Dr. Stefan Schmid is a Senior Expert at Bosch Corporate Research in the area of Internet of Things (IoT) and Connected Services. Stefan consults business units on emerging technologies such as semantic and linked data technologies, knowledge management, fully decentralized systems (e.g. Blockchain), etc. Since 2016, Stefan leads the architecture work package in the H2020 Project BIG IoT. He is also a core developer of the Bridge.IoT API and SDKs for Data Providers and Consumers.