Unify 2026 Agenda
Explore visionary keynotes, hands-on sessions, and meaningful networking opportunities across three days of insight and inspiration.
Unify Live: The Kickoff Experience
Sponsored by Nordic Semiconductor
Main StageInnovation Multiplier: How Open Standards Accelerate What’s Next
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.
Future Trends in IoT – The Interoperable Future
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.
11:35 AM
Shaping the Next Era: Ecosystem Leaders on the Future of Open Standards
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.
Global Horizons: Opportunities & Barriers in Standards Adoption
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.
Building with Matter: Key Decisions, Misconceptions & Opportunities
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.
Unlocking Growth for Device Makers & Manufacturers
How open standards streamline development, reduce costs, and accelerate market expansion.
Security by Design Across Alliance Standards
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.
Aliro in Action: Scaling Secure, Interoperable Digital Access
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 for Success: The Path to Interoperability & Market Readiness
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.
Why Thread, Why Now: Designing the Future of IoT
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.
VP Technology, Thread Group
VP Marketing, Thread Group
Commercial Aliro: Why Now, What It Unlocks, and What Has to Be Done
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.
Innovation in Action
Sponsored by NXP
Networking & Exhibitor DemosWhat the Market Wants: Analyst Insights on IoT’s Next Wave
Analyst-driven research on consumer, commercial, and developer demand. Expect data, forecasts, and actionable recommendations.
Connected Futures: How Emerging Markets Will Shape Global IoT
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.
Connectivity Leaders Roundtable: Collaborating for a Unified IoT
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.
AI at the Edge: Smarter Decisions, Less Latency
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.
Building the Future Together: Your Path into Matter and Alliance Standards
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.
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Connectivity Standards Alliance
When the Smart Home Becomes a Smart Building, Connectivity Has to Scale
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.
Fireside Chat: The Evolution of the IoT
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When is Unify?
Unify takes place June 16-18, 2026, in Austin, Texas. The event runs for three days with keynotes, breakout sessions, and hands-on demonstrations throughout.
Who should attend?
Unify is built for the entire IoT ecosystem including professionals, developers, technology leaders, policymakers, media, and decision-makers across the full value chain. From silicon providers and platform companies to device manufacturers, retailers, regulators, and global partners, Unify offers a focused, Alliance-led environment designed to foster meaningful collaboration and insight.
What is the registration cost?
Ticket price prior to May 15, 2026 is $750.00 USD. Additional registration details are available on the Tickets page.
Is the event agenda available?
Yes. Visit the Agenda page for a detailed schedule of keynotes, breakout sessions, and demonstrations. The agenda will reflect updates as they become available. You may also view speaker information on the Speakers page.
How is Unify different?
Attending Unify gives you more than technical updates—it equips you with cross-silo strategic intelligence from leading analysts like Parks Associates and Moor Insights & Strategy to help shape your company’s roadmap around adoption barriers, regulatory shifts, and emerging growth sectors.
Will press or analysts be present?
Yes. Media, analysts, and influencers are invited to spotlight key developments and amplify news, giving the Unify event expanded visibility.
Can non-Members attend, exhibit, or sponsor?
Attendance is open to the public, however sponsorships, demo tables, and speaking opportunities are exclusive to Alliance Members and liaison partners.
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