A networking session with focus on "Empowering IoT through virtual objects and cognitive radio" took place on Oct. 27th during the IoT Workshop (video recording of the session is available here). Abdur Rahim (CREATE-NET) chaired the session, aimed at fostering discussions on the aforementioned aspects of IoT enabling technologies and their integration with future IoT architectures and services. This session will set the path forward and collect also expressions of interests for the new IERC Activity Chain on Cognitive Technologies for IoT promoted by iCore.