Marc Pous is currently an Edge Impulse Developer Relations Engineer. Former Developer Advocate at balena.io and co-founder of the IoT platform thethings.iO startup. He has more than 20 years of experience connecting things to the Internet.

Marc is a co-founder of the IoT Coffe Talk. He is also responsible for managing the IoT communities in Barcelona and Munich, organizing meetups and inviting up-and-coming IoT companies to present their products. Furthermore, he is the partner and responsible for co-organizing the international event IoT Stars during the MWC at Barcelona and Embedded World in Europe and North America.

He creates IoT products as a hobby, from a connected sofa for a music festival, ATMs for a research project, beer mugs in Munich’s Oktoberfest to Christmas lights that light up when you tweet. His advocacy efforts for the Internet of Things and his stature (6'9") has earned him the nickname IoT Giant.