CISE Seminar: Alper Yegin, CEO, LoRa Alliance

Building Massive IoT with LoRaWAN

LoRaWAN® is driving the global shift to Massive IoT, enabling long-range, low-power, and low-cost connectivity across industries. This session introduces LoRaWAN, outlines its key strengths, and highlights real-world success stories from smart cities, utilities, agriculture, and more. We’ll examine current market adoption and ecosystem growth, then look ahead to the technology’s evolution—including satellite integration and future applications. Attendees will gain a clear view of why LoRaWAN is the technology of choice for scalable, sustainable IoT worldwide.

Alper Yegin is the CEO of the LoRa Alliance, where he oversees the organization’s strategic direction and supports the development and global adoption of LoRaWAN technology, a key standard for low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN) in the Internet of Things (IoT). Before becoming CEO, he chaired the LoRa Alliance Technical Committee for eight years and served as Vice-Chair of the board for seven years.With over 25 years of experience in the IoT, mobile, and wireless communication industries, Yegin has held senior roles, including CTO at Actility, and various positions at Samsung Electronics, DoCoMo, and Sun Microsystems. He has contributed to global standards development in organizations such as IETF, 3GPP, ETSI, Zigbee Alliance, WiMAX Forum, and IPv6 Forum, where he has also taken on leadership responsibilities. Yegin holds 16 patents and has authored numerous technical standards and papers.

Faculty Host: David Starobinski

Student Host: Umran Yungucu