Broaden your knowledge, improve your skills, develop your business
Tuesday 2 to Thursday 4 February 2027 / CC1
The CEDIA Smart Home Technology Conference at ISE 2027 is designed for professionals seeking relevance, depth and practical insight for the next phase of their careers and businesses.
Across the programme, attendees will examine the shift from connected systems to more adaptive, context-aware homes; the growing role of lighting as both technology and architectural material; and the infrastructure, cybersecurity and engineering practices required to support increasingly complex projects. Classes will connect emerging technologies with the practical realities of design, installation, commissioning and long-term support.
The conference will also explore the business changes shaping the profession, from closer collaboration with architects and designers to stronger project handoffs, financial discipline and knowledge transfer between generations. The goal is straightforward: useful education that helps integrators deliver better homes, build more resilient companies and make informed decisions about what comes next.
Additionally, CEDIA is running a one-day workshop, Aesthetics of Lighting Design, on Monday 1 February.
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What if wellbeing became the starting point of our design process, rather than something we considered along the way?
As technology integrators, we have an incredible opportunity to influence how people feel, live and interact within their homes. But wellbeing isn't just about circadian lighting, health monitoring or supporting people as they grow older. It's also about enjoyment, comfort, relaxation and creating spaces that genuinely improve everyday life.
In this interactive session, Simon and Carla Clarke of Clarke Infinity will explore how thoughtful lighting, acoustics, immersive entertainment, intuitive control and emerging technologies can contribute to a better living experience.
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RP23 is the video counterpart to CEDIA RP22. It defines four objective performance levels for video, assessed per seat and for the room, and predictable at the design stage. Learn the parameters behind each level, how to predict them from manufacturer specs, and how they drive decisions on screen, display, projection, room environment. -
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Home control has come a long way – from basic remote access and rule-based automation to AI-driven systems capable of understanding context, preference, and intent. In this session, Alex Capecelatro explores the technological and philosophical shift from 'smart' homes that respond to commands to intuitive environments that anticipate needs and adapt in real time. Attendees will gain insight into how advances in voice, machine learning, system architecture, and privacy-first design are shaping a new standard for intelligent living – where the home becomes a seamless extension of its inhabitants. Drawing on real-world applications and emerging trends, Alex will outline what it takes to design, deploy, and scale AI-driven home solutions that compel the clients of our industry.
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Many project problems blamed on installation actually begin much earlier'in discovery, estimating, documentation, or the handoff from sales to design and production. On complex residential projects, that handoff is where client expectations, scope, assumptions, budget, design intent, and project dependencies either become clear or begin turning into downstream problems. This session examines what each team must know before responsibility moves downstream.
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Residential lighting design is still dominated by the point source: the downlight, the pendant, the strip hidden in a cove. But a new category is arriving in the luxury home – architecture that emits. Walls, ceilings, joinery, and bespoke surfaces built from pixel-addressable light open a fundamentally different design vocabulary: light as material rather than fixture. This session makes the design argument for emissive surfaces in residential spaces and gives integrators the practical grounding to deliver them. We'll explore why tunable white and colour temperature deserve to be first-class creative tools rather than afterthoughts, how generative and data-driven content keeps installations alive rather than static, and how integrators collaborate effectively with architects and interior designers when light becomes part of the building fabric. We'll close with the infrastructure realities – data, power, and control protocols – that separate a stunning installation from an expensive maintenance problem. -
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RP22 has become one of the industry's most effective sales tools, not because it tells clients what to buy, but because it helps define the experience they'll receive. This session explores how RP22 bridges engineering and sales, turning technical design criteria into compelling conversations about performance, value, and outcomes. -
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Our ISE 2025 and 2026 sessions used FEM and hybrid simulation to study modal behaviour in non-rectangular rooms, the effect of treatment, and its interaction with loudspeaker-boundary effects. Both pointed to the same gap: models describe what a room does, not what to change. Building our own optimisation tool made the reason explicit: modal and boundary-interference control are different problems. Absorbers at modal maxima shorten decay times, but response dips are cancellations, and treatment chosen on decay criteria alone can leave them untouched or deepen them. We have measured rooms where partial absorption improved the listening position while full absorption degraded it – behaviour no single real number can express, and impedance can. We cover why; how the impedance of porous, membrane and perforated treatments is obtained; and what happens when years of studio layouts are re-examined with these tools. We demonstrate absorber design and placement, and what the model cannot do.
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Audio-over-IP has quietly become the backbone of high-performance cinema audio. Immersive processors from every major vendor now hand off channels over the network rather than analogue or point-to-point digital – yet many residential integrators still treat AoIP as a commercial-AV curiosity. This session is a practical, vendor-neutral introduction to networked audio in the private cinema: what AoIP actually is, how AES67 and Dante relate (and what "compatible" really means), and why the industry is moving this way. -
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This session brings together lighting researchers, integrators, and manufacturers to debunk common myths and provide evidence based guidance. We will explain the fundamentals of circadian effective lighting, discuss real world performance versus expectations, and outline practical design and installation strategies that work in residential environments. -
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The CEDIA Design Build Training Course is an exclusive opportunity for CEDIA members to position themselves as trusted educators and industry leaders within the design and build community. This course is designed to empower members to deepen their knowledge base and collaboration with architects, interior designers, builders, and other design and construction professionals—helping to foster valuable business-to-business relationships while elevating the profile of the smart home industry.
This programme is exclusively available to CEDIA members, offering a unique platform to build credibility, enhance industry influence, and grow your business through strategic education and engagement.
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Successful lighting control requires more than selecting keypads and programming scenes. This interactive session examines the practical decisions that determine how well a system performs, how easily it can be commissioned and how effectively it can be supported after handover. -
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Rich Green returns with his Inside Scoop from Silicon Valley to share insights that are both enlightening and terrifying. Our businesses are on the brink of profound transitions from Extended Reality to Artificial Intelligence. We'll soon have humanoid robots walking around our client's homes. Will they really be pressing touch panel buttons? There's a new world coming. Prepare yourself by attending this year's edition of Rich Green's signature presentation.
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While full lighting design can be daunting for many integrators, taking ownership of the execution phase is a massive revenue opportunity. On many projects, "nobody owns the lighting" – electricians just want to know what to wire, and lighting designers don't handle driver placement or cable specification to prevent voltage drop. This panel will focus on how integrators can bridge that gap, solve site problems, and drive business growth. -
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Many integrators experience strong sales one quarter and financial stress the next, not because the work is lacking, but because the business lacks the systems needed to manage the timing of revenue, expenses, and cash. This session breaks down why these cycles persist and how to replace volatility with greater financial predictability. Attendees will learn how breakeven analysis, cash-flow forecasting, and planning can reveal upcoming cash shortages and help owners make better decisions before a crisis develops.
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Most owners believe they could exit when the time comes. Far fewer have built a business that can operate and remain profitable without them. Whether the path is a sale, family succession or greater independence from day-to-day operations, an exit-ready company requires more than strong sales. It requires financial clarity, robust systems, predictable profit and management depth. This session provides a practical roadmap for turning an integration company into a more valuable, transferable and less owner-dependent business over the next 24 months. -
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Design is all about the end user, your customer. Peter Aylett and Rich Green will change how you think about the true needs of your clients and give crisp, concrete examples of the Design Thinking Process. You will leave with new insights for improving your sales, design and operations. -
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Integration companies increasingly bring together experienced technicians, younger programmers, career changers, apprentices and managers with different expectations around communication, training and advancement. This session examines how to manage those differences without relying on generational stereotypes. Learn practical approaches to onboarding, feedback, knowledge transfer, career development and accountability, including how to preserve hard-won institutional knowledge while giving emerging talent room to contribute. Attendees will leave with methods for reducing friction, developing future leaders and building a team in which expertise does not walk out the door when one employee leaves.
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As technology becomes a fundamental part of every built environment, it's essential that designers and architects understand how to accurately represent low voltage systems on construction documents. This class will provide a practical introduction to the newly updated J-STD-710 standard symbol set designed to bring clarity and consistency to drawings that include AV, networking, lighting control, and other integrated technologies. In this session, you'll learn: the purpose and value of using low voltage symbols and plans in design, engineering, and construction documentation, how to interpret and apply the updated J-STD-710 symbols in your drawings, best practices for coordinating with integrators and other stakeholders during the design phase. -
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This session presents two real-world, award-winning Blackroom projects, Apex Cinema and Emerald Cinema, where high-performance technology meets sophisticated interior design and works flawlessly. We will walk through the design and build challenges of these turnkey projects and examine how each was successfully overcome, from a shaking vertical DCI projector hush box to subwoofer drivers rumbling against fit-out framing and more.
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We have spent decades making individual systems smarter. The next challenge is making the environment intelligent. The next challenge is making the environment intelligent. Homes, workplaces and hotels increasingly contain sophisticated AV, lighting, climate, security, access, energy and building-control technologies, yet many still operate as separate islands. As AI enters the built environment, the real opportunity isn't simply more automation. It is connecting these systems and their data to create spaces capable of understanding context, anticipating needs and responding intelligently. -
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Which smart home categories are quietly your best margin-makers, and which ones are bleeding profit through value engineering and long sales cycles? Drawing on aggregated benchmarking data from thousands of residential integration companies, this session looks at industry product categories, including audio, video, lighting and shading, security, networking, energy management and more, to determine which ones actually offer the best opportunity for success. Metrics such as close rate, value-engineering/de-scoping/swap-out rate, profit margin, procurement lead time, change-order frequency and service-contract attachment rate all figure into how well an integrator can succeed in a proposal. This session is not just a data discussion. Attendees will leave with concrete, actionable steps to shift their sales and service focus towards the categories the real data says are winning. -
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Looking for tips to improve your communication skills between employees, business owners and clients? This isn't that class. It is, however, a practical introduction aimed at improving your critical audio listening skills through an understanding of the physical propagation of sound, active listening, psychoacoustics, and more. Suitable for anyone who runs demonstrations, evaluates products, or calibrates audio systems this class is a mixture of science, and practical listening sessions.
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Technology decisions now shape the function and experience of the entire home, yet integrators are often introduced only after critical architectural and interior-design decisions have been made. Connected by Design brings technology and design professionals together to examine how earlier collaboration can produce systems that support the client's lifestyle without compromising design intent. -
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Running an AV integration business used to mean spreadsheets, gut feel and late nights chasing quotes. Today, AI and connected software are changing that, and running a business is starting to feel more like playing a strategy game: every decision has data behind it, every move shows up on the scoreboard, and the businesses that learn the rules fastest pull ahead. -
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Your client's smart home gets hacked. Guess who they blame? This session shows why securing a connected home by hand no longer adds up. You'll see what a proper security appliance, a full UTM Firewall really does, from filtering and intrusion prevention to sandboxing and safe remote access. And you'll learn how installing and managing a security appliance for the modern world creates secure creates secure, happy clients and an additional repeat revenue stream.
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The era of "set it and forget it" networking is over. Today's high-net-worth clients demand 10Gbps backbones, seamless roaming, and banking-grade security for their smart homes. This advanced deep-dive explores the critical intersection of high-throughput infrastructure and rigorous cybersecurity. -
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Join members of the CEDIA Foresight Committee for an interactive exploration of the forces shaping our industry. In this session, we will bridge the gap between our landmark Integrator of 2027 findings and our upcoming vision for 2030. This isn't just a lecture; it's a deep-dive conversation designed to challenge your assumptions and inspire you to think critically about the near future. This is your opportunity to contribute to the conversation, ask the tough questions, and think deeply about the future of your role in a rapidly changing ecosystem. -
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For many integrators, growth is treated as the answer to every problem: more sales, more projects, more people. In reality, growth often exposes weak pricing, poor cost control, and underdeveloped financial systems, leaving owners working harder for lower returns. This session challenges the assumption that growth is always the right move. Attendees will learn how overhead, pricing, and cash flow interact, why volume without a clear breakeven can quietly destroy profitability, and when strategic restraint can deliver stronger cash flow with less operational strain.
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Manufacturer-Specific Session: CEDIA's newest Recommended Practice, RP1, introduces a more consistent, engineering-focused way to understand and compare loudspeaker specifications. For integrators, designers, and audio professionals, the shift is significant: moving beyond incomplete spec sheets, ambiguous wattage claims, and marketing-driven performance numbers toward objective data that can be used to predict whether a loudspeaker is suitable for a given system, room, and performance target.
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