What's New This Month: April 2025 Edition

Welcome to the April edition of the newsletter, where we highlight Imagine Innovators, our edge AI developer conference, plus exciting news about a new strategic partnership. And we’re making waves at the IoT World Congress in Barcelona too! Let’s dive in.

Imagine Innovators 2025

Imagine Innovators, the edge AI developer conference is just days away. With over 1,000 already registered, it’s promising to be an exciting event. If you’re a developer searching for real talk, real tools, real solutions about how to build and deploy smarter AI for real devices with speed, ease, and power, sign up for Imagine Innovators today.

Date: May 6th, 2025

Time: 8 AM – 11 AM PDT / 11 AM – 2 PM EDT / 5 PM – 8 PM CET

Where: Virtual

👉 Register now

Our lineup of experts include speakers from Harvard University , Qualcomm , EDGE AI FOUNDATION , Arduino , The IoT Show, Generative AI , Zalmotek , and of course, Edge Impulse. Check out the agenda for details on the presentations and learning tracks.

👉 Reserve your spot

Consult Red and Edge Impulse Partner to Accelerate Innovation for AI at the Edge

We’re thrilled to share that Consult Red , a leading technology development partner specializing in intelligent, connected devices, has announced a strategic partnership collaboration with Edge Impulse.

The alliance is designed to help accelerate time-to-market for customers seeking AI-enabled solutions in sectors including manufacturing and industrial, consumer electronics, automotive and critical infrastructure monitoring.

👉 Get more details

Smarter AI, Real Devices, Live in Barcelona

Edge Impulse is heading to the world’s leading event for IoT innovation, IoT World Congress, in Barcelona, May 13th-15th.

Find us throughout the event:

• Our SVP of engineering Sergi Mansilla will take the stage to present "Accelerating Edge AI: The Future of AI, IoT, and Challenges Along the Way"
• Catch our head of developer relations, Louis Moreau , at the Hacking Stage for a hands-on workshop
• Dive into hands-on demos with Edge Impulse, Qualcomm and multiple partners

Come see how we’re making edge AI faster, smarter and easier for developers, engineers, and innovators everywhere. We’ll be in GRAN VIA, Hall P8, Level 0, Street.

See you there!

Developer Corner

⚙️ Getting Started with the Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QCS6490 SoC for Computer Vision

Meet the Thundercomm Rubik Pi 3, powered by a Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QCS6490 SoC. Ideal for computer vision applications, the QCS6490 features an 8-core Kryo 670 CPU cluster, Adreno 643L GPU, and a Hexagon NPU with 12 TOPS of AI processing power. Get a detailed breakdown of the board’s features, and an example of a project.

Learn more on Hackster.io

👀 Edge Impulse Developers Discord Server is Now Available

Join the server to connect with other edge AI developers where you can explore new product features, get sneak peeks and updates, discuss the latest news and research, highlight your projects, stay up to date on events, share career advice, and more!

Join now by clicking the Discord invite link

🚀 Want to Build Real-World Edge AI Solutions Without Hitting Roadblocks?

Now is a great time to join our premier edge AI developer community of 185,000 plus developers — the community that empowers you to build and deploy smart AI for real devices with speed, ease, and power.

We’ve removed all barriers to getting started, providing free access to the latest edge AI tools.

Get started for free

👷 Demo Video — Using AI for Worker Safety with Wind River , ZEDEDA , and Edge Impulse

Experience a cutting-edge AI solution that ensures workplace safety by detecting hazards, verifying PPE compliance, and optimizing industrial processes to prevent injuries and enhance efficiency in high-risk environments.

Watch the video

⚡ How to Generate Hours of Synthetic Data in Minutes with MATLAB

Did you know that MATLAB ( MathWorks ) is also a powerful platform for synthetic data generation, especially for time-series and continuous motion scenarios? Explore how MATLAB’s comprehensive toolboxes and online environment can be leveraged to create realistic motion data, add noise, and prepare eight hours of labeled data for Edge Impulse — without installing MATLAB locally.

Learn how

New from the Edge Impulse Blog

• Train Edge AI Models With State-of-the-Art Synthetic Image Generation From Black Forest Labs
• Dataset Cleaning With AI (or: Do LLMs Dream of Electric Cats?)

Upcoming Events

• IOT Solutions World Congress ( IOT Solutions World Congress ) | May 13th-15th | Barcelona, Spain
• Arrow Electronics World ( Arrow Electronics )| May 29th | Parma, Italy

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