Mirko Presser is an Associate Professor in Digital Business Development at Aarhus University. Previously, he was the Head of Research and Innovation for the Smart City Lab at the Alexandra Institute working on Linked Data and the Internet of Things in the context of Smart Cities. He is also the vice president of the IoT International Forum since it was founded in June 2013. He has been studying and working on digital technologies and business research since 2002. 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 as well as a coordinator for several projects.