Enterprise Connect 2026 Schedule

AI is invading every part of our lives, including our meetings and meeting rooms. Even today, in the early stages of AI in collaboration, we have AI-powered design tools, AI-powered audio calibration systems, AI-powered camera switching systems, AI-powered monitoring and management systems, and AI-powered meeting transcripts, summaries, and to-do trackers. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. And while AI promises to change everything for the better, key questions remain unanswered, including:

• What barriers — technical, commercial, or other — prevent users from accessing meeting transcripts and insights across multiple meeting platforms within a single UI?
• When an outage takes AI-managed AV systems offline, who responds if the accountable humans lack the necessary training, knowledge, and experience?
• How can organizations be sure that their confidential meeting data won’t traverse shared networks or AI servers unencrypted or feed a hungry LLM seeking training data?
• We must trust AI to gain value, but AI systems are inherently untrustworthy. How can meeting participants and decision makers unlock AI value without shouldering undue risk?
• Does AI in meetings and meeting rooms offer a real ROI or are all potential savings consumed by integration friction, training costs, and vendor fees? Is it sacrilege to even ask?
• If a company makes AI-related investments today, will they still be useful in 1 year, 3 years, or 5 years when the next level of AI benefits emerge?
• Where’s the sweet spot between reckless fanatic, early adopter, pragmatic pioneer, and technology luddite? Should I jump in now or wait for the dust to settle?
  

In this hard-hitting session, a veteran AV/video/collaboration thought leader will pose these and other questions to technology providers who are shaping the choices you’ll have as you budget and plan for the next stage of your collaboration and meeting room environment.

Moderator: Ira Weinstein, Founder & Lead Analyst, Recon Research