Joël BacquetJoël Bacquet is a senior official of DG CONNECT of the European Commission, taking care of the research and innovation policy for the Internet of Things. Before working in this field, he was program officer in "Future Internet ExperimentalPlatforms",head of the sector "Virtual Physiological Human" in the ICT forhealth domain. From 1999 to 2003, he was head of the sector "networked organizations" in the eBusiness unit. He started working with the EuropeanCommission in 1993, in the Software Engineering Unit of the ESPRIT Program. He started his carrier as visiting scientist for Quantel a LASER company in SanJosé, California in 1981. From 1983 to 1987, he was with Thomson CSF (Thales)as software development engineer for a Radar System. From 1987 to 1991, heworked with the European Space Agency as software engineer on the EuropeanSpace shuttle and international Space platform programs (ISS). From 1991 to1993 he was with Eurocontrol where he was Quality manager of an Air TrafficControl system. He is an engineer in computer science from Institut Supérieurd'Electronique du Nord (ISEN) and he has an MBA from Webster University, Missouri. Read More Read Less