How American Companies Are Investing in Technology

Zsolt Ugray is an associate professor of management information systems at Utah State University's Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. His work has published in journals like Informs Journal on Computing, Optimization Methods and Software, Review of Business Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications, International Journal of E-Business Research, and Interacting with Computers. Prior to entering academia, he spent several years in the semiconductor business. His research and teaching interests include business analytics, data science, data mining, optimization techniques, and heuristics. Jussi Valta is a PhD student in industrial engineering and management at Tampere University of Technology in Finland. His research focuses on systemic innovations, path dependence, and the structure of new energy systems, including microgrids. He is also interested in energy policy and regulatory frameworks, and his master's thesis focused on policies affecting energy consumers. 

Aside from his academic career, he has experience in sales in the mining technology and construction materials businesses.

Rob van Kranenburg is the founder of the #IoT Council. He serves as the Ecosystem Manager for the EU projects Tagitsmart and Next Generation Internet. He wrote "The Internet of Things." A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing RFID network (Network Notebooks 02, Institute of Network Cultures). He is the co-founder of Bricolabs. He and Christian Nold co-wrote Situated Technologies Pamphlets 8: The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World. Kranenburg is a co-editor of Enabling Things to Talk: Designing IoT Solutions with the IoT Architectural Reference Model (Springer Open Access). Robert Wentrup is a cofounder of Internago, a company that specializes in internationalization, and has previously worked for Business Sweden—the Swedish Trade and Invest Council in France and Morocco. His PhD research focused on internationalization of online enterprises and geographical perspectives on the online economy. He is a research fellow and guest lecturer at the Centre for International Business Studies, Department of Business Administration, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His study combines Internet and economic geography, international business, and development studies. He has several years of experience as a consultant in Accenture's technology department and serves on the board of the non-governmental organization AAID (Association of Accountability and Internet Democracy).

Xiangxuan Xu is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Gothenburg's Centre for International Business Studies and the School of Business

Economics, and Law. Her study focuses on spatial trends in the digital economy and their policy implications. Her current research project, financed by the Adlerbertska Foundations, looks at sustainable manufacturing in the digital era via the lens of regional industrial evolution. Her PhD dissertation, "The Internet of Things: Projects-Places-Policies," investigated the spatial dynamics that underpin IoT deployments in an integrated digital/physical and local/global framework. She has worked as an analyst in the mobile telecommunications business and a project manager for the European Union Framework Programme BSR Stars. Qi Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University in Denmark. Aside from her academic background, she has had a variety of industrial experiences. Her research interests include Internet of Things, 5G, mission-critical communication, network coding, and compressive sensing. She works as an editor for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. She co-chaired the Co-operative and Cognitive Mobile Networks (CoCoNet) Workshop at the ICC conference from 2010 to 2015, and she was also the TPC Co-Chair of BodyNets 2015. Sébastien Ziegler founded Mandat International and serves as its Director General. He is the President of the IoT Forum, Vice Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Subcommittee on the IoT, and ITU Rapporteur on Emerging Technologies for the IoT and Smart Cities (SG20). Sébastien earned his PhD in Management from the University of Geneva's Faculty of Economy and Management, with a specialization in Information Systems. 

He graduated in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, followed by a Master in Environment and an MBA.

in international administration (HEC Geneva), and additional executive courses at Harvard Business School in Boston, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and EPFL. He is also a data protection expert who holds EuroPrivacy, EuroPriSe, and ISO 27001 certifications. Sébastien established numerous foundations, SMEs, and organizations. Sébastien Ziegler spearheaded various international ICT research projects, focusing on the Internet of Things, IPv6, and privacy. He is currently organizing and associated with numerous ongoing European research initiatives, as well as co-directing the University of Geneva's Master of Advanced Studies in the Internet of Things. With a multidisciplinary academic background that includes international law, science, and economics, he is an unwavering supporter of research, innovation, and international cooperation. He also encouraged the formation of numerous organizations, foundations, and businesses. Xenia Ziouvelou, a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, studies the impact of innovation and technological transformation on business, law, and public policy. Prior to her current position, Ziouvelou held different positions in academia and industry involving strategy, innovation, and technology transfer.