Kevin Kelly seems to sit in a unique position in the technology world, both simultaneously inside and outside the inner circle taking a "long view" of how technology is shaping us and the world we live in.  With his hands in the Quantified Self,...Read more

"Chairman Bruce" is at the frontend of thinking about the future and tracking its progress into today's real world environments and also happens to be a Hugo Award winner, educator, and creator of the neologism "Spime". Always one to inspire, this list wouldn't feel right without...Read more

Usman Haque has a few things on his plate these days. An architect and artist who also happens to be the Founder of the sensor platfrom Pachube.com, CEO of Connected Environments and director of his studio Haque Design and Research. He has exhbited...Read more

Although I am sure most of you have heard of BERG before they have been on a bit of a run lately, With stories in the NYTimes, the cover of the recent Icon Magazine, and the successful launch of one of their first commercial...Read more

The Web of Things is operated by Vlad Trifa &  Dominique Guinard who are both top researchers interested in the development of the physical web and are pushing the use of existing web technologies as the foundation and platform for how the Internet of...Read more

From his Linkedin profile Rob van Kranenburg "Forges broad alliances between daily applications, infrastructures that support these and visions on the Internet of Things that script solidarity instead of even more fears of insecurity and innovation" and he is doing this by being involved in...Read more

A man of many hats; a Consultant, Co-Founder of Things-M and Adaptive Path, and the recent author of the book Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design. Mike Kuniavsky career's focus on people's relationships to digital technology has taken many paths and is someone...Read more

Adam Greenfield made a big splash with his first book Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing and his second book The City Is Here For You To Use is soon to be released. When he is not writing Greenfield seems to keep...Read more

The Internet of Things Council is basically a thinktank of some of the brightest minds interested in the Internet of Things and all of the topics it covers. The sites format is a bit confusing but the content and connections this group is...Read more

rafi Haladjian has been in the IOT game for a long time. He has worked on some of the first objects that have made it into the wild like Nabaztag, was the founder of one of the very first Internet Company in France...Read more

A true technologist David Orban is the founder of quite a few organizations (Questar, Open Government Data Group, and Startupbusiness), but in terms of the IOT David's work as one of the founders of Widetag and current CEO of dotSUB. His writing and speaking...Read more

Inaki Vazquez is the Founder and CEO of Symplio which is a start-up that just recently launched its first product called the Rymble. They refer to it as an "emotional internet object" and it works by connecting and reflecting your real-time social network...Read more

Nicolas Nova is consultant, researcher and the co-founder and editorial director of the Lift Conference (See IOT related Lift videos here), he is a part of the Near Future labratory and well as a User Research professor at several design schools (HEAD in Geneva,...Read more

Tom Igoe has written or co-authored two books on physical computing Making Things Talk and Physical Computing, both of which are excellent resources for you to check out. Coming from an interesting background of theatre Tom currently teaches courses and workshops in physical...Read more

The ThingWorx team is headed up by co-founders Russell Fadel, Rick Bullotta and John Richardson. They have been developing an application platform technology that lets companies create and deploy secure connected applications. The company emphasizes the technologies value in industrial markets like manufacturing (Which...Read more

Dunkels latest includes being listed as a T35 Innovator by MIT, the author of Interconnecting Smart Object with IP, and the creator of the operating system for embedded systems;Contik­i. He is a leader in building wireless sensor networks and the IOT and you...Read more

Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project which as most of you are well aware has become a big part of many IOT projects now and into the foreseeable future. He spent 4 years at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea as...Read more

Martijn is one of the founders and editors of the Mobile City network as well as a researcher, consultant and curator based who specializes in digital media and society. He is currently based out of Amsterdam and you can track his latest work...Read more

A true tracker of the Internet of Things Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino tried to put some of those thoughts into action with the recently closed Tinker London Studio, and now operates as @IOTwatch and as a consultant throught Really Interesting Group. Some of her conference...Read more

A researcher at the Institute for the Future Dr. Anthony Townsend holds his Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from MIT and often speaks on the topic worldwide. His interests span from: mobility and urbanization, innovation systems and innovation strategy, science and technology...Read more

Florian Michahelles blogs at the Mobile Internet of Things Blog as well as being the global research coordinator at the Auto-ID labs (A collaboration between 7 research universities including MIT and Cambridge). Florian has been involved in writing and researching within a range...Read more

Carlo Ratti has a background in Architecture and Engineering and currently directs the MIT SENSEable City Lab which explores projects focusing on the real-time city including the well known Copenhagen Wheel, Trash Track, and many others. In 2002 he established the design office carlorattiassociati...Read more

Julian Bleecker has a well deserved reputation in the IOT community. He is the co-founder of the Near Future Labratory with Nicolas Nova and is currently a designer, technologist and researcher at the Design Strategic Projects studio at Nokia Design. Put him...Read more

Situated Technologies Team is composed mainly of Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, and Mark Shepard and is a co-production with the Center for Virtual Architecture, The Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC), and the Architectural League of New York. Omar and Mark are both...Read more

The Mobile City is created by Martijn de Waal and Michiel de Lange and their work encompasses a few areas including consulting, helping to set up events and workshops like last years Adaptation: Designing the future city, as well as researching and writing about...Read more

Zach Shelby is the co-founder of the Finnish based Sensinode and the co-author of the book 6LoWPAN: The Wireless Embedded Internet. Zach is actively driving 6LoWPAN related standardization, research and commercialization and is doing his part in making wireless embedded internet a reality. ...Read more

Gerd Kortuem works as a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University where he directs research on the Internet of Things and Human-Centered Computing in the School of Computing and Communications department. He also involved in many of the IOT related conferences and his latest...Read more

Dr Anne Galloway is the Senior Lecturer at the School of Design at Victoria University of Wellington and is a social researcher working at the intersections of technology, space and culture. Her latest info can be found on her homepage, she currently writes at...Read more

As the co-founder and Head of Research at Liftlab Fabien Girardin sits at a unique position within the industry where he tries to focus on "the integration of ubiquitous technologies in urban environment and people practices". He has been affiliated with Sensible City...Read more

The Digital Urban blog is operated by Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith the Director of CASA University College London and is focused on covering "modeling, visualizing and communicating urban environments".  This blog is a great resource and well worth your time exploring. Read more

Christine Outram runs the City Innovation Group and her research at MIT's SENSEable City Lab both focused on tackling the problems of sustainability and livability in cities through harnessing the power of emerging technologies and distributed computing. This included working on the Copenhagen...Read more

Dan Hill currently works for Arup as both the Urban Informatics leader and for Arup’s global Foresight + Innovation team for the Australasia region. He is well know for his writing on City of Sound his blog where he often is found waxing...Read more

Mark Shepard is an editor of the Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series, published by the Architectural League of New York and co-author of “Urban Computing and its Discontents” with Adam Greenfield. His latest project is called Hertzian Rain and is "a variable event structure...Read more

Ben Cerveny has his hands in many projects including at Stamen, Vurb and Visible Cities and his research meets "at the intersection of game design, urban planning, and participatory culture. Advising new ventures in data visualization, ubiquitous computing, reactive architecture, and urban play." ...Read more

Editor of Networked Publics, Kazys Varnelis is currently the director of the Network Architecture Lab or Netlab at Columbia School of Architecture where they "investigate the impact of telecommunications, digital technology, and changing social demographics on architecture and urbanism" as well as being the...Read more

Altough obviously created for a specific sub group the Dash 7 Blog is a good place to catch up on a range of wireless sensor networking news and they often post good interviews from industry insiders. Read more

The Wireless Sensor Networks Blog is operated by a team of 5 researchers located all around the world and is a good place to catch up on the latest products and papers and applications from that industry. Read more

Touch is a research project lead by Timo Arnall that investigates Near Field Communication (NFC) and RFID technologies. It is composed of a range of practitioners and masters-level interaction and industrial design students that develop applications and services enabling people to interact with everyday...Read more

Philippe has recently co-authored (with Laurent Gonzalez) a book dedicated to the Internet of Things (Available for purchase in French here), is the moderator of the IoT group on Linkedin and is also the CEO of a Business2Any a consulting group with a focus...Read more

Tod E Kurt is currently the co-founder of Thingm with Mike Kuniavsky where they are working on "designing sketchable hardware and networked smart objects" which coincides with him being the author of Hacking Roomba. You can follow his latest work on his blog....Read more

Russell Davies is a man with his hands on many projects including being a columinst for Wired, a partner at the really Interesting Really Interesting Group in London as well as a blogger on his own site found here. Read more

Gene Becker runs the blog The Connected World and is also the founder and managing director of Lightning Laboratories who's work focuses "on strategy and action for the Connected World of ubiquitous computing, augmented reality, social media & the internet of things." ...Read more

Based out of Sardinia (Yes, Sardinia) the Paraimpu Team is formed by Antonio Pintus, Davide Carboni and Andrea Piras, a group of researchers from the Location and Sensor based Services group belonging to the Information Society department at CRS4 Research Center....Read more

One of the first people to be working on the field of Urban Computing and now the director of the Living Environments Lab Eric Paulos work and research is a great place to begin learning about how our future technologies will impact both human...Read more

Michiel de Lange is the co-founder of The Mobile City, a part-time Lecturer in New Media Studies at Utrecht University and is trained as a cultural anthropologist who did his dissertation on the way mobile media technologies shape personal and cultural identities in the urban context.The work that he...Read more

Based out of Toronto Greg J. Smith's background in Architecture and Philosophy seems to show itself in his writing on his must-read blog http://serialconsign.com/ and in his articles for other publications including Creative Applications, Current Intelligence, Rhizome, and Vectors.  He recently presented at the Eyeo Festival and currently...Read more

Currently doing his doctorate focusing on connectivity in urban spatial systems Anil Bawa-Cavia has a very interesting body of work ranging from code to art to music. His sites are all worth checking out and his writings can be found on his blog...Read more

Ulla-Maaria Engeström is a Finnish entrepreneur currently operating ThingLink which is focusing on how people socialize around objects.  This is currently taking the form of image tagging and interaction tools.  She is also a co-founder and partner of Social Objects Oy, a Helsinki-based technology...Read more

Dr. Duncan Wilson is currently working at the Foresight and Innovation team of Arup as an Associate Director and has a personal focus on ubiquitous computing in the built environment which you can read about on his company blog Emtech PrimerHe is also on...Read more

Mauro Martino is an Artist, Designer, and Researcher currently working on his Postdoctoral Research at the Center for Complex Network Research. He was also a research affiliate with the SENSEable City Lab where he worked on data visualizations that played a role in The Cloud, syn(C)ity, and others.You...Read more