Oct. 09, 2025 –
The event underscored a pivotal shift: from mere connectivity toward intelligent, interoperable, and secure IoT systems, where openness and collaboration underpin the next phase of innovation.
By Pat Brans, EETimes Europe
The Things Conference 2025, held on Sept. 23–24 in Amsterdam, brought together more than 1,500 engineers, developers, and business leaders from over 70 countries. The event showcased how the LoRaWAN ecosystem has matured—and how it’s merging with edge computing, embedded intelligence, and new approaches to IoT security.
The event was organized by The Things Industries, an IoT platform provider. In their joint opening keynote, the company’s two co-founders, Wienke Giezeman and Johan Stokking, looked back on a decade of building open, scalable IoT infrastructure. They described the evolution from a volunteer network to a global platform “connecting 3.8 million devices and processing 4,000 messages per second.” The founders said the real promise of IoT lay not in chasing a single “killer app,” but in its horizontal potential—its ability to make every industry more efficient when connectivity, local intelligence, and secure collaboration come together.