CEDIA Foundation Scholarship Targets Smart Home Talent Pipeline

The CEDIA Foundation has opened applications for its Your Future Fully Integrated Scholarship, a workforce development program designed to help newcomers and career changers take their first steps into the smart home technology industry. The program offers successful applicants a grant covering the full cost of CEDIA's Smart Home Fundamentals online training program. Participants who…

ByConnected DesignSeptember 29, 20260Comments

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Looking for an Industry Tailwind? Luxury Retrofits Might Be the Answer

CEDIA’s 2026 research points to a market where affluent homeowners, low mobility, and concentrated home improvement spending may make existing homes the smart home’s most important growth arena.

ByRob StottSeptember 28, 20260Comments

Industry News Research & Reports

The Smart Home’s Biggest Category Is the One Clients Rarely See

The 2026 U.S. Professional Smart Home Market Analysis from CEDIA and The Farnsworth Group puts a clear number on the residential technology market: $33.8 billion. That’s an impressive figure for the industry, but what’s more useful to look at is how and where those dollars are concentrated. Turns out, home networking is the largest category…

ByRob StottSeptember 17, 20260Comments

Podcast Video

An Early Exit Interview with CEDIA Global President Daryl Friedman

To be fair, there’s still time left on the clock for Daryl Friedman’s run as Global President and CEO of CEDIA, the association that works on behalf of the custom integration and smart home industry. With plans to stay on through the selection of his successor, he could still be a few months away from…

ByConnected DesignSeptember 14, 20260Comments

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CEDIA Names 2026 Lifetime Achievement and Fellow Honorees

CEDIA has announced three of its 2026 individual award recipients, recognizing leaders whose work has helped shape the professional smart home industry through innovation, education, and long-term service to the channel. Peter Lyngdorf, the Danish entrepreneur and high-performance audio pioneer, has been named the recipient of CEDIA’s 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dave Tkachuk and Gordon…

ByConnected DesignAugust 19, 20260Comments

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Mitch Klein Looks Back on CEDIA, Design-Build Progress and the Channel’s Next Chapter

Mitch Klein joins the Connected Design Podcast to reflect on more than three decades in the custom integration industry and his long-running work with CEDIA.

ByConnected DesignAugust 10, 20260Comments

Industry Events

CEDIA Opens Call for Education Proposals for ISE 2027

We're just a few weeks away from CEDIA Expo singing its swan song in the Mile High City, but that hasn't slowed the CEDIA the association from looking ahead to the next big event on the custom integration industry's calendar. CEDIA, this week, opened its call for education session proposals for Integrated Systems Europe 2027,…

ByConnected DesignJuly 16, 20260Comments

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CEDIA to Offer RP32 Audio Verification Training at CEDIA Expo

CEDIA will host the first North American workshop for its RP32: Audio System Measurement and Verification Recommended Practice at CEDIA Expo 2026, bringing hands-on training around a standard that could have meaningful implications for how integrators, designers, and builders define, verify, and communicate audio performance. The full-day RP32: Audio System Measurement and Verification Workshop will take place Monday, Aug.…

ByRob StottJuly 10, 20260Comments

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CEDIA Community Rallies Around Board Chair Amanda Wildman Amid Personal Loss

There’s nothing quite as uplifting as watching a community of individuals rally around one of their own amid trying times. That’s exactly the case today as members of the integration channel are coming together to support CEDIA Board Chair Amanda Wildman as she and her family face an unimaginable reality. While Wildman was out of…

ByRob StottJune 6, 20260Comments

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CEDIA Members Help Technology Disappear Into the Design of WOW!house 2026

Today's most sophisticated smart homes aren't defined by visible screens, speakers, or control panels—they're defined by what homeowners don't see. That philosophy is on full display at WOW!house 2026, the annual designer show house presented by Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour in London. Running June 2 through July 2, the event brings together leading interior designers,…

ByRob StottJune 4, 20260Comments

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