ETIS is pleased to have Futurist Rudy de Waele as the keynote speaker of the Common Session of the 2017 ETIS Community Gathering. Rudy is a futurist and innovation strategist, a content curator, a keynote speaker and also an author of books and articles related to IoT, robotics and Artificial Intelligence. He has helped numerous companies to transform their business models by capturing the innovation trends that at first might have posed a risk to their industries. To mention a few names of the global brands Rudy worked with: Telefonica, Ericsson, Vodafone, IBM, PayPal, Samsung and the World Bank. Rudy has also developed more than 100 events in more than 50 cities, for instance Mobile Mondays in Barcelona and Madrid, AppCircus and Wearable Wednesdays.