Christian Götz is the CEO and Co-founder of HiveMQ, a tech startup offering reliable, fast and secure IoT connectivity solutions to over 130+ customers, including many Fortune 500 companies. Christian co-founded HiveMQ in 2012 along with Dominik Obermaier, CTO and Co-founder of HiveMQ and Christoph Schäbel, Principal Engineer and Co-Founder of HiveMQ. With more than a decade of experience in the infrastructure domain, Christian is leading HiveMQ with a vision of having a connected world where people and companies can unleash their full potential. Christian is a frequent writer and a speaker at international events sharing his experience from 100+ IoT production deployments. Christian has a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Munich.