DAY 2 | GOLD TRACK
The Future of IoT Connectivity, Infrastructure & Security
10:00 - 10:15
Chairperson’s Welcome
Chairpersons welcome and opening remarks
10:15 - 10:45
Presentation: The Next Wave of Connectivity: Trends, Technologies, and Opportunities
This presentation will explore how the next generation of connectivity technologies is taking shape, highlighting emerging standards, evolving architectures, and the business impact of new capabilities coming to market. Attendees can expect forward-looking insights into what enterprises must do to prepare as connectivity continues to advance at speed.
10:50 - 11:10
Presentation: What a 20-Minute OT Security Audit Reveals About Risk, Resilience, and Uptime
In OT environments, serious risk often appears long before a major incident. As unknown assets, insecure protocols, unmanaged external access, policy drift, and anomalies that can become downtime or compromise. This session shows what a practical 20-minute OT security audit can reveal without touching controllers or disrupting production. Using real examples from industrial networks, we will walk through the first checks that expose blind spots, separate security problems from operational issues, and prioritize the next steps across visibility, segmentation, third-party access, and incident readiness. Attendees will leave with a simple framework for reducing risk and improving resilience across converged IT, IoT and OT environments.
11:10 - 11:55
Networking Break
11:55 - 12:25
Presentation: Title Coming Soon!
12:30 - 12:50
Presentation: The Future of Retail is Connected: How IoT is Transforming Customer Experiences
Retail environments are being transformed by connected technologies that blend physical engagement with digital intelligence. In this session, Pelion CEO Dave Weidner and Bright.Blue CEO Jiri Horalek explore how interactive, connected vending platforms are enabling new retail and brand experiences across hospitality, leisure, and retail venues. They will discuss why flexible, scalable IoT connectivity is essential to support these deployments and power the next generation of connected retail.
12:55 - 13:15
Presentation: From Smart to Autonomous Buildings: Enabling Edge AI Through Open, Deterministic Infrastructure
California knows the difference between a connected car and an autonomous one. Connectivity adds features. Autonomy requires a fundamentally different architecture: real-time edge processing, predictable system behavior, and infrastructure that guarantees safe execution. Smart buildings are at the same inflection point. While many AI initiatives in the built environment remain cloud-centric, true autonomy—adaptive energy optimization, predictive HVAC control, real-time occupancy response—cannot rely on best-effort networks or variable latency. It requires deterministic infrastructure: communication and control systems with bounded timing, standardized semantics, and guaranteed behavior. This session explores how open, standardized building infrastructure enables that shift. By combining KNX with its Open Source stack for IPv6 communication, available on mainstream embedded platforms such as Zephyr and FreeRTOS, building automation becomes part of the broader edge AI ecosystem. AI operates at the application layer, while deterministic field infrastructure ensures reliability, safety, and long-term stability. As buildings evolve from smart to autonomous systems, competitive advantage will depend not only on AI capabilities, but on the openness and robustness of the infrastructure that executes their decisions.
13:15 - 14:15
Lunch Break
14:15 - 14:35
Presentation: Massive IoT in 5G Advanced and future 6G Networks
This talk explores the evolution of cellular IoT from 5G to 5G Advanced, highlighting support for massive IoT across terrestrial and non-terrestrial (satellite) networks. It also outlines how future 6G systems will extend this evolution toward ubiquitous, scalable connectivity by 2030.
14:40 - 15:00
Presentation: Orchestrating Connectivity: Navigating the Intersection of Choice and Constraint in 2026
As the IoT landscape shifts from technical scarcity to overwhelming choice, enterprises must move beyond simple connectivity to a sophisticated orchestration of hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks and flexible eSIM standards like SGP.32. This session explores how to balance this technical expansion with the strict new demands of global security regulations, to ensure market access and operational resilience. Leaders will learn why treating connectivity as a continuous operating model—rather than a static purchase—is the defining strategy for success in an increasingly complex global market.
15:05 - 15:35
Presentation: IoT Infrastructure for Smart Cities: Scalable, Secure, Sensor-Dense Urban Networks
Smart cities depend on resilient, high-capacity infrastructure to support dense sensor networks and real-time services. This session looks at architectural approaches for building secure and scalable urban IoT environments. Examples from leading projects will highlight how modern connectivity is improving services, sustainability, and overall city operations.
