The opening keynote is about how all the IoT technologies that were invented over the last 2 decades are coming together and clearly finding their niche.

Discover how GSMA SGP.32 enables enterprises to increase flexibility and strengthen business continuity through standards-based eSIM profile management. This live demonstration follows the lifecycle of a bootstrapped IoT eSIM, showing how devices gain instant connectivity and how SIM profiles can be downloaded, enabled, and managed through the emnify platform and API.

We'll demonstrate IoT-specific capabilities including profile polling, fallback configuration, profile operation auditing, and eIM integration. You'll also see how open APIs and Data Streamer integrate profile lifecycle events into enterprise systems, enabling the automated deployment of SIM profiles for specific projects or regulatory requirements.

The session focuses on the practical application of SGP.32 to validate business continuity plans, automate profile lifecycle operations, and build resilient, transparent, and operationally efficient IoT deployments.

AI coding agents are becoming standard collaborators in software development — writing, testing, and shipping code with minimal human input. Edge AI is next. As the tools for building and deploying models on microcontrollers expose themselves via APIs and CLIs, agents can start driving the entire edge ML workflow: from data to trained model to deployed firmware. This talk explores what "agentic development" means for edge AI — a visionary look at where the industry is headed.

The story of Spel Bel.

What if helping kids spend more time offline doesn’t require less technology—but better, more playful use of it?

In this talk, Marcel Schouwenaar shares the story of how a simple idea—sparked by the challenges raised by Jantje Beton—grew into something much bigger. Instead of fighting screens, he and his collective ScrollScrollScroll started experimenting: combining creativity, resourcefulness, and LoRa technology to nudge kids back outside.

What followed wasn’t a master plan, but a process. Prototypes turned into conversations. Ideas spread. Kids and parents joined in, shaping the solutions themselves. And somewhere along the way, it stopped being “a project” and started taking on a life of its own.

This keynote isn’t about tech specs. It’s about how ideas gain momentum—how you connect storytelling, making, and participation to create something people actually want to be part of.

There are roughly six million commercial buildings in the United States, and the overwhelming majority broadcast nothing about their own health — no telemetry, no diagnostics, no visibility until a tenant complains. When a building asset fails, resolution still runs on a game of telephone: a store manager reports "it's hot," a facility manager relays something vague, and a technician spends hours just identifying and diagnosing the failed asset. Most of the budget is spent before the fault is even found, and a single problem routinely takes at least two truck rolls to solve. At the same time, a lack of skilled tradesmen means hourly rates are increasing dramatically, with an estimated 2.1 million skilled positions projected to go unfilled by 2030 in the US.

This talk argues that the highest-leverage use of IoT in the built environment isn't another dashboard — it's making each technician dramatically more effective. Drawing on FTL's field deployments across multi-site retail portfolios, Clayton Callander will show why LoRaWAN is the enabling layer for the underserved 95% of buildings that could never justify a traditional BAS: long range and low power, cheap enough to instrument a strip mall, and robust enough to punch through multi-level concrete and the Faraday cage of a walk-in freezer. He'll then show the harder half of the problem — collapsing real-time equipment data, asset records, and work-order history into a single prioritized, plain-language work order that reaches the technician before they leave the shop. Sense, triage, solve. The session closes on why FTL is publishing its wireless device protocol as open source, and why an open ecosystem — not one more proprietary silo — is the only way to connect buildings at the scale the labor shortage now demands.

Hardware Certification has long been a necessary gateway to Global sales & deployment, but the landscape is changing, and fast. As new technology meets an increasingly multipolar world order, new spheres of technical leadership, and new models of regulatory governance shaped by the majority world - a new picture is emerging, with significant implications for manufacturers. Explore the key insights, drivers, trends, and paradigm shifts that will shape the IoT regulatory landscape in the years to come, and how to prepare for them today as part of a future proof global compliance plan.

Giving a retro perspective insight of my LoRaWAN Llife what started with the “yellow cow” 2016 in San Jose and actually reached a network with over 11 Mio devices… talking about partnership, collaboration, use cases from smart city and smart building… more. Have a look in Zenner a 10 Mio Story… Zenner.com/10-million

Building an IoT product means navigating a long chain of partners — silicon vendors selecting the right MCU and connectivity, distributors managing supply, design support, and compliance traceability, dev-hardware makers turning raw silicon into approachable kits, and finally the developers who turn all of that into shipping product. Each layer has its own constraints, success metrics, and pain points, and the handoffs between them often determine whether a project reaches market on time, on budget, or at all.

This panel brings together voices from across the full chain — a major chip vendor, a global electronics distributor, and dev-hardware leaders — to compare notes on what's actually changing in IoT product creation. Expect candid takes on: how design wins now flow from maker prototypes to production volumes, the role distribution plays in CRA compliance and supply-chain traceability, why dev hardware has become a strategic channel for silicon adoption rather than an afterthought, and what teams should look for when choosing partners at each layer.

Walk away with a clearer picture of where to invest your design hours, your sourcing relationships, and your prototyping budget — and a sharper view of where the IoT product-creation stack is headed in the CRA era.

In ultra-low-power wireless designs, efficiency comes from making the right choices early.

This keynote explores how to match wireless protocols, MCU performance, and system architecture to the real needs of an application. Through practical examples drawn from metering, sensing, and energy-harvesting devices, we will show how these decisions extend battery life, reduce system complexity, and simplify development.

Attendees will gain a practical framework for selecting wireless technologies and optimizing low-power performance to build connected devices that are both energy-efficient and robust.

IoT has made products, machines and assets increasingly connected, but the commercial and contractual layer behind them often remains static. In practice, this creates a growing gap between what is contractually agreed, what is operationally delivered, and what the data actually shows.

I would like to introduce the concept of Connected Agreements: a new approach in which contracts, SLAs, pricing models, and lifecycle commitments are linked to real operational data from connected assets, industrial systems, and digital product ecosystems. Instead of treating agreements as isolated legal documents, organizations can use IIoT data to make service levels more transparent, pricing more outcome-based, and performance more verifiable across the product lifecycle.

The session will also explore why this matters now in Europe, especially with the newEU Data Act, growing expectations around data access and interoperability, and the emergence of AI agents as a next step for monitoring, governance, and operational decision support.

As businesses around the globe continue to invest in AI-driven robotics and automation, the stress on network infrastructure exponentially increases. The sheer volume of data required and proximity of LLM inference, combined with the unique latency, security, sovereignty and performance characteristics of emerging AI applications and services, can determine the success of these investments. This presentation examines the critical role that networks play in supporting AI IoT and highlights several new technical advancements that are designed to fortify security, increase reliability, and lower operating costs.

The arrival of GSMA SGP.32 marks a fundamental shift in IoT connectivity. Connectivity is becoming software-defined, enabling devices to be provisioned, managed, and updated throughout their lifecycle rather than configured once at manufacture.

This keynote explores the transition from traditional SIM logistics to Digital SIM Logistics, and how remote provisioning, lifecycle management, and connectivity orchestration are changing the way global IoT solutions are deployed and operated. Attendees will gain practical insights into what this new operating model means for manufacturers, solution providers, and enterprises building connected products at scale.

Learn about the DECT NR+ wireless technology standard for large-scale professional IoT, understand its strengths and main application areas.

Get hands-on with cellular IoT and non-terrestrial networks. In this interactive workshop, participants will receive an nRF9151 development kit and work step by step with our experts to establish cellular and NTN connectivity using no SIM card (nuSIM technology). Together, we will explore the setup, configuration, and first connections, giving you practical experience with satellite and SIM-free IoT connectivity.

Selecting the right wireless technology for commercial IoT requires more than comparing specifications and focusing on theoretical specifications. It requires understanding how protocols perform in real-world deployments.

This session presents an objective comparison of Z-Wave Long Range (ZWLR), LoRaWAN, and Wi-Fi HaLow using commercially available products tested in identical real-world operating environments across New England. We'll walk through the complete testing methodology, including the hardware used, deployment scenarios, measurement criteria, and the processes developed to enable others to replicate the evaluation in their own environments.

Attendees will gain insight into the testing approach, learn key observations from the study, and better understand how different Sub-GHz wireless technologies perform across common Commercial IoT use cases. The session concludes with access to a comprehensive whitepaper containing the complete methodology and detailed results.

Getting two devices to talk to each other is hard. Getting an entire industry to agree on how all devices should talk to each other is harder but that's the challenge the Connectivity Standards Alliance decided to solve, and the result is Matter. This session looks at how Matter became a single, IP-based protocol capable of scaling across brands, categories, and continents, and what it takes to keep reliability and security intact as adoption accelerates from thousands of devices to billions.

Low-power cellular IoT (LTE-M, Cat 1bis, 5G eRedCap) and non-terrestrial networks are reshaping IoT — and software-defined radio is expanding into critical connectivity too.

This talk covers the latest trends across 4G, 5G, and emerging 6G, dives into the latest SDR technology, and makes the case for sovereign technologies as the foundation for critical connectivity.

Today, most things in the physical world are tracked passively. A warehouse worker scans an RFID tag. A technician reads a sensor manually. The device itself transmits nothing.

The IoT industry is shifting toward devices that do the opposite: they connect, transmit, and report continuously. The reason is simple, passive devices do not generate enough data to be useful at scale. BLE trackers in logistics and wireless sensors on industrial machines are two examples where this shift is already happening.

Two problems come up repeatedly. First, wireless transmission requires short bursts of high current that standard small batteries cannot reliably deliver without additional components such as supercapacitors, which add cost and board space. Second, industrial environments are hot, a sensor mounted directly on a motor or inside a production line can easily reach 150°C, which is well beyond the limit of conventional Li-ion.

This talk walks through two use cases: a BLE tracker replacing passive RFID in logistics, and a wireless sensor enabling predictive maintenance in high-temperature industrial environments, and shows how solid-state thin-film battery technology makes both viable. The speaker is Dr. Moritz Futscher, CEO and Co-Founder of BTRY AG, an ETH Zürich and Empa spin-off developing and industrialising ultra-thin solid-state batteries designed exactly for these conditions.

Smart glasses combine continuous sensing, Edge AI processing and wireless connectivity within an extremely constrained power and thermal budget. As AI workloads and sensor data rates increase, moving data between the glasses, smartphone and nearby edge devices can become a major system bottleneck.

This talk explores how Bluetooth and UWB can provide complementary connectivity for next-generation smart glasses. Bluetooth enables persistent low-power control and ecosystem integration, while UWB communication can support high-data-rate, low-latency transfer of sensor and AI data to nearby computing devices. Beyond precise ranging, UWB can therefore serve as an energy-efficient short-range communication link for distributed Edge AI. Used together, these technologies could allow smart glasses to distribute sensing, computing and communication intelligently across the glasses, smartphone and nearby edge devices.

Drawing on imec’s work in ultra-low-power wireless technologies, the talk will highlight how energy per bit, latency, data rate and radio activation strategies can help make Edge AI glasses practical and truly wearable.

Edge AI creates the intelligence, but low-power wireless determines whether the product is actually wearable.

Ask a room of engineers how long it takes to get a connected product into the field, and the honest answer is usually years. Not because the idea was hard, and not because the prototype failed, but because everything between a working bench unit and a deployed fleet is a different kind of problem: RF and antenna design, FCC, CE, and PTCRB certification, carrier agreements in every region you sell into, secure provisioning, over the air updates, and the cloud infrastructure holding it together. None of it is your differentiator. All of it is on the critical path.

Then comes the constraint that shows up last and hurts most. The sensors work, but the site has no coverage, and a LoRaWAN network is only as reachable as its backhaul.

This session walks the real cost of assembling that stack yourself, then shows what changes when hardware, connectivity, and cloud arrive pre-integrated. It closes on the M-Series: Muon, the Raspberry Pi form factor carrier board that adds LoRaWAN and Ethernet to the M-SoM, and the M635E, the NTN satellite variant now shipping, with satellite coverage through Skylo, which keeps devices reporting from places no terrestrial network reaches. You will leave knowing where NTN fits alongside LoRaWAN, and how one firmware image carries a design from bench to fleet.

The Bluetooth SIG typically has more than 50 active specification development projects at any given time.  These projects encompass a range of initiatives, from enhancing minor features within existing Bluetooth specifications to developing new specifications that introduce significant functionality to Bluetooth wireless technology. In this presentation, Damon Barnes will provide an overview of the latest advancements in Bluetooth technology, including the latest information on High Data Throughput, IP Link, High-Resolution & Lossless Audio, and the Higher Bands project.

LoRaWAN has reached an important milestone. With global deployments accelerating and the ecosystem continuing to innovate, the technology is entering a new era of maturity and scale.

This keynote provides an insider's view of where the standard stands today, the momentum behind its worldwide adoption, and the strategic initiatives shaping its future. Join LoRa Alliance CEO Alper Yegin as he discusses recent technical advancements, ecosystem growth, expanding market opportunities, and the vision for LoRaWAN as the foundation of the Massive IoT.

This presentation brings together the key data, insights, and trends shaping the edge AI market. Drawing on IoT Analytics’ Edge AI Chipset Market Tracker & Forecast, 2020–2032, it shows how edge AI is moving from fragmented early deployments toward a measurable scale-up phase.

The presentation covers market size, shipment growth, architecture shifts, regional dynamics, vertical adoption, and vendor positioning. It also explains why market leadership depends on the lens used: volume, value, ASP premium, or ecosystem control. Key topics include vision AI SoCs, AI MCUs, industrial PCs, gateways, robotics, physical AI, and NPU-based architectures. Attendees will gain a structured view of where enterprise edge AI is scaling, which segments are driving growth, and how the competitive landscape is likely to evolve.

In dense IoT deployments, the biggest challenges are no longer about connecting devices, they’re about keeping systems reliable, secure, and maintainable over time. As these pressures increase, technologies like Z-Wave are evolving to address problems that weren’t part of the original design assumptions.

This keynote explores how Z-Wave is expanding beyond its traditional role as a wireless protocol to support more scalable and resilient system architectures. This includes advancements in security, such as S2V2, designed to strengthen device trust and lifecycle management, as well as emerging approaches that leverage Z-Wave at the application layer to enable interoperability across different network types.

At the same time, innovations in ultra-low-power and battery-free devices are beginning to change how Z-Wave networks are deployed and maintained, reducing operational overhead and enabling new classes of persistent sensing and automation.

Together, these developments reflect a broader shift in how Z-Wave fits into modern IoT systems not just as a connectivity standard, but as a foundational layer for secure, interoperable, and scalable device ecosystems.

As these systems scale, performance is no longer defined by specifications alone—but by how technologies behave in real deployments over time which will be explored in the panel discussion followed by this presentation.

This session is designed exclusively for power users of The Things Stack Cloud and Enterprise (on-premise). Join us for an interactive deep dive where we’ll:

* Explore how advanced users are using The Things Stack in production for large scale deployments.

* Showcase newly released features and powerful capabilities you might have missed.

* Share behind-the-scenes insights into the product development process.

* Give an exclusive preview of the roadmap – and gather your feedback to help shape what’s next.

Whether you're scaling deployments, integrating at a deep level, or pushing the limits of what’s possible, this is your space to connect, share, and influence the future of The Things Stack.

The IoT industry keeps investing in better connectivity, yet many deployments remain limited by bandwidth, battery life, and the growing cost of moving sensor data. The challenge is no longer collecting data. It is transmitting it efficiently. This talk explores how AI-powered lossless compression running directly on embedded devices can reduce communication overhead while preserving sensor information. Using real-world examples from industrial IoT, we will show how intelligence at the sensor edge enables more scalable deployments, longer device lifetime, and better use of existing network infrastructure. Attendees will gain practical insights into deploying AI on constrained devices and discover why making data smaller may be just as important as making networks faster.

Getting a device connected is easy. Building millions of connected devices that work reliably across the globe is not.

Building and scaling a secure, reliable, and cost-efficient IoT connectivity stack remains one of the biggest challenges for IoT builders. At the same time, successful IoT solutions require more than cellular connectivity alone. They combine terrestrial and satellite connectivity with embedded connectivity, precise positioning, and modular services to simplify global deployments and operations.

In this keynote, Christian Schwalbe, CEO of Deutsche Telekom IoT, explores why connectivity remains the foundation of every successful IoT solution and how a Beyond Connectivity approach helps developers and enterprises build, deploy, and scale connected products with confidence.

The IoT market is entering a new phase. Capital is more disciplined, customers expect measurable ROI, and strategic buyers increasingly favor proven solutions over promising technology alone. For IoT founders and executives, the central question is no longer simply how fast the company is growing—it is whether the business has the scale, economics, and strategic relevance needed to remain independent, attract investment, or become an acquisition target.

Led by a veteran IoT executive and a specialist TMT investment banker, this session will provide a candid look at how buyers and investors evaluate businesses across the IoT ecosystem—from devices, gateways, modules, and connectivity platforms to vertical applications, edge intelligence, and managed solutions.

The discussion will examine what creates real enterprise value, including repeatable deployments, recurring revenue, gross-margin quality, platform scalability, differentiated intellectual property, interoperability, customer concentration, and demonstrable customer ROI. It will also explore the strategic choices available to management teams: raise capital, acquire complementary capabilities, pursue a strategic partnership, recapitalize the business, seek a buyer—or continue building independently.

Key Takeaways

What Buyers Value: The operating and technology characteristics that separate an interesting IoT product from an attractive, scalable business.

Who Is Buying—and Why: How industrial companies, technology vendors, connectivity providers, and private-equity-backed platforms approach IoT acquisitions.

Choosing the Right Path: How to determine whether to buy, sell, raise capital, recapitalize, partner, or hold.

Preparing Before the Deal: The practical steps management teams should take 12–24 months before a transaction to improve valuation and reduce execution risk.

A candid discussion of the state-of-the-art of edge AI, IoT and lessons learned (and to be learned!) from the most popular YouTube show on IoT.

LoRaWAN has already proved itself as a long-range, low-power connectivity layer. The next challenge is different: making LoRaWAN data useful inside real operational environments.

In this session, Yang Tao, CEO of Robustel, will explore what he calls the third wave of LoRaWAN. The first wave was connectivity: proving that battery-powered sensors could communicate over long distances. The second wave was network scale: building public, private, and managed LoRaWAN networks. The third wave is now emerging: LoRaWAN moving closer to operational systems, where data needs to be decoded, contextualised, integrated, acted on, and supported over time.

The talk will focus on practical deployment realities rather than hype. Why do many projects become harder after the pilot stage? What happens when LoRaWAN data needs to become BACnet points, Modbus registers, OPC UA data, MQTT payloads, local alarms, dashboards, or automation logic? When is a simple packet-forwarding gateway enough, and when does local LNS, edge processing, or OT integration become valuable?

This is not a talk about replacing the cloud, replacing LoRaWAN ecosystems, or forcing edge computing into every project. It is about choosing the right architecture for the real deployment problem: simple when possible, integrated when needed.

Key takeaways

• Why LoRaWAN’s next challenge is operational integration, not just connectivity

• How gateway roles are evolving from packet forwarding to site-level edge intelligence

• Where local processing, protocol bridging, and remote management add real value

• How LoRaWAN can fit more naturally into OT, BMS, SCADA, and industrial workflows

Hubble Network is building the first global IoT connectivity layer powered by standard, unmodified Bluetooth Low Energy chips. By engineering a hybrid terrestrial and LEO satellite network tuned for BLE's narrowband signal, we let off-the-shelf SoCs—nRF52, nRF54L, CC2340, EFR32, and others—transmit directly to satellites hundreds of kilometers overhead, with no GPS, cellular modem, or proprietary radio required. This session walks through the system architecture that makes BLE-to-satellite communication work in practice: link budget tradeoffs at 2.4 GHz, duty-cycled power profiles that deliver multi-year battery life on a coin cell, and the SDK abstractions that let developers add global coverage to an existing BLE product with minimal firmware changes. Attendees will see how a sub-dollar BLE chip becomes a globally trackable device, and where this unlocks asset tracking, supply chain visibility, and remote monitoring.

Explore how organizations are leveraging edge AI to solve real-world challenges through secure, low-latency and resilient intelligent systems.

This session is designed exclusively for power users of The Things Stack Cloud and Enterprise (on-premise). Join us for an interactive deep dive where we’ll:

* Explore how advanced users are using The Things Stack in production for large scale deployments.

* Showcase newly released features and powerful capabilities you might have missed.

* Share behind-the-scenes insights into the product development process.

* Give an exclusive preview of the roadmap – and gather your feedback to help shape what’s next.

Whether you're scaling deployments, integrating at a deep level, or pushing the limits of what’s possible, this is your space to connect, share, and influence the future of The Things Stack.

Sustainable organic waste processing and soil regeneration require reliable environmental monitoring, particularly in remote agricultural and recycling facilities where network connectivity is limited or unavailable. A scalable LoRaWAN-enabled IoT sensor system designed by WeRadiate for organic recyclers has become a transformative solution for improving operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and environmental performance.

The technology integrates low-power temperature and moisture sensors connected through a LoRaWAN network to provide energy-efficient communication. Data is transmitted through a cloud-based analytics platform enabling real-time monitoring, automated alerts, and optimization of processing operations. Continuous visibility into process conditions reduces the risk of overheating, improper moisture balance, and incomplete progress.

The architecture is modular, cost-effective, and easily replicable, making it suitable recycling facilities globally. Documented use cases demonstrate measurable impact: prevention of fire incidents and avoidance of approximately $20,000 in site damages, reduction of input costs by up to 30%, achievement of 90% efficiency in automated data logging, and 99% compliance in regulatory reporting.

AI is only as effective as the real-world data feeding it. Yet at enterprise IoT scale, powering and maintaining thousands of connected devices severely limits how much data enterprises are able to capture. This keynote explores how Energous wireless power, Dracula Technologies energy harvesting, and e-peas power management can work together across connected tags and cloud-based systems to create a more scalable foundation for persistent asset and environmental visibility.

Water utilities issuing smart water AMI tenders face a bewildering array of connectivity options, each promising interoperability, reliability, and low total cost of ownership. This panel brings together network operators, meter OEMs, and connectivity architects to unpack what actually separates winning proposals from the rest. We'll examine how OMS compliance, reversibility (utility-owned vs. carrier-owned networks), and multi-vendor interoperability translate into concrete tender scoring criteria. Panelists will discuss why a mature multi-vendor ecosystem — spanning chipsets, modules, network infrastructure, and meter OEMs — drives down costs and de-risks long-term supply. They also will share real deployment data on network capacity planning and SLA guarantees, contrasting LoRaWAN's open ecosystem model against proprietary and cellular alternatives. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for evaluating connectivity bids beyond marketing claims.

Building a successful IoT product requires far more than choosing the right connectivity. From hardware design and secure device identity to global deployment and fleet management, every decision impacts how easily a solution can scale.

In this panel, experts from Murata, Kigen, and Soracom will explore the critical building blocks of modern IoT devices. They'll discuss how integrated wireless modules, eSIM/iSIM technology, and cloud-based connectivity platforms work together to simplify development, accelerate time to market, and enable secure, scalable deployments.

Whether you're developing your first connected product or managing a global IoT fleet, this session will provide practical insights into designing devices that are ready for production—and built to scale.

Developing for the edge in a lab is one thing. Running the same application across hundreds of geographically distributed devices is something else. Different hardware, isolated networks, and remote locations quickly turn deployment and operations into a nightmare. And today, it is not enough to simply run workloads closer to the data. Edge AI applications also need secure networking and reliable messaging so services can share intelligence across the entire cluster.

In this live demo, you will see how Eclipse ioFog makes this simple. We will onboard production-ready edge devices in just a few minutes using Edgelet, a lightweight, hardware-agnostic runtime. Then we will securely deploy and manage containerised workloads across the deployment.

You will see that zero-trust, scalable networking is built into the platform. There is no need for complex network setup or manual configuration.

Next, we will show how a virtual application network securely connects edge services across isolated networks. You will see how applications communicate as if they were running on the same local network.

Finally, we will demonstrate the NATs-based distributed messaging layer and show how decentralised authentication and authorisation help keep edge applications secure as they scale.

Building a successful LoRaWAN solution requires more than choosing the right devices. From network planning and gateway placement to selecting the right sensors and asset trackers, every layer plays a critical role in delivering reliable, scalable performance.

In this panel, experts from MultiTech, Truvami and SENSISE will explore how the infrastructure, sensing and tracking layers work together to create complete IoT solutions. Through real-world examples from smart buildings and asset tracking, attendees will gain practical insight into designing LoRaWAN deployments that are resilient, efficient and built to scale.

Join Seeed Studio for an interactive exploration of the 4th Gen LR2021 ecosystem. We’ll kick off with a deep dive into LR2021’s new features, followed by a live demonstration of Edge AI vision streaming keyframe data across dual-board Sub-GHz links. Finally, get your hands on the newly launched SenseCAP MeshTracker X1—our LR2021-powered Meshtastic GPS tracker—to test real-world tracking and off-grid communication capabilities firsthand.

In the rapidly expanding LoRaWAN ecosystem, MultiTech champions an open, collaborative approach that positions sensor manufacturers as vital partners rather than competitors. As a leading U.S.-based manufacturer of industrial IoT solutions - including robust LoRaWAN gateways, sensors, modules, with device management software - MultiTech recognizes that the true power of LoRaWAN lies in a thriving, interoperable network of hardware providers, network operators, integrators, and solution developers.

Over 80% of modern software is built on open source components, yet the EU's Cyber Resilience Act means that "free to use" no longer means "free from responsibility." This keynote unpacks what the CRA means for device manufacturers who rely on open source software, and why your software supply chain is now a compliance liability. We'll walk through the four product categories under the CRA, the mandatory requirements from SBOM to vulnerability disclosure, and how manufacturers can choose between building their own compliance infrastructure or consuming it from a trusted vendor. Attendees will leave with a clear picture of the steps needed to achieve CRA compliance by 2027, and how open source, done right, can be a compliance asset rather than a risk.

As IoT deployments grow in scale and complexity, a single connectivity technology is often no longer enough. This session explores how combining LoRa and mioty enables flexible, scalable, and efficient IoT networks for diverse requirements.

Thomas Kauppert will provide a technical deep dive into how both technologies complement each other, explaining key principles and how they can coexist within a shared infrastructure. Participants will gain a clear and neutral understanding of mioty and its role within the LPWAN landscape.

Building on this, Annalena Zottmann will present real-world customer cases, demonstrating how hybrid networks are successfully used in practice—such as mixed metering scenarios with LoRa and mioty. The session highlights how a multi-connectivity approach and a unified gateway architecture can support future-proof IoT deployments and address specific application needs.

Why do so many IoT projects struggle despite readily available technology? In this joint keynote, Thermokon and Sensise share real-world smart building projects where traditional systems reached their limits and IoT provided the answer.

Through customer use cases we will explore common challenges in sensor deployment, connectivity, integration and operation and show how these obstacles can be overcome. Attendees will learn how a holistic, turn-key-solution approach transforms complex smart building requirements into successful and scalable IoT solutions.

In this hands-on workshop, participants will build an end-to-end AIoT proof of concept using STMicroelectronics’ SensorTile.box PRO, ST AIoT Craft, and Avnet’s /IOTCONNECT™ platform, following a streamlined sensor-to-cloud workflow (ST SensorTile.Box Pro hardware will be provided for use during the workshop). Using real sensor data, participants will train and deploy edge AI models, securely connect devices to the cloud, and visualize live telemetry and inference results through pre-built dashboards.

The session highlights how a pre-integrated edge-to-cloud solution with built-in device onboarding, model management, OTA updates, and fleet monitoring - reduces development complexity and accelerates time to market from prototype to scalable deployment.

Workshop requirements:

- Participants must bring their own laptop (charging outlets are available)

- A desktop web browser is required

- Participants must bring their own IOS device

- Optional: review the QuickStart guide: https://github.com/avnet-iotconnect/iotc-gateway-mobile-app/blob/main/mobile_app_guide.md

Energy harvesting sensors get marketed as install-and-forget forever.

Ours were too.

Then years of field data showed us the gap between lab conditions and reality: devices positioned in dark spaces without enough light or during long periods in transit or in storage were slowly dying instead of fulfilling their promise.

This talk is about the decision to walk that promise back: we now ship two of our solar-harvesting devices with AA batteries already inside, at the same price, because reliability beats a marketing line.

We'll cover what the field data actually showed, why "energy harvesting" and "battery-free" got confused in this industry when they shouldn't have been, and what it cost us to admit the original design assumption was wrong.

A talk about the difference between a demo-conditions promise and a deployed-conditions guarantee.

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) has sparked panic across the IoT ecosystem and a massive 'blame game' between component suppliers, device manufacturers, and integrators. Many hardware suppliers still believe compliance is strictly the integrator's problem. They are wrong, and this misconception will cost them their market share.

Integrators are terrified of CRA bottlenecks and are actively looking to de-risk their supply chains. If your sensor or module creates a 3-month compliance headache, they will drop you for a competitor who hands them compliance evidence on a silver platter.

In this session, we will break down the massive shift happening in IoT distribution. We will show you how to abandon fragmented spreadsheets, stop the finger-pointing, and use automated 'Evidence Packs' to build trust from the silicon up. Learn how aligning the supply chain can slash compliance timelines by 60% and turn the CRA into your sharpest competitive differentiator.

Large-scale LoRaWAN deployments face increasing operational complexity as gateway fleets grow to thousands of devices. While gathering data is an important part of the solution, it is not sufficient on its own. Engineers struggle to quickly diagnose the root causes of gateway incidents amid a flood of metrics, logs, and system events. AI can help transform this overwhelming data into clear, actionable troubleshooting insights.

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Proof point statement: We demonstrate that a single Aliro-ready platform can support secure and interoperable access experiences across NFC, Bluetooth® LE, and future UWB-enabled use cases. Using the STEVAL-ALOCKCB reference design and supporting software stack, we show Aliro credential provisioning and all the secure access transactions on a common hardware and software foundation.

The ST TruELock demo showcases a working Aliro-ready smart lock platform that supports secure access through NFC for a tap-and-go experience, Bluetooth® Low Energy, and future UWB-enabled use cases for hands-free access control. Using the ST STEVAL-ALOCKCB reference design, we will demonstrate mobile credential provisioning and secure access transactions.

The demo emulates a real door lock, including the user interface and mechanical components, to give attendees a realistic use case. It also shows how Aliro can change the access control scenario with a mobile key. The demo highlights flexibility and key security capabilities. It also includes debugging features that help developers build secure and interoperable Aliro-compliant access solutions.

Attendees will see how the same hardware and software foundation can help accelerate Aliro adoption while preparing for future UWB-enabled experiences. The demo highlights the practical implementation of security services, interoperability, and protocol flexibility that developers can apply to their own connected-access designs.

The Dutch say, meten is weten—measuring is knowing. But IoT and AI can only trust what they measure when the things behind the data remain connected, secure, and updatable.

Whether a product uses LoRaWAN, Wi-Fi, or another local protocol, cellular often appears somewhere in the architecture—as primary connectivity, backhaul, or a resilient fallback. Until now, putting a SIM in a device often meant fixing a critical network choice at manufacture.

SGP.32, the IoT eSIM Standard we helped collaboratively architect at GSMA, changes that. It makes cellular connectivity digitally activatable and adaptable throughout the product lifecycle. Vincent Korstanje will show how Kigen and its ecosystem of trusted module and connectivity partners are turning this new standard into a practical route from prototype to secure, multi-network-ready deployment. Learn how to build devices that will outlast the first roll-out, the network switch, and the need to update security for CRA compliance.

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) introduces significant new obligations for manufacturers to report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe security incidents within strict timeframes. This session will examine what these reporting requirements mean in practice, who is responsible, what must be reported, and how organisations can build effective processes to ensure compliance. Attendees will gain practical insights into meeting their regulatory obligations while strengthening incident response and product security governance.

This hands-on workshop introduces the LoRaWAN® Relay feature using STM32CubeWL and the NUCLEO-WL55JC development board. Attendees will configure and test relay-based communication, send live data to a ChirpStack network server, and explore how LoRaWAN Relay can help extend network coverage. The session also demonstrates how STM32CubeWL simplifies rapid application development and end-to-end LoRaWAN validation.

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) places clear responsibilities on manufacturers to assess and demonstrate the security of connected products before they reach the market and throughout their operational lifetime. This panel will explore what these assessment obligations mean in practice, including risk assessments, conformity assessment routes, technical documentation, and the evidence needed to demonstrate compliance. Industry experts will share practical approaches to navigating these requirements while building secure, resilient products.

Selecting the right wireless technology for an IoT deployment is rarely straightforward. While specifications provide a starting point, real-world implementations reveal tradeoffs that are often less obvious—across range, topology, latency, power consumption, and scalability.

This panel brings together experts across multiple wireless ecosystems to compare how technologies like Z-Wave, LoRa, and Wi-Fi HaLow perform in practice. Panelists will share deployment experiences, discuss where different approaches succeed or fall short, and explore how system requirements—from building automation to large-scale distributed networks—drive technology decisions.

The discussion will also examine how hybrid and multi-network architectures are emerging, and what that means for interoperability, system complexity, and long-term maintenance.

Designed for engineers and product teams, this session offers a candid, experience-driven look at how to evaluate and combine wireless technologies for real-world IoT systems.

Amazon Sidewalk is a secure, hub-less community network reaching ~95% of the U.S. — now expanded into Canada and Mexico, with Europe coming soon — connecting devices where Wi-Fi can't reach and cellular is too costly, virtually free to connect. From pet collars and wearables to asset tags, backyard sensors, and neighborhood devices, its fusion of BLE, sub-GHz FSK, and LoRa delivers multi-layered location from inside the home to across the neighborhood — with far longer battery life and much lower cost than cellular. Come learn how real-world use cases and simple integration paths get makers to market in months.

The Earth is calling for help, and the tools to answer are within reach. Microcontrollers are inexpensive, sensors exist for nearly any measurement, connectivity is now almost ubiquitous, and analytics capabilities are abundant. In this session Rob presents the framework the delivers one hundred field-ready, deployable IoT use cases across eleven UN Sustainable Development Goals. This easy-to-understand framework empowers you to address hunger, health, water, energy, climate, and protecting life on Earth.

Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) and effective vulnerability management are central to demonstrating compliance with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). This panel will explore the practical challenges of creating and maintaining SBOMs, managing vulnerabilities throughout a product's lifecycle, and meeting the CRA's expectations for transparency and ongoing security. Join industry experts as they discuss best practices, implementation strategies, and lessons learned from early compliance efforts.

Ultra-low power in LoRaWAN is real - but it's claimed far more often than it's achieved. This demo shows it done right: two identical RAK3172-F modules on a live power analyzer, one reaching true low-power operation with RAK's RUI3 SDK, the other not. One variable, honest numbers measured in real time, and a repeatable path to results you can trust and apply.

For the last decade we connected billions of devices to the Internet.

Now we are connecting those devices to AI.

The result is a fundamental shift in how the physical world operates. Sensors are no longer just collecting data — they are becoming autonomous systems capable of interpreting, deciding, and acting at the edge in real time.

But there’s a problem.

Industrial infrastructure, energy systems, factories, logistics networks, buildings, vehicles, and cities were never designed for opaque, probabilistic, continuously evolving intelligence operating inside safety-critical environments. As AI moves from the cloud into the physical world, the industry faces a new challenge: how do we govern autonomous edge intelligence without destroying the speed of innovation that made it possible?

This keynote explores the emergence of a new control layer for Industrial AI — spanning runtime governance, AI provenance, observability, policy enforcement, auditability, and human accountability. It argues that the next wave of Edge AI winners will not simply be those who build the smartest models, but those who can make autonomous systems trustworthy, controllable, and defensible at planetary scale.

The future of IoT is no longer about connected devices.

It is about governed autonomy.

Using Microchip’s Machine Learning Development tool, we’ll walk through the complete ML workflow live: collecting data, extracting relevant features from time-variant signals, training a model, and deploying it straight onto embedded hardware.

The goal

To show you just how fast and easy it is to get a working ML model running at the edge with Microchip’s tools - from raw data to real-time validation on real hardware, all in one session.

Why this workshop shouldn't be missed

This session shows the full machine learning journey in one sitting — from raw sensor data to a live model running on real hardware. It’s a guided demo, so no coding is required to follow along. You’ll see a model actually deployed in real time, not just simulated, giving you a concrete sense of how fast and approachable ML at the edge really is.

After more than a decade of experimentation and large-scale deployments, traditional IoT platforms, primarily focused on data collection and visualization, are reaching their limits in addressing real operational needs. Managing connected assets at scale now requires capabilities similar to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, including identity governance, lifecycle management, security, compliance, maintenance, and software updates. This talk explores why the next evolution of the Internet of Things is not another dashboard-centric platform, but an integrated IoT ERP approach designed to structure, secure, and operate connected fleets as true enterprise resources. Through concrete examples and field experience, we will examine how this shift reshapes technology priorities, organizational models, long-term value creation and ensure new regulation compliance, in the era of massive IoT deployment.

How does one person install 300 IoT devices in a single day? Over five years deploying tens of thousands ELSYS sensors across office portfolios, akenza built a process that makes large-scale smart-building rollouts repeatable and fast.

This talk shares that process end to end: factory prep, bulk import, device setup assistant, and more. We cover the lessons learned along the way and the real-world failures we hit. Those are the things that separate a demo from a deployment that lasts.

By 2030, the centralized cloud will no longer be the sole brain of the digital world. "How Edge AI Will Rewrite Reality in 2030" explores the monumental shift toward hyper-local, zero-latency intelligence embedded directly into the physical world around us. This keynote examines how autonomous devices, smart infrastructure, and ambient computing will seamlessly merge to create an environment that anticipates human needs in real time. Attendees will discover the strategic imperatives of this decentralized future, the hardware breakthroughs driving it, and how businesses must adapt today to thrive in an era where intelligence is truly everywhere.

AI hardware is having a moment. Across industries, teams are racing to build intelligent devices that can see, hear, move, and interact — all at the edge. The demand is real and growing fast.

But so is the failure rate. Hardware is unforgiving. Hidden costs pile up, timelines slip, and quality issues surface only after significant capital has been burned. Most teams hit the same traps: designing from scratch when the building blocks already exist, over-engineering before validating a single market assumption, and underestimating how different shipping hardware is from shipping software.

There is a smarter way. This talk breaks down what that looks like in practice — and how the right starting point can save you months, money, and a lot of pain.

LoRaWAN has become the backbone of large-scale IoT deployments worldwide, but how does it actually work and why does it matter for the AI systems being built today?

In this interactive workshop, we go deep on LoRaWAN architecture and network design, exploring how The Things Stack manages devices and data at scale. We will cover the technology, tradeoffs, and the real engineering decisions behind production deployments.

Then we connect the dots to AI. Sensor networks are only as good as the data they produce. We explore how LoRaWAN becomes the collection layer that enables real-world AI pipelines across different verticals.

Hands-on challenge included. Teams will work with live devices and a real network to design and present a complete IoT solution.

Environmental monitoring in Antarctica is constrained by extreme weather, long periods without sunlight, and limited access to reliable energy during the polar winter. These constraints become even more severe for seasonally unoccupied research bases, where most building infrastructure is intentionally powered down for safety reasons. This paper presents the deployment of a low-power monitoring system based on LoRa technology near the Bulgarian Antarctic Base St. Kliment Ohridski on Livingston Island. The system combines ThingsLog LPMDL-1105 data loggers, a battery-powered LoRa gateway, and a Starlink backhaul link, all of which are jointly activated only during a short daily communication window to minimize energy consumption. Sensor nodes acquire measurements from four sensors every 15 minutes, buffer 24 hours of readings locally, and transmit the accumulated dataset as a single uplink payload per port during the scheduled communication window using the ThingsLog Open LoRa Protocol. To preserve sufficient payload capacity for this transmission mode, the radio configuration was fixed at SF8, and Adaptive Data Rate (ADR) was disabled. Beyond environmental sensing, the deployment enables a practical comparison between outdoor conditions and the internal microclimate of selected base buildings, providing remote situational awareness relevant to maintenance planning and post-event damage assessment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first published Antarctic LPWAN deployment study to combine indoor-outdoor monitoring of base infrastructure with a duty-cycled LoRa gateway and duty-cycled satellite backhaul designed for autonomous winter operation.

As IoT applications become more diverse, each use case brings its own balance of range, data rate, power, infrastructure, integration, and cost requirements. This makes it important to understand the available connectivity options early and make them easier to evaluate.

This session explores where Wi‑Fi HaLow fits within the expanding IoT connectivity toolkit, including implementation considerations. Rather than positioning HaLow as a replacement for existing technologies, the talk focuses on use cases where long-range, IP-native wireless communication becomes relevant. In this context, Wi‑Fi HaLow can be seen as helping bridge the gap between long-range, low-data IoT technologies such as LoRaWAN and traditional Wi‑Fi-based connectivity.

The session will also touch on how ready-to-integrate wireless modules can support the evaluation of newer connectivity options, helping teams reduce complexity while assessing whether one technology or a combination of technologies is the right fit for the final application.

Let's explore the seamless integration of Azure IoT Operations with Microsoft Fabric, unlocking real-time intelligence across the industrial edge. As the latest solution for highly available edge computing within the Azure ecosystem, Azure IoT Operations leverages modern standards such as MQTT, OPC UA, and SSE to provide a robust suite of integration solutions. It honors the distinct requirements for IT administrators, OT engineers, and Data Engineers, from managing local Kubernetes clusters to executing low-code southbound data transformations, to adding real-time insights and actions in the cloud.

The presentation begins with an introduction to Azure IoT Operations, then dives into the value of integrating with Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence. Through hands-on demonstrations, featuring physical hardware like private LoRaWAN sensors and ONVIF supporting IP cameras, attendees will experience how to configure edge operations using the IoT Operations experience portal, collecting device messages and integrating them directly into Fabric’s real-time features.

Once telemetry reaches Microsoft Fabric, the focus shifts to generating actionable insights. Attendees will see how this SaaS data platform simplifies the ingestion of industrial data through a no-code portal experience. The demonstrations show a medallion architecture, utilizing Conversational AI and Ontology, turning raw data into business logic.

To be able to go into detail as much as possible, this workshop will be provided as a presentation. This session provides a practical jumpstart for attendees leveraging Azure IoT Operations and Microsoft Fabric features to enhance IoT on the edge and in the cloud.

Can LPWAN sensors operate without battery replacements? This session explores available technology for Energy Harvesting, Power Management and Energy Storage, which together allow maintenance-free IoT. Nichicon, Epishine, and EM Microelectronic share practical insights and real-world examples that demonstrates a path towards scalable, sustainable, and energy-autonomous LPWAN.

The journey from deploying an IoT device to extracting valuable insights often involves significant effort in understanding and integrating its data. This keynote will explore the practical advantages of providing more machine-readable information for IoT devices, with a particular focus on LoRaWAN. By offering clearer, standardized descriptions of device capabilities and data semantics, manufacturers can help users streamline onboarding, improve data quality, and substantially reduce the need for manual data mapping. We will discuss how this approach benefits both manufacturers and users by fostering easier adoption and more reliable data, and briefly touch upon how open standards like the Web of Things are relevant in building a more efficient and interoperable IoT landscape.

Wireless networks were originally designed to connect people and devices. Today, they are evolving into intelligent infrastructure that can also provide insights into what is happening in the physical environment.

In this keynote, Fabian van Prooijen, CEO of RadioSense, explores the emerging field of device-free sensing and the business opportunities it creates. By analysing changes in existing Wi-Fi and other radio signals, wireless infrastructure can support applications such as presence detection, safety monitoring and operational insight—without cameras, microphones, wearables or any device carried by the person being monitored.

The session combines a technical and commercial perspective. It explains how developments in edge AI, embedded computing and next-generation connectivity are enabling wireless networks to move beyond communication alone. It also addresses the practical requirements for bringing device-free sensing into real environments, including privacy by design, reliability, interoperability and integration with existing platforms.

From a business perspective, Fabian will discuss how wireless sensing can develop from dedicated deployments into scalable sensing-as-a-service models, software licensing and integration with routers, access points and future 5G and 6G infrastructure. This creates opportunities for network operators, hardware manufacturers, system integrators and service providers to generate new recurring revenue from infrastructure that is already widely deployed.

The keynote will illustrate the potential across elderly care, smart buildings, security and critical infrastructure, including selected dual-use applications. Attendees will gain insight into both the technology and the emerging value chain behind device-free sensing—and how it can enable safer and smarter environments without introducing surveillance.

We've built billions of smart devices. We've transformed computing, connectivity and artificial intelligence. Yet most electronics are still powered in much the same way they were decades ago.

This keynote explores how light energy harvesting is changing that conversation. As indoor photovoltaics become commercially viable, products can begin harvesting the energy already available in their environment. The result isn't simply a new power source, it's a new way of thinking about product design, maintenance and long-term value.

The question is no longer whether products can harvest light. It's what becomes possible when they do.

Developing a LoRaWAN device is not only a design challenge, and it is not only a manufacturing challenge. Successful products depend on the connection between both.

This panel will explore the practical do’s and don’ts of designing and manufacturing reliable LoRaWAN devices, with a focus on the decisions that determine whether a product can move successfully from prototype to production and into real-world deployment.

Panelists will share practical lessons from electronics manufacturing, hardware design, quality assurance, and LoRaWAN deployment experience, helping device makers understand how to design with manufacturing, testing, reliability, and scale in mind from the beginning.