Erik Ubels MBA, CIO for Deloitte in the Netherlands when his drive for innovation and unique combination of skills in IT, electronics, and customer services, combined with the development of the new office for Deloitte in Amsterdam lead to the first fully converged smart building in the world. The Edge building made Erik one of the most recognizable names in the Smart Building industry. Through the development of smart on top of its sustainability and with the health and wellbeing of the Deloitte people at the top of his mind, Erik was able to tear up the rule book and decades of silos in the development of commercial real-estate. Erik became the visionary who turned a dream into a reality of the Edge in Amsterdam, the world’s most sustainable building, the worlds greenest, smartest, most innovative, most connected; Bloomberg, CNN and others have written. And it was not only a building that won awards and plaudits, but it also delivered: with job applications to Deloitte in Amsterdam up, employee absentee down. Through individual control of temperature, light and using one of the first smartphone app’s driving less space, increasing comfort it was able to drive cost down.From November 1st 2020 onward Erik has begun a new path into consulting in the Smart Building space, and the sheer attachment of his name to a project is likely to attach an immediate premium, much as a famous architect could.Erik’s is supporting stakeholders in the smart building space on their journey to smart buildings. His customers are real-estate developers, he is developing requirements for individual building projects as well as creating blueprint and strategies for their companies. He is supporting engineering, product and consulting companies in their strategies and development of IoT and sensor capabilities as well as software companies on their smart building and digital twin platforms. Owners and tenants on their path towards smart buildings for their existing portfolio’s, including energy performance, asset management, space utilization, health and wellbeing and productivity.