Edge Computing, Distributed Intelligence & Connected Systems

Chairpersons welcome and opening remarks

Cloud computing remains fundamental to IoT, but not every workload belongs in a centralised environment. As organisations deploy increasingly connected operations, edge computing is becoming essential for reducing latency, improving resilience and enabling real-time decision-making.

This session explores how enterprises are redesigning infrastructure across manufacturing, transport, utilities and critical infrastructure, balancing cloud and edge resources to create more responsive, scalable connected systems.

Deploying thousands, or even millions, of connected devices creates new operational challenges around provisioning, connectivity, software updates, security and lifecycle management.

Industry leaders discuss the practical realities of operating large-scale edge environments, sharing lessons on building resilient distributed infrastructure while maintaining visibility, performance and operational control.

Discussion Topics

• Device lifecycle management
• Distributed infrastructure
• Remote provisioning and updates
• Connectivity resilience
• Edge orchestration
• Managing large-scale deployments

The rapid evolution of processors, accelerators and low-power computing platforms is enabling increasingly capable edge deployments across industrial and commercial environments.

Explore the latest developments in edge silicon, hardware acceleration and embedded computing, and discover how new architectures are improving performance while reducing power consumption and deployment costs.

Running advanced analytics and AI workloads locally requires careful consideration of hardware capability, connectivity, latency and operational constraints.

This session explores practical deployment strategies for edge environments, examining where local processing delivers genuine business value and where cloud-based architectures remain the better option.

As intelligence becomes increasingly distributed, organisations require greater visibility across connected assets, software, devices and infrastructure.

Learn how leading organisations are managing software lifecycles, monitoring distributed environments and maintaining operational resilience across increasingly complex connected estates.

Digital twins have promised a lot for years, but most pilots stall once they leave the cloud and hit real-world latency and bandwidth costs. Edge computing changes that. By processing data where it’s generated, companies are cutting the gap between sensor and decision from seconds to milliseconds, turning digital twins from a lab experiment into a line-item on the balance sheet.

This panel brings together enterprise architects and edge computing leaders who have taken digital twins into production. They’ll cover what broke, what the ROI actually looks like, and where the smart money is headed next.

Discussion points

• Edge processing economics versus cloud-only twins
• Lessons from production rollouts
• IT/OT security as compute moves to the edge
• Build versus buy for edge infrastructure

Many connected environments cannot tolerate delays caused by cloud-only architectures. Manufacturing, transport, utilities and public infrastructure increasingly depend on local processing to maintain operational continuity.

This session explores how organisations are designing resilient edge architectures capable of supporting real-time decision-making across mission-critical environments.

Video has become one of the richest sources of operational insight across connected environments. Processing visual information closer to where it is captured enables faster response times, reduced bandwidth requirements and greater operational efficiency.

This session explores how organisations are deploying connected vision systems across manufacturing, logistics, transport and critical infrastructure while integrating them into wider IoT ecosystems.

The future of enterprise technology will depend on seamlessly connecting devices, edge infrastructure and cloud platforms into a single distributed ecosystem.

This talk explores how organisations are balancing performance, resilience, security and cost while designing connected architectures capable of supporting future growth. Panellists will discuss the role of edge computing, connectivity, interoperability and open standards in creating the next generation of digital infrastructure.

Discussion Topics

• Cloud, edge and hybrid architectures
• Interoperability and open standards
• Connectivity strategy
• Data sovereignty
• Infrastructure investment
• Preparing for the next decade of connected systems

Edge computing has moved from emerging technology to strategic infrastructure, but the market is still evolving rapidly. Which technologies will deliver lasting value? Where are organisations investing next? And what capabilities should technology leaders be planning for over the next five years?

Join an industry leader for a forward-looking discussion on the future of edge computing, distributed infrastructure and connected systems, and what these developments mean for the wider IoT ecosystem.