Stephan Haller is doing research and lecturing at the Institute for Public Sector Transformation of the Bern University of Applied Sciences, with a focus on Smart Cities and Open Data Infrastructures.He previously worked as Head of Solution & Service Delivery at the Switzerland office of Vigience, managing product development and customer projects in the area of Cloud Computing (PaaS/SaaS). Before that, he was doing research and development - mainly in the area of Future Internet, in particular regarding the application of Internet of Things technologies like RFID and wireless sensor networks - for 15 years for SAP at locations in Japan, Germany and Switzerland. He was deeply involved in European research activities in this area, both serving in several expert groups of the European Commission and on scientific review boards as well as acquiring and successfully managing publicly funded research projects. He is currently still acting as reviewer and evaluator for European research projects in Horizon 2020.Stephan initiated RFID research & development activities at SAP in 1998, which led to the SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure. From 2004-2006, Stephan was driving RFID standardisation efforts as the co-chair of the Reader Protocol working group at EPCglobal., and also worked as technical consultant for RFID device integration on several RFID customer projects like the Metro Future Store, Migros Smart Store, Fraport, and Airbus. Before joining SAP in Tokyo in 1997, Stephan worked for 3 years as a research engineer at Matsushita Electric Works' Central Research Laboratory in Osaka, Japan, in the area of distributed information systems. Specialties:• 15+ years experience in project management of large international R&D projects • Expert on Internet of Things-related technologies and their application, i.e., RFID, M2M, Sensor Networks (20+ years of experience)