HexCon26 brought IT leaders, security professionals, partners and technology experts together in Atlanta for two days of conversations around endpoint management, security, identity, AI and the future of enterprise IT.
Behind an event like HexCon is also a broader technology ecosystem.
This year, Factor Security, HiStone, CipherLab, ThreatLocker, Datalogic, KEYENCE Corporation of America, Workbrew and iMin Technology joined HexCon26 as sponsors, representing areas ranging from mobile security and endpoint protection to rugged devices, point-of-sale systems and software management.
Here’s a closer look at the companies that helped power HexCon26.
Factor Security: Gold Sponsor
Factor Security joined HexCon26 as the event’s Gold Sponsor, bringing the mobile-security conversation directly to the stage.
Gil Gabay, Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer at Factor Security, presented “Same Tuesday, Two Endpoints: The Case for Agentic Mobile Security.”
The center of the discussion was a growing security question: protecting the device is important, but how do organizations protect the person interacting with increasingly convincing AI-powered attacks?
Gabay’s work at Factor Security focuses on the intersection of AI-powered social engineering and mobile security, making the session a natural extension of the broader AI and security discussions running throughout HexCon26.
HiStone: Silver Sponsor
HiStone brought the retail and hospitality endpoint perspective to the HexCon26 sponsor lineup.
HiStone offers Android-based point-of-sale systems, including all-in-one POS terminals designed for transaction processing and inventory-oriented environments. The company is also part of the Hexnode Marketplace ecosystem, connecting its POS hardware with enterprise device-management use cases.
For organizations operating customer-facing endpoints, that combination highlights an important part of modern UEM: managing devices that sit far beyond the traditional office laptop.
CipherLab: Silver Sponsor
CipherLab specializes in enterprise mobility and automatic identification technologies, including mobile computers, barcode scanners and RFID solutions used across industries such as retail, logistics, manufacturing and healthcare.
Through CipherLab OEMConfig, Hexnode UEM can remotely configure supported CipherLab Android devices, including areas such as network, display and security settings. Administrators can apply these configurations through Hexnode policies rather than treating each device as an isolated configuration task.
That connection reflects one of the recurring HexCon26 themes: centralized management has to extend into specialized and frontline hardware, not just conventional endpoints.
ThreatLocker: Silver Sponsor
ThreatLocker adds another dimension to that ecosystem: endpoint security.
ThreatLocker is a zero-trust endpoint protection platform, and Hexnode provides documented workflows for deploying ThreatLocker across both Windows and macOS endpoints.
On Windows, ThreatLocker can be deployed to Hexnode-managed devices using scripts, while the macOS workflow combines installation with the required system-extension and configuration settings.
For IT teams, the practical connection is straightforward: UEM can help extend and standardize the rollout of security tooling across managed endpoints.
Datalogic: Silver Sponsor
Datalogic represents another important part of the enterprise-device landscape.
The company develops automatic data-capture and automation technologies including mobile computers, barcode readers, RFID systems and related equipment for industries such as retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation and logistics.
Datalogic also supports OEMConfig-based management with Hexnode, extending remote configuration possibilities for supported Datalogic enterprise devices.
For distributed and frontline environments, this type of relationship helps bring purpose-built hardware into the same broader management strategy as the rest of the device fleet.
KEYENCE Corporation of America: Silver Sponsor
KEYENCE Corporation of America joined HexCon26 from the industrial and mobile-computing side of the ecosystem.
KEYENCE develops technologies spanning sensors, machine vision, measurement systems and barcode readers, alongside rugged mobile-computing hardware designed for enterprise environments.
Several KEYENCE handheld mobile computers are represented in the Hexnode Marketplace, including rugged Android devices built around barcode-scanning and mobile-computing workflows.
That makes KEYENCE particularly relevant to environments where endpoint management meets warehousing, logistics, manufacturing and other operational workflows.
Workbrew: Silver Sponsor
For organizations managing developer Macs, Workbrew brings a different challenge into focus: software management.
Workbrew integrates with Hexnode to synchronize device inventory and help organizations manage Homebrew software across Hexnode-managed Mac fleets. The combination is intended to give IT teams visibility into Homebrew usage while supporting automated software management, security and policy enforcement.
Workbrew’s deployment documentation also supports using Hexnode UEM to distribute Workbrew across enrolled macOS devices.
The connection is particularly relevant as developer endpoints become an increasingly important part of enterprise software-governance strategies.
iMin Technology: Silver Sponsor
iMin Technology rounds out the sponsor lineup with another strong focus on retail and hospitality.
Its portfolio includes Android-based mobile POS terminals, desktop POS systems and kitchen display systems designed for transaction and restaurant workflows.
iMin devices are represented in the Hexnode Marketplace as well, including the Swift series of Android POS hardware.
For businesses operating large fleets of customer-facing devices, these kinds of endpoints reinforce why UEM increasingly has to cover specialized devices alongside phones, laptops and desktops.
An ecosystem built around real enterprise endpoints
The sponsors at HexCon26 represented very different parts of enterprise technology.
Some build the devices employees and frontline teams use. Others focus on security, software delivery or specialized industry workflows.
What connects them is the endpoint.
HexCon26’s sponsor ecosystem reflected that reality and helped bring more of those perspectives into the conversations happening throughout the event.
