Intelligence at the Edge: Where AI Meets the Physical World
TRANSFORM is ZEDEDA's flagship edge intelligence event focused on the operational realities of building, deploying, securing, and scaling AI at the distributed edge.
Houston, Texas
September 15, 2026
Hosted in Houston, the center of global energy innovation, TRANSFORM 2026 brings together the practitioners, architects, operators, and ecosystem leaders solving these challenges in production.
Call for speakers
Frankfurt, Germany
October 22, 2026
Hosted in Frankfurt, the center of innovation, TRANSFORM 2026 brings together the practitioners, architects, operators, and ecosystem leaders solving these challenges in production.
Call for speakersAbout The Event
AI is moving beyond the data center and into the environments where business physically operates: factories, energy infrastructure, transportation systems, remote field operations, retail environments, and industrial assets distributed across the world.
Deploying AI in real-world operations is fundamentally different from deploying AI in the cloud. Distributed environments introduce constraints cloud systems were never designed to handle: intermittent connectivity, heterogeneous hardware, physical risk, operational downtime, security exposure, and the complexity of managing intelligence across fleets of sites with limited on-site IT resources.
TRANSFORM 2026 brings together the practitioners, architects, operators, and ecosystem leaders solving these challenges in production.
Through keynotes, fireside conversations, technical sessions, customer-led case studies, and ecosystem discussions, attendees will explore how organizations are modernizing physical operations with edge intelligence, autonomous systems, and distributed AI infrastructure built for real-world conditions.
This is not a cloud AI conference adapted for the edge. TRANSFORM is designed specifically for the realities of edge intelligence and real-world operations.
Featured Topics
- Edge intelligence and autonomous operations
- AI outside the data center
- Industrial modernization and operational transformation
- Physical AI and real-time systems
- Infrastructure, inference, and agents
- Edge orchestration and fleet operations
- Security and resilience in distributed environments
- AI acceleration and heterogeneous hardware
- Connectivity and backhaul for remote operations
- Scaling edge AI from pilot to production
- OT and IT convergence
- Operational governance for distributed AI systems
Why Attend?
Learn from real-world deployments
Hear directly from organizations deploying edge intelligence across industrial and operational environments. Sessions will focus on practical implementation lessons, operational challenges, architectural decisions, and measurable business outcomes from production deployments.
Explore the infrastructure behind edge intelligence
From AI acceleration and inference engines to orchestration, security, connectivity, and autonomous operations, explore the technologies enabling intelligence to operate reliably outside traditional data centers.
Understand what it takes to scale
Moving from pilot projects to production deployments requires more than AI models. Learn how enterprises are operationalizing edge intelligence across distributed sites while maintaining governance, resilience, visibility, and control.
Connect with the edge ecosystem
TRANSFORM brings together leaders across the edge ecosystem, including infrastructure providers, hardware manufacturers, industrial operators, software innovators, connectivity providers, and enterprise technology teams shaping the future of distributed AI.
Who Should Attend?
TRANSFORM is designed for technical and operational leaders responsible for deploying and operating AI across distributed environments, including:
- Edge and AI architects
- Infrastructure and platform engineering teams
- OT and IT leaders
- Industrial innovation teams
- Product and engineering leaders
- Manufacturing, energy, transportation, and retail technology teams
- Ecosystem partners and solution providers
- Developers building distributed AI systems
Call for Speakers
Are you deploying AI in distributed, operational, or industrial environments?
We're inviting practitioners and technical leaders to submit speaking proposals focused on real-world deployment experience, operational lessons learned, and the future of edge intelligence.
Need help crafting your proposal? Contact us at [email protected]
Houston, Texas
September 15, 2026
Hosted in Houston, the center of global energy innovation, TRANSFORM is ZEDEDA's flagship edge intelligence event focused on the operational realities of building, deploying, securing, and scaling AI at the distributed edge.
Coming Soon
Frankfurt, Germany
October 22, 2026
Hosted in Frankfurt, the center of innovation, TRANSFORM is ZEDEDA's flagship edge intelligence event focused on the operational realities of building, deploying, securing, and scaling AI at the distributed edge.
Coming Soon