Jim Young and Howard Berger forewarned that 2014 Realcomm/IBcom will be a year of paradigm change within our industry, and that our personal abilities to embrace change, rethink, innovate, and transform, will be vital to our organization’s and our own personal successes. The smart and connecting technologies are already here — dynamically shaping our futures; and it’s the people — us, and our capacity to seize these new opportunities that will tell the story. The New Smart Building Integrator Summit was sold out, and Ken Sinclair, automatedbuildings.com, and Therese Sullivan, buildingcontext.me, were on-hand with ControlTrends just moments before 2014 IBcon PreCon, to share their excitement and expectations of what was to come.