"Lionel Florit has been in the networking and IT industry for over 20 years, currently a Principal in the CTO organization at Cisco, leading the development of IoT products and proof of concepts. His team is driving the development of an IoT middleware running on OpenDayLight (IoTDM). Lionel has served on the board of directors and chair of the Metro Ethernet Forum and made numerous industry standards contributions. He holds several patents in various networking technologies including IoT, transport and mobility and has an M.Sc in Computer Sciences from Polytech Nice-Sophia in Sophia Antipolis, France.