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People inside the Niagara Community have fantastic stories. Stories about how they discovered Tridium and Niagara Framework. Stories about their market experiences. Stories about what they are working on right now.
Our intention is to keep building this channel with video/audio and audio-only webcast/podcast recordings.  View the podcasts from 2024.  Also, if you have a story to share, email us about it using the link below.

NIAGARA PODCAST 2026 

Energy Management Discussion

This podcast recorded at Niagara Summit 2026 presents strategies for energy managers working with energy and HVAC equipment performance data from Niagara Framework®. Joe Aamidor of Aamidor Consulting hosts a conversation with Tharanga Jayarathne from the Energy Research firm TRC along with partners from Altura, Jim Meacham and Jared Arwine. The team presents on how cost-responsive algorithms can outperform traditional ASHRAE Guideline 36 reset strategies by balancing real-time energy use against utility rate structures. This is one example of how a project piloted and proven at a single-site can be rapidly shared across a large portfolio of buildings when Niagara is deployed for rapid scaling and when the customer enforces rigorous standardization processes for all stakeholders in the BMS.

Division 25 Discussion

To use an outdated turn of phrase, Div25 is what separates the ‘men from the boys’ when it comes to success in intelligent buildings. This panel of women combine a wealth of experience deploying projects and can speak from the building/owner operator perspective. Div 25 is shorthand for the ASHRAE guideline on the roles of systems integrators, the communication protocols (e.g., BACnet), and the requirements for connecting various equipment vendors. Joe Aamidor, Aamidor Consulting, interviews Erin Defrieze of The Building People; Bobbie Tincher of the University of Kentucky; Nicole Niles of XLAutomation; and Roxette Melancon, Tridium.

Scaling Business Automation & Controls Business

Scaling a business in automation and controls beyond your region or specialty in terms of project/building type has been a challenge that few have managed. Vast total addressable market (TAM) estimations dwindle to small actual deals and customer bases. Hear from a panel of trail blazers – or Original Gangsters - that discuss how they scaled their successful businesses in the face of the automation industry’s evolution toward open standards and the construction/real estate industry’s complex and fragmented nature. Marc Petock of Lynxpring leads the conversation that also includes Paul Czerwin, Albireo Energy; John Zappa, Building Controls Group; Brian Oswald, Unified Controls; and Ed Merwin, Tridium.

Discussion of Building Automation market in LATAM

Spanish & Portuguese

Niagara 4, integracion sin fronteras. Nuestros socios nos exponen su vision de negocio y casos de exito en español y portugués. Luis Alberto Angeles, Sejofa Ingenieria; Gabriel Volpato, Mercato; Carla Chobod, Tridium, Professional Services; and Diego Soto, Tridium, LATAM

NextGen Podcast

Training and career development are big topics for those on the first rungs of the building automation industry ─ there is so much to learn both on the IT networking and climate controls sides of this business. Where do you go to gain practical, tactical guidance on how to upskill? For controls contracting businesses, how do you attract and retain young talent? Three representatives of the ‘nextgen’ talent pool discuss: Oleg Koujikov, Sunbelt Controls, interviews Thomas Ranalli and Matt Witmer and Broudy Precision for the Niagara Podcast at Niagara Summit 2026.

NIAGARA PODCAST 2024 

Haystack Leaders

Do you know why and when Project Haystack got started and where it is going next? Get some answers here. Brian Frank, CEO/Founder, SkyFoundry & one of Project Haystack's original founders and Richard McElhinney, VP of Technology, Conserve IT & one of Haystack's current Co-Executive Directors are interviewed on the Niagara Summit 2024 expo floor by Therese Sullivan of Tridium.

Marc Petock, Lynxspring

Niagara Podcasts are kicked off at Niagara Summit 2024 with a discussion with Marc Petock, VP, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Lynxspring about the history of the event and the future of BAS industry.

Check out the Niagara Summit general session with Marc Petock

Pawel Szarmanski, iSMA CONTROLLI

Therese Sullivan, Customer Marketing at Tridium, talks to Pawel Szarmanski, Solution Product Manager at iSMA CONTROLLI (iC) about iC’s approach to the market for IoT solutions and how iC’s line of Niagara-powered controllers are addressing a critical need in small and mid-size buildings.

Ged Tyrrell, Tyrrell Products and Arif Osmani, Red Hat

In this discussion, Paul Price, Business Development Director at Tridium, Ged Tyrrell, CEO at Tyrrell Building Technologies and Arif Osmani, North America Lead at Red Hat, talk about open source as the foundation for innovation and the future of technology such as cloud, AI, containerization, and more.

Aaron Mason, Hawkeye Energy Solutions

In this podcast Aaron Mason, Direct of Operations, Hawkeye Energy Solutions, talks about the sessions covered during Niagara Summit and the evolution of products from Hawkeye Energy Solutions.

NIAGARA PODCASTS 2022

Roger Woodward

iSMA CONTROLLI

How did the Niagara Community get so big and so energized?  Learn from expert Roger Woodward, Business Change/Strategy Consultant, about how to build a business internationally, such that everyone comes out a winner.  Eric Larsen, Director, Client Services, Intelligent Buildings, LLC, interviews Roger about this and about his client, iSMA CONTROLLI.

Rob Murchison

Intelligent Buildings LLC

Open, Converged, Normalized -3 descriptors of an Intelligent Building Data Strategy. What's the point? To improve asset performance, manage the risk of new technology, optimize the occupant experience. Intelligent Buildings LLC's Co-founder Rob Murchison and Eric Larsen, Director, Client Services discuss the shared vision that guides its partnership with Tridium. 

Rick Warner

MC Dean: Building Intelligence

Richard Warner, Sr. Energy Systems Engineer at M.C. Dean, has specialized in the optimization of mission-critical facilities like data centers, labs and hospitals. In conversation with Therese Sullivan of Tridium, he explains how Niagara Framework has helped him succeed at the job of automating HVAC control in these high-stakes settings. 

Richard McElhinney

Conserve IT and Project Haystack

Richard McElhinney is both vice president of Technology at Conserve It and board director of Project Haystack. In this conversation with Therese Sullivan, he talks about the give and take of being part of a strong developer community like Niagara's and of an open-source community like Haystack. Innovating in collaboration with like-minded people around the world is powerful!

Melissa Boutwell

Automation Strategy & Performance

The buildings industry is struggling to find the talent to run data-driven buildings. The kernel of a much bigger movement can be found in the Niagara Community - but we have to reach trade schools, community colleges, even university programs with our insider know-how.  Melissa Boutwell of ASP has been instrumental in getting Niagara-infused curriculum into schools. 

Ali Dioury

Intel

Ali Dioury, Managing Director, Global Accounts at Intel Corporation outlines Intel's IoT strategy in Connected Buildings and Connected Industrial plant markets. Intel sees more analytics at the edge and the transformation of data from disparate energy systems into actionable insight. We also talk about how Niagara Partner Tyrrell Building Technologies is porting Niagara Framework to an Intel-core edge controller.

Martin McGloin

Airthings

Martin McGloin of Airthings explains his company's lofty mission to empower the whole world to breathe better through air-quality monitoring. Coming to NS2022 from Norway, McGloin gives us a glimpse of some of the ways Smart Building technology has evolved differently there. He announces the upcoming availability of an Airthings Niagara Driver, developed with the help of Tridium Professional Services and soon to be launched on Niagara Marketplace.

Marc Petock

Lynxspring

From his years leading marketing at Tridium to his current role as CMO of Lynxspring, Marc Petock has had his eyes on the transformational power of building data. No one is better at getting at the core business reasons for deploying Niagara. Listen to this conversation to learn what is on Marc's mind today. Hints: taking Niagara from 'edge to enterprise' and via a 'horizontal IP-based stack.'

Fred Gordy

Intelligent Buildings

Fred Gordy, cyber defense expert from Intelligent Buildings explains here that operational risk is what insurance companies attempt to assess for enterprises. The potential loss of data in the event of a hack is a risk. The potential loss of business and other property and casualty issues is another level of risk. What is a cyber-security culture, and how do you get there?  Fred does not sugar-coat  -  but, he may paintball-coat...

Ged Tyrrell

Tyrrell Products

Tyrrell Building Systems of Manchester, UK, has been a leading 'Niagara Portability' partner, which means it has been busy building new 'whole products' around Niagara Framework - many of these edge devices. In this conversation, Ged Tyrrell talks about his work with Intel and Google, and the first portability project Tyrrell Products delivered. This connected fire alarm systems with the BMS as part of a large Mid East government contract.

Brian Turner

Buildings IOT

When you have a committed owner and the right data strategy and platform, you can "normalize to the new normal" - that is, deliver the energy saving or other outcome set by the use case, and then reset toward a new goal. An empowered MSI stays focused on integration, data modeling, and providing needed context around the use case.  Brian Turner has one of the strongest track records for success in the Niagara Community at the MSI role and also at helping other MSIs through software his team at Buildings IOT has developed.

Alex Grace

Clockwork Analytics

The sophisticated category of analytics known as FDD, or Fault Detection & Diagnostics, is gaining traction beyond academic and government campuses. SaaS-solutions are widening the appeal of FDD by delivering results that point to root issues. Listen to this conversation with Clockwork Analytics' Alex Grace to understand why system integrators in the Niagara Community are excited about FDD as a differentiated service to offer their customers. Also learn about how SaaS model supports the continuous improvement of ML algorithms.

Alper Üzmezler

BAS Services & Graphics

Tagging is the key enabler to analytics and machine learning and AI.  You need to start with clean, tagged data or no scalable automation happens, explains Alper Üzmezler. A believer in and big contributor to open source development movements, Alper has experience working with the Project Haystack organization and other initiatives. He has also leveraged TensorFlow libraries open-sourced by the Google Brain Team, to develop image-to-text modules for meter data acquisition. Hear more about his innovations in this interview. 

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