Register for free to attend this week’s virtual showcase, hear great webinars and gain access to valuable smart-home tech products and programming. By Dianne M. Pogoda
If ever there was a moment to emphasize the benefits of smart-home technology and connected living, that time is now — and the CEDIA Expo virtual experience is the place.
No stranger to the connected-living showcase, having participated in CEDIA shows in 2018 and 2019 — NKBA will host a virtual booth in the Design + Connection “pavilion,” which it has co-branded with Mazarine Ventures, and offer dedicated virtual programming at CEDIA Expo 2020. NKBA hosted a Thought Leadership summit on tech for the kitchen and bath for more than 100 of its certified designers at the 2019 edition.
NKBA has teamed with Mazarine, a smart-water technology venture capitalist firm, to create an area within the pavilion for large and small brands to bring their newest smart-water technology to life, as well as host the Living in Place Institute, ASID, DELOS Well Living Lab, and a variety of whole-home technology brands, including Savant, Crestron and Control4.
The experience is being hosted on the Virtual Convey platform on Sept. 15 (Conference and CEDIA Education), with the Expo on Sept. 16 and 17 from 10 am to 6 pm (Eastern Time).
Building on its “NKBA Connects the Connectors” theme from recent Thought Leadership and Design + Tech Connection summits, NKBA is showing two special programming events.
On Thursday, from 12:30 to 1 pm, through its partnership with Interior Design and SANDOW, NKBA Live presents an episode of Design TV — “Designing the Home of the Future.” Interior Design editor in chief Cindy Allen and special guest Suzie Williford, NKBA’s executive vice president and chief strategy officer, will hear from Matthew Emmi, co-founder of technology firm OneButton, and John Spencer of Selldorf Architects, about integrating luxurious design and technology in their New York-based projects.
Then, from 2 to 2:45 pm, join NKBA CEO Bill Darcy for a special edition of “Brave New Business” on “Connected Living,” sponsored by Control4. Darcy will welcome Mike Chorney, president of La Scala, a technology design and integration firm in Vancouver, B.C., and Molly Switzer, AKBD, principal of Molly N. Switzer Design, a past NKBA Thirty Under 30 honoree and President of NKBA’s Columbia River Chapter from Portland, Ore. They will dive into Connected Living, one of four key themes identified in NKBA’s landmark “Living Impacts Design” lifestyle/life stage research, to learn how homes are becoming places of automation and intuition. Hear how lighting, open-plan environments, easy room-to-room access, whole-home technology and tech-focused health and wellness solutions are influencing design and our relationship with our home.
NKBA’s virtual booth in the Design + Connection “pavilion” will feature the Living Impacts Design and Q2 Kitchen & Bath Market Index research, available for free downloads. There will also be links to NKBA’s Insights page and NKBA.org/store, where attendees may purchase the full study or any other exclusive NKBA research. While there, non-members may also learn about membership in NKBA. Anyone who becomes a member during the CEDIA Expo will receive free KBIS registration and a Voices from the Industry package, which features educational programming during KBIS, Feb. 9 to 11 in Orlando.
Registration for CEDIA Expo is free, and includes access to all exhibitors’ virtual “booths” and presentations, as well as a slate of other informative sessions, including:
- Home Tech Top 10: Products Designers Need to Know;
- Wellness Solutions for the New Normal featuring DELOS;
- Increasing Water Efficiency and Managing Water-related Risks in the Smart Home;
- Why System Integrators Should Partner with Home Design / Construction / Medical Professionals;
- Smart Water: Healthy Water in the Smart home;
- Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Conceal Tech or Make a Statement With It.
To learn more and register, click here.
