SmartLivingNEXT: From intelligent residential building to networked ecosystem
Conference on intelligent buildings, smart living, AI services and networked ecosystems
Tuesday, May 19, 2026,
9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.,
followed by a get-together
Forum Digital Technologies,
Salzufer 15/16,
10587 Berlin
The future becomes reality. Be part of it.
SmartLivingNEXT takes the next step: from research to real-life operation. Help shape how smart buildings, AI-based services and networked ecosystems are being transferred to the market – with top-class decision-makers from the digital economy, politics, the housing sector, industry, trade, research and the health and care sector.
The SmartLivingNEXT conference is also the prelude to real operation, supplemented by a demonstrator exhibition.
Your top-class speakers:
Thomas Jarzombek
Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernization
Dr. Wolfgang Weber
ZVEI e. V. Association of the Electrical and Digital Industry
Adalbert Neumann
ABB AG – Busch-Jaeger & STOTZ-KONTAKT and Wirtschaftsinitiative Smart Living e. V.
RA Alexander Neuhäuser
Central Association of the German Electrical and IT Trades (ZVEH)
Bastian Elsner
Elsner Elektronik GmbH
Mike Lange
Smart Home Initiative Deutschland e. V.
Lars Thomsen
future matters AG
Anyone who wants to understand and help shape the development of the SmartLivingNEXT ecosystem should be here:
- First insight into real operations
Concrete structure, role model and transition from research project to operational organization. - Clear governance and investment logic
Who takes on which role? Steering body, federators, data providers and investors clearly explained. - Investor perspective
Infrastructure logic instead of platform - Technical architecture you can touch
Blueprint, federated catalog, onboarding - Real-life use cases
Eight tried-and-tested use cases demonstrate this: The concept works under real conditions. - Reduction of integration costs
Moving away from proprietary special solutions for individual construction projects towards reusable structures. - Strategic classification in the EU context
Data Act, AI Act, data sovereignty: how SmartLivingNEXT makes regulatory connectivity possible. - New data-based business models
AI services, cross-sector combinations, portfolio optimization - Positioning in the emerging Smart Living lead market
The SmartLivingNEXT ecosystem is up and running! Help shape the market logic now.
Who is the event for?
- Housing and real estate industry
- Health and care industry
- Industry, trade & energy sector
- Municipalities & public sector
- Start-ups & digital economy
- Research, associations & politics
“SmartLivingNEXT is the necessary response to the growing complexity of intelligent buildings.”
Michael Schidlack, FE-ZVEI
Experience – try it out – exchange ideas
SmartLivingNEXT hands-on: innovative applications from care to energy you can touch
Tuesday, May 19, 2026,
4:00 p.m. to approx. 6:00 p.m.,
followed by a get-together
Forum Digital Technologies,
Salzufer 15/16,
10587 Berlin
The exhibition offers you the chance to experience real services from the SmartLivingNEXT technology program live, try out applications for yourself and talk directly to the project teams from research, the housing, care and energy industries.
You will receive:
Concrete insights into functioning solutions, direct access to developers and impulses on how you can accelerate your own digitalization and innovation projects – from the initial idea to the roll-out in the portfolio.
Demographic change, rising energy prices, a shortage of skilled workers in the care sector and growing expectations of self-determined, comfortable living are putting companies under pressure to act. At the same time, the combination of existing data sources and the use of artificial intelligence are opening up new opportunities.
SmartLivingNEXT’s secure data infrastructure makes this scope usable. It makes it possible to combine and use a wide variety of data types, from building data and consumption information to vital and activity data. In future, existing technical equipment in buildings can also be used directly for new applications for care and everyday assistance or energy management.
The exhibition showcases eight innovative, practical applications from the fields of care, everyday assistance, energy efficiency, maintenance and home security that use this infrastructure. They demonstrate how user companies can use the SmartLivingNEXT ecosystem to tap into new market potential, conserve resources and make their offerings more attractive.
- Preventive risk detection from vital signs and home automation data for self-determined living in old age – service and assisted living (GAiST)
- AI-based step-by-step recommendations for unskilled care workers in home care (ExpliCareNEXT)
- Simulate care-friendly home adaptations on 360° images – for care services, care advisors and people in need of care (BIM-4-CARE)
- From emergency detection to heat protection – smart assistance services from a data room for assisted living and neighborhoods (DuITeasy)
- Sovereign and secure data sharing between households and providers of smart living, energy and care services in the data room (COMET)
- Energy portal for households – live consumption visualizations from the data room with display of dynamic electricity prices (FAME4ME)
- Energy efficiency data portal – national access point to energy data for EnEfG obligations and AI-supported building data analyses (ForeSightNEXT)
- Mobile app – individual energy-saving tips and cost transparency for landlords and tenants in apartment buildings with tenant electricity (ForeSightNEXT)
Register now
Secure your place at the SmartLivingNEXT conference now and actively shape the transition from research project to real operation – as a user company that not only observes smart living innovations, but also uses and shapes them.
