Dominique Guinard

Webit Speaker, Co-founder & CTO, EVRYTHNG

Dominique “Dom” Guinard is the CTO and co-founder of EVRYTHNG, a large-scale Web of Things cloud platform making products smart by connecting them the Web. He holds a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, where he worked on the early concepts of the Web of Things architecture: an open application layer for the Internet of Things. Before this, Dom spent a decade working on a number of IoT projects: large-scale RFID networks for Sun Microsystems, at the Auto-ID Labs Zurich with Nokia Research on the role of mobiles phones in the IoT, at the MIT Auto-ID labs on bringing the EPCGlobal RFID network to the cloud, and 4 years at SAP on service based-software architectures integrating tagged objects and Wireless Sensor Networks with business processes. In his spare time, Dom is currently working on a book called "Building the Web of Things" with Manning press and joined the Web of Things Interest Group at W3C with EVRYTHNG as a founding member organisation.