Based in Seattle, Karthik is responsible for driving LoRa Cloud Solutions and Partnerships at Semtech. He is also North America Regional Vice-Chair in LoRa Alliance® and a LoRaWAN Ambassador on behalf of the LoRa Alliance. Prior to this, Karthik spent 2.5 years at AWS where he was led LoRaWAN ecosystem development for AWS IoT and was instrumental in the launch of AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN. He previously was on the LoRa Alliance Board representing Amazon. Before that he spent 8 years at Arm where he lead the healthcare segment team focused on creation of health IoT gateways and drove industry standardization around onboarding data from health IoT endpoints. Karthik has more than 25 years’ experience working in the industry with companies such as Intel, Microsoft, and Amino and brings a breadth of experience in driving standardization efforts around emerging broadband technologies including DLNA, g.lite & DOCSIS and major IPTV deployments.

The Pop in your Job:
My passion is connectivity, I believe the future of the world is every “thing” connected can make the world more secure, safe, and sustainable.

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® standard, which is the de facto global standard for secure, carrier-grade IoT LPWAN connectivity. LoRaWAN has the technical flexibility to address a broad range of IoT applications, both fixed and mobile, and a robust LoRaWAN Certification program to guarantee that devices perform as specified. The LoRaWAN standard has been deployed by more than 170 network operators globally, with connectivity available worldwide. More information: lora-alliance.org