Daniel Ammann
Entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of shaping the satellite navigation industry, now combining GPS with Blockchain in the DePIN project onocoy.
Experienced in International Business, BD, R&D, General management, Organization, Strategy, Leadership, M&A, Exits
Co-founded u-blox (IPO 2007, Unicorn status) and lead the GPS/GNSS business unit until 2021.
Started dammven (Consulting in GPS/GNSS) 2021 and acting as managing director.
Initiated onocoy (Web3 DePIN for High precision GPS/GNSS) and acting as president, thought leader and chief architect,
Electronics Engineer from ETH Zurich, a passionate Tech-geek, a Jazz nerd, husband and father
Session
Infrastructure doesn't change overnight. While the crypto world moves in weeks, the rollout of critical utility layers—telecom towers, energy grids, and high-precision positioning networks—is measured in years. In this panel, Daniel Ammann (Co-Founder of u-blox and onocoy) joins leading VCs and founders to discuss the "DePIN Reality Check." We’ll move past the speculative hype to explore why token incentives are the only way to bootstrap global hardware grids, why enterprise clients are notoriously difficult to migrate, and why 2026 marks the year DePIN transitions from a technical experiment to essential industrial infrastructure.