Engineering & Technology

Connecting Hardware to apps: easy… until it isn’t

A practical session for engineers and product teams working on real-world connected products

Date & Location
23 Sep
(
Wed
)
2026
09:50 - 10:20
Polestar Stage
Track
Engineering & Technology
Type
Talk
Language
English

About this Session

Connecting hardware to a mobile app often starts as a small feature, but then reality kicks in.

Connections drop. Things fail silently. Users don’t understand what’s happening. And suddenly, that “simple integration” becomes the part of your product that defines the entire experience.

In this talk, Pieter-Paulus Vertongen shares lessons from building connected products that are used outside of controlled environments, where things don’t behave nicely.

This is a practical talk for engineers and product teams working on real-world connected products.

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