Prof. Carlos E. Palau (Dr.Ing.) is Full Professor in the ETSI Telecomunicacion at UPV. Graduated in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia 1993, and received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the same university in 1997. With more than 25 years of experience in research in the areas of security, privacy, content distribution, networking, interoperability, IoT, Smart-Cities and wireless communications. Nowadays, he is coordinating H2020 ICT-56 ASSIST-IoT and participating in other R&D projects, such as H2020 ICT13-2019 DATAPORTS and H2020 ICT-52 EVOLVED-5G, among others. Furtheremore, it is worth remarking his coordination of the finished H20202 ICT-30-2015 INTER-IoT and H2020 MG-7-3 PIXEL projects and his past participation on H2020 ICT14-2016 TT, H2020 MG-1.3-2014 DORA, FP7 SEC AF3 and SECTOR; CELTIC+ ACIO, and has previously participated some other national and international initiatives, including FP7 FI-PPP FICONTENT2. He is also an IEEE Senior Member with more than 200 published papers. He has participated in several TPC of relevant conferences like IEEE LCN, IEEE MILCOM; IEEE MULTIMEDIA and chaired from 2002 till 2008 the International Conference of Communications Systems and Networks.