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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Bluetooth Channel Sounding, High Data Throughput, Ultra Low Latency HID, and the Higher Bands project.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, over-the-air (OTA) updates, and fleet monitoring reduces development complexity and accelerates time-to-market, from prototype to scalable deployment.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.