ABSTRACT:

InfoComm 2026 brought together enterprise visitors focused on AV innovation and experience delivery as Las Vegas hosted production, control, and infrastructure conversations shaping how organizations scale, automate, and integrate broadcast-ready environments across operations and customer engagement while exhibitors highlighted hardware, software, and workflow solutions without revealing full implications for deployment, cost, or long-term operational impact.

The Conference

A community of over 35,000 experience economy professionals engaged with over 807 exhibitors across the 395,000 square feet of exhibition space. A total of 94 countries were represented accounting for 20% of the presence.

Cautions

Friendly reminder: this research provides examples of what was shared with us at the event, not an evaluation, validation, or recommendation of the given technology.

State of the Experience Industry

The state of the experience industry was delivered at a Press event on opening day by AVIXA’s Mike Sullivan-Trainor. Interestingly their research showed significant budget resilience in the AV space; however, it was attributed to being able to handle inflation and continued passion for technology. Most projects experience a 10% tariff cost increase with the industry growing at a steady 4% forecasted rate. Currently 65% of AV providers are using some form of AI with 70% of that usage being generative. They purported that the percentage of organizations with AI governance rose from 33% in March 2025 to 47% in April 2026. One of the more interesting aspects is the growing trend of enterprises requiring broadcast capabilities across the organization in many divisions.

Exhibits

Shokz demonstrates their latest headset which comes in under 1 gram of weight. Due to their bone conduction approach, accessibility features such as wearing with hearing aids or glasses are standard across their line. They even have a headset that goes behind the head. Crescendo takes bone conduction to the floor providing bass you can feel. The best part, for highly urban areas where silent dance parties have taken off, it won’t disturb the neighbors!

One vendor from the Taiwan Excellence booth is able to overcome language barriers. GIO Optoelectronics is able to sit between your company and your guest, customer or visitor. If you do not speak the same language, no problem, it will listen to you in your language and speak and print what you said in the language of the guest. This device offers accessibility for language barriers as well as for any guest that suffers from vision or auditory disabilities. This device can provide live, real-time language translation for 26 different languages.

Opticis leverages optical fiber to provide high-quality long-distance AV cables. They offer HDMI cables that can maintain 4k or 8k resolution without signal loss for 300 meters. Their pure optical extender USXMP32 can transfer USB signals up to 330 meters. Their portfolio also can deliver up to 100 watts of power over 10 meters of USB cable as required in many meeting rooms.

On the control front, unRAVL is focused on enabling more organizations and venues to have the full AV experience. Democratizing access so one doesn’t need a specialized expert to just create an experience. As an AI-powered AV operating system, it leverages AI to simplify that task at hand even enabling natural language interfaces.

If you have ever operated the controls of an AV room and wondered why switching remote cameras is separated from operating the cameras themselves, you are not alone. Meet Telycam direct from China. Not only controlling what the camera sees and records but also the white balance and focus directly from the switch. The Telycam Mix One is an all-in-one production hub for the entire live event workflow. It can support up to six video channels simultaneously. Formats include NDI, HX3, RTMP, SRT, HDMI and USB. One interesting feature is its ability to record the program simplifying distribution.

PTZOptics is an employee-owned company out of Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Like many of the exciting products we have seen on site, this also originated from AV engineers not finding what they needed. In this case, they really needed a robotic camera with advanced automation. Their latest technology can do voice tracking. Real-time adaptability is enabled through a natural language interface to communicate with the device versus scripts! Finally, this robotic camera features dual-lenses. One lens as reference, one for the actual camera action tracking. Finally, a healthcare solution that just as easily could be ripped from our coverage of HIMSS 2026 was noted. Their partner, LayerJot, created a solution able to track tool usage in the surgical room setting.

We were able to see the latest DaVinci Resolve 21 features in action with a demo on site. A major theme of the demo was the ability to do so much locally. Abilities in the demo include reshaping faces as well as deblurring and cleaning up sharpness. As one might suspect, these features also come together to enable the editor to literally change the focus of the image they are editing from one object in the frame to a different object. Natural language searching and dedicated photos are fully integrated.

One thing universally true in AV is that microphones are frequently involved, and they eat batteries like they are going out of style. Whether your organization finds this unacceptable due to the environmental impact or the cost of batteries, KLVR has an answer. KLVR offers a 48-battery capacity recharging unit for AA or AAA batteries. Each battery can charge for 1200 cycles. Therefore a single set of batteries replaces over 90,000 batteries. To ensure enduring performance, their batteries are Lithium-Ion Tech which provide higher voltage. The entire set of batteries can charge in approximately only 2 hours of time.

Whether you are hosting a major award show, a CEO town hall, or your own 24-hour broadcast, Broadcast Management Group is ready to help. Frequently referred to as BMG, they offer full-service live production and own their own equipment. In addition, they operate a Network Operational Center (NOC) in DC with additional studios across the country including Las Vegas. If you have your own equipment and team just short a few professionals – they also provide managed services and staffing.

Conference Vibe

After 40 plus videos including two livestreams and over a dozen fact checks, our coverage of InfoComm 2026 better known as IC26 closes. Over 35,000 experience economy professionals engaged with over 807 exhibitors across the 395,000 square feet of exhibition space. A total of 94 countries were represented accounting for 20% of the presence. The event was held in the Las Vegas Convention Center West Halls, North and Central. West Hall held their education programs with registration available. West Hall’s Food Court was open. It’s always interesting to see how a given event uses the space between West Hall and North Hall. For IC26 there were event signs supporting the theme. North Hall featured audio, broadcast AV, lighting and staging. North Hall also hosted a registration site and shares a huge food court just inside Central Hall Lobby. Central Hall hosted exhibitions across conferencing and collaboration systems, command and control solutions, digital signage platforms and educational technology topics heavily covered in our IC24 coverage.

We always try to bring you fresh technologies in our coverage. During the walkabouts you will recognize some broadcasting technology vendors from our coverage of the NAB Show. Likewise robotic and intelligent cameras could just as easily be in our ISC West coverage. Finally, there are experiential technologies like those found during our coverage of G2E.

We once again live streamed from on site. On Wednesday from outside of North Hall. Thursday we livestreamed from inside North Hall itself. I requested assistance on your favorite videos for my syndicated segment on the June 20th nationally broadcast edition of Computer Talk Radio.

We conducted research for TWELVE additional forthcoming Whisper Reports. The playlists are unlisted but available with the video version distributed first via YouTube Whisper Club upper tier membership area on our YouTube Channel.

Readers and viewers wishing to experience the entire event are encouraged to view the Conference Whispers: InfoComm 2026 IC26 Playlist in its entirety. The playlist will be sited in the end screen, description, and as a pinned comment of the video edition.

We conclude with gratitude towards those that contributed and a video montage of responses to Bonus Question, “What’s the best part about attending the IC26 live in Las Vegas?”.

Next Year’s Conference

The InfoComm 2027 will be at its alternate location in Orlando, Florida. The event is scheduled June 12-18.

^*When vendors’ names are shared as examples in this document, it is to provide a concrete example of what was on display at the conference, not an evaluation or recommendation. Evaluation and recommendation of these vendors are beyond the scope of this specific research document. Other examples products in the same category may have also been on display.

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