eBiz 2026 registration is open, and the agenda looks different this year.
Plus: NAED just announced something big at National.
eBiz Isn't What You Think It Is
If you picture a product data conference full of EDI specs and catalog standards, you're a few years behind.
eBiz 2026 is where distributors and manufacturers moving the needle on digital transformation come together. The agenda stays true to IDEA's roots in standards and product data and goes further: autonomous PIM, sales intelligence powered by POS data, cross-reference strategy, and enterprise-scale data exchange. The through-line: without clean, connected data, AI doesn't work. Neither does anything else.
No other event in the electrical industry brings distributor and manufacturer technology, data, and digital teams together specifically to improve how they communicate, collaborate, and build what's next.
Bring your team. Plan together. Go build it.
eBiz 2026: Where data powers the channel. September 29 – October 1
If you were at NAED National last week, you already know. If not, here's the short version: NAED, IDEA, and Pull Logic are building ProjectNexus, the first industry-owned supply chain visibility solution for the electrical channel.
Right now, tracking an order from manufacturer to job site means phone calls, emails, spreadsheet chasing, and portal-hopping. Distributors spend hours every day managing uncertainty instead of managing customers. ProjectNexus is designed to replace that with system-to-system visibility across the full order lifecycle, from purchase order to delivery.
NEMA, NECA, and NEMRA are aligned behind ProjectNexus. Distributors, manufacturers, reps, and contractors are finally getting shared visibility into the same information.
IDEA has released a standards update for IDEA Connector. The B-View templates have been refreshed including additional information on cardinality and matching logic. Additional digital assets and certification agencies have been added.
Download the latest specs and update your fields. Find updated Data Dictionary, B-View, and XML Guidelines in our new Knowledge Base under Reference Documents and Tools/Standards.
One Manufacturer Figured Out How to Make Product Data a Competitive Advantage
When distributors search for products, incomplete data means your products don't show up. Legrand decided to fix that. They doubled the number of data fields in IDEA Connector, giving distributors more complete product information at every search, spec, and purchase decision.
The result: Legrand jumped to the top 5% of manufacturers on the IDEA Health Score and reduced severe errors by up to 80% for specific product lines, which removed obstacles for distributor access to SKUs.
More data fields means more visibility. Fewer errors means fewer lost sales. Here's how they did it.
