The Digital Research Center of Sfax organized, on December 15, 2016 a conference on IoT entitled "Unleashing the power of Internet of Things: challenges and key technology enablers". It was given by Dr. Bechir HAMDAOUI, IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Lecturer and  Senior Member of IEEE. He is presently an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Oregon State University, USA.