The IoT M2M Council (IMC) has elected Ellen Boehm, senior vice president at Keyfactor, as its incoming chair.

Carmen Redondo, director at KYOCERA AVX, will be vice chair for 2025.

The IMC has 28,000 rank-and-file members, making it the largest trade organisation serving the IoT sector. The IMC’s board of governors elected the officers at the IMC’s Annual General Meeting in Barcelona this month, just before Mobile World Congress.

“There are a host of issues facing the IoT sector right now, from international trade relations to AI to new connectivity options,” said Boehm. “All remain high priorities for the IoT sector. The IMC will continue to provide guidance to its global adopter membership on these critical issues. That said, security is the burning question for our industry today, and we don’t see that changing in the coming year. We’ll be dedicating significant resources to exploring IoT cyber security.”

The IMC formed a Joint Task Force on IoT Security with the Global Certification Forum (GCF) to evaluate a holistic approach to IoT security. That group held its second meeting this month and participants included Samsung, Sony, AWS, Vodafone, Verizon, Thales, Giesecke+Devrient, Qualcomm, Keysight, Quectel and Telit Cinterion. The Joint Task Force (www.iotm2mcouncil.org/imc-gcf-joint-task-force-on-iot-security) will hold working meetings throughout 2025 and expects to release its findings by the end of the year.

“The IMC will continue its mission of accelerating the adoption of IoT technology for the public good, with cyber security fitting perfectly into that mission,” said Boehm. “Our adopter membership is comprised of qualified product makers, OEMs, enterprise users and apps developers, and our data show us that they’re looking for answers on this crucial set of issues.”

The IMC (www.iotm2mcouncil.org) is the largest trade group dedicated to the global IoT sector, with more than 28,000 rank-and-file adopter members around the world that qualify as buyers of IoT products and services in 30 vertical markets. Sustaining, board companies include A1 Digital, Aeris, Blues Wireless, Deutsche Telekom, Digi, eSat Global, Filancore, Finite State, FloLive, Giesecke+Devrient, Globalstar, Ground Control, Hologram, iBasis, IoT Launch, Keyfactor, KORE, KYOCERA AVX, MultiTech, Pelion, Quectel, Somos, Tata Communications, Telit Cinterion, Thales and Vodafone.