
Play Your Position: What the World Cup Can Teach Digital Signage
Like a winning World Cup team, successful digital signage projects depend on every partner playing the right role.


Play Your Position: What the World Cup Can Teach Digital Signage
Like a winning World Cup team, successful digital signage projects depend on every partner playing the right role.

Microsoft’s Ilya Bukshteyn on the Era of the Agentic Co-Worker
Artificial intelligence is transforming workplace collaboration, from meeting equity to AI-powered workflows. Microsoft’s Ilya Bukshteyn shares what it means for AV, hybrid work, and InfoComm 2026.

Microsoft Just Made Your Meeting Room a Data Source. Is Your AV Ready?
On 1 April 2026, Microsoft Places moved to a per-space licensing model. Auto-release and the richest occupancy analytics now depend on real sensor data from the room, not just booking records.

Multi-Vendor AV Stack Ownership: Why Integrators Pay for the Gaps
Multi-vendor stacks are now the default across European Pro AV, confirmed by ISE 2026 coverage and analyst commentary. Contracts, support scope, and accountability haven't caught up. Integrators are carrying cross-vendor risk without contractual authority or margin.

Relentless Relevance: Rich Mulholland on the Future of AV and More
Rich Mulholland’s relentless relevance challenges the audiovisual industry to rethink its own certainties. He warns that innovation dies when companies defend yesterday’s success instead of questioning it. From BlackBerry’s fall to Neuralink’s rise, Mulholland explores how relevance depends on courage—the willingness to unlearn and reconnect. He argues that AV’s true future lies not in brighter pixels or louder speakers, but in expanding human bandwidth: helping people think and collaborate with less friction. His message is clear—stop playing defense, attack your own model, and stay relentlessly relevant in a world that never stops changing.

AV News Roundup: May 2026
May 2026 brought major Pro AV industry news ahead of InfoComm, from acquisitions and partnerships to AI-driven innovation—catch the top 10 updates you missed.

In the Trust Business: Mariana Atencio on Why "Real" Matters in AV
Ahead of her AVIXA Women’s Breakfast keynote at InfoComm 2026, Mariana Atencio explores why authenticity, empathy, and human connection are essential to the spaces AV professionals help create in an increasingly unreal world.

The Boardroom Microphone is Now a Legal Liability in Europe
Sentiment dashboards, voice-stress monitoring, and "engagement" analytics in meeting rooms now sit inside one of the highest-fined categories of EU law. The Article 5 prohibition has been in force for fifteen months. Article 50 transparency duties land on 2 August. Integrators carry exposure on both.

Protecting Digital Public Spaces in a Time of Cyberwar
At ISE 2026, cybersecurity practitioners made the case that public-facing AV — departure boards, wayfinding kiosks, stadium screens — is trust infrastructure. Compromise it deliberately and you don't need explosives to cause panic. Here is what that means for the people who design and build it.

Wonderwall Reimagined: How Oasis’s Return Tour Redefined Stadium Production
Oasis’s Wonderwall: Live ’25 Tour became a benchmark for modern stadium production—an emotional comeback built on precision engineering. The project fused structure, video, and audio into a seamless experience, proving that technical mastery can make nostalgia feel inevitable.

The Impossible Math of a MicroLED Wall
Inside the nano-scale manufacturing problem that keeps the sharpest video walls in the world rare, expensive, and just out of reach.

How ePaper is Reshaping the Modern Workplace
Learn how ePaper technology is transforming workplace management through smarter room booking, wayfinding, visitor management, and sustainable displays.
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