iconectiv's Shelby Kiewel re-elected as chair of OneM2M's REQ Working Group
OneM2M announced its elected leadership team for 2017, with representatives of Nokia, Deutsche Telekom, LG Electronics and Qualcomm among those taking roles.
Following an election earlier this month, Omar Elloumi, of Nokia, was re-elected to the position of Technical Plenary Chair. Vice-chairs include Josef Blanz, of Qualcomm, who was newly elected, and Roland Hechwartner, of Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile, and Ki Young Kim, of LG Electronics, who were re-elected. The Technical Plenary oversees all oneM2M technical activities and has overall responsibility for the organisation’s technical work.
The new leadership team members, who officially took their posts on 15 December, will be tasked with continuing to drive the oneM2M standard forward and build on the progress already made in developing a truly interoperable IoT ecosystem through standardisation.
In addition to the Technical Plenary elections, the chair and vice-chairs of the REQ, ARC and TST Working Groups were confirmed. Shelby Kiewel, of iconectiv, was re-elected chair of the REQ Working Group and will be joined by vice-chairs Victor Kueh, of Huawei Technologies, and Catalina Mladin, of Convida Wireless. They will be tasked with identifying and documenting use cases and service system requirements.