Bio

Andrew Brown is a widely respected wireless industry expert with over 25 years' experience in IT market research, IoT and mobility. He is currently IoT Practice Lead at Omdia, part of Informa Tech, a research and consultancy firm where he heads up research covering IoT. Andy leads a team that advises on all aspects of the IoT ecosystem and is considered an industry expert on enterprise mobility and the IoT. As well as managing a team of analysts he spends his time helping network service providers, device vendors, regulators and many other vendors understand the implications and opportunities presented by the growing IoT space. Andy is quoted in both trade publications and the wider national and international press. He also speaks frequently at conferences and acts as a judge for a number of awards. He joined Omdia from Strategy Analytics, where he worked for 14 years. Prior to that, he worked at IDC for a decade. Brown also worked for Lucas Automotive GmbH in Germany as a market analyst. He gained a joint honours degree in Marketing and German from Lancaster University in the UK.