Biography:
Antonio J. Jara (CTO), He joined Libelium in 2022, as a result of the merge with HOPU (a start-up he founded and managed from 2014 to 2021), chair of Data Quality and IoT in IEEE and BoD member of FIWARE Foundation. He did his PhD (Cum Laude) at the University of Murcia (UMU), Spain. These PhD results present a novel way to connect objects to Internet-enabled platforms in an easy, secure and scalable way. He also carried out an MBA and entrepreneurship formation in the ENAE business school and UCAM (2012). Antonio Jara as part of Libelium is focused on the domains of data governance, data spaces and cybersecurity enablers for digital twin solutions with the product iris360iot.com that he leads as CTO of Libelium. Antonio Jara has participated in over 100 international events about IoT as Speaker, over 100 international publications / papers (~15000 citations), he holds several patents and he leads technically key EU initiatives as the EU Local Digital Twin Toolbox for building Local Digital Twins for urban planning.