IoT and Smart City Blog
The latest updates from across Kurrant
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...
Smart Solutions Marketing & Communication Lead based in Lisbon, Portugal
A unique opportunity to be part of a company with a century-long tradition of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit and that is today creating the future of Lightability by building a new centre of excellence in Lisbon that aims at positionning the company amongst the...
IoT Platform Developer based in Lyon, France
Join a pioneer and leader in environmental IoT. Coming from the remote water consumption metering market, the company's expertise extends to energy, waste and air quality monitoring. With more than three million objects communicating every day on its networks,...
Country Sales Manager based in Bangkok, Thailand
Join a leading provider of edge computing capabilities to support and address network challenges in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) space, transforming how companies run widespread and remote operations in various industrial sectors running from oil &...
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...
Did you Know? Waste collection accounts for up to 20% of a city’s budget
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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...
Did you Know? More than 90% of IoT environmental quality sensors are deployed in Chinese cities
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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...