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James Dice

NexusCon Sessions Transforming from Vision to Reality

August 7, 2024

Hey friends,

By the end of this week, we’ll be 50 days from the first inaugural NexusCon, but who’s counting?

These last couple of weeks have witnessed what we refer to as the “conference assembly line” within NexusLabs HQ: A group of submitted abstracts become a common theme, which becomes a challenge to present to the industry, which becomes the title of a conference session, which finds its spot in the agenda, which needs an emcee… and on we go.

It’s messy and beautiful and is getting us seriously stoked to see you all on September 30th.

We’ll be finalizing the content for each of the 19 sessions next week and beginning to engage all of the speakers. As we do that, we’ll continue to preview some of the sessions to help you understand what to expect. In today’s newsletter, take a glimpse into one of our Foundations Track Sessions and one of our Champions Track Sessions. (You can learn more about the different tracks on the NexusCon page under event details)

– The Nexus Labs Team

Operationalizing Smart Buildings in Corporate Campuses & Portfolios

Tuesday, October 1st, 2024 - 1:15 pm, MST, Champions Room - Westminster III

Corporate campuses and portfolios are increasingly at the forefront of the smart building industry due to the vast amount of untapped opportunity:

  • Corporations can quickly improve operational efficiency by integrating systems.
  • Corporations are built around data-driven decisions.
  • Corporations recruit talent based on the employee experience.
  • Corporations improve their reputations through public sustainability goals.

Smart building programs are becoming table stakes for these organizations. However, great technology only becomes a reality when the appropriate people and processes are set up to support it.

In this session, we'll hear from corporate leaders about how they've built a strategy around people, processes, and technology that is leading them to corporate buildings of the future.

Lockheed Martin will describe how accurate data has prevented their smart buildings technology from "collecting dust" and led to a program that now encompasses 20 million square feet.

Goldman Sachs and IntelliBuild will showcase the smart building strategies that have started an organizational evolution against silo'd systems and inconsistent global governance across the over 300+ facilities located in 170 cities worldwide.

JP Morgan Chase and Intelligent Buildings will highlight the success story of 270 Park Avenue. Strong decision-making relationships between IT, OT, real estate, and management are at the forefront of this 2.5 million-square-foot skyscraper, which has the highest occupied floor in NYC and is a 100% electric building sourced from renewable power.  

JLL will convey the people, process, and strategy tactics they have implemented at Fortune 500 clients like T. Rowe Price and Amazon to build resilient and adaptive OT infrastructure.

After each briefing, we'll facilitate audience breakout sessions, during which each table can discuss the people, processes, and technology that lead to corporate smart building success.


Finally, we'll synthesize together the learnings from each briefing and breakout session to create a consensus on the question: How can corporate smart building champions assess the people and process components of the program to determine where to invest time and resources?

Turning Data into Gold: The Business Case for IoT Sensors, Plus Case Studies

Tuesday, October 1st, 2024 - 3:15 pm, MST, Foundations Room - Meadowbrook

IoT sensors have changed the world. Nearly anything that can sense a piece of the environment can be internet-connected, and its data available anywhere. But technology for the sake of technology is a losing strategy. Successful deployment of IoT sensors within the built environment relies on creating value. When IoT sensors are implemented with value creation in mind, the data transforms into gold.

In this session, we’ll cover the following briefings:

Beyond the Bottom Line: Counting People, Countless Returns

We’ll hear from HH Angus and Manulife about the landscape of people counting IoT projects, and how Manulife has improved the occupant experience in their buildings through space utilization projects.

Unveiling IoT: Empowering Through Real-World Testing of Occupancy Sensors

HH Angus will demonstrate their IoT test bench, built to educate, validate real-world applicability, and streamline procurement for similar technology seekers at the HH Angus headquarters.

Good, Better, Best: A Hierarchy for Implementing Indoor Air Quality Sensors in Buildings

The US Green Building Council, General Services Administration, and Kaiterra will share the “good, better, best” tiers of indoor air quality (IAQ) sensor implementation that can support actual outcomes, including investment decisions, sustainability reporting, facility management, capital planning, and tenant attraction.

The Power of Water

Kilroy Realty will unveil the inner workings of their leak detection program, which has lowered the risk of water's destructive power lurking within each of their buildings.

At the end of the briefings, each presenter will lead a breakout room with members of the audience to generate an answer to the question: What is the universal formula for driving tangible business value using IoT sensors?

By intentionally highlighting case studies from different types of sensors, we’ll come together at the end of this session and find the common themes of turning sensor data into gold, regardless of the application.

Interested in attending these sessions but haven't registered for NexusCon yet? You still have time! Check out the link below to claim your spot.

Register Now.

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Hey friends,

By the end of this week, we’ll be 50 days from the first inaugural NexusCon, but who’s counting?

These last couple of weeks have witnessed what we refer to as the “conference assembly line” within NexusLabs HQ: A group of submitted abstracts become a common theme, which becomes a challenge to present to the industry, which becomes the title of a conference session, which finds its spot in the agenda, which needs an emcee… and on we go.

It’s messy and beautiful and is getting us seriously stoked to see you all on September 30th.

We’ll be finalizing the content for each of the 19 sessions next week and beginning to engage all of the speakers. As we do that, we’ll continue to preview some of the sessions to help you understand what to expect. In today’s newsletter, take a glimpse into one of our Foundations Track Sessions and one of our Champions Track Sessions. (You can learn more about the different tracks on the NexusCon page under event details)

– The Nexus Labs Team

Operationalizing Smart Buildings in Corporate Campuses & Portfolios

Tuesday, October 1st, 2024 - 1:15 pm, MST, Champions Room - Westminster III

Corporate campuses and portfolios are increasingly at the forefront of the smart building industry due to the vast amount of untapped opportunity:

  • Corporations can quickly improve operational efficiency by integrating systems.
  • Corporations are built around data-driven decisions.
  • Corporations recruit talent based on the employee experience.
  • Corporations improve their reputations through public sustainability goals.

Smart building programs are becoming table stakes for these organizations. However, great technology only becomes a reality when the appropriate people and processes are set up to support it.

In this session, we'll hear from corporate leaders about how they've built a strategy around people, processes, and technology that is leading them to corporate buildings of the future.

Lockheed Martin will describe how accurate data has prevented their smart buildings technology from "collecting dust" and led to a program that now encompasses 20 million square feet.

Goldman Sachs and IntelliBuild will showcase the smart building strategies that have started an organizational evolution against silo'd systems and inconsistent global governance across the over 300+ facilities located in 170 cities worldwide.

JP Morgan Chase and Intelligent Buildings will highlight the success story of 270 Park Avenue. Strong decision-making relationships between IT, OT, real estate, and management are at the forefront of this 2.5 million-square-foot skyscraper, which has the highest occupied floor in NYC and is a 100% electric building sourced from renewable power.  

JLL will convey the people, process, and strategy tactics they have implemented at Fortune 500 clients like T. Rowe Price and Amazon to build resilient and adaptive OT infrastructure.

After each briefing, we'll facilitate audience breakout sessions, during which each table can discuss the people, processes, and technology that lead to corporate smart building success.


Finally, we'll synthesize together the learnings from each briefing and breakout session to create a consensus on the question: How can corporate smart building champions assess the people and process components of the program to determine where to invest time and resources?

Turning Data into Gold: The Business Case for IoT Sensors, Plus Case Studies

Tuesday, October 1st, 2024 - 3:15 pm, MST, Foundations Room - Meadowbrook

IoT sensors have changed the world. Nearly anything that can sense a piece of the environment can be internet-connected, and its data available anywhere. But technology for the sake of technology is a losing strategy. Successful deployment of IoT sensors within the built environment relies on creating value. When IoT sensors are implemented with value creation in mind, the data transforms into gold.

In this session, we’ll cover the following briefings:

Beyond the Bottom Line: Counting People, Countless Returns

We’ll hear from HH Angus and Manulife about the landscape of people counting IoT projects, and how Manulife has improved the occupant experience in their buildings through space utilization projects.

Unveiling IoT: Empowering Through Real-World Testing of Occupancy Sensors

HH Angus will demonstrate their IoT test bench, built to educate, validate real-world applicability, and streamline procurement for similar technology seekers at the HH Angus headquarters.

Good, Better, Best: A Hierarchy for Implementing Indoor Air Quality Sensors in Buildings

The US Green Building Council, General Services Administration, and Kaiterra will share the “good, better, best” tiers of indoor air quality (IAQ) sensor implementation that can support actual outcomes, including investment decisions, sustainability reporting, facility management, capital planning, and tenant attraction.

The Power of Water

Kilroy Realty will unveil the inner workings of their leak detection program, which has lowered the risk of water's destructive power lurking within each of their buildings.

At the end of the briefings, each presenter will lead a breakout room with members of the audience to generate an answer to the question: What is the universal formula for driving tangible business value using IoT sensors?

By intentionally highlighting case studies from different types of sensors, we’ll come together at the end of this session and find the common themes of turning sensor data into gold, regardless of the application.

Interested in attending these sessions but haven't registered for NexusCon yet? You still have time! Check out the link below to claim your spot.

Register Now.

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