Hybrid work has shown that different types of meetings require different technologies. Traditional tools often fall short when it comes to hybrid brainstorming, users still lose time at the start of calls, and AI has not yet reached every meeting room. Modern meeting spaces must balance three priorities: trustworthy intelligence, user-friendly tools for both users and IT, and compliance with security standards such as NIS2 and the Cyber Resilience Act. In this session, attendees will explore how meeting spaces can evolve to enable simple, smart, and secure collaboration without added complexity. The session will cover best practices for fast meeting starts, reducing user friction, and supporting IT through centralized management and remote troubleshooting, as well as what “secure and reliable” means across software, hardware, and connectivity. Attendees will also explore how AI can improve user experience and operations through automated assistance, transcription, follow-up, and data-driven insights that enhance collaboration outcomes.
Explain what security-by-design looks like for meeting spaces as endpoints (not “AV islands”) and connect regulatory expectations like NIS2 and the Cyber Resilience Act to practical requirements such as authentication, encryption, segmentation, lifecycle patching, and vendor accountability.
Identify where AI adds immediate value across the meeting lifecycle (automated assistance, transcription, follow-up, and insight generation) and where it improves IT operations (analytics, monitoring, and support workflows). They will learn how to frame AI as an outcomes-and-operations lever, helping teams improve collaboration quality, reduce support load, and spot patterns that guide continuous improvement across rooms.
Define what “effortless” looks like in a modern meeting space and translate it into standardized meeting experiences that start quickly, require minimal training, and work consistently across rooms, while also enabling centralized management and remote troubleshooting so IT can support spaces at scale.
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Marketing Director, Workplace Collaboration, Barco ClickShare
Yannic Laleeuwe is Marketing Director, Workplace Collaboration at Barco, where she leads the overall Workplace Collaboration segment strategy and marketing teams. With more than 15 years at global technology leader Barco in various roles, she is a seasoned professional with experience in strategic and analytical thinking, marketing, change management, and business process engineering. Working with highly diverse teams energizes her and reflects her belief in a culture of empowerment, creativity, and community building. A highly skilled manager with a can-do mindset, she is inspired by Barco’s ongoing pursuit of innovation and its international environment.