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Hey Friends,
The amazing Dune series of movies (or books, if you’re a true fan) is set on Arrakis, a dangerous desert wasteland. Despite the lack of water or vegetation, Arrakis is the center of the Empire because of its Spice: a magical powder that enhances mental abilities, provides visions of the future, and fuels interstellar travel.
The “Spice” of NexusCon is what fuels our industry towards more useful, efficient, and sustainable buildings. It comes in the form of real case studies, vulnerable lessons learned, applicable takeaways, healthy debates, and open, candid conversations with experts.
Today, we’re delivering the first peek into NexusCon 2025’s Spice. The NexusCon 2025 Agenda is officially live (and quite Spicy).
If you like what you see, we suggest you get your ticket soon, because prices increase on July 1st.
NexusCon 2025 will have 20 unique sessions featuring 76 incredible stories of technologies, strategies, and practices creating better commercial buildings.
Read on for an overview of the agenda. To go deeper, explore the whole agenda here.
This year, we’ve designed the agenda around 3 tracks:
The three tracks are designed to help you connect with peers who share your challenges and dive deep into the topics that matter most to your role. And while the tracks keep conversations focused, our whole-community sessions—like keynotes and symposia—break down silos and bring everyone together to explore the big-picture themes shaping the future of smart buildings.
We brought together a team of IT/OT leaders from various organizations to create our IT/OT Supervisory Control Board. When we asked them what they wanted to get out of NexusCon, one request was a session where the nerds can not only nerd out, but actually share tools, tricks, and code repositories that are possible through the movement towards open source.
To satisfy this request, one of our five IT/OT track sessions is 'The Nerd’s Toolbox: Hands-On, Open-Source Tools for Smarter OT Systems.'
The Nerd’s Toolbox will be a fast-paced, hands-on session where presenters will showcase real problems and how open-source tools can solve them—live. Each speaker will give a lightning talk demonstrating a specific OT challenge and how their open, vendor-agnostic solution tackles it.
Then the session shifts to interactive breakouts, where you can visit each presenter’s live setup, ask questions, and explore their tool in action. Whether it’s debugging logic, deploying sequences, or integrating devices, you’ll leave with real examples, open-source repos, and practical inspiration for doing more with less vendor lock-in.
The Nerd’s Toolbox is just one of the sessions. The whole IT/OT track also features:
Our Energy Management Supervisory Control Board consists of energy experts from higher education, corporate, and tech building owner organizations. When we asked them about the challenges they have with their energy programs today, we heard a lot about securing funding, communicating program progress, and the behaviorial changes required to make energy projects work.
To address this, one of the six Energy Management sessions is Green Light: Navigating ROI, Risks, and Executive Approval in Smart Buildings.
This session provides a practical roadmap for advancing energy and sustainability projects within large organizations. Attendees will learn how to build internal consensus, secure leadership sponsorship, and prioritize use cases that deliver measurable impact on energy efficiency, operational performance, and decarbonization goals.
Beyond the Green Light session, the Energy Management track also includes:
The Facility Management Supervisory Control board had one big ask for us: how can we use the conference to make work better for the people who maintain and operate our buildings? Throughout the conference, we’ll be requesting presenters to provide tangible takeaways from their presentations that others can use as a tool for their buildings.
One such session where there will be takeaways to make the jobs of FMs easier is Smarter Systems: Real-World Applications of AI in Building Operations.
This session examines how building owners, operators, and service providers are putting artificial intelligence to work through conversational tools, autonomous agents, predictive diagnostics, and user-centric building management systems. Whether you’re curious about getting started with LLMs or pushing the boundaries with agentic automation, these case studies show how AI is improving operational efficiency, reducing costs, and simplifying decision-making for real people in real buildings.
In addition to the Smarter Systems session, the Facility Management track includes:
All 18 general sessions are carefully curated to provide you with the best information and conversations to accelerate the smart buildings industry. Yet, we also plan to have plenty of fun while we work. Check out the full agenda for more information on happy hours, group yoga, guided hikes through the Rocky Mountains, and more.
Will you be joining us and bringing the Spice?
— The Nexus Labs Team
Hey Friends,
The amazing Dune series of movies (or books, if you’re a true fan) is set on Arrakis, a dangerous desert wasteland. Despite the lack of water or vegetation, Arrakis is the center of the Empire because of its Spice: a magical powder that enhances mental abilities, provides visions of the future, and fuels interstellar travel.
The “Spice” of NexusCon is what fuels our industry towards more useful, efficient, and sustainable buildings. It comes in the form of real case studies, vulnerable lessons learned, applicable takeaways, healthy debates, and open, candid conversations with experts.
Today, we’re delivering the first peek into NexusCon 2025’s Spice. The NexusCon 2025 Agenda is officially live (and quite Spicy).
If you like what you see, we suggest you get your ticket soon, because prices increase on July 1st.
NexusCon 2025 will have 20 unique sessions featuring 76 incredible stories of technologies, strategies, and practices creating better commercial buildings.
Read on for an overview of the agenda. To go deeper, explore the whole agenda here.
This year, we’ve designed the agenda around 3 tracks:
The three tracks are designed to help you connect with peers who share your challenges and dive deep into the topics that matter most to your role. And while the tracks keep conversations focused, our whole-community sessions—like keynotes and symposia—break down silos and bring everyone together to explore the big-picture themes shaping the future of smart buildings.
We brought together a team of IT/OT leaders from various organizations to create our IT/OT Supervisory Control Board. When we asked them what they wanted to get out of NexusCon, one request was a session where the nerds can not only nerd out, but actually share tools, tricks, and code repositories that are possible through the movement towards open source.
To satisfy this request, one of our five IT/OT track sessions is 'The Nerd’s Toolbox: Hands-On, Open-Source Tools for Smarter OT Systems.'
The Nerd’s Toolbox will be a fast-paced, hands-on session where presenters will showcase real problems and how open-source tools can solve them—live. Each speaker will give a lightning talk demonstrating a specific OT challenge and how their open, vendor-agnostic solution tackles it.
Then the session shifts to interactive breakouts, where you can visit each presenter’s live setup, ask questions, and explore their tool in action. Whether it’s debugging logic, deploying sequences, or integrating devices, you’ll leave with real examples, open-source repos, and practical inspiration for doing more with less vendor lock-in.
The Nerd’s Toolbox is just one of the sessions. The whole IT/OT track also features:
Our Energy Management Supervisory Control Board consists of energy experts from higher education, corporate, and tech building owner organizations. When we asked them about the challenges they have with their energy programs today, we heard a lot about securing funding, communicating program progress, and the behaviorial changes required to make energy projects work.
To address this, one of the six Energy Management sessions is Green Light: Navigating ROI, Risks, and Executive Approval in Smart Buildings.
This session provides a practical roadmap for advancing energy and sustainability projects within large organizations. Attendees will learn how to build internal consensus, secure leadership sponsorship, and prioritize use cases that deliver measurable impact on energy efficiency, operational performance, and decarbonization goals.
Beyond the Green Light session, the Energy Management track also includes:
The Facility Management Supervisory Control board had one big ask for us: how can we use the conference to make work better for the people who maintain and operate our buildings? Throughout the conference, we’ll be requesting presenters to provide tangible takeaways from their presentations that others can use as a tool for their buildings.
One such session where there will be takeaways to make the jobs of FMs easier is Smarter Systems: Real-World Applications of AI in Building Operations.
This session examines how building owners, operators, and service providers are putting artificial intelligence to work through conversational tools, autonomous agents, predictive diagnostics, and user-centric building management systems. Whether you’re curious about getting started with LLMs or pushing the boundaries with agentic automation, these case studies show how AI is improving operational efficiency, reducing costs, and simplifying decision-making for real people in real buildings.
In addition to the Smarter Systems session, the Facility Management track includes:
All 18 general sessions are carefully curated to provide you with the best information and conversations to accelerate the smart buildings industry. Yet, we also plan to have plenty of fun while we work. Check out the full agenda for more information on happy hours, group yoga, guided hikes through the Rocky Mountains, and more.
Will you be joining us and bringing the Spice?
— The Nexus Labs Team
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