PRESENTER: 

• Duane Wald, LoRaWAN Alliance
• Mark Tubinis, Veea CCO

DESCRIPTION: The adoption of LoRaWAN within buildings has exploded in recent years, due to its ease of install during retro fitting and a collection of new sensors providing wellbeing insights.  This session will explain the technical basics of LoRaWAN and its applications, as well as presenting the first Niagara Powered LoRaWAN device from Veaa.  LoRaWAN devices enable smart building owners to easily add new data sets to their platforms to provide improved control and monitoring and support of their digital transformation journey. 

PRESENTERS: 

• Ravi Rabheru, Intel AI CoE
• Stephen Holicky, Chief Product Officer, Tridium

DESCRIPTION: How excited (or worried) should we be about AI? Will it transform our industry, enhance it, or possibly destroy it? This session will help you find out what AI is (and what it isn’t), the risks and rewards, how it’s being applied, and the likely outcomes. Where could AI benefit our industry? Is there a place for next gen AI embedded in building-controls applications, and if so – how?  

PRESENTER: Jeremy Towler, BSRIA

DESCRIPTION: As all nations work towards net zero, there has been a growth of government backed requirements and incentives to add more control and monitoring to buildings. In this session Jeremy Towler of BSRIA will provide insight into the drivers, trends and metrics of the global building automation and control systems (BACS) market, as well as current EU regulations (such as EPBD) and how the community can find new growth opportunities.

PRESENTER: Neil Salt, Evolvr

DESCRIPTION: Neil Salt of Evolvr will dismantle the challenges of solo marketing and discover how collaborative, AI-first strategies can transform your business. Learn the science behind the 7-11-4 framework—seven hours of engagement, eleven interactions, and four channel—to turn prospects into loyal buyers. We’ll decode buzzwords like co-branded campaigns and digital twins (a dynamic virtual model of your business) and show you how to use them alongside partners—end customers, integrators, distributors, and tech brands—to co-create campaigns that multiply credibility, reach, and profit.

DESCRIPTION: Tridium's Product team, will present the updates on Niagara since our last Forum, followed by an overview of the latest innovations introduced in Niagara 4.15

PRESENTER: Curtis McKerlie, Tridium

DESCRIPTION: During this presentation, Curtis McKerlie, will provide an extensive overview of how the Niagara Cloud Suite facilitates seamless and secure connectivity to the cloud. Attendees will gain a profound understanding of how the Niagara Cloud Suite contributes to a secure and efficient business operation by providing essential features such as seamless cloud connectivity, encrypted disaster recovery backups, historical data archiving, API data access, and remote connectivity.

PRESENTER: 

• Bill Smith, Tridium
• Kaitlyn Haase, Tridium

DESCRIPTION: This session will review the current and upcoming Cyber Security requirements (such as NIS 2 and CRA) and what Tridium is doing to protect Niagara devices from miscellaneous attacks.  Our legal expert will then explain how Tridium is managing our own data security process within GDR and our commercial agreements. 

PRESENTER: 

• Nicole Love, Tridium
• Pavlo Pazelskyi, Tridium

DESCRIPTION: Niagara Cloud Suite now enable cloud connectivity to reduce FM costs, reduce the risk of data loss and provide a access to years of rich tagged data within the cloud. Tridium's cloud product manager Nicole Love will give a high lever overview of the offerings and installers and partners can leverage these new tools to create new opportunities for your clients. 

PRESENTER:

• Matt O'Connor, Tridium
• Emily Weisensale, Tridium

DESCRIPTION: In today’s digital landscape, effective visual design plays a pivotal role in enhancing user experience, engagement, and satisfaction. In this presentation join Matt O'Connor, our Expert User Experience Designer, aims to provide an insightful exploration into the principles and practices that make design not only visually appealing but also functional and accessible. To show examples of these best practices using Niagara, Emily Weisensale will demonstrate the new UX Builder, which enables customers to create and customize PX Pages directly through a web browser.

PRESENTERS:

• Jacqueline Walpole, Tridium
• Paul Fahy, Tridium
• Peter Shepherd, Forest Rock

DESCRIPTION: In this session, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of Niagara's subscription-based licensing model, which offers flexibility and scalability for users. Jacqueline Walpole and Paul Fahy will delve into the distinctions between containers and virtual machines (VMs). Both technologies enable the deployment and management of Niagara in isolated environments; however, they achieve this in different ways. We will walk through the step-by-step process of setting up a Niagara Supervisor within a container, highlighting best practices for configuration and management. Peter Shepherd of Forest Rock will share real-world experiences from using the technology.

PRESENTERS: 

• One Sightsolutions
• Tyrrell Products

DESCRIPTION: This high-level session, focused on end-user applications, will explain the value of Niagara as an open platform, the importance of data structure, low-cost retrofitting and proving a future-proof base technology.  Learn how end-users can use Niagara to keep what they have, be "future ready" and mitigate against technical risk.  

PRESENTERS:

• David Hornosky, Tridium
• Trevor Morrison, The Building People
• Mark Petock, Lynxspring
• Robert Renz, US Army Corps of Engineers

DESCRIPTION: Navigating government-backed public sector works is often fraught with difficulty - economic, contractual and regulatory. Hear how Niagara has been successfully deployed across significant parts of the US Government and the Department of Defense from the team that has actually made it happen.

PRESENTERS:

• Russ McKay, IBM
• Georgina Macrae, IBM

DESCRIPTION: Take a deep dive into ESG reporting elements and why it's important in modern built environments, see Maximo, IBM's flagship Asset Management solution, in action alongside Envizi, which provides a rich ESG reporting environment - and how they both work seamlessly with Niagara. 

PRESENTER: Tony Leca, Ethnic Consulting

DESCRIPTION: Explore the theory behind what it will take to design a ‘self-driving’ building. From advanced BMS integration tools that integrate Access and Security systems to identify users and perform deep learning occupancy sensing. through to smart contracts, blockchain and AI, learn how it's possible to design a completely autonomous building. 

PRESENTER: James Johnson, Tridium

DESCRIPTION: Join James Johnson in discovering the latest updates in data modelling, which include the Haystack 4 dictionary and its migration, as well as the introduction of new Niagara dictionary tags and rules alongside the Brick dictionary. This session will also explore solutions that utilise hierarchies, tagbased PX bindings, and analytics. Additionally, we will highlight the new Relational Manager available with 4.15.

PRESENTERS:

• Terrance Hall, ACS
• László Krucsó, SmartNode
• Carlos Ivan Conde Martin, Honeywell

DESCRIPTION: In this session we explore current trends in customer innovation, and we will provide insights into emerging practices and technologies that are shaping the future. Furthermore, we will take a closer look at the Niagara tools that are enabling our customers to elevate their engineering efficiency, which in turn allows them to deliver massive projects more rapidly than before.

PRESENTER: 

• Melih Ballıkaya, Florawise
• Tuna Balsoy, TeknoSA

DESCRIPTION: Hear from Melih Ballıkaya of Florawise and Tuna Balsoy of TeknoSA how their collaborative project leverages Niagara technology to revolutionize energy efficiency and sustainability in retail. Integrating advanced AI-driven solutions, the project addresses key challenges in energy management, reduces environmental impact, and enhances operational efficiency across TeknoSA stores.

PRESENTER: David Green, Head of Innovation, Blenheim Palace

DESCRIPTION: Retrofitting IoT technology into historic buildings presents unique challenges, but it also unlocks immense opportunities for sustainability. Using a case study at Blenheim Palace as an example, this session demonstrates how Niagara has integrated LoRa WAN, smart radiator valves, MS Power BI and Tyrrell Analytics to enable real-time continuous energy optimisation and data insights while respecting the building's heritage, and breathe new life into historic sites.

PRESENTER: Luca Lunghi, Coop Italy

DESCRIPTION: Coop Italy currently owns over 1,000 retail stores, most of which have a BMS system installed from a wide mix of manufacturers. Learn how Niagara integrates them all into a common platform, allowing efficient and effective remote management, whilst retaining investment in existing control systems on premise.

PRESENTERS:

• Conexao Technology Solutions
• Neeve
• Metrikus

DESCRIPTION: Tridium's Technology Partners bring their own additive muslcepower to the Niagara Framework. Insights, data analytics, space and energy optimisation, ESG, M&V.....the list goes on! Come and learn how our Technology Partners are using the power of Niagara to make 1+1=3.

PRESENTER: Aleem Aftab, Forest Rock

DESCRIPTION: LoRaWAN continues to dominate the narrow-band ISM radio space for connecting Wide-Area Networks. Here you'll discover 5 essential use cases for LoRa applications and how it delivers reliability, connectivity and flexibility across large footprint solutions.

PRESENTER: Tino Zander, Phoenix Contact

DESCRIPTION: The native service in the Niagara framework enables the automatic creation of digital twins for building technology in the Analytics Cloud using Sparkplug B technology. Niagara acts as a one-tool edge solution to link operating data from building automation and perform an analysis that enables an automatic comparison with simulated ideal values.

PRESENTER: Turchian Omer, Director, Innon Energy

DESCRIPTION: Buildings need to be able to constantly adapt to the requirements of the occupants, but at the same time, they need to be comfortable, eco-friendly and deliver on energy and carbon targets too. In this session, Turchian will outline how to square the circle and keep these conflicts in balance using the power of Niagara combined with LoRa WAN technology.

PRESENTERS:

• Phoenix Contact
• Milesight
• Tyrrell Products

DESCRIPTION: The Niagara Framework is more than the sum of its parts, and with our OEM and Reseller Partners, the range of use cases extends beyond buildings and into new verticals. This is portability - and more!

PRESENTER:

• James Johnson, Tridium
• Ausra Morkunaite, Tridium
• Jason Woollard, Tridium

DESCRIPTION: Discover how to optimize Niagara applications by learning from experts James Johnson, Ausra Morkunaite and Jason Woollard. They will highlight several cool features and best practices. This popular session will emphasise addressing common problems, examining various scenarios, and utilising tools to identify their root causes.

PRESENTER:

• Dominik Zühlke, Tridium
• Scott Hoye, Tridium

DESCRIPTION: In the realm of IT security, understanding the role of PKI certificates is crucial, especially for System Integrators (SIs). In this presentation, Dominik Zuehlke will provide a comprehensive overview of PKI certificates in simple terms, addressing common misconceptions and equipping SIs with knowledge to effectively implement and manage these vital security components. Scott Hoye will demonstrate Niagara's Certificate Signing Service to show how to optimise the management of signed certificates across multiple devices.