Gerard van der Hoeven

Webit Speaker, Founding Partner, IOT Gurus

Gerard has been a leading visionair in the Smart Energy and Internet of Things space over the last 9 years and has been actively guiding telecom operators and utilities in this space. As a lead strategist for M2M at KPN initiated the closed CDMA450 network projects in The Netherlands for Utilities and as CEO of Smart Metering technology vendor Xemex brought Xemex smart technology to multiple countries, and been closely involved in the Smart Metering and IoT ecosystem.

As a founder of the IoT Gurus Network he is supporting many clients on the change that IoT will bring to large companies and find a way to growth. Next to that he is Startup and Scale-up company mentor in acceleration programs Startup-Scaleup, PortXL and Crosspring.