IoT and Smart City Blog
The latest updates from across Kurrant
Managing the smart city generation gap
Recognising that one size doesn’t fit all and knowing how to take advantage of the benefits of cross-generational teams, are critical to a healthy and productive workplace. With five generations in the workplace at the same time – each bringing different types of...
Business Development Manager – Smart City solutions – USA
The company is a global leader in Smart City solutions and is seeking to build up a dedicated Smart City sales force across the globe. WHAT WE ARE HIRING For the US, we are looking to hire Business Development Manager to help grow the product/service hybrid offerings....
Senior Business Development Executive – Solution Automation – USA
Our client delivers cutting-edge mission-critical technologies and business solutions to global enterprise companies spanning across verticals, including Smart Ag, Energy & Government / DOD. The Solution Automation Business Unit is one of their latest high growth...
Sales Representative – Smart Solutions – Benelux
The Company has a century-long tradition of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit in the outdoor lighting space, now dedicated to also become a global leader in Smart City solutions. For the Benelux territory, we are looking for someone that will build strong and...
How to make great hires in the smart city sector
The need to combine the two skillsets of digital technologies and urban infrastructure means the smart city talent pool is limited. Good hires require extensive search and the direct approach. Hiring the right talent remains the number one concern of executive boards...
Does AI have a role in smart city recruitment?
AI tools and technologies have become game-changers for smart cities and the IoT-driven sectors but their role in identifying and recruiting smart city talent is less clear-cut.. Improvements in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have led to its integration...
The future of managers in the smart city sector
The rising complexity in business as a result of digital transformations, globalisation, market volatility and the pandemic means managers must adopt agile ways of working. Traditional management has reached a turning point. Consider these latest findings from a BCG...
Thierry Chambon, CEO of Energisme
Thierry Chambon explains how the internet of energy is causing organisations to rethink and reorganise the energy sector and make the shift to a more shared and sustainable model Energisme has developed a big data and IoT platform that allows energy performance...
Sameer Sharma, General Manager Smart Cities & Transportation at Intel
Sameer Sharma talks about the importance of evolution and reinvention for people and organisations and explains why cities must quickly break out from their "analysis-paralysis" mode You like to talk about “happier cities” instead of “smart cities”. How have you seen...
Xavier Mathieu, CEO of Birdz
Birdz has a central role in its parent company’s “raison d’être” to resource the world. Xavier Mathieu talks about the importance of having a job with purpose and why environmental IoT’s time has come. Birdz has announced the largest LoRaWan devices roll-out worldwide...
Nicolas Keutgen, CIO Schréder and Head of Schréder Hyperion
Nicolas Keutgen says to innovate you have to be closely connected to the customer and if you have a background that enables you to understand the business and the operations it is extremely useful You are chief innovation officer at Schréder and head of...
Alexander Pelov, CEO, Acklio
Despite being a relatively young company, Acklio has been making lot of noise in the Internet of Things (IoT) and LPWAN sector recently. CEO Alexander Pelov talks to Kurrant Talent about what Acklio brings to the industry and what pain-points it addresses through...
Rising to the challenge of remote productivity in the smart city space
The return to work has begun in many cities and regions around the world but employers and managers are having to deal with a number of changes as well as changing employee expectations. In normal times, lack of productivity costs companies throughout the world an...
Jean-François Gebhart, Chief Operating Officer True Digital
True Digital Group (TDG) is the innovation arm and digital center of competency of True Corporation a major mobile operator in Thailand. Beyond the solid consumer segment, True Digital is growing in B2B with IoT and analytics offerings in Thailand, the Philippines and...
Ian Pottier, Smart Waste Chief Product Officer
As Chief Product Officer you have designed the smart waste collection software for Waste Vision. Can you explain what are the main challenges you have faced in this journey? The crucial point in the software development was the waste collection planning component....
IoT strategic recruitment for a leading South East Asia Telecom Operator
Our client is a leading Telecom Operator in South East Asia who has been deploying an aggressive IoT strategy focusing on different verticals and building a strong ecosystem of partners. In order to meet their product launches and go to market targets, we recruited...
Vice President Executive Search Assignment for a global IoT infrastructure provider
Our client is a leading technology player in Smart Lighting, Smart Cities and Smart Parking and was looking for a Key Account Manager to expand throughout Europe. The main challenge with this assignment was finding a candidate with no more than 10 years experience but...
Key Account Manager Recruitment for a leading Smart City player
Our client is a leading technology player in Smart Lighting, Smart Cities and Smart Parking and was looking for a Key Account Manager to expand throughout Europe. The main challenge with this assignment was finding a candidate with no more than 10 years experience but...
Florian Splendido, Head of Sigfox IoT Agency
You have been leading the Sigfox IoT Agency for over 3 years. Can you tell us what is the Agency’s role within Sigfox? We have created the IoT Agency three years ago with a mission to help our customers reduce their IoT projects go-to-market from typically 2 to 3 to...
Why do you need a coach?
Everyone needs a coach. We all need people to give us feedback. That’s how we improve. This was the opening of Bill Gates at one of his TED talk. This is no surprise as one common point to all high performing individuals, from executives to athletes, is having a...
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Shih Jih Yao, Executive VP & General Manager Info-Comm Systems at ST Engineering Electronics
ST Engineering Electronics (STEE) is part of ST Engineering, a large technology group, owned by Singapore’s sovereign fund Temasek, with entities in Europe and in the US. Can you tell us a bit about the group and its involvement in IoT and Smart Cities? Internet of...
Itai Dadon, Global Head of Smart City Product Marketing at Itron, Inc
Tell us a bit about your background and how you became the Global Head of Smart City Product Marketing at Itron? Itai Dadon : I have spent most of my career in the semiconductor industry. That has taken me from Israel to France and from France to California. Through...
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Jean-Daniel Le Gall, Deputy CEO CITELUM
You have spent 26 years at Citelum and had five different roles. How does someone remain motivated and commited to a company so long? I have joined Citelum at the company creation. I am employee number 3. Therefore, I consider Citelum is somehow my baby although I...
Yasser Helmy, Head of Smart Cities at CISCO
You are currently Head of Smart Cities for APAC at Cisco? What part of your title are you the most excited about: Head, Smart Cities, APAC or Cisco? It's a very interesting question. In fact, each of those really has its share of excitement. As Head, I get the...
Soft skills for better business & future employability
Surprisingly, a very interesting study by Deloitte, estimates that two-thirds of all jobs by 2030 will depend on soft skills. Most employees believe they have enough soft skills to fulfill successfully their current role. But, in fact, demand for soft skills already...
How are your building trust accross culture within your organization ?
Many managerial positions require frequent communication with employees from around the world, but cultivating trust across cultures is one of the hardest success factor to achieve for a global team. Starting with the right mindset begins with patience and...
Christophe Dacre-Wright, Sales & Marketing Director – BIRDZ by Nova Veolia
Birdz is a major player in the IoT and Smart Utility space in France. Can you describe the company background, expertise and major projects? Birdz was created through the merger of two companies fully owned by Veolia Environment, Homerider Systems, which specialized...
Yannick Delibie, CTO of Kerlink
What was your background when you co-founded Kerlink? And how did it happen? I graduated from a French Engineering School as a Telecom Engineer with an additional specialization in real time communication from the Canadian University of Sherbrooke. I started my career...