Mirko Presser holds and Associate Professorship in Business Model Innovation and Internet of Things at Aarhus University. Previously he was the Head of Research and Innovation for the Smart City Lab at the Alexandra Institute working on Open Data and the Internet of Things in the context of Smart Cities for Citizens. He is also the president and now vice president of the IoT Forum since it was founded in June 2013. He has been studying and working on IoT and Smart City research since 2002, he has published several scientific peer-reviewed papers on the topics and has served on numerous scientific committees and steering boards. He has a Masters degree in Physics with Astrophysics and a Masters degree in Telecommunications and Systems Engineering both from the University of Bristol and received his PhD on the Mobile IoT from the University of Surrey. He has also been strongly involved in the European FP6, FP7 and now H2020 ICT programmes and has been the Technical Manager of the FP6 IST e- SENSE and FP7 ICT SENSEI projects, both addressing the Internet of Things, amongst many other projects as well as he was the coordinator of the FP7 EeB PPP project called URB-Grade. He is also currently the coordinator of the Next Generation Internet pathfinding project H2020 NGI move.