Haystack Connect Conference Announced in Association with Industry Sponsors

A group of leading technology companies involved in the application of smart devices have joined forces to help to launch a major new conference event. The new conference -- Haystack Connect - is designed to connect the companies, communities and people who are redefining smart and connected systems.

The Goal: The goal of Haystack Connect is to create a new type of conference and trade show -- one that is produced by the community, for the community. The creators of the event believe that it will fill an important gap in the market for smart and connected systems by providing a place where specialists in the field can come together to network, share, create synergy and generate new business opportunities.

Background: The building automation, energy, and M2M industries have a variety of events. Many are under the control of a single manufacturer. Some are huge events where the needs of systems integrators, technology vendors and their customers are lost in a sea of unrelated products. A number of people in the industry see a need for an event that is not owned by any single supplier, but is "by the community and for the community". Haystack Connect is designed to directly serve the needs of the customers, systems integrators, and technology vendors who are on the leading edge of applying smart devices and smart buildings technology.

Vision: The event supports the vision that a connected community of practitioners, vendors and forward thinking customers can move industry forward in ways that no single supplier can. Haystack Connect 2013 takes its inspiration and name and from the success of the open source community that is addressing the challenges of making smart device data work seamlessly across applications of all types: project-haystack.org. Project-haystack topics will be part of the technical session agenda.

Strong Support from Sponsors: Already 11 sponsors have signed on to produce the event. These are:

• Platinum Sponsors: Daintree Networks, EasyIO, J2 Innovations, Lynxspring, SkyFoundry, and Smartcom/Infergence
• Gold Sponsors: AIC Wireless, BAS Services and Graphics, Can2Go, ActiveLogix, and NOVO Integration

Call to Action: Space is limited to the first 250 attendees and 20 exhibitors for this inaugural event. Be sure to register soon so that you do not miss this important new event. For more information on Haystack Connect 2013 including sponsorship opportunities and how to register to attend, exhibit or present a paper visit the Haystack Connect website

The Haystack Connect has really taken off. The exhibit floor is fully sold out and the conference sessions are bringing together experts from across the intelligent buildings industry. There is still time to register. Here's a preview of the World Class Speakers You Will See at Haystack Connect.

Cyber Security from the embedded device level (presented by Wind River) to solutions to add network security to existing systems (by NetOp and Lynxspring), to the reality of applying security in mission critical applications presented by Rick Warner of O&M Engineering.

Wireless technology with guest speakers Danny Yu of Daintree Networks and Brian Pike of AIC Wireless, who will address the device network side of the technology, and Bryant Butler of Smartcom who will address connecting to the enterprise via cell phone wireless networks.

Analytics with presentations from Jim Lee of Cimetrics (recognized by many as the father of building analytics), John Petze of SkyFoundry, and Matt Schwartz of Altura Associates, an engineering firm applying automated analytics to streamline commissioning and provide monitoring-based commissioning.

New Engineering Tools -- See solutions that collapse the engineering process for creating graphic visualizations by automatically interpreting semantic data to generate graphics automatically. (Project-haystack has a huge role to play in this major advance). Jason Briggs of J2 and Alper Uzmezler of BASSG will address this topic.

Also in this session you will see a new Sedona programming tool (Mike Marston of EASY IO), and a tool set that enhances NiagaraAX® by automating the integration of all BACnet and LonWorks control devices via templates (George Hawkinson of Lynxspring). Moderated by Ken Sinclair of Automated Buildings, this session will introduce new technologies that have never been seen before.

The latest advances in Hardware platforms will be the focus of a session moderated by Eric Stromquist of Control Trends, where you will hear from Mike Marston (EASY IO), George Thomas (Contemporary Controls), and Bryant Butler (Smartcom).

And then there is a session dedicated to Data Modeling and the latest additions to Project-Haystack, (here's a preview -- a JAR file will be released at the event that can be loaded into Niagara stations to embed tagging and support for the new Haystack HTTP protocol into Niagara stations to provide a highly efficient web services interface).

In the The Large Scale Systems session you will hear Steve Evans of ESI and Patrick Davis of FSG sites talk about challenges and solutions involved in deploying systems to >1000 sites.

XaaS and Connecting to the Cloud will include presentations by Terry Casey of Pacific Controls, and Steve Fey of Proxios, an exciting new company that can turn you into a cloud hosting service provider overnight.

The Focus on Energy Session, lead by Phil Bomrad, includes Scot Duncan of Enerliance, Anno Scholten of Connexx Energy, and Leighton Wolffe of NorthBridge Energy Partners, and will cover everything from the utility program side to integrating to the smart grid.

And there's even more See the full agenda of world class speakers here: http://events.haystackconnect.org/#room_400

Its clear that Haystack Connect is THE PLACE where the industry's technology leaders are coming together to network, share and create new business opportunities. The show floor is completely sold out and registrations are filling up fast.

The event is limited to the first 250 attendees. If you are involved in smart buildings and smart devices you don't want to miss this one-of-a-kind event. To get more details or register go to: www.haystackconnect.org

In the case where we could not be there, will it be possible to view some of the presentations ?

I'm actually very curious seeing what happened to the niagara module.

We will post some cool updates, but we strongly recommend you go. There will for sure be things you will miss.

We have some great tips and tricks, and cool things to show. It will help you do your jobs faster, and we will have a blast.

I'll buy the drinks :}

Ok now that I'm crying and wondering why in life I wasn't there for Haystack Connect, is there any "consolation" prizes that will be put online :-)

Please say yes !

We will be adding all the sessions online very shortly