Published to Whisper Club: July 20, 2026 ID: TBW2132
Analyst(s): Dr. Doreen Galli
Photojournalist(s): Dr. Doreen Galli
ABSTRACT
“This Whisper Report investigates which spatial computing use case will scale fastest as explored at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. Experts surface competing pathways from infrastructure enablers to experiential breakthroughs and enterprise ROI engines, signaling different adoption curves across industries. The answer may hinge less on technology and more on where value compounds fastest. Cited experts: Wayne Liu Perfect Corp., Paul Stanford Haply, Joe Cassar dSPACE, Hagay Rozenfeld Israel Railways.”
Published to Whisper Club: June 29, 2026 ID: TBW2198
Analyst(s): Dr. Doreen Galli
Photojournalist(s): Dr. Doreen Galli
ABSTRACT
“This Whisper Report investigates what licensing trend will reshape retail in 2027. Filmed at Licensing Expo 2026 in Las Vegas, it explores how emerging models are changing how brands connect with consumers and drive retail outcomes. Experts examine why traditional approaches are giving way to more immersive and conversion-driven strategies. Cited experts: Andrew Lieb JRL Group, Elizabeth McLead Screeny, Ashley Siler LMCA.”
Published to Whisper Club: June15, 2026 ID: TBW2185
Analyst(s): Dr. Doreen Galli
Photojournalist(s): Dr. Doreen Galli
ABSTRACT:
“This Whisper Report investigates What data problem slows fleet electrification most? based on expert insights from ACT Expo 2026 in Las Vegas, revealing hidden gaps in usage data, power economics, energy modeling, and risk that quietly stall progress and distort investment decisions before organizations realize what they are missing. Cited experts: Austin Smith Burns & McDonnell, Alexander Stratmoen Voltra, Dion Van Leeve Triz Engineering, Micah Gold-Utting FractalEV.”
Published to Whisper Club: June 1, 2026 ID: TBW2178
Analyst(s): Dr. Doreen Galli
Photojournalist(s): Dr. Doreen Galli
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“This Whisper Report investigates which media workflow is AI changing fastest? It distills expert perspectives from NAB Show 2026, spotlighting the workflows where AI is compressing cycles and reshaping execution across teams—signaling where attention should shift next. Cited experts : Tony Abrahams AI Media, Carl Rutman Brightcove, Glen Wastyn Freepik..”
Published to Whisper Club: May 26, 2026 ID: TBW2133
Analyst(s): Dr. Doreen Galli
Photojournalist(s): Dr. Doreen Galli
Abstract:
“This Whisper Report investigates What’s the killer XR use case no one sees coming? Across CES, three very different XR stories emerged — one surprising, two accelerating. Together they reveal why XR’s real breakthrough may not be where everyone expects. Cited experts: Paul Standford, Haply; David Sniderman, Mapbox; Daisuke Takoze, Gakugeki.”
This Whisper Report investigates What’s the next gaming tech that will change how we play? Drawing on signals from the gaming floor, the analysis hints at emerging technologies quietly reshaping production, interaction, and player intelligence. Cited experts: Justin Cosnett (Continent 8 Technologies), Will Shuckburgh (eCOGRA), Chris Chuang (Relay), Wanor Franca (CCT), Erik Regan (Plotline), Matt DeLaura (Seon), Phil Simpson (fullstory).
This Whisper Report investigates What Fintech problems are you solving in 2026? Drawing insight from on-the-ground conversations at Fintech Meetup 2026, it surfaces the pressures shaping next‑gen financial platforms and the bets leaders are quietly making. It previews how scale, trust, and automation collide before outcomes are obvious. Cited experts: Peter Daunton (Sokin), Kunal Datta (Unit21.ai), Jack Chawla (interface.ai), Liam Reaume (Sardine).
This Whisper Report investigates the question, “What’s your biggest access control challenge?” Researched at ISC West in Las Vegas, the report analyzes challenges driven by fragmented systems, persistent legacy technologies, and incomplete integrations. It finds that access control risk increasingly stems from interoperability gaps and response readiness rather than tool availability alone. Insights are drawn from Ed Hendricks of Keri Systems, Joshua Hartman of Hartman, and Peter Evans of Xtract One.
This Whisper Report investigates what jobsite tech boosts output most today? At CONEXPO‑CON/AGG, practitioners surface where productivity truly moves—beyond hype—highlighting overlooked levers shaping cycle time, safety, and uptime this year. Read on for the signals that matter now. Cited experts: Nate Jones (Weir–Esco Division), Christopher Sommer (MOBA Automation), Joel Honeyman (Doosan Bobcat), Nicolas Legrand (John Deere).
“This Whisper Report investigates how Gen AI will reshape enterprise finance operations. Researched on‑site at Money 20/20 USA 2025 in Las Vegas, it examines how financial operations are evolving under accelerating automation and intelligence. The report highlights perspectives from AutoRek’s Nicholas Botha, Veratad’s Thomas Canfarotta, Globant’s Erin StillWell, Oracle’s James Calise, Zoominfo’s Brandon Tucker, localpayment’s Ezequiel Israel, and IPQS’ Shea Craft.”
We took the most frequently asked and most urgent technology questions straight to the fintech professionals gathering at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas for Money 20/20 USA 2025. This Whisper Report addresses the question regarding how GenAI will reshape enterprise finance ops as depicted in Figure 1.
AutoRek’s Nicholas Botha brings us the first change noticed in financial operations. “Training your teams and members to be able to utilize this (GenAI) to save your teams time and doing the mundane activity is really where it’s going to add value.” Many look forward to getting rid of the mundane and burdensome tasks. Veratad’s Thomas Canfarotta couldn’t agree more. “We’re seeing amazing strides with Gemini’s ability to do these laborious processes that have taken long amounts of time with lots of people and being able to automate them.” In fact, Thomas had some very specific tasks in mind. “And this includes onboarding and identity verification.”
Globant’s Erin Stillwell revealed an exciting result of GenAI in Fintech. “It could also be the standpoint of agents being embedded into different teams to accelerate outcomes.” Erin went on to further explain. “If you think through from a finance op standpoint, especially from an enterprise perspective, there’s multiple systems internally likely multiple databases. to even document files, data warehouses and all of that can really be consistent or brought together with AI and different tools to streamline, create dashboards, automate and really take the manual piece out of it and have smarter intelligence with decisions that the executives need to make.”
Oracle’s James Calise highlights that GenAI is. “Changing the interface that we’ve grown to know.”
James further demonstrated his point. “Where the interface has always been a web browser or a mobile phone, this is the next leap where the chat experience and really taking it to the next level with agents working on our behalf is going to completely revamp how we think about inter interacting with enterprise technology. It’s no longer going to be you asking to you know you going to a website to go and perform a function. That function is going to be happening automatically based on events in real time empowered through you know your conversation and chat.”
Perhaps one of the most exciting aspects was shared by Zoominfo’s Brandon Tucker. “More than ever, it’s critical to get your data foundation correct.” Brandon further contended, “Right now, people are under the belief that AI is just going to solve all those problems for them, but it really won’t be able to um without getting that foundational unified data model correct.” Many organizations have been doing band aid transformations and never took the time to truly establish an enterprise data fabric. If this is feeling a little too familiar be sure to book your inquiry with your TBW Advisors LLC analysts immediately. We can walk you through step-by-step enabling you to leverage our firsthand experience event if you have outsourced the work.
Sometimes perspective in the industry helps one recognize how an industry is reshaping as illustrated by localpayment’s Ezequiel Israel. “When I started payments 10 years, 15 years ago, the regular normal SLA (service level agreement) was about 2 or 3 days. Today, people are expecting payments to complete in two or three minutes.” If a customer expects something in minutes versus days, the enterprise and its infrastructure must evolve or the customers will simply go elsewhere to have their expectations met.
Our sixth and final impact on financial ops coming from GenAI comes to us from IPQS’ Shea Craft. Put simply, it’s “the velocity of abuse is increasing, the barrier of entry for abuse and fraud, and sort of legacy, sort of methods where somebody doesn’t know how to program, somebody doesn’t know where to go for, you know, committing fraud or abuse is getting a lot easier. you know, using fraud as a service, platforms, things like that, just make it a lot more accessible.”
