--- title: Smarter IoT design with built-in flexibility url: "https://onomondo.com/video/smarter-iot-design-with-built-in-flexibility/" description: "Smarter IoT devices start with the right tech stack. Join Onomondo Co-Founder Michael Karlsen and Embedded Engineer Hakim El Ghazouani from Connected Cars on 13 May at 2:00 pm CEST to learn how to optimize data efficiency, improve connectivity, and secure IoT fleets. Discover how smarter roaming, API tools, and better device management can boost performance and reduce costs." date_published: 2025-04-23 date_modified: 2026-04-27 content_type: Video site_name: Onomondo site_url: "https://onomondo.com/" --- # Smarter IoT design with built-in flexibility > Smarter IoT devices start with the right tech stack. Join Onomondo Co-Founder Michael Karlsen and Embedded Engineer Hakim El Ghazouani from Connected Cars on 13 May at 2:00 pm CEST to learn how to optimize data efficiency, improve connectivity, and secure IoT fleets. Discover how smarter roaming, API tools, and better device management can boost performance and reduce costs. ![](https://cdn.growth.onomondo.com/app/uploads/2024/02/16141020/Dots_Orange_Background_4-1024x640.jpg) ###### Watch on-demand # Smarter IoT design with built-in flexibility Are your IoT devices underperforming or driving up costs? Poor connectivity, inefficient device management, and complex integrations can derail deployments and inflate your operational expenses. Join Onomondo Co-founder Michael Karlsen and Embedded Engineer Hakim El Ghazouani from Connected Cars as they share real-world strategies and tools to help engineers, product owners and technical leaders to design smarter, more secure, and more efficient IoT devices from the start. ###### You'll learn - How to optimize data efficiency for improved device performance and reduced connectivity costs. - How to ensure reliable, low-latency connectivity using smarter roaming strategies and non-steered SIMs. - How API-driven tools can simplify fleet management, automate tasks, and reduce downtime. This form requires JavaScript to function. Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. This form requires JavaScript to function. Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. See you in Days Hours Minutes Seconds ## Meet the speakers ![Michael 2025](https://cdn.growth.onomondo.com/app/uploads/2023/04/04110708/Michael-modified-scaled-e1741082844622-1024x791.jpg) Michael Freundt Karlsen Co-founder Onomondo Read bio [ ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkarlsen/) Michael Freundt Karlsen Michael Freundt Karlsen is the Co-founder of Onomondo, and spearheading the company’s largest strategic partnerships and long term strategy. A serial entrepreneur and former CFO of Playdead, he co-founded and launched Onomondo in 2018 with Henrik Aagaard to redefine IoT connectivity. Under his leadership as CEO up until early 2025, Onomondo expanded to over 180 countries, integrating with 600+ operators to offer seamless, secure, and scalable connectivity. With his unique combination of industry and technology understanding and market insights he is focused on combining Onomondo’s unique technical capabilities into the strongest seamless innovative solutions for digitizing the world’s largest industries through truly scalable IoT. ![](https://cdn.growth.onomondo.com/app/uploads/2025/04/28120429/Hakim-2-2-1024x804.jpg) Hakim El Ghazouani Embedded Software & DevOps Engineer Connected Cars Read bio [ ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hakim-el-ghazouani-5201b8117/) Hakim El Ghazouani Hakim is a DevOps Engineer at Connected Cars A/S, specializing in global MNO partnerships, hardware integration, and cellular data troubleshooting. With expertise in Linux systems administration and embedded development, Hakim manages OTA troubleshooting and contributes to the device software stack using Yocto. 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