, later moving into DevOps, since 2009, and a software engineer since 2000. He has worked with embedded systems, including embedded Linux systems, throughout the majority of his career. He has been a mentor at a local CoderDojo, where he taught how to code with Python. He has run Lego Robotics clubs with Mindstorms. He has also developed Bounce!, a visual programming language targeted at teaching code using the NodeMCU IoT platform. The robots he has built with his children include TankBot, SkittleBot (now the Pi Wars robot), ArmBot, and SpiderBot.

Jonathan Cacace was born in Naples, Italy, on December 13, 1987. He received his Master's degree in computer science, and a Ph.D. degree in Information and Automation Engineering, from the University of Naples Federico II. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Naples Federico II. He is also a member of PRISMA Lab where he is involved in different research projects focused on industrial and service robotics in which he has developed several ROS-based applications integrating robot perception and control.

Mounir Maaref lives in the UK and works as a Principal SoC Architect. He has 25 years experience in the microelectronics industry spanning FPGAs, ASICs, Embedded Processing, Networking, Data Storage, Satellite Communications, Bluetooth, and WiFi connectivity. He likes working on cutting edge technologies involving both hardware and software. His main focus is on the system architecture design, performance analysis, and modeling. He has published several Application Notes and White Papers, and has been a speaker at many conferences worldwide. He holds a Masters degree in Electronics and Telecoms. He is a 2nd dan black belt in Tang Soo Do and is getting trained to become a Martial Arts instructor.

Peter Waher is the founder of Little Sister®, a standards-based distributed social network, based on the principles of edge computing, privacy & information ownership, for humans and machines. Currently, Peter advises companies on topics such as privacy, the IoT and Smart Cities. He has worked for 24 years with computers and device communication, including low-level development in assembler for resource-constrained devices to high-level system design and architecture. His award-winning applications has attracted global attention, and he has been invited to speak at prestigious events.

Giacomo Veneri graduated in computer science from the University of Siena. He holds a PhD in neuroscience context with various scientific publications. He is Predix Cloud certified and an influencer, as well as SCRUM and Oracle Java certified. He has 18 years' experience as an IT architect and team leader. He has been an expert on IoT in the fields of oil and gas and transportation since 2013. He lives in Tuscany, where he loves cycling.