Thanks for the advocacy @Craig Park   Certainly much of wat you advocate for in opportunity is exactly what we are tying to serve with NEXXT.

Thanks for the callout @Craig Park. 

There is so much opportunity for our industry to take advantage of amid the AI shifts underway, The NEXXT initiative is still in build mode, lot's of work underway over the summer in preparation for the northern fall return from vacations etc. 

Most exciting is we are now in testing/PoC for the NEXXT "Digital Community" platform!  If anyone is interest in participating in an expanded group we are opening the platform up to for feedback in mid Aug, please msg me. 

NEXXT is being built to serve you, to respond to the needs you have to thrive, to be a trusted place for our industry to get RoI on their efforts to learn and evolve in this moment.  So if you want to be a part of shaping that, of leading in this moment, we want to hear from/need you.

Thankyou @Matt Pana for the complimentary reflections of the InfoComm event.  We're working hard over the summer to be ready to launch some important initiatives in the fall, in particular a digital community platform we just launched into PoC testing this week.  The goal is to create a trusted "place" for the industry to gather for many of those same topics and discussions we explored at the event, and indeed much more.  

https://kodelabs.com/ have an interesting platform around comprehensive "Smart" building management.

https://spaceti.com/ is another up and coming one that caught my eye at ISE.  They have built an AI engine focused on:

- Simplified data interpretation
- Actionable advice
- Real-time assistance
- Proactive problem solving

I like that Logitech has entered the game at scale with their SPOT sensor, like Microsoft entering, with Places, and Cisco with Spaces, we need to get beyond all these small "startup" software platform and sensor players that just can't fully tackle the scale and breadth/depth of the opportunity.  And I love that all three of them are seeing that Collaboration technologies are so integrally linked given the core to the very existence of the enterprise workplace now is collaboration.

In my discussions with some of the "Smart Building" world, they are often amazed that the AV/UC collaboration industry hasn't stepped more into this world given the inherent natural skillsets and market position we have.

Couldn't agree more Virginia!  But the approach to doing so is still fragmented.  Microsoft Places is perhaps the Gorilla in this early game, though still has a lot of maturing to do.  There are certainly "Smart Building" players who have been in the game for a while, but have tended to approach things from an RE&F realm.  There are room and desk booking players, but they lack depth.  I think there is a huge white space right now to actually implementing data metrics that go beyond simple" occupancy" and into measuring impact and outcome of enterprise scale Modern Workplace strategies for companies.  Are there any platforms you think are leading here?