Earlier this month, several members of the RoomReady team traveled to Orlando to attend InfoComm 2025, one of the premier events in the AV industry. The conference offered a valuable opportunity to connect with peers, learn from industry leaders, and experience the latest innovations shaping the future of technology.

To capture the energy and insights from the event, we sat down with Phillip McArdle, our Business Development Manager, who attended the show and brought back a fresh perspective on where the industry is headed.

From standout trends to key takeaways, Phillip shared his thoughts on what made InfoComm 2025 such a meaningful experience. Whether it was exploring new solutions on the show floor or engaging in conversations with fellow professionals, the event offered a clear view of how AV continues to evolve.

We asked Phillip a simple question: “How was InfoComm, and could you give us a quick recap of your key takeaways?” Here’s how he responded,

For being a pretty self aware guy, sometimes I still fool myself.  I flew down to InfoComm in Orlando last week with a clear plan: walk the floor, explore tech, and get a feel for what’s next in meeting room technology. But’s let’s be real – people bring me way more joy than tech… so maybe my plan was botched from the start…

I forget, the best part of these events isn’t what’s shown at the booths — it’s who shows up. I loved seeing RoomReady team members, RoomReady Alumni, Customers, Partners, Vendors… Friends.

Anyway, on the tech side, I wanted to take a minute and get thoughts organized as there were fun updates from some of the partners I spent time with.

Logitech

• Logitech showcased their multi-camera Sight system. With daisy-chaining support, it uses AI to identify and frame speakers in real time for a more natural and inclusive meeting.
• Pairing with room sensors (Spot) and smart platform integrations (Sync, but also Utelogy, Zoom, and Teams)
• Logitech continues to build their product ecosystem for commercial real estate, truly making spaces more intelligent, automated, and seamless. They continue to level up and it’s fun to see their innovation!

HP Poly

• HP (Poly) showed up demoing HP Dimension with Google Beam (formerly Project Starline)
  • Google Beam is the tech engine and software platform.
  • HP Dimension is the physical product that packages and delivers that experience to businesses.
• Alongside that, HP unveiled new HP Poly Studio A2 Audio Bridge and Table Microphone, featuring scalable, daisy‑chainable table mic units (up to eight) and bridge gear supporting up to 32 channels—ideal for fixed furniture rooms.

Zoom

• Zoom teased upcoming enhancements to Zoom Rooms and AI Companion features that aim to bridge hybrid work even further. Agentic AI that goes beyond reacting to prompts and proactively drafts emails, schedules meetings, updates the CRM, etc
• Today’s AI Assistant might wrap up a meeting with:
  “Here’s a summary. Want to send an email?”
• Agentic AI would wrap up with:
  “Here’s your summary. I’ve drafted an email to the client with key takeaways, scheduled a 30-minute follow-up next week based on your availability, and logged the action items in your project tracker. Ready to send?”
• Pretty great to see how AI is going to assistant to colleague.

Cisco

• Cisco keeps building on two meaningful story lines with their hardware.
• Their simple/powerful hardware story line got an update with the release of their Room Vision PTZ. Single cable deployment is the big story hear. Power, video, and control over a single ethernet cable – Awesome!
• And their interoperability storyline took a big leap forward with their announcement of Zoom Rooms on Cisco – full featured Zoom meetings on Cisco endpoints – Delightful.

On the people side of things:

We had several members of our engineering team at the show — attending training sessions, touring vendor booths, and getting NDA-level briefings from some of our closest partners. It’s critical for us to stay ahead of the curve, not just on what’s available now, but what’s coming next.

InfoComm was also a chance to invest in our future in other ways. Growth through acquisition remains a key part of our strategy, and members of our executive team spent time talking with brokers and potential acquisition targets while in Orlando.

So yes, I went to Orlando for the tech — and there was plenty of it. But I left reminded that it’s the people who move this industry forward.