NΞXXT Launches “The SPRINT” at InfoComm 2026 – hands on AI innovation for the collaboration industry

At InfoComm 2026, NΞXXT will introduce “The SPRINT,” a hands-on AI innovation session created for professionals across the AV and collaboration industry. Scheduled for June 18, the four-hour workshop will bring together diverse teams of vendors, integrators, consultants, and end users to solve real-world AI challenges through rapid collaboration, experimentation, and practical problem-solving. Participants will create working concepts such as prototypes, workflows, and AI-powered business ideas while learning innovation methods they can apply in their own organizations.

The event, supported by AVIXA, focuses on making AI innovation more accessible and actionable for the industry. Top-performing teams will showcase their ideas live on the AVIXA Xchange LIVE stage during InfoComm 2026. Building on the success of similar sessions at ISE, The SPRINT aims to help AV and IT professionals gain confidence in using AI tools, strengthen collaboration across teams, and develop repeatable innovation practices that deliver practical business outcomes.

NΞXXT is excited to announce The SPRINT at InfoComm 2026, a new hands-on innovation experience designed to help the AV and collaboration industry learn how to turn AI opportunity into practical outcomes.

Taking place on Thursday, June 18 from 1:00 – 5:00 PM, The SPRINT is a four-hour, team-based innovation session built on a simple premise:

AI innovation is a team sport, and the strongest outcomes come from diversity of perspective.

Participants will work in small, intentionally diverse teams. Each will be assigned a “catalyst challenge”, and tasked with building a tangible response – whether a prototype, service concept, workflow, business model or other practical expression of an AI-enabled opportunity.

“AI has created a moment where everyone is talking about innovation, but few within our industry have ever formally been taught the skills, structures and best practices of HOW to do so,” said Byron Tarry, Founder and Chief Transformation Officer at NEXXT. “The SPRINT is about changing that.”

From ideas to impact

Participants will learn by doing – combining their own skills with the collective knowledge, tools and perspectives or others across the room.

The emphasis is not on polished perfection, but on rapid experimentation, creative use of AI tools and practical exploration of what is possible when teams simply start building.

Top teams from Thursday will then be invited to present their outputs on the AVIXA Xchange LIVE stage on Friday, June 19 (12:00 – 1:00 PM), giving the wider InfoComm audience a front-row view into what industry innovation under pressure can produce.

“The SPRINT reflects our commitment to evolving how our industry learns and grows,” said Annette Sandler, Senior Director, Live Content, U.S./Canada, AVIXA, producer of InfoComm. “By creating space for hands-on collaboration, experimentation and shared discovery, we are helping the community build the skills and confidence needed to navigate the AI era.”

Built for a diverse, AI-curious community

The SPRINT is open to participants from across the AV and collaboration ecosystem – vendors, integrators, consultants and end users – with a strong emphasis on attracting diversity of role, experience and perspective.

Participants are also encouraged to attend in mentor-mentee pairs, bringing together the combination of strategic leadership and frontline technical AI expertise so critical to progress in this moment.

A repeatable model for industry innovation

Building on the success of a similar format introduced at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), The SPRINT is designed as more than a one-off experience. Participants will leave with:

• Greater confidence in their ability to contribute to and shape innovation
• A tangible team output such as a prototype, workflow, service concept or proof-of-concept artifact
• Hands-on experience of a practical innovation sprint methodology they can reuse
• A clearer understanding of how AI tools can be used not only to ideate, but also to prototype, validate and communicate new possibilities quickly

“The goal is not just what gets built in the room,” added Tarry. “It is what people can take back into their organisations – a way of working that makes innovation more accessible, more repeatable and ultimately more impactful.”

Registration and availability

Participation in The SPRINT will have limited capacity, but is open to any and all “AI progressive” InfoComm attendees – from Front Office strategists to Front Line AI practitioners. Full session details and registration are available at: https://www.infocommshow.org/2026-sessions/the-sprint-practical-innovation-in-action