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Robert Poor has been called “the Godfather of the Internet of Things”. As a graduate student at MIT, he developed innovative algorithms for wireless mesh networking in microcontrollers. Soon after receiving his Ph.D. 2001, he co-founded Ember Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company that produced the first embedded wireless chips conforming to the Zigbee standard.

He was an active participant in the IEEE and chaired the 802.15.4B standards body. Following Ember’s purchase by Silicon Labs, he developed and commercialized techniques and algorithms for extracting and analyzing sensor data in order to improve the energy efficiency of commercial, industrial and residential buildings.

Robert is the chairman and founder of the Cool Energy World Forum, a community of technologists, entrepreneurs, investors and policy-makers who are fomenting the world’s transformation to “cool” (non-thermal) energy. The Forum is where professionals share knowledge, ask questions, and not only predict the future of Cool Energy, but help create it.

Most recently, he has been working with multiple companies to help them develop, improve and expand their offerings in the wireless sensor market.