In this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Wienke Giezeman, CEO and co-founder of The Things Industries, joins Ryan Chacon to discuss how IoT is finally delivering what it promised ten years ago. The conversation covers what changed technically and commercially, the ROI of IoT, why deployments failed in the early days, criticism of IoT, what companies still get wrong about LoRaWAN, and The Things Conference 2026.
Wienke Giezeman is the CEO and co-founder of The Things Industries, one of the leading LoRaWAN infrastructure providers worldwide. Alongside CTO and co-founder Johan Stokking, he has spent the past 10 years enabling enterprises to build scalable, secure sensor-to-cloud solutions using LoRaWAN.
The Things Industries provides enterprise-grade LoRaWAN solutions that help organizations worldwide deploy and scale secure IoT infrastructure. Its LoRaWAN Network Server, The Things Stack, powers millions of devices across industries such as utilities, logistics, agriculture, and smart cities.
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