AVI’s Recap of InfoComm 2024: Trends, Products and More

InfoComm is the Pro AV industry trade show we look forward to all year. And once again, it did not disappoint. The show was packed with new products and services, hands-on experiences, education and training, networking opportunities, and more. Below, we've recapped some of the big trends we noticed, highlighted a few of the products that caught our attention, and summarized what attendees at our booth were seeking.

Trends We Noticed

There was no shortage of products and solutions introduced at InfoComm 2024, but several broader trends also emerged.

• Artificial intelligence (AI): It's no surprise that AI is a big trend as manufacturers and service providers rush to take advantage of emerging capabilities. InfoComm 2024 was packed with AI-powered video conferencing and collaboration tools,
  content creation and delivery, digital signage and displays, and more. We’re already helping customers find the best use cases for these innovations and will continue to watch AI closely.
• Experiences: It was clear that manufacturers are placing less emphasis on introducing products and more emphasis on delivering an experience. The kickoff event at Sphere set the tone for the week and more exhibitor booths than ever featured immersive displays, interactive elements, data visualizations, experiential vignettes, and more.
  

Partnerships & collaboration: A key trend was vendors partnering up. In the past, a vendor's booth would focus exclusively on its own brand, products, or services. Today, end-users want comprehensive solutions rather than individual products. Vendors are adapting by openly developing and advertising collaborations with other companies. Instead of attempting to provide an entire solution themselves, they’re concentrating on their core components and leveraging partnerships with other vendors to deliver a complete solution.

Products That Got Our Attention

We could geek out for several paragraphs about the best-in-show product introductions, but here are a few that struck us from a highly practical standpoint.

• Crestron debuted its new Audio-over-IP Saros® Speaker. This flexible, scalable audio solution allows users to power, configure, update, monitor, and control these speakers remotely, all while extending the reach of their audio. The result is incredible audio for large conference rooms and classrooms.  And their Crestron 1 Beyond Cameras won an InfoComm Best of Show award.  
• Logitech won a Rave award in the UCC category for its Sight with AI tabletop conference room camera. This modestly priced solution automatically and intelligently frames multiple meeting participants to provide the best view for remote attendees. And it’s compatible with all the most popular meeting platforms.  
• Sony showcased a broad range of solutions for the modern workplace, including displays, signage, and collaboration tools. In particular, their large-scale Crystal LED displays keep getting bigger, better, and brighter – not to mention their award-winning Sony BZ53L 98-inch display in their BRAVIA lineup. And they blew our minds with their spatial reality displays that “provide highly realistic, three-dimensional content without special glasses or VR headsets.” 

People We Connected With

While we attend InfoComm to spot trends and experience new products, the real stars of the show are the attendees. From An Evening at Sphere (which we sponsored) to InfoComm Esports Live 2.0 (which we presented) to our booth experience, we connected with hundreds of new people and enjoyed sharing our passion for all things AV.  

Even after attending this show for years, we’re always amazed at the breadth of industries Pro AV serves and the ways in which our solutions create human impact. For example, we spoke with.

• A government agency wanting the latest in technologies to create an in-house broadcast studio 
  
• A mid-sized company looking for a flexible managed services program for its meeting rooms 
  
• A global Fortune 500 organization needing AV program management and a monitoring platform (AVI Vision) to maintain its entire AV estate

AVI in Action at InfoComm: Experiences for the Modern Workplace

AVI took a unique approach to InfoComm 2024 and centered our booth experience around four modern workplace vignettes. Each of the vignettes focused on trending solutions that remove friction between home and office and make it easy to collaborate from anywhere.

• Storytelling Experience: Solutions designed to create impact in customer experience center-style environments 
  
• Modern Workplace: Solutions that work with unified collaboration platforms to simplify common tasks like room scheduling and hot desk reservations 
  
• Workplace Communication Experience: Digital signage solutions for wayfinding, corporate messaging and more 
  
• Engagement Solutions Experience: Digital broadcast streaming and augmented reality solutions for executives who want to level up their town halls, webinars or media interviews 

If you need a trusted AV partner for the modern workplace, we’d welcome the chance to hear more about the challenges you’re facing and share our capabilities.  

We’re AVI Systems – the largest global audiovisual and unified collaboration systems integrator with 33 locations in the United States, and the ability to do business nearly anywhere in the world.

©AVI Systems, Inc., 2024