Philippe de Matteis
Philippe de Matteis, MSC (Physics and AI), MBA, founder, CEO and Senior consultant at DMPH consulting, he has been involved in RFID and the contactless industry since 1995 following 10 years within the IT and software industry. He was in charge of RFID development in Europe for OMRON electronics from 1999 till 2005. Before joining Omron, he was VP marketing at Stella electronics, a RFID and contactless system design company, a GEMALTO's spin off company.
Selwyn Piramuthu
Selwyn Piramuthu received his PhD (Information Systems) from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Currently a Professor of Information Systems, he has been with the University of Florida since Fall 1991. He is an Associate Researcher of Information Systems and Technologies at ESCP-Europe (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris) and a member of the RFID European Lab in Paris. He taught in the Operations and Information Management department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1998 to 2001. He has also held teaching and/or research visiting appointments at several other institutions including the Aarhus School of Business in Denmark, Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, IRIDIA (Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, Interdisciplinary Center for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the Université du Luxembourg in Luxembourg, and the Lehrstuhl für Informations- und Technologie- management at Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, Germany. His research and teaching interests include artificial intelligence, cryptography, database management, data mining/machine learning, and simulation including their applications in computer integrated manufacturing, e-commerce, financial credit scoring, healthcare, Internet of Things, RFID, supply chain management, and work flow management.
Jo Caudron
Jo Caudron is a digital entrepreneur and "internet ancien" in Belgium. He started his first digital agency in 1993 and has since then created over a dozen of companies related to digital innovation. He is currently active in Dear Media, a consulting company that advices on topics of digital strategy and (media) innovation in the field of social media, mobile, location based services and the IoT. His special interest goes out to how mobile devices will bridge the gap between your digital life (with access to online systems and your own social networks) and the physical world. He believes mobile devices will have the power to "link all things to the internet", without the necessity of these "things" to be actually connected themselves.