Technical Coordinator of the FP7 IP project "Internet of Things Architecture"
Hitachi Europe Ltd.

Alessandro Bassi graduated from the University in Milan in 1994, with soft computing and software
engineering as majors. He joined Amadeus in 1997, and moved to the University of Tennessee in 2000, where he was involved in the seminal work of the Internet Backplane Protocol.

He then held a Research Visitor position at the ENS in Lyon, France, where he developed the relationship between storage and active networking. After working for RIPE NCC, in November 2004 he joined Hitachi. He was the deputy project coordinator of the FP5 6QM project, and he was the project coordinator of the FP7 "Autonomic Internet" project. He is currently Technical Coordinator of the FP7 IP project "Internet of Things Architecture".

He is the chair of the Internet of Things WG of the European Technology Platform gEpoSS". He is an Expert for the European Commission in the recently nominated Expert Group on IoT, and for the ENISA (European Network and Information　Security Agency) for topics related to RFID and IoT devicee.