Kai Hackbarth is the Senior Technology Evangelist at Bosch Global Software Technologies. He has broad expertise of more than 20 years in the design and development of new and innovative embedded, enterprise, and web solutions across IoT. His areas of expertise include smart home, energy management & smart grid, AppStore for home gateways, ambient assisted living, telematics platforms for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication as well as SaaS and PaaS. In addition to being the Member of the Board of Directors at the OSGi Alliance, he is also among the founding members of numerous open-source initiatives.