Rob Zagarella
Founder & CEO
National Narrowband Network Communications (NNNCo)
Speaker Bio
Rob is the Founder and CEO of NNNCo, an Australian company building and operating a national narrowband network for IoT as an end-to-end scalable carrier service over a shared network. He has been an innovator and inventor in IoT in the area of machine-to-machine sensing, communications, wide area networking and enterprise software and has successfully leveraged those entrepreneurial skills as a leader in start-ups (Australia and USA), University-based commercialization and large global corporates.
Rob was President of Gridsense in the US where he drove the company’s M2M monitoring & control solutions into the Utility sector. He was the Asia Smart Grid leader for General Electric, including its range of Enterprise Software, Hardware and Services solutions and more recently EVP of Grid Net, a silicon valley M2M enterprise networking software startup. He has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Speaker Location:
Sydney, Australia
Available to speak:
Australia and Asia Pacific primarily, but open to other regions.
Speaker expertise
- Application platforms for the IoT
- IoT connectivity services
- IoT deployment models
- IoT general
- IoT in agriculture
- IoT in energy
- IoT software
- IoT standards
- IoT value chain
- LoRaWAN use cases / application examples
- LPWA business
- LPWA technology
- Smart buildings
- Smart cities
Company Relation to LoRa Alliance™
NNNCo is a leading Australian LoRaWAN carrier and solutions partner providing fully integrated end-to-end solutions to enterprises– from devices to network connectivity, platforms, analytics and applications - in key areas such as cities, utilities, agriculture, infrastructure, access management and asset monitoring. NNNCo is taking the lead as Australia’s LoRaWAN operator, building and operating a carrier-grade LoRaWAN network for IoT complete with redundancy and customer-focused network support.