https://www.ronpub.com/ojiot/OJIOT_2021v7i1n02e_VLIoT2021.html Channel of the paper: Sven Groppe and Weizhi Meng: Overview of the 2021 Edition of the Workshop on Very Large Internet of Things (VLIoT 2021), Open Journal of Internet Of Things (OJIOT), 7 (1), pages 18-22, URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021082919330413733202, 2021 en-us https://www.ronpub.com/ojiot/OJIOT_2021v7i1n02e_VLIoT2021.html http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021082919330413733202 The Very Large Internet of Things (VLIoT) workshop aims at discussing the solutions of problems arising especially for large-scale Internet-of-Things (IoT) configurations. After online conferences and workshops are becoming the normal mode for running scientific events, after continuously monitoring the global COVID-19 pandemic this year with falling incidence rates in the last times due to vaccination successes, the workshop changes the format the first time to a hybrid event. This ensures that still problems are overcome like travel restrictions, but offers face-to-face discussions among those going to the local event. A hybrid format has still chances like an increased number of participants, less travel burdens and saving budget, but offers the possibility for going to the local event already for a large portion of the participants. Hence we received many high-quality submissions, from which we accepted 9 to be introduced in this editorial.