Hello listeners!
On this week’s podcast, Ryan Chacon speaks with Wienke Giezeman, CEO and co-founder of The Things Industries, about how IoT is finally delivering what it promised ten years ago. The conversation covers what changed technically and commercially, the ROI of IoT, why deployments failed in the early days, criticism of IoT, what companies still get wrong about LoRaWAN, and The Things Conference 2026.
Businesses Need Decisions, Not Dashboards
Meet Wienke Giezeman
Wienke Giezeman is the CEO and co-founder of The Things Industries, one of the leading LoRaWAN infrastructure providers worldwide. Alongside CTO and co-founder Johan Stokking, he has spent the past 10 years enabling enterprises to build scalable, secure sensor-to-cloud solutions using LoRaWAN.
About The Things Industries
The Things Industries provides enterprise-grade LoRaWAN solutions that help organizations worldwide deploy and scale secure IoT infrastructure. Its LoRaWAN Network Server, The Things Stack, powers millions of devices across industries such as utilities, logistics, agriculture, and smart cities.
