Gather for breakfast and networking before our kickoff!

Join Scott Dunn, chair of the SIA Board of Directors (and senior director, business development, Americas, for Axis Communications) for a warm welcome and opening remarks for SNG 2025!

SNG’s signature kickoff panel features diverse perspectives from across the industry. This panel will set the tone for SNG 2025 and address what’s really making waves in the industry—and what we all should be thinking about for future growth.

Joining SNG all the way from Milestone Systems HQ in Denmark, CEO Thomas Jensen will address trends in the video sector like end-user demands for AI- and analytics-powered video insights, business model trends like navigating real-time, always available cloud/remote delivery for enterprise-level systems, balancing security with privacy for video systems and more. He will be

Mix, mingle and caffeinate.

In this ever-popular session back by popular demand, advisors from our 2026 Security Megatrends project forecast the newest trends destined to shape the business of security over the next 3–5 years.

They’re still talking about 2025 panel of technical security practitioners from SIA’s SPARC community of end users. Maybe it was the honest feedback to the manufacturer and integrator community or the openness on what they shared about how they evaluate security solutions and vendors to match their needs. Whatever it was, it was clear this

While lunch is served, you’re invited to join roundtable hosts for intimate discussions on specific topics shaping our industry. Each hosted discussion table is limited to approximately 10 participants, so make a plate and join a themed table for a rich discussion on business topics. Expect lively debates and open conversation, leader to leader. SNG

We’re tapping Lee Odess of The Access Control Collective to moderate an interview-style review of key takeaways and perspectives from our luncheon roundtables. The table host from each table will join Lee on stage for a powerful, fast-paced conversation that balances what the real world thinks on key trends. Odess will be joined by: Mark

We believe that security doesn’t have to be onerous, that security alerts don’t have to overwhelm your control environment and that it is possible to get real insights from the mountains of data that security systems produce. We’ll have a direct conversation on these beliefs with true believer Shikhar Shrestha, the CEO and co-founder of

For the first-time since the pandemic, we’re bringing back our Securing New Ground CTO panel. Some of the industry’s sharpest minds will take you inside their tech stack and R&D projects and look at what technology changes will create a meaningful difference in their solutions and their businesses.

Relax, mix and mingle with other leaders.