Welcome

“The meetup that launched a thousand startups” – Tom Evans, CEO of BleepBleeps

Since 2011, we organise monthly free events around London for people of all ages and backgrounds who are interested in the internet of things.

We are one of the largest meetups in the world dedicated to this topic with over 13K members.

The organiser is Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino and was organised between 2020-2025 by Dominie Roberts.

Events usually feature three speakers from a diversity of backgrounds (from artistic to technical) and contexts (from academia, startups or industry) who give 10 minutes talks followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.

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Past speakers

2026

Matt Webb, Poem
Elie Bitar, Smarterise
Tom Whitwell, Music Thing Modular
Ben Beavers, Smarty Plants
Omar Bakhshi, Tether
Phil Steele, Octopus Energy
Max Park
James Harding, Green Custard
Rob Hallifax, Windfall Energy
Rob Poll, membot
Andrew Delamare, AWS
Suyash Joshi, Senior Developer Relations at InfluxData
Luke Talbot, Deepmind
Andrew McMillan, Nabu Casa
Micael Da Costa, Koko

2021

Ken Munro, PenTest Partners
Nick Hunn, CTO, WiFore
Caroline Laurenson, Kindspace / TL Tech
David Tishcler & Elizabeth Epton, Balena
Stephen Tulip, ACT – The App Association
Leonie Maria Tanczer, University College London’s (UCL) Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP)
Ruby Steel, Studio Exception
Marco Mantoan, akenza.io
Dimitrios Spiliopoulos, AWS
Tim Dowling, Stacuity
Joanne Thurlow, Siemens Gas and Power, Siemens Energy
Alison Lowndes, NVIDIA
Matthew Handley, Vodafone
Surender Sampath, AND Technology Research Ltd.
Sarah Gallacher, Urban Data Collective
Pierre Kil, OpenRemote
Carl Thomas, Kickstarter
Justyna Zubrycka, Vai Kai
Joy Poole, Emergence Partners
Sumit Kohli, HERE Technologies
Cigdem Sengul, Brunel University
Paul Wealls, ADLINK
Mo Haghighi, IBM
Ramona Marfievici, Digital Catapult
David Rogers MBE, Copper Horse Ltd
Gary Barnett, AirSensa
Lorin Minxhozi, Vodafone
Yasemin Demetriou, AgriWebb
Marc Pous, Balena
Helen Leigh, Author, Presenter, Hardware Hacker, Maker of Instruments
Ian Skerrett, Head Of Marketing, HiveMQ
Anya Sengupta, Creator, CareFall / Student (STEM Spotlight).
Matt Hatton, Founding Partner, Transforma Insights

2020

Leonard Anderson, Kemuri
Muneeb Shah, WiPro Digital
Ben Redford, Mayku
Greg Cipollone
Damon Hart-Davis, Radbot
Ben Scott-Robinson, Small Robot Company
Jack Hooper, Feel Doppel
Emma Kukkonen, Designit
Gen Ashley, 3Dcrowd
Catt Tung and David Tischler, Balena
Adrian McEwen, DoES Liverpool
Annabel Maguire, Scrubhub
Duncan Wilson, UCL
Andy Hudson-Smith, UCL
Tom Evans, Bleep Bleeps
Kevin Ashton
David Rose, Ambient Devices
Usman Haque, Umbrellium
Eduardo Garcia, Kegbreaker
Saurabh Gupta, Ultraleap
Bharadwaj Pulugundla, Verizon Enterprise Solutions
Tim Moore, Ghd

2019

Cedric Giorgi, Sigfox
Peter Stephenson, Musitude
Polly Jackson, RSM UK
Merita Memisi, Carter
Arjun Chaganty
Nicola Thorn, And Technology Research
Jessica Lis and Sarah Turner, UCL
Mike Crawley, Xrossfire
Peter Robinson
Elizabeth Down, UCL/BSI
Robin Landy
Moti Barzilay
Marija Butkovic, Women of Wearables
Nicholas Herriot
Mark Simpkins, Mycelia
Mary Palancianu, XAllegro
Bethany Koby, Tech Will Save Us
Catherine Tung, Balena
George Grey, Foundries.io

2018

Josh Liu, HonorCycles
Michael Willmott, Blaze
Gergely Imreh, Resin.io
Seneca Atureliya, Buzz technology
Liviu Babitz, Cyborgnest
Elena Corchero, Unruly
Martin Wooley, Bluetooth Special Interest Group
Tanya Suarez and James Coggan, IoT Tribe
Jain Shinny, Green Dice
Myra Waiman, Infitex
Dimitrious Spiliopoulos, Telefonica
Mercedes Bunz, University of Westminster
Christine Spindler, Micropython
Daniel Jerrett, Kilburn & Strode
Matt Wade, Moving Brands
Adrian Westaway, Special Project
Kevin Palmer, KIN
Joel Gethin-Lewis, UAL
Simon Chudoba, IQRF Alliance
Pauline Issard, Trackener
Sebastian Lehuede, Virt-EU project
Dhruv Kumar, UCL
Daniel Fogg, BuffaloGrid
Erik Lundh, The Joy of Engineering
Allan Bartlett, GSMA

2017

Vinay Paul
Siobhán ní Chofaigh, Mint-Tek
Peter Karney Digital Catapult Centre
Natalie Pao, Apress
Jeremy Bennett, Emecosm
Safia Qureshi, CupClub
Jordan McRea, OCTOtalk
Romanas Sonkinas, iMont
Maya Bonkowski, BuffaloGrid
Paul Evans, Imagination Technologies
Gergely Imreh, Resin.io
Roslyn Scott, Mobicycle
Yodit Stanton, OpenSensors
Rosie Burbidge, FoxWilliams
Bruce Sinclair
Rajni Argawal, Sony
Adam Leach, Nominet
Nick Bashar, Brinc.io
Aisha Yusaf, Pika
Mark Curling, Klevio
Carole Griffiths, kontron
Alastair Sommerville, Acuity_design
Nipun Sibal, Industrial IOT
Hana Tranova, Barclays
Matt Webb, R/GA
Jessi Baker,
Sarah Gold, Projects by If

2016

Viktor Petersson, ScreenlyApp
Paul Wolfson & Alex Hulme, Map Project Office
John Nussey & Avril O’Neal, Ding
Mario Morello, Tio
Emily Brooke, Blaze
Mike Kann, Royal College of Art
Ben Barker, Run an Empire
Alex Smilansky, Makyu
Chakshu Saharan, Ignius
Clare Jones, What3words
Ian Massingham, Amazon
Diana Nowacka, OpenLab Newcastle
George Oates, Good Form & Spectacle
Jonathan Duque, Estimote
Enrico Costanza
Josh Liu, Koobe Global
Mat Hunter, Central Research Lab
Nick O’Leary, IBM
Sergio Martinez Rodriguez, Intel
Benedicte Ennis, Thingk

2015

Martin Woolley, Bluetooth SIG
Kirstin Hancock, Blue Maestro
Fran Scott, BBC
Alex Fleetwood, Sensible Object
Ande Gregson, Fab Lab London
Paul Robbins, Channel Consult
Dr. Mo Haghighi, Sphere
Axel Drioli, Axel 3D Sound
ThingStudio
Hamid Falaki, Digital Catapult
Patrick Noordhoek, Atmel
Barbara Belvisi, Hardware Club
Simon Hodgkinson, Smart Earth Network
Zeina Saade, Interoute
Claire Rowland & Martin Charlier, authors of Designing Connected Products
Christopher Batey, DataStax
Raina Brody & Simon Rubens, New Experience Ltd
Tim Stone, Breed Reply
Laure Andrieux, Aiseedo
Mike Eagle, Smart Things
Mark Setrem
Ben Pawle, TingBot
Peter Claydon, ContinuumBridge
David Hill, Open Energi

2014

Tina de Souza & Stewart Niblock, Bitesize Bits
Sarb Sembhi
Leonard Anderson
Vinay Sud, Global LBS
Grant Cleveland, Break the mold UK
John Bourke
Patrick Hussey, Crowd Rooster
David Rose & Chris McRobbie, Ditto Labs
Brady Forrest, Highway1
Martin Spindler
Josh Valdman, RPD International
Nikita Gulin, Pycno
Richard Stubbs
Tom Whitwell
Wesley Hill,
Mark Setrem
Simon McManus
Matt Lodder & James Temple, TechStars
Barclay Brewster & Mike Hogg, Zuhlke
Dennis Moynihan, EIT-ICT Labs
Marius Mornea, Onyx Beacon
Georgios Michalakidis, Resin.io
Alex van Klaveren & Eduardo Aguilar, Sherlock (OneFineStay)
Simon Cohen
Benjamin Joffe, HAXL8R
Tim Stone
Matt Mapleston, Chanza Chanzo
Ernesto Laval
Nancy Tilbury, Studio XO

2013

Ion Cuervas-Mons, Openarch
Romilly Cocking, Quick2wire
Rosie Burbidge, Rouse
Thomas Nicholls, SIGFOX
Joanna Montgomery, Pillow Talk
David Chatting, Royal College of Art
Maneesh Juneja
Stephanie Pereira, Kickstarter
Michael Karliner
Marcus Taylor, Feuer Labs
Mark Littlewood, TechStars
Olivier Vonet, AIRBOXLAB
Nick Hunn, Onzo
David Ryan, @oobles
Rachel Rayns, Raspberry Pi
Dominique Guinard, Evrythng
Frank Joshi, MVine
Joe Nicholson, Transfabric LLC
Richie Saville, EyeHub
Derek Scuffell, Knowmatics
Laura James, Makespace Cambridge
Keiron Kirkland, Nominet
Yodit Stanton, OpenSensors
Charlie Jackson, Nine Studios
Nicolas O’leary, IBM
Alicia Asin, Libellium
Adrian McEwen, DoES Liverpool
Daniel Fogg, graftt

2012

Gonzalo Garcia-Perate, UCL
Haiyan Zhang, IDEO
Ben Redford, Mint Digital
Ben Pirt, Pachube
Andrew D Lindsay
Jeremy Rollinson, Dytecna
Cesar Garcia & Sara Alvarello
Nick O’Leary, IBM
James Adam, Freerange
Alexander Baxevanis, Webcredible
Claire Rowland, AlertMe.com
Paul Tanner, Virtual Technologies
Tracy Hopkins, Neul
Ashley Mills, Vodaphone
Jim Kosem, Intel
Patrick Bergel, Chirp
Kevin McDonagh, Device Hackathon
Andrew Lindsay, hardware demo
Marco Brini, EnvEve
Laurie Reynolds, WaterWorX
Soner Ozenc, Razor Lab
Luke Petre, MakieLab
Catalina Pollack & Ken Boak
Maurizio Pilu, Technology Strategy Board
Joe Saavedra, Incredible Machines
Shaun Lawson & Derek Forster
Cary Knapton, 2 Save Energy Ltd
Jon Bradford, F6S
Damon Rand, CePro
Matt Webb, BERG
Agustin Navarro, LThings
Charlie Jackson, Nine Studios
Romilly Cocking