# Nicolas Sornin tells about the future of LoRaWAN®

> The inventor of LoRaWAN, Nicolas Sornin, now working for Semtech, performed the opening keynote of The Things Conference telling about the future of LoRaWAN. Th

- Type: Global update from The Things Network
- Author: Wienke Giezeman
- Published: 2018-03-22
- Updated: 2026-10-06
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/article/nicolas-sornin-tells-about-the-future-of-lorawan

The inventor of LoRaWAN, Nicolas Sornin, now working for Semtech, performed the opening keynote of The Things Conference telling about the future of LoRaWAN.

[YouTube video](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jNnPTxWRNxs)

- The immense scalability of picocell deployments of LoRaWAN
- Geolocation of LoRaWAN is great together with other RF meta data
- We are in need of a global packet broker that can exchange data across networks