The Intel® AI Innovators Across Industries highlights Intel ecosystem partners’ collaboration with System Integrators, HW Manufacturers, OSVs to bring scalable solutions across industries. 


As the digital display market continues to evolve, organizations are under pressure to deliver more intelligent, connected, and secure experiences — all while optimizing performance, cost, and sustainability. In this session, industry experts explore the shifting landscape of digital signage and embedded solutions, highlighting the key trends shaping the market and how leading providers are adapting to meet new demands.

We’ll take a closer look at the challenges integrators and end users face today — from fragmented ecosystems to the need for scalable, future-proof hardware that supports analytics and AI-driven insights.

Discover how the partnership between Bluefin and Intel delivers what customers need now and is designed to evolve with what’s next. Together, we’re enabling performance, reliability, and flexibility that empower organizations to scale confidently into the future of digital engagement.

From Edge to Experience: The Future of Connected Bluefin Displays

The restaurant industry is transforming faster than ever—driven by new customer expectations, AI innovation, and the need for real-time insights across every location. But while much of the industry’s focus has been on “cloud-first” strategies, the true breakthrough is happening closer to the counter.

Join Scale Computing™ and Intel® as we explore how modern restaurant and retail brands are virtualizing critical systems, unlocking AI capabilities, and simplifying operations by bringing compute and data back to earth—where it belongs.

In this session, you’ll discover how the Scale Computing Platform™ edge computing solution —powered by Intel® architecture—delivers a unified platform for virtualization, AI workloads, and application hosting across distributed environments. We’ll dive into real-world examples of major restaurant and convenience retail chains that have redefined reliability and efficiency through edge-native deployments.

Learn how the combination of SC//HyperCore™, SC//Reliant Platform™, and Intel® technologies forms the infrastructure backbone that makes AI work for restaurants—not the other way around. Whether you’re optimizing POS and kitchen systems, enabling drive-thru vision analytics, or modernizing store operations, this discussion will show how to virtualize smarter, scale faster, and simplify edge operations for the AI-driven era of hospitality.

Cloud to Counter: How AI and virtualization are delivering at the restaurant edge

Retailers today face mounting pressure from labor shortages, shrink, and tight margins—while shoppers expect fast, seamless, and personalized experiences. Traditional self-checkout often falls short, leading to slow transactions, scanning errors, and increased staff intervention.

Join Partner Tech and Intel for a live webinar exploring how AI is revolutionizing self-checkout. See firsthand how Partner Tech’s AI-powered SCO solutions use computer vision, self-learning scales, and anomaly detection to reduce shrink, speed up transactions, and improve the customer experience.
Built on Intel® Core™, these solutions combine high-performance edge computing with secure cloud analytics, enabling real-time insights, reliable performance, and enterprise-grade manageability.

We’ll highlight practical ways AI helps retailers overcome today’s challenges—enhancing efficiency, protecting profitability, and creating frictionless experiences that keep customers coming back. Experience the future of retail checkout and discover how technology transforms every transaction into a moment of trust and connection.

The Future of Retail Self-Checkout: Smart. Seamless. AI-Driven.

The medical imaging market is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the rapid integration of AI into diagnostic devices. Ultrasound and X-ray systems increasingly demand higher performance, lower latency, and enhanced energy efficiency in order to deliver real-time image processing, AI-assisted diagnostics, and mobile point-of-care operation.

At the same time, manufacturers face pervasive challenges:
• Rising complexity of integrating CPU, GPU, and AI accelerators.
• Need for compact, energy-efficient designs for portable diagnostic devices.
• Long product life cycles with strict regulatory and certification requirements.

congatec addresses these pain points with its COM Express Type 6 conga-TC750 and COM-HPC Client modules, powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra processors (Series 2). These modules combine heterogeneous compute (CPU + GPU + NPU) in a compact footprint, delivering up to 99 TOPS AI performance while minimizing thermal output. The result is a scalable, field-upgradable platform that enables AI-enhanced ultrasound and X-ray machines with superior efficiency and reliability.

Developers benefit from congatec’s aReady software stack with built-in virtualization, security (OPNsense firewall), and AI toolkits such as Intel® OpenVINO™. This reduces time-to-market and allows faster deployment of AI-enabled medical imaging solutions.

This session will first explore the market landscape of AI in medical imaging, highlighting industry pain points and competitive trends. It will then dive into the technical capabilities of congatec’s COM modules, showing how Intel’s heterogeneous compute architecture (CPU, GPU, NPU) is leveraged for real-world medical imaging workloads. Finally, the session will present deployment insights and success stories from OEM adoption in medical devices, underlining how congatec empowers innovation in healthcare diagnostics.

AI-Powered Medical Imaging with congatec Computing Modules and Intel Core Ultra®

Enterprises are shifting intelligence to the edge, where responsiveness, efficiency, and security are critical. Relying on the cloud for AI processing introduces latency, higher costs, and privacy concerns. What’s needed is a compact, affordable edge platform that can deliver secure networking while also running AI workloads locally.
 
In this Tech Talk, Silicom and Intel will present the Silicom Ibiza 1U Universal CPE, powered by the Intel Atom® x7000 processor series and enhanced with Intel® NetSec software. Designed for the edge, Ibiza consolidates networking and security into a single cost-efficient device. Silicom and Intel validated both CPU-only benchmarks and cases where AI workloads such as malware and URL detection were offloaded to the integrated GPU. On the CPU, Intel® AVX2 instructions enhance performance for vectorized and cryptographic workloads. When inference tasks are offloaded to the integrated GPU, CPU resources are freed to focus on high-throughput networking and security functions. Together, these approaches demonstrate the flexibility to optimize performance and cost depending on deployment needs—while eliminating reliance on the cloud or discrete GPUs.
 
Attendees will gain insights into:
• Market drivers behind the convergence of AI, networking, and security at the edge.
• How Intel NetSec software and Intel Atom processors were used to optimize AI and networking workloads.
• Benchmark results demonstrating low-latency AI inference alongside high-throughput networking performance.
• Broader enterprise, telco, and retail use cases where a cost-efficient edge appliance reduces TCO and strengthens resilience.
 
Join Silicom and Intel to see how AI-enabled edge solutions are transforming network appliances into intelligent, secure platforms—bringing both performance and protection closer to where it matters most.

AI-Enabled Edge Networking and Security

Discover how Lanner Electronics and Intel are transforming the future of Edge AI. In this session, Kosta Sidopoulos, AI Strategy Advisor at Lanner, breaks down the challenges of deploying AI at the edge - from massive real-time data processing to infrastructure and power constraints - and how Lanner's scalable platforms powered by Intel Core Ultra, 14th Gen Intel Core, and Intel Xeon 6 processors are meeting these demands.

Accelerating Edge AI Deployment with Intel® Processors and Intel® Arc Pro Graphics

Discover how AAEON and Intel's partnership is driving the next wave of artificial intelligence innovation. Learn about their combined expertise in embedded tech, advanced AI platforms, and development tools, plus how they're supporting customers with immersive AI features and next-gen processors.

Powering AI Innovation: AAEON & Intel's Strategic Partnership

Discover how Advantech & Intel are revolutionizing transportation with smart, scalable solutions to tackle congestion, safety, and efficiency challenges.

Transforming Mobility Together: Intel-Powered Advanced Solutions for Transportation

Pioneer in AI-powered video intelligence with over 25 years of experience in developing advanced analytics and ITS solutions.

Revolutionizing Traffic: Management with Automated Incident Detection

Enterprises today want powerful AI capabilities—but face challenges with costly infrastructure, vendor lock-in, and compliance risks. Large language models (LLMs) often require expensive GPUs and cloud services, raising concerns about data privacy, security, and control.

Join Intel and Arcee AI to explore Arcee Foundation Models (AFM)—a family of small, efficient language models delivering state-of-the-art AI quality on Intel Xeon CPUs. AFM provides comparable performance to much larger models while significantly lowering hosting costs and infrastructure complexity.

Designed for enterprises that demand cost-efficiency, privacy, security, and regulatory compliance, AFM offers full transparency with open weights and architecture, eliminating vendor lock-in. This allows organizations to deploy AI on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments, maintaining full ownership of their infrastructure and data.

In this session, you’ll learn how AFM helps decision makers to:

• Achieve state-of-the-art AI performance optimized for Intel Xeon CPUs
• Reduce the total cost of ownership by avoiding expensive GPU requirements
• Maintain data privacy, compliance, and sovereignty for regulated environments
• Leverage an open, transparent foundation model for maximum control
• Accelerate deployment with AFM’s domain adaptation for industry-specific solutions

Whether you’re leading digital innovation, IT strategy, or compliance, this webinar will provide actionable insights on deploying secure, high-quality, and affordable AI at scale.

Discover how Arcee Foundation Models on Intel Xeon empower your enterprise to adopt next-generation AI—small in size, big on impact, fully under your control.

Open, Private, Cost-Effective AI: Arcee.ai Foundation Models on Intel Xeon

APIs now form the connective tissue of digital transformation—but they’ve also become one of the most exploited attack surfaces.

In this exclusive Tech Talk, discover how Prophaze, in partnership with Intel®, is redefining modern API security by merging behavioral threat detection with Intel®’s processor-level acceleration, enabling faster anomaly detection, reduced false positives, and seamless protection across cloud-native workloads.

This session will explore key performance and security enhancements, designed to help DevSecOps teams, security leaders, and architects scale zero-trust defenses without compromising agility.

Key Highlights:
• Closes observability gaps in east-west and north-south API traffic
• Mitigates advanced threats like BOLA, credential stuffing, and bot-driven logic abuse in real time
• Empowers DevSecOps teams with inline defenses that adapt at cloud speed—without breaking developer velocity

This isn’t just about stopping attacks—it’s about reshaping how modern API ecosystems defend themselves from within.

Harnessing Intel® Processor Innovations for Advanced API Security

Join Hummingbirds AI CEO for a transformative session on how edge-based authentication is reshaping security while creating unprecedented business opportunities for Intel partners.

The cybersecurity landscape is at a critical inflection point. Despite billions invested in protection, 80% of breaches still involve compromised credentials. Traditional authentication methods force an impossible choice between security and usability, leaving both IT teams and end users frustrated. The result? Weakened security, reduced productivity, and significant hidden costs.

This session introduces Guacamole, a groundbreaking facial authentication solution that leverages Intel's edge AI capabilities to solve the authentication paradox. Unlike cloud-dependent alternatives, Guacamole processes all biometric data locally, delivering continuous, zero-touch authentication without compromising privacy or requiring internet connectivity.

You'll discover:

- How Intel-optimized edge AI creates new security possibilities previously unachievable
- Why continuous authentication represents a $15B+ market opportunity with double-digit growth
- How OEMs and channel partners can differentiate offerings through privacy-first security
- Practical integration strategies for vertical markets including healthcare, finance, and government
- Revenue models that create sustainable business value for the Intel ecosystem

Through live demonstrations and real-world case studies, you'll see how Guacamole delivers up to 8x performance acceleration using Intel's OpenVINO toolkit while eliminating the friction of traditional authentication.

Whether you're developing next-generation hardware, building comprehensive security solutions, or helping clients navigate complex compliance requirements, this session will provide actionable insights for capitalizing on the edge AI authentication revolution.

Edge AI Authentication: Creating New Value in the Security Ecosystem

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technology, along with the “connected everything” potential of 5G are game changers for enterprises, service providers, and systems integrators in delivering end-to-end IoT solutions. 

Today’s private 5G and edge computing bring significant increases in network coverage, uplink performance, bandwidth, and data processing speed, allowing wirelessly connected HD-video cameras to be placed anywhere and expanding the marketplace for media analytics. Video analytics market size is expected to grow at CAGR of 22.7% to nearly $22 billion by 2027. 

However, the challenge has been in the complexity of integrating media analytics and real time communications into existing and new business applications to help drive business efficiencies. 


The webinar will cover:

1. Live demo of computer vision applications and the low-code/no-code programmable platform that empowers teams to quickly create new enterprise automation applications simply by dragging and dropping instruction on “what to look for” and “action to take” in a real time or recorded audio or video stream – all without requiring any special end point equipment.

2. How OpenVINO based 100+ prebuilt analytics models and integrated programmable communications can help accelerate development of IoT applications. Application possibilities include video surveillance, AR/VR overlay, gunshot and fire detection and alerting emergency services personnel, monitoring retail shelves for inventory management, and many other such services for multiple verticals – Manufacturing, Warehouses, Healthcare, Warehouse, Utilities, and more.

Reducing Complexities to Integrate OpenVINO Audio-Video Analytics in 5G & Edge IoT Applications

As the digital and physical worlds converge at the edge, mission-critical operations demand more than just performance, they require uncompromising security, real-time intelligence, and resilient connectivity. ECS, a trusted systems integrator and edge innovation leader, introduces a new breed of deployable infrastructure that redefines what's possible at the tactical and operational edge.

In this technical fireside chat, ECS unveils a turnkey solution that fuses post-quantum encryption, automated symmetric key orchestration, zero trust architecture, hardware-accelerated network security, AI/ML edge processing, and Private 5G "network-in-a-box" all in a compact, ruggedized system designed for real-world deployment.

Backed by industry leaders:

• Intel provides the compute horsepower and a NetSec accelerator card for line-rate encryption, deep packet inspection, and policy enforcement without compromising performance.
• Zscaler powers Zero Trust access, identity-based segmentation, and secure user-to-app communication across the most hostile environments.
• Arqit delivers military-grade, quantum-safe encryption through scalable, automatic symmetric key distribution future-proofing sensitive data against the quantum threat.
• ECS integrates it all, bridging the gap between innovation and operational deployment.

This webinar explores real-world use cases across defense, critical infrastructure, and regulated industries where the stakes are high, downtime is not an option, and tomorrow’s threats are already here. Learn how ECS and its partners are making secure, intelligent, and autonomous edge systems a reality not in years, but today.

Whether you’re protecting a forward operating base, a power grid, or a decentralized AI-powered logistics network, this is the solution you can trust.

Join us to see what happens when Zero Trust meets Post-Quantum, AI, and 5G at the edge.

Integrated Edge: Post-Quantum, AI, 5G, and Zero Trust in a Box

AI is showing up everywhere and sanctioned usage of AI is off the charts—from cloud services to the device in front of you. Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research finds that 81% of organizations have specifically started to deploy or are planning to deploy AI PCs to empower greater worker productivity and streamline workflows. 

Challenges to effective AI PC deployment abound, however, leaving organizations like yours to solve for AI model security, data privacy and governance, and feature training. 

In this fireside chat, ESG Senior Analyst Gabe Knuth sits down with Intel’s Jen Larsen to discuss how AI is actually being used on endpoints today. They’ll explore findings from recent ESG research, including how AI improves productivity, reshapes endpoint strategies, and drives early adoption of AI PCs. 

You’ll also hear real-world insights from Intel on what’s happening behind the scenes with hardware partners, software vendors, and enterprise customers.

The Positive Impact of AI PCs, as told by Intel and Enterprise Strategy Group

Join us for an in-depth exploration of the Acumera Reliant Platform, designed to transform how multi-site operators in the retail and hospitality industries manage their edge computing environments. 

This webinar, hosted by Richard Newman, Chief Strategy Officer, and Brian Prokaski, Chief Revenue Officer at Acumera. This webinar will dive into how Acumera’s platform enables seamless management of both legacy systems and modern, container-based applications with AI/ML and IoT integration.

Key takeaways include understanding the platform’s orchestration, configuration management, and observability features and how Intel hardware powers its robust performance. 

Viewers will learn how the platform drives operational efficiency, reduces downtime, and enhances real-time visibility into network performance across thousands of locations. We’ll share real-world success stories, including our deployments in Casey’s gas stations and an industry-leading QSR, where we helped scale edge computing solutions to streamline operations and improve decision-making.

Whether you're involved in retail, QSR, or another multi-site operation, this session will provide actionable insights on how edge computing can drive digital transformation. Plus, we’ll explore how Intel and Acumera can collaborate to bring more optimized and scalable edge solutions to market.

Don’t miss this opportunity to see the future of edge computing in action!

Revolutionize Multi-Site Operations: Acumera Reliant Platform

UP Bridge the Gap, a brand established by AAEON Technology Europe B.V., proudly celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed focus on Artificial Intelligence, positioning itself at the forefront of cutting-edge trends and technologies.

Starting an AI project from scratch has never been easier.

Are you wondering:

-Is my current platform suitable for AI?
-Should I add an AI module to enhance performance—and if so, which one best fits my use case?
-What camera should I integrate?
-Which software tools can help evaluate performance and streamline development?
-Is there a solution that can accelerate development and reduce time to market?

UP Bridge the Gap provides answers to these questions through its established and expanding AI Ecosystem—offering validated solutions that simplify AI development and enable the creation of high-performance, robust AI applications.

UP AI Ecosystem can help accelerate Your AI Project

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