Relive Unify 2026

Sponsored by Nordic Semiconductor

A high-level look at how open, universal standards like Matter, Zigbee, and Aliro are enabling growth and interoperability across industries, from smart homes to smart cities.

A visionary fireside chat exploring the most impactful innovations shaping the next decade of IoT, from AI to smart spaces and how open standards will shape the connected future.

A candid panel featuring leaders from major platforms and ecosystems will explore the future of open standards and cross-industry collaboration. Panelists will debate how standards will evolve, overlap, and compete in the coming decade, and what that means for device makers, developers, and consumers. Expect unfiltered insights on collaboration, competitive dynamics, and the next wave of use cases shaping the connected world.

IoT is a global movement, yet the adoption of open standards such as Matter, Zigbee, and Aliro looks different across regions. This session brings together perspectives from China, Japan, and India to examine the realities of adoption, the barriers to scale, and the opportunities for collaboration. Panelists will explore the critical role of infrastructure, policy, and consumer readiness, while highlighting how regional approaches can influence global alignment and future growth. Attendees will walk away with a clearer view of both the challenges and the collaborative pathways that can accelerate IoT’s worldwide impact.

This session is designed for product leaders, senior developers, and executives who are weighing the benefits, challenges, and business opportunities of adopting Matter. This session focuses on the strategic considerations, common misconceptions, and decision points that define a successful Matter roadmap. Attendees will leave with clarity, confidence, and a stronger case for building Matter into their product strategy.

How open standards streamline development, reduce costs, and accelerate market expansion.

Security isn’t a feature, it’s a foundation. This session explores how the Alliance embeds security principles across all its standards (Matter, Zigbee, Aliro) to ensure products are protected from the start. Attendees will gain insight into how a harmonized security framework supports interoperability, reduces certification complexity, and builds trust across the ecosystem. The discussion will also touch on the Alliance’s Product Security Verified program, a complementary initiative that helps companies demonstrate readiness for evolving global regulations. Expect candid lessons from the field, practical guidance on aligning with regulatory demands, and a forward look at what “security by design” means in the next era of IoT.

Move beyond fragmented systems and into a unified approach to digital access. This session explores how Aliro is enabling seamless, secure communication between mobile devices, readers, and access control platforms—unlocking new opportunities to simplify deployment, improve user experience, and scale across commercial, residential, and multi-site environments. Hear from industry leaders across the value chain including, device manufacturers, platform providers, and integrators, on how interoperable standards are reducing complexity, accelerating adoption, and enabling more flexible, future-ready access solutions.

Certification is the critical bridge between product development and real-world interoperability. In this session, product leaders and certification experts will walk through the Alliance’s certification programs for Matter, Zigbee and Aliro, highlighting how certification fits into the product journey, from design and testing to launch. Panelists will share best practices, lessons learned, and real-world examples of certified products in action, showing how certification not only validates compliance but also accelerates adoption, builds consumer trust, and ensures seamless operation across ecosystems.

Many teams working with connected products know Matter, but Thread, the networking layer beneath it, often gets overlooked. This session gives the Thread-curious a practical, plain-language breakdown of what Thread is, where it fits across smart home, commercial building, and large-scale lighting environments, and how it compares to legacy approaches. You’ll walk away with real-world context and the confidence to evaluate where Thread belongs in your product roadmap.

Aliro solves the commercial sector’s hardest credentialing problems: multi-badge, multi-vendor, multi-tenant, and the growing collision between digital and physical identity. It does so as a hybrid credential, now as fast as DESFire, with the privacy and trust properties of self-attesting certificates and a revocable public cert model the enterprise actually controls. Jason Hart of Safetrust and moderator Lee Odess of The Access Control Collective frame why commercial is the right sector right now, make the opportunity tangible with real use cases, and open the floor on what the room needs to move from inevitable to deployed.

Sponsored by NXP

Analyst-driven research on consumer, commercial, and developer demand. Expect data, forecasts, and actionable recommendations.

The IoT landscape is rapidly expanding beyond traditional connected devices into transformative new verticals. This panel explores how open standards like Matter, Zigbee, and Aliro are enabling innovation across edge computing, AI, connected wellness, energy and utilities, and ISP-driven services. Industry leaders will share insights on adoption trends, opportunities, and challenges within these sectors, and how cross-industry collaboration can accelerate growth. Attendees will gain a forward-looking perspective on how these emerging verticals will shape the future of IoT standards and global adoption.

This panel will explore how leading standards bodies are working in concert to deliver seamless global interoperability, align on security and certification, and address evolving industry needs. Attendees will gain insider insight into how these technologies complement one another and what’s next for unified, open connectivity worldwide.

How AI and IoT converge at the network edge to enable lightning-fast decision-making. Learn how edge AI reduces latency, increases autonomy, and supports predictive capabilities in sectors from manufacturing to smart cities.

This session is designed for companies and individuals ready to take the next step from observing to actively shaping Alliance standards. Led by Alliance and Matter Subject Matter Experts, this practical, insider-focused session walks attendees through how to engage with the Alliance, contribute to the Matter roadmap, and get started in standards development. While Matter is the primary focus, the session will also highlight touchpoints with Aliro and other Alliance standards, helping attendees understand how the broader ecosystem fits together. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of where to start, who to talk to, and how to turn product ideas into real contributions that influence future releases and industry direction.

The connectivity assumptions that work well inside a single home do not always translate cleanly to MDUs, hotels, offices, campuses, utilities, and other professionally managed environments. Larger deployments introduce new physical and operational pressures around coverage, interference, penetration, device density, lifecycle management, and global scale. This session explores how DECT NR+ (an IPV6 compliant network layer) can contribute to the broader open standards conversation, helping open IoT ecosystems scale beyond the smart home and into the built environments where connected devices increasingly operate.

Tobin Richardson will host a fireside chat with renowned professor, researcher, and Laura Jennings Turner Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas, Radu Marculescu. The session with discuss Professor Marculescu’s 30+ years of groundbreaking research across lower power devices, multi-core processing, network effects, machine learning, and edge AI — and look around the corner to what’s next.