Speaker Bio
Julián Fernández is the CEO of FOSSA Systems, a Spanish and Portuguese scaleup which connects low-power IoT devices directly from space for industrial use cases using LoRa and has already launched 20 satellites since 2022. Julián has experience in remote asset management, LoRa communications, IoT deployments and space infrastructure, having launched the first Spanish picosatellite FOSSASAT-1 in 2019 at the age of 16 and later founding FOSSA Systems as a company at 17. He was chosen as a Forbes 30 under 30 in 2022. He has a background in telecommunications engineering, LPWAN technologies and satellite IoT networks. FOSSA has an office in Madrid and Lisbon.