Kai Hackbarth is Senior Technology Evangelist at Bosch Global Software Technologies. In his prior role Kai was Business Owner Industrial at Bosch.IO. He has more than 21 years of experience as an Evangelist & Product Manager with a focus on IoT middleware and device management in many different domains, such as Smart Home, Industrial IoT, Automotive. Kai has been active in various standardization initiatives. He was in the Board of Directors and Chair of the Residential Expert Group at OSGi Alliance as well as Chair of the Over-the-Air Special Interest Group at the Industrial Internet Consortium. Kai was among the Onalytica “Top 100 IIoT Influencers” in 2020