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Session 1

Become the Building: Creating Trusted Operational Communities with People, Machines, and AI

When

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Location:

Javits Center, Room 405.3

Speakers:

SkyCentrics, Massachusetts Port Authority, PAE, ONUMA

Part of the Building Intelligence in the Age of AI summit. An interactive session where participants step into the roles of owners, occupants, operators, designers, engineers, building systems, and AI agents to explore how trusted operational intelligence is created, shared, and preserved throughout a building's life, using the PAE Living Building as the common reference environment.

Session 2

Stop Flattening Intelligence: The Financial Case for the Self-Describing Building

When

Wednesday, October 21, 2026 · 10:30–11:30 a.m.

Location:

Javits Center, Room 406.3

Speakers:

SkyCentrics, PAE, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), ONUMA

High-performance buildings lose their intelligence when design data is flattened into static PDFs at handover. Featuring the team behind the PAE Living Building and ASHRAE Standard 223P, this session shows how to unify fragmented BIM, HVAC, and BAS data into a machine-readable semantic model, so AI and facility teams can query a building like a knowledge base and unlock measurable financial and environmental returns.

Blues and SkyCentrics: Cracking the Commercial IoT Market

Discover how SkyCentrics is modernizing the commercial building industry with a solution that's 10x less expensive than legacy alternatives, without ripping out existing infrastructure.

C4SBF announces Open Building Stack Working Group and repository for DataBeam open source project

The DataBeam software will: Pull data from Modbus and BACnet (and LON) systems, equipment, and machines; Send the data to a cloud, or AWS IoT, or other; Provide different transport mechanism options (cellular, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, etc.)

Mitsubishi includes SkyCentrics SkyBox as a connectivity option for their City Multi, Smart Multi, and Heat20 commercial VRF HVAC and water heating systems

SkyBox enables Mitsubishi Smart Multi to be on both the EcoPort CTA-2045 and OpenADR Qualified Product Lists

SkyBox facilitates certification on both qualified product lists, supporting advanced energy flexibility and utility incentives.

Coalition for Smarter Buildings Foundation Enables Building Management Innovation with Open Source Technical Project Contributions to the Linux Foundation

SkyCentrics - Founding member of the Coalition for Smarter Buildings - Linux Foundation announces intent to form C4SB Foundation to Unify Open Standards for Smart Buildings