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Promotes the Microsoft IoT platform to a wider audience through events, workshops, and conferences. Assists top Microsoft partners in developing their businesses through IoT and digital transformation expertise. He serves on the Innovation and Exploitation Advisory Board of H2020 project TagItSmart and is a visiting lecturer at FEFA (Faculty for Economy and Financial Administration). His research focuses on the commercial implications of IoT as a key enabler of digital transformation. He holds an engineering degree, an Executive MBA from Sheffield University (UK), and is currently pursuing a PhD in management. critique of ambient technology and RFID's all-seeing network. He is the co-founder of Bricolabs. In collaboration with Christian Nold, he wrote Situated Technologies Pamphlets 8: The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World. Kranenburg is the co-editor of Enabling Things to Talk: Designing IoT Solutions with the IoT Architectural Reference Model (Springer Open Access). He specializes in digital technologies, company development, innovation, and sustainability. With over 15 years of expertise in research and innovation, he has worked in industry and academia on large-scale international initiatives in IoT, data analytics, and 5G. He is the vice president of the IoT Forum and a leading IoT expert in Europe.

Mats Magnusson is a Professor of Product Innovation Engineering at

KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and a Permanent Visiting Professor at LUISS School of Business and Management in Rome. He has previously held visiting positions at Aalborg University, the University of Bologna, and Ritsumeikan University. He is the President of the Continuous Innovation Network and a senior advisor to the journal Creativity and Innovation Management. Mats holds a PhD in Innovation Engineering and Management, an MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from Chalmers University of Technology, and a BA in Japanese from the University of Gothenburg. His research, teaching, and consultancy focus on strategic and organizational aspects of innovation. He has published extensively on these topics in various journals, including Organization Studies, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Long Range Planning.Saku J. Mäkinen is Vice Dean for Research and Professor of Industrial Management at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) in Finland. He has previously worked at CERN, Geneva (2014-2016), Columbia University, New York (2011-12), National University of Singapore (2000-2002), and Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney (1996). Mäkinen focuses on the convergence of technology and innovation management (TIM) and strategic management, often in conjunction with industry. His research has been published in top international journals like Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Technovation, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, and Advances in Strategic Management. He is the editor-in-chief of CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation since 2015. Data mining, optimization approaches, and heuristics. Jussi Valta is a PhD student in Industrial Engineering and Management at Tampere University of Technology in Finland. His research focuses on systemic innovation, path dependence, and organization of novel energy systems, including microgrids. He is interested in energy policies and regulatory frameworks, and his MSc thesis.

Department Editor Emerging Technologies of Transactions on Engineering

Management since 2018, Associate Editor of IJITM (Int. J. Innovation and Technology Management) since 2011, and Member of the editorial board of Technological Forecasting & Social Change since 2015.Frank McGroarty is a Professor of Computational Finance and Investment Analytics and Director of the Centre for Digital Finance at the University of Southampton, UK. His research focuses on the interface of Business and Computer Science, with real-world commercial and policy implications. Before joining the University of Southampton, Frank worked as a fund manager in London for 13 years.David Paper is a professor at Utah State University's Jon M. Huntsman School in the Management Information Systems department. He has published in several journals, including Organizational Research Methods, Communications of the ACM, Information & Management, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications, Communications of the AIS, Long Range Planning, Creativity and Innovation, Accounting Management and Information Technologies, Journal of Managerial Issues, Business Process Management Journal, and Journal of Computer Information Systems. He formerly worked at Texas Instruments, DLS Inc., and Phoenix Small Business Administration. He has provided consultancy services for IBM, AT&T, Octel Communications Corporation, Utah Department of Transportation, and Space Dynamics Laboratory. His teaching and research interests encompass data science, process management, database management, e-commerce, business process reengineering, and organizational change.Mirko Presser is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for company Development at Aarhus University. focused on policies for energy consumers. In addition to his academic career, he has experience in sales in the mining technology and construction material industries.Rob van Kranenburg is the founder of the #IoT Council. He serves as the Ecosystem Manager for EU projects Tagitsmart and Next Generation Internet. He wrote "The Internet of Things." In Network Notebooks 02, the Institute of Network Cultures presents a 

Ulla A Saari is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratory of Industrial

And Information Management at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) in Finland. She has a DrTech degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from TUT and an MA in Languages and Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki. Her current research interests include sustainability, environmentalstewardship, stakeholder management, entrepreneurship, and business ecosystems. She has 20 years of experience in the high-tech business, holding several top management positions in worldwide organizations.Johan Simonsson is Director of Service Offer at Husqvarna Construction Products. He earned a Master of Science in Electronic Business Systems and Technologies from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He is currently pursuing an Industrial PhD in Product Innovation Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, with a focus on digital business model innovation.Patrik Ström is an Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the Centre for International Business Studies, Department of Business Administration, University of Gothenburg. He has a PhD in Business Administration from Roskilde University and a doctorate in Economic Geography from the University of Gothenburg. His research has been on the globalization and competitiveness of the knowledge-intensive service industries in Europe and Asia.Ström is President of the European Association for Research on Services (RESER). He was a member of the EU Commission's High Level Group on Business Services.Zsolt Ugray is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at Utah State University's Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. He has published in several journals, including Informs Journal on Computing, Optimization Methods and Software, Review of Business Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications, International Journal of E-Business Research, and Interacting with Computers. He spent several years in the semiconductor sector before entering academics. His research and teaching interests are on business analytics data science.