NI Connect 2026 kicked off with a cameo appearance of Dr. T who adopted the “Genius of the AND”as a core way of thinking at NI. This theme permeated the entire keynote presentation.
Test and measurement depends on trust: In trusted hardware, and proven software modules and architectures.
Celibrating 40 years, LabVIEW continues with proven state of the art unique features:
By thoughtfully combining trusted assets with AI technologies orchestrated by NI’s “Nigel” assistant, this trust is created. NI is moving quickly into AI-based specification, system configuration, programming using automatic code generation for LabVIEW, Python and other languages.
Tedious tasks such as creating plug-ins for software frameworks, and managing git-hub source code control, are handled with the everpresent Nigel, which permits interactive user validation, and pulls from the user’s range of existing hardware products.
Multiple new hardware products were introduced along with Instrument Studio software that provides automatic ganging of separate PXI modules into one, fully synchronized multi-channel oscilloscope.
A JKI toolkit will be fully integrated into LabVIEW 2026 Q3 for automatic validation of LabVIEW code to US and European cybersecurity requirements.
A short appearance by NVIDIA showed their commitment to work with NI on EDGE hardware.
You can see the day one keynote here:
One of the presentations was run on a virtual Windows machine on a Mac, which was the original inspiration for LabVIEW, but is no longer fully supported.