Steve Liang

Founder & CEO - SensorUp Inc.

Associate Professor - University of Calgary

Steve Liang is a researcher, teacher and entrepreneur. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Calgary and the founder and CEO of SensorUp Inc., The SensorUp platform is the world's first open standard-based and geospatial-enabled Platform-as-a-Service for the Internet of Things. Steve aims to disrupt the silos of the Internet of Things and empower anyone to build connected applications effortlessly. For example, he is currently the Standard Working Group Chair of the Open Geospatial Consortium SensorThings API and the Rapporteurs of the United Nations' ITU-T Study Group 11/Q12 on the Internet of Things test specifications. The result of both standard works is to provide an open and uniform way to expose the full potential of the Internet of Things.