CEDIA Education Conference
Discover tomorrow’s tech today. Hear from leading experts and pioneers. Get practical tools to enhance your daily work. Build your professional network.
At CEDIA Expo 2026, access a dynamic, forward-looking education program designed to equip smart home professionals with the knowledge and tools needed to lead the industry. Whether you’re a seasoned integrator, design/build collaborator, or just starting your professional journey, there’s a session for you. This year’s tracks feature practical insights, future-forward technology, and business intelligence to help you thrive.
Future-Proof Your Skills with Cutting-Edge Insights. From AI and robotics to power management, our Emerging Technologies track gives you insider access to what’s next in the smart home industry—so you can stay ahead of the curve.
Build a Brand That Stands Out. Take your business to the next level with sessions focused on culture-building, branding, marketing, and long-term growth. The Business track is packed with actionable insights from pros who’ve done it.
Design Meets Technology—Seamlessly. Our Design/Build sessions spotlight how integrators and designers can collaborate to create visually stunning, technology-rich homes. Learn how to make tech beautiful, functional, and invisible.
Master the Technical Foundations. Get hands-on with fiber, racks, networking, and Wi-Fi design. The Technical track is where theory meets application—ideal for technicians and engineers looking to sharpen their edge.
Stand Out with CEDIA Certifications. Whether you’re preparing for CIT, IST, ESC-D, or RNS, our Certifications track offers expert-led prep courses and exams to validate your knowledge and elevate your credibility.
Learn from the Industry’s Most Respected Voices. Our instructors and panelists include top-tier integrators, tech pioneers, business strategists, and designers. You’ll gain real-world advice you can apply immediately.
Choose Your Journey—Curated for Every Career Stage. Whether you’re a technician, business owner, designer, or new to the industry, our full spectrum of courses ensures you’ll find sessions tailored to your goals.
Track Information
Business
From branding and marketing to succession planning and showroom strategies, these sessions are designed to help you grow and scale smarter.
Design/Build
Explore how technology complements architecture and design—from outdoor living innovations to lessons learned from iconic residential projects.
Emerging Technologies
AI, robotics, future forecasting—this track brings Silicon Valley insight directly to your playbook.
Technical
Deep dives into racks, fiber, networking, cybersecurity and system fundamentals, including hands-on demos and real-world problem-solving from top integrators.
Lighting
From color science and fixture selection to control systems, shading, and sensors, this new curriculum track for 2026 helps integrators design, deploy, and troubleshoot lighting systems while building a profitable lighting practice that delivers both beautiful results and new revenue streams.
Certifications
Prep, train, and test with confidence. Boost your skills and stand out with official CEDIA certifications.
Can’t Miss CEDIA Education Sessions
RP32: Audio System Measurement and Verification Workshop
CEDIA’s latest Recommended Practice RP32 outlines objective, repeatable methods for measuring and verifying audio system performance. It provides a structured process to ensure that completed systems meet the intended design goals and client expectations.
Importantly, RP32 incorporates verification against the performance parameters defined in CEDIA RP22: Immersive Audio System Design, allowing integrators to demonstrate whether a system achieves the targeted RP22 performance level.
This hands-on workshop introduces the recommended procedures of RP32 and gives participants practical experience using a range of measurement tools and software. Attendees will learn how to gather reliable data, interpret results, and document system performance in a consistent and professional manner.
Design Thinking
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 to improve your sales, design and operations.
The Evolution of Home Control: From Simply Smart to Truly Intelligent Living
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.
Workshops
RP32: Audio System Measurement and Verification Workshop
CEDIA’s latest Recommended Practice RP32 outlines objective, repeatable methods for measuring and verifying audio system performance. It provides a structured process to ensure that completed systems meet the intended design goals and client expectations.
Importantly, RP32 incorporates verification against the performance parameters defined in CEDIA RP22: Immersive Audio System Design, allowing integrators to demonstrate whether a system achieves the targeted RP22 performance level.
This hands-on workshop introduces the recommended procedures of RP32 and gives participants practical experience using a range of measurement tools and software. Attendees will learn how to gather reliable data, interpret results, and document system performance in a consistent and professional manner.
The course is suitable for both residential and commercial applications, and is designed to support newer practitioners as well as experienced professionals who want to adopt a Recommended Practice-based approach to system verification.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Describe and apply the RP32 methodology.
• Perform objective, repeatable system measurements.
• Verify performance against RP22 parameters.
• Document and communicate results clearly.
Lighting Workshop
As the LED has become the mandated choice for light sources in luminaires, it has changed dramatically how we design, specify, install, program, and interact with lighting systems.
This transformative change has opened new opportunities for the CEDIA integrator and lighting can become an important part of a new business model for our industry. We will discuss the impact solid state light sources have on the future of lighting including LED, Laser LED and OLED. Things like warm dimming, tunable white, warm white and the control of these sources in an occupancy can have a positive impact on those individuals living and working in the space.
We will discuss basic electricity and the relationship between power and voltage.
This workshop will include case studies and load calculation exercises. Using a sample floor plan and fixture specifications, we will create a lighting schedule and a lighting control detail.
We will look at photometric charts and examine how lamp and luminaire selections impact how the space is illuminated.
New powering technologies made possible by the low power requirements of these light sources and how they are having a positive impact on the use and consumption of electrical energy. We will also cover the newer luminaires that incorporate all levels of needed control at the individual fixture itself. Referred to as “Luminaire Level Lighting Controls” (LLLC), this technology is changing the way we control and manage light in a space.
Each of these lighting technologies will be reviewed from the “CEDIA Perspective”.
Course Outline:
- Incandescent to Solid State, how lights sources have evolved.
- A brief comparison of the luminous efficacy of the new lamps
- Load calculations and lighting schedules
- New powering options for lighting
- New control and management technologies
- How these changes will benefit the CEDIA integrator and the customer
Rack Building Workshop
Whether you’re building your first rack or refining your process for high-efficiency installs, this half-day, hands-on workshop delivers a step-by-step methodology to plan, build, and service professional-grade racks for any project size.
Attendees will work through real rack-building scenarios, learning the foundational skills and best practices that ensure safety, serviceability, and scalability—from gear selection and layout to cable management and labeling.
What You’ll Learn:
• How to specify equipment locations with safety, ergonomics, and thermal management in mind
• Wiring and signal path strategies, including color coding, labeling, and standardization
• Tactics for cable management that balance form and function for a clean, professional look
• The pros and cons of premade vs. field-terminated cables—and when to use each
• How to transition cleanly between rack wiring and site wiring for streamlined installation and future servicing
Free-to-Attend Sessions
Fight for your Rights! Join CEDIA’s Advocacy Efforts
Come and learn how CEDIA is leading the charge to protect and advance the smart home industry through dedicated, strategic advocacy.
Mike and Rich Present the Pre-Show Extravaganza
CEDIA Lifetime Achievement Recipients Michael Heiss and Rich Green will present their overview of what to look for on the exhibit floor as new products, services, hardware, sand software intersect with current trends in the industry.
Rich and Mike Present the Expo Post-Game Report
There is so much to see at Expo that you can’t see everything, but there are some things you just can’t miss. Before Expo closes, CEDIA Lifetime Achievement Recipients Rich Green and Michael Heiss present their famous “Post-Game Report” so that you can get the summary of what is on the show floor while there is still a chance to check things out.
Take Advantage of CEDIA’s Community Learning Opportunities with a CEDIA Education Conference Pass!
CEDIA Education Conference offers the professional development you need— in-depth training classes led by industry experts, designed to grow your skill set, knowledge base, and bottom line.
Register your interest when registration opens in Spring 2026.
