Show time is fast approaching! We are on track to deliver the biggest, best, and most impactful series of free education sessions in our 27-year history at AHRExpo.com.
Our central theme this year is: Navigating Complexity. Escalating Opportunity. Today, Tomorrow & The Future.
This theme captures the very essence of our collective journey: taking the complexities we face today and strategically transforming them into significant, future opportunities.
In my mind, this is the journey we are all on, taking today’s complexity and turning it into our opportunity
Join Ken Sinclair and the editorial board of AutomatedBuildings.com for an industry State of the Union. Explore where we’ve been and where we’re headed, from the rise of Ambient IoT and practical Generative AI to the critical shift toward human-centric, sentient buildings.
This year is defined by true digital transformation. It’s about creating data-driven ecosystems where buildings think, adapt, and collaborate.
Our panellists bring over 150 years of combined experience to unpack the path forward: how AI and cloud platforms are becoming operational reality, why interoperability is now a business imperative, and how to unlock value from your data, embrace continuous learning, and build cyber-resilient futures.
If you’re ready to move beyond automation toward autonomous, sustainable, and experience-driven buildings, this conversation is your launchpad.
Day 1 | Monday, February 2, 2026 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM (Room S220)
Moderated by Kerri Lee Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com, Speakers: Ken Sinclair, Founder, AutomatedBuildings.com, Scott Cochrane, CEO & President, Cochrane Supply, and Brad White, President, SES Consulting, will kick off the AutomatedBuildings 2026 education series. This year, we are back with 16 sessions.
Who is our extended family? Our Sponsors and Contributing Editors
Kimon has prepared this powerful overview post
This is not a complete listing of AHR Expo or ASHRAE Winter Conference sessions.
It is a curated subset focused on the conversations that matter right now, where interoperability, semantics, cloud-native platforms, and real operational outcomes are converging.
The sessions highlighted here span AutomatedBuildings education, C4SB and open-source efforts, and real-world case studies like the PAE Living Building. Together, they form a connected thread: moving from documents and demos to buildings that actually work, share data, and support owners in operation.
I can honestly say that in my 27 years at AHRExpo, I have never seen a document like this. It perfectly captures the dynamic cross-pollination happening simultaneously across every camp in our industry family.
Attempting this level of synthesis without AI would have been maddening!
This approach powerfully demonstrates the potential of true openness and provides what I see as one of the first reliable “family maps,” clearly identifying the key players and their strategic positions.
This page is a field guide, not a catalog. Join us in Vegas!
Is our goal too future thinking? Not at all, the fact that the CES Vegas is just finishing up shakes us into our new reality, we need to think that we are simply showing the world how our Automated Buildings industry is on the same journey.
CES 2027: The world’s most powerful tech event is your place to experience the innovations transforming how we live. This is where global brands get business done, meet new partners and where the industry’s sharpest minds take the stage to unveil their latest releases and boldest breakthroughs. Get a real feel for the latest solutions to the world’s biggest challenges with immersive activations and demos. Engage with the greatest minds and most impactful brands of our time.
From this post from our sponsor
Happy Friday! Today is the Last day of hashtag#CES2026 in Las Vegas. While I am exhausted, I’m also feeling energized by what I’ve seen and, more importantly, by what is ahead of us.
Representing Facil.AI, I spent the week deep in conversations around agentic AI, autonomous systems, and intelligent building infrastructure. One thing is clear: AI is everywhere. AI is no longer just augmenting decisions. It’s starting to run systems. Physical AI is also growing by leaps and bounds and its impressive, including autonomous robot technologies to wearables to smarter home appliances. From buildings that self-optimize energy in real time to autonomous platforms that learn and adapt continuously, we’re entering an era where AI becomes an operating layer for the physical world. Humans are in the loop in some cases, but in some cases humans are completely out of the loop too when the systems are configured and tuned properly with oversight. The Energy load, power consumption, and generation solutions are on everyone’s mind.
We are always interested in the journey of the autonomous car this caught my interest
The World’s First AI Agentic Car Far beyond a simple voice assistant, Tensor is powered by an advanced AI agent — like a real-life JARVIS — built on a state-of-the-art multimodal Large Language Model. Integrated into an agentic framework, it gives the entire vehicle the ability to understand, reason, and act intelligently.
Tensor’s AI agent fuses data from cameras, microphones, and other sensors with a fine-tuned multimodal LLM for advanced reasoning, decision-making, and tool use. Every in-car system — from audio and displays to navigation and autonomous driving — is modeled as a structured MCP server, giving the AI precise, actionable control. With long-term, account-based memory, it learns your preferences over time, evolving into a perceptive, adaptive, and truly responsive robotic companion.
Is this our future? This session, is in its 3rd year at AHRExpo keeps the discussion going. All our sessions are here
