LoRa Alliance™ Bringing LoRaWAN® Live! to Berlin; Biggest LoRaWAN Event of the Year will Showcase Value of LoRaWAN Deployments and Certification

FREMONT, Calif., May 02, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The LoRa Alliance™, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN^® protocol for the Internet of Things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), today announced its program for the next LoRaWAN Live!, taking place in Berlin, Germany on June 13, 2019 from 9am to 7pm. The event will also feature the finals of the Momenta Partners LoRaWAN^® Startup Challenge where finalists will pitch during the event for a $10,000 USD prize.

The Berlin LoRaWAN Live! program will cover IoT trends and a wide range of LoRaWAN topics, including vertical market-specific use cases, how to certify devices, IoT market developments, technical workshops, and more. Any company or end-user wanting to understand how the IoT can drive its business ROI, engineers interested in LoRaWAN technology, and developers wanting to learn how to implement LoRaWAN will all benefit from attending LoRaWAN Live. The event also features a Market Place with LoRa Alliance members offering live demos, which showcases some of the best products and services available today leveraging the LoRaWAN standard. Finally, the program affords guests the opportunity to meet with LoRa Alliance members to hear first-hand how they are using LoRaWAN and achieving real ROI. Click here to view the full program.

“We are very excited to be in Berlin and to bring such a dynamic program to Germany, which has seen incredible growth in LoRaWAN deployments over the past few years,” said Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance. “The Berlin program is our largest ever, with multiple tracks covering a broad range of business and technology topics. Guests will also see a very strong focus on the LoRaWAN certification program’s latest developments, which further enhance our already robust program and provides the market with confidence that LoRaWAN Certified^CM devices will perform as specified. We are also very excited to host the Momenta Partners LoRaWAN Startup Challenge and can’t wait to hear the finalists’ pitches covering the newest ideas and products using LoRaWAN that are in development today.”

LoRaWAN Live! highlights include:

• Keynote: Look for the LoRaWAN Certified^CM Mark, Donna Moore, CEO & Chairwoman, LoRa Alliance
• Sponsor Keynote: Minol ZENNER Connect GmbH
• Keynote: The Future of Connectivity: LPWA Networks Enabling the Internet of Things, ABI Research
• Momenta Partners LoRaWAN^® Start Up Challenge Finalists Presentations
• Use Case Presentations: Smart Water, Utilities, Logistics, Cities, Buildings
• Technology presentations: Security, FUOTA, Roaming, Simplifying Deployment, and more
• Certification Program Update & Latest Developments: Derek Hunt, LoRa Alliance
• Technical Workshops: LoRaWAN^® in a Box (ICFOSS), Basic MAC and Basic Station (Semtech)

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LoRaWAN Live! is the final day of the 2019 All Members Meeting. The LoRa Alliance thanks its event sponsors, which include: LoRaWAN Live! Platinum Sponsor - Minol ZENNER Connect GmbH, Members Celebration Reception Sponsor - Netzikon, Welcome Drinks Sponsor - MachineQ, and the Mobile App & Networking Drinks Reception - Semtech. Additionally, the following member companies will exhibit in the Market Place:

LoRaWAN Live! will take place from 9:00 to 19:00 in the Hotel Palace Berlin [Budapester Straße 45, 10787 Berlin], with a networking lunch and market place, and will finish with a reception ending at 7:00pm. Interested parties can register here. The full agenda is online here.

About LoRa Alliance
The LoRa Alliance is an open, nonprofit association that has become one of the largest and fastest-growing alliances in the technology sector since its inception in 2015. Its members closely collaborate and share expertise to develop and promote the LoRaWAN protocol as the leading open global standard for secure, carrier-grade IoT LPWAN connectivity. With the technical flexibility to address a broad range of IoT applications, both static and mobile, and the LoRaWAN Certified^CM program to guarantee interoperability, the LoRaWAN protocol has been deployed by major mobile network operators globally, and connectivity is available in over 100 countries, with continual expansion. www.loraalliance.org

LoRa Alliance™, LoRaWAN^® and LoRaWAN Certified^CM are trademarks of the LoRa Alliance.