Update from ACT Expo 2025 in Anaheim

Day 1 (April 28, 2025) at ACT Expo 2025 was an excellent start to NeXTnet’s market debut.

Over 12,000 commercial transportation stakeholders are in attendance, including 2,700+ leading commercial fleet operators, 100+ EV & autonomous EV manufacturers, and 28 connected vehicle technology vendors, across 54+ countries.

A key theme that rang out loud at the keynote sessions and through the exhibition halls (featuring 450+ exhibitors!), was the need for powerful network infrastructure to support the buildout of facilities supporting vehicles of the future — be it overnight or enroute charging, vehicle software updates, servicing, parking, automated facility access & surveillance, and much more. We heard that companies are looking for such network infrastructure to be self-healing, secure, scalable, AI-powered, and cost-effective, and operate both on wired and wireless connections.

ANNA (the Agentic NeXTnet Network Administrator) garnered tremendous interest from attendees who visited booth #6911 yesterday. In the two hours that the expo floor was open, we had over 50 meaningful conversations (10+ minutes each, resulting in requests to follow up) and many more visitors came by and had shorter chats with the team. A small sampling of our most meaningful conversations included the following: Mercedes- Benz, Verizon, Long Beach Container Terminal, Port of Seattle, Colliers International, ABB, Pacific High School, Southern California Regional Rail Authority, Smart Electric Power Alliance, Honeywell, EV Connect, UC Merced, Click4Ship, Panasonic Smart Mobility, EV Charge Pro, WattEV, ABB, Thor Industries, DP World, Burns & McDonnell, Sunset Studios, Orange EV, Horton, Isuzu, Evstar, Schneider, PG&E, US EPA, Flipturn, and Mann+Hummel, amongst others.

What excited us the most yesterday was how quickly attendees we held deep conversations with saw the important role NeXTnet's AI powered ANNA plays. ANNA makes the connected infrastructure self-healing, secure, and scalable; in turn helping everyone from port operators, to commercial fleet operators, to building management companies, to charging facility operators, and other services to make their operations more efficient and more profitable.

Today — day 2 — started off with a bang! The expo hall opened at 10 AM and we were quickly inundated. In just the first hour we surpassed the number of meaningful conversations in half the time as yesterday; and it continues unabated as the day progresses.

At NeXTnet, myself and the team are convinced that we have arrived at the right time to solve a big problem. And as such, we are leading the transformation in the edge network market, helping companies serving the transportation industry to build out Task Critical Networks that will only accelerate the pace of innovation.

Please stay tuned for more.