InfoComm 2026. THE show for the AV industry. It delivered.
Held June 13–19 in Las Vegas, InfoComm 2026 welcomed 28,132 verified attendees from 94 countries. End users represented 37% of attendees, the highest end-user representation the show has seen. In total, 35,707 registered, 807 exhibitors filled 395,500 net square feet of show floor space, and verified media attendance grew 35% year over year.
The energy was real. There’s something about InfoComm that’s hard to replicate: everyone you know, want to know, and need to know, in one place. Side conversations over dinner, chance hallway meetings, finally putting a face to a name you’ve emailed for two years. In an industry where remote work is the norm, that in-person time carries real weight.
Below are the trends and takeaways our team brought back from the show floor, relevant to digital signage, AI-driven workplace communication, and what enterprise buyers are asking for right now.
1. AI Is No Longer Aspirational. It’s in the Product.
In 2025, AI was a concept for most companies at InfoComm. In 2026, it’s being put into practice. The question on the show floor shifted from “does this have AI?” to “how is AI actually delivering value for users?”
Korbyt got a direct callout here. invidis cited Korbyt (alongside ScreenDetective and Launchpad 2.0) as an example of a developer providing concrete AI answers on the show floor, not vaporware.
The theme was consistent across the hall: AI-based feature deployment is the new baseline expectation. Companies that can demonstrate working AI in context, not just announce a roadmap, are winning the conversation.
2. The AV/IT/AI Convergence Has Arrived
AVIXA’s SVP Jenn Heinold called 2026 “the year of convergence for AV, IT, broadcast, and AI.” That framing showed up everywhere. Microsoft highlighted AI-powered platforms (Teams Phone, Teams Rooms, Teams Premium) as defining how communication works across physical and digital workspaces. Cisco explored its “Connected Intelligence” vision, showing integrated AV, IT, and AI-driven infrastructure working as a unified environment.
The old lines between AV and IT are dissolving fast. For digital signage platforms, that means operating comfortably inside an IT-governed stack, not sitting alongside it.
3. Software Is Eating Hardware
The shift from hardware-centric to software-driven is no longer a trend. It’s done. Exhibitors at InfoComm 2026 consistently led with platform capabilities: content orchestration, management layers, integrations, and analytics. Hardware is still in the conversation, but it’s no longer the differentiator.
The boundary between hardware and software is also blurring. Orchestration between components is increasingly important, and traditional roles in the AV stack are shifting as a result.
4. Direct View LED Is Displacing Projection
dvLED is going mainstream. The price per square foot has dropped enough to displace projection in most commercial deployments: corporate boardrooms, auditoriums, and higher education spaces alike. For installations under 200 inches diagonal (which covers the majority of commercial projects), dvLED is increasingly the default choice.
This has downstream implications for content. Higher-resolution, higher-refresh displays raise the bar for what content looks like, which raises the value of AI-assisted content creation tools that help teams keep up without adding headcount.
5. Buyers Want the CMS That Handles the Hard 10%
A recurring theme from conversations with integrators and enterprise prospects: clients are increasingly searching for a CMS that can handle what they’re calling “the last 10%” — the high-end experiential content use cases that most platforms can’t touch. Think Coinbase, JPMorgan Chase HQ: Unreal Engine-level rendering, dynamic data-driven visuals, complex multi-zone layouts.
For Korbyt, this is a relevant positioning conversation. Enterprise signage buyers aren’t just looking for reliability anymore. They’re looking for ceiling. How far can the platform go?
6. Retail Digital Signage Is Growing (With a Nuance)
As hardware prices continue to drop, retail-based signage is getting more popular as a way to promote goods and services in the physical store, particularly for aisle end-caps and above-shelf displays. That was a consistent conversation with integrators across the show floor.
The counter view, raised by invidis: mid-tier retail has been challenged. The growth story is real, but it’s concentrated at the high and low ends. Middle-market retail is navigating a harder environment.
7. Proactive Network Monitoring Has Become Table Stakes
AV and IT teams are done waiting for something to break before they know about it. The demand for proactive operations (early issue detection, clearer diagnostics, reduced manual workflows) was a defining theme at ISE 2026, and that conversation continued with force at InfoComm.
Multiple companies are trying to solve the challenge that ScreenDetective addresses, but from the network and power layer (Xyte, Netspeek, and others). ScreenDetective came up consistently in demos as a standout. The concept clicked fast, especially with IT managers who are responsible for hardware but have limited visibility into what’s actually on screen. As Levi (our Demo specialist) noted: conversations shifted quickly from “here’s what it does” to “here’s what we want it to do next.” Customers and partners were building a roadmap with us in real time, which is as good a signal as you can get.
8. The Room Is No Longer the Unit of Measurement
InfoComm 2026 shifted the focus away from isolated hardware on pedestals to fully interoperable environments: simulated classrooms, corporate offices, and live production spaces where attendees could see how different technologies function within complete workflows.
The industry’s next chapter won’t be judged by how smart the room claims to be, but by how much better the overall experience feels. AV, as a discipline, is increasingly about the total experience, not just the screen.
What We Were Showing at Booth C5371
Our team demoed five features at InfoComm 2026, and the feedback shaped how we’re thinking about the rest of the year:
- ScreenDetective made its debut at InfoComm 2026, giving attendees a first look at continuous display health monitoring that can trigger automated recovery before anyone calls the help desk. IT managers got it immediately and it’s easy to see why. Managing large screen networks reactively is expensive and slow, and a system that catches and resolves issues on its own changes that equation entirely. Demo conversations quickly turned into roadmap conversations.
- Canva Integration is a native app built directly inside Canva, letting marketing and creative teams design and publish content to Korbyt screens without ever leaving the tool they already love. Canva has become the go-to for creative teams across industries, and meeting them there, no file exports, no CMS login, resonated instantly. It also opened up productive conversations around content governance for teams where Canva is blocked by IT or security.
- Refreshed Side Nav with Favorites brings a cleaner, more intuitive navigation experience to the platform. Existing customers noticed the UX improvements without being prompted. Prospects who saw the platform for the first time mentioned how easy it was to navigate.
- Launchpad 2.0 is a ground-up rebuild of our content authoring experience, designed for the people who need to get content on screens but were never trained on a CMS. Admins define brand styling through a centralized theme system, and everyone else just picks a template and publishes. A content experience built around flexibility and simplicity is exactly the direction enterprise teams have been pushing toward.
- CreateAI Image Enhancement brings AI-assisted image editing directly into the CMS, removing a step that typically sends content teams to external tools. AI-assisted content creation was a topic across the entire show floor, and having it built natively into the platform resonated. For teams without dedicated designers, that matters.
The Real Magic of InfoComm
InfoComm 2026 confirmed what we already believed: digital signage is no longer peripheral infrastructure. It’s part of how spaces function, how organizations communicate, and how experiences are delivered across physical and digital environments. AI, proactive operations, and platform-level scalability are the factors that separate real solutions from noise.
But beyond the trends, what InfoComm does better than any other show is remind you why this industry is worth showing up for. The relationships built in hallways, at dinners, and in conversations that go well past 5pm are the ones that drive business forward. Especially in an industry where remote work is the norm, this in-person time is genuinely irreplaceable.
We’re already looking ahead to InfoComm 2027 in Orlando, June 12–18, and excited to be back at Booth 755. See you there.
