InfoComm 2026 ran June 13-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, drawing 28,132 verified attendees from 94 countries. Total attendance dipped from 2025, but end users reached a record 37% of verified attendance, AI ran across the show floor, and AVIXA signaled where pro AV heads next: the connected workplace, live experiences, and the home.
For the pro AV industry, InfoComm is the annual reckoning, the week when integrators, manufacturers, and end users gather to see what the convergence of audio, video, IT, and data actually looks like on a show floor. The 2026 edition, back in Las Vegas after 2025's Orlando run, told a more nuanced story than a single attendance headline can carry.
The top-line number was down. InfoComm 2026 recorded 28,132 verified attendees, a 9.2% decline from the 30,998 verified in Orlando in 2025. But the composition of the crowd moved in the opposite direction from the headcount. End users made up 37% of verified attendees, a record for the show, up from 35% in Orlando in 2025 and just 29% at the 2024 Las Vegas edition. In a channel-heavy industry, a rising end-user share means a larger portion of the audience were professionals buying or specifying systems for their own organizations. For exhibitors, that is the number that matters more than the gross gate.
Here's the full breakdown of what happened at InfoComm 2026, what it means for AV professionals, and what exhibitors should carry into their 2027 planning.
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| 📍 Location | Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas |
| 📅 Dates | June 13-19, 2026 (exhibits: June 17-19) |
| 👥 Verified attendees |
| 28,132 |
| 📝 Total registrants | 35,707 |
| 🌍 Countries represented | 94 |
| 🌐 International attendees | 20% |
| 🎯 End users | 37% (a show record) |
| 🏭 Exhibitors | 807 |
| 📐 Show floor | 395,500 net square feet |
| 🎓 Education sessions | 300+ |
| 🎙️ Headline keynotes | Microsoft, Cisco, AVIXA Women's Breakfast |
| 🤝 Headline Partner | Shure |
| 🆕 Show debut | Media Day debuted; RESIDE promoted ahead of its 2027 launch |
The standout highlights from InfoComm 2026 were a record 37% end-user share of the audience (up from 35% in 2025), artificial intelligence as the defining theme across keynotes, education, and exhibitor demonstrations, four immersive on-floor activations built around the workplace, live events, and retail, the debut of a dedicated Media Day, and the industry launch of RESIDE, a new residential-integration event arriving alongside InfoComm 2027 in Orlando. Total attendance dipped to 28,132 verified, but the show's audience skewed more heavily toward buyers than in any recent year.
The most important thing to understand about InfoComm 2026 is that a lower attendance number did not mean a weaker show, because of who showed up.
AVIXA reported 28,132 verified attendees against 35,707 total registrants. The verified figure was down 9.2% from the 2025 Orlando edition. AVIXA did not identify a specific cause in its official post-show report, although industry coverage pointed to tariffs, geopolitical uncertainty, and softer international travel as possible factors. The number of countries represented declined slightly, from 97 in 2025 to 94 in 2026, while the international share of the audience actually edged up from 18% to 20%. In other words, this was not a story of collapsing international attendance so much as a softer overall gate.
The offsetting story is audience quality. End users, the corporate, education, government, and enterprise buyers who actually specify and purchase AV systems, reached 37% of verified attendees, the highest share in the show's recent history. That continues a clear multi-year climb: 29% at Las Vegas 2024, 35% at Orlando 2025, and 37% at Las Vegas 2026.
What this means for exhibitors: A show that trades gross attendance for a richer end-user mix is a better show to sell at, not a worse one. If your 2026 booth metrics looked light on badge scans but heavy on qualified conversations, that is consistent with the show's stronger end-user concentration. The right 2027 KPI is qualified end-user conversations, not total scans.
AVIXA also leaned harder into engagement formats this year, with leadership calling it the most interactive InfoComm they have produced. Four immersive activations anchored that claim, alongside Vision Stage and Spotlight Stage programming on the show floor.
If there was a single organizing idea for InfoComm 2026, it was artificial intelligence, and unlike some events where AI lives only in the keynote hall, at InfoComm it ran across workplace collaboration, content creation, customer experience, and back-of-house operations.
AVIXA formalized the theme with new AI Accelerator programming, and the two headline keynotes put AI at the center of the industry's biggest platform conversations:
The AI conversation on the floor was less about novelty and more about applied workflows: AI-enabled collaboration and workplace analytics in meeting spaces, AI-driven content and signage in retail and experiential environments, and automation in broadcast and live-production toolchains. Across the education program of more than 300 sessions, AI was treated as an operating assumption rather than a future capability.
The clearest expression of AVIXA's "most interactive" ambition was a set of four built-out, experiential activations on the show floor, a departure from the traditional wall-of-booths format and a preview of how the association wants exhibitors to demonstrate technology in context:
The common thread is technology shown as an outcome in a realistic setting, not as a spec sheet at a counter. For exhibitors, the activations signal where booth strategy is going: buyers increasingly want to see a system solving a problem in a believable environment.
Beyond the two AI-centered platform keynotes, InfoComm 2026's marquee session was the AVIXA Women's Breakfast, featuring Peabody Award-winning journalist Mariana Atencio on "Real Matters: Building Trust in an Unreal World," a pointed topic for an industry increasingly shaped by synthetic media and AI-generated content.
The education program remained a core reason end users travel to InfoComm, with more than 300 sessions spanning AI, workplace technology, broadcast AV, digital signage, enterprise IT, collaboration, experience design, and integrated systems. Certification, a distinctive InfoComm draw, continued on-site: dozens of professionals earned CTS, CTS-D, and CTS-I credentials during the week, adding to an industry base of more than 15,800 CTS holders.
InfoComm's various Best of Show programs, run independently by the industry's trade publications, are the fastest read on what landed on the floor. rAVe's judging panel recognized products across displays, audio, collaboration, AV-over-IP, software, and application-specific solutions. A selection of rAVe Best of InfoComm 2026 winners:
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Best New Product | Klvr Charger Pro |
| Best dvLED Display Solution | Media Resources TruVIEW MIP Low Power |
| Best MicroLED Display Solution | DreamWall CooLED MicroLED Classic Series Video Wall |
| Best All-in-One LED Display | ViewSonic LDS136-152 All-in-One Mobile Direct View LED |
| Best Installed Projection Solution | Epson EB-XQ2030B Large-Venue 3-chip 3LCD 4K Laser Projector |
| Best Integrator Software Tool | AVstudio Editor |
| Best Solution for Corporate Environments | Visix EPS Wireless ePaper Signs |
| Best Solution for Broadcast and Production | Magewell Director Plus |
| Best Solution for Higher Education | HoverCam Pilot 8 Wireless Digital Podium |
| Best Solution for K-12 | HoverCam DreamLink Wireless Casting |
| Best Solution for Large Venues / Live Events | Grass Valley + Daktronics End-to-End Venue Solutions |
Other publishers ran their own award programs, and a few themes ran across all of them:
Two developments at InfoComm 2026 mattered more for the show's trajectory than any single product.
Media Day debuted as a dedicated program for press and analysts, built around curated "Future of Work" and "Future of Experience" tours. AVIXA reported that verified media attendance increased 35% year over year during the edition in which Media Day debuted, a meaningful lift in the coverage that drives an exhibitor's off-floor return.
RESIDE moved to center stage. AVIXA announced RESIDE ahead of the show, on May 20, 2026, and used InfoComm 2026 as its industry launchpad. Developed in partnership with HTSA and ProSource, RESIDE is AVIXA's first dedicated event expansion into residential integration. It arrives alongside InfoComm 2027 and co-located Lightapalooza (June 16-18, 2027) under a "3-shows-1-badge" format, extending AVIXA's remit from commercial pro AV into the custom-install and smart-home market. For a show historically defined by boardrooms, stadiums, and lecture halls, a dedicated residential event is a genuine expansion of the audience InfoComm intends to serve.
| Dimension | 2025 (Orlando) | 2026 (Las Vegas) |
|---|---|---|
| Verified attendees | 30,998 | 28,132 |
| Countries represented | 97 | 94 |
| International share | 18% | 20% |
| End-user share | 35% | 37% (record) |
| Exhibitors | 817 | 807 |
| Show floor | ~400,100 net sq ft | 395,500 net sq ft |
| Media Day | - | Debuted (media attendance +35%) |
| Residential | - | RESIDE launched for 2027 |
| Defining theme | Convergence | AI across the show |
The clearest contrast is quality over quantity: the 2026 gate was smaller, but denser with end-user buyers and organized around applied AI and experiential demonstration. Where 2025 was a larger show, 2026 was a tighter, buyer-heavy edition that used its programming to point the industry toward AI-driven workflows and new markets.
InfoComm 2026 sent clear signals about what is working. For anyone planning 2027 exhibition space in Orlando:
Based on the 2026 edition and the wider pro AV landscape:
Three takeaways define the week. First, audience quality is the new headline metric: a record 37% end-user share means the industry's flagship event is concentrating buyers even as gross attendance softens, and that is the number exhibitors should optimize for. Second, AI is the operating layer, not the sideshow, running from the Microsoft and Cisco keynotes through the AI Accelerator program to signage, collaboration, and production demos across the floor, with differentiation now hinging on the workflow AI improves rather than the AI label. Third, AVIXA is expanding the definition of pro AV: Media Day deepened the show's press engine, the immersive activations reframed how technology gets demonstrated, and RESIDE gave AVIXA its first dedicated event expansion into residential integration.
InfoComm 2026 was a smaller show than 2025 by headcount. On several measures that matter most to exhibitors - buyer concentration, applied AI, media engagement, and future market reach - it was a more focused and forward-looking edition.
InfoComm 2026 recorded 28,132 verified attendees from 94 countries, out of 35,707 total registrants. International attendees made up 20% of the total, and end users reached a record 37% share.
InfoComm 2026 ran June 13-19, 2026, at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the exhibit floor open June 17-19.
Verified attendance fell 9.2% from the 2025 Orlando edition. AVIXA did not identify a specific cause in its official post-show report, although industry coverage pointed to tariffs, geopolitical uncertainty, and softer international travel as possible factors. The number of countries represented dipped from 97 to 94, even as the international share of the audience edged up from 18% to 20%. Notably, end-user attendance rose to a record 37%.
The dominant theme was artificial intelligence, spanning keynotes, the new AI Accelerator program, and exhibitor demonstrations across workplace collaboration, content creation, retail experience, and operations. Secondary themes were experiential demonstration (four immersive on-floor activations) and market expansion (the debut Media Day and the residential RESIDE launch).
Headline speakers included Ilya Bukshteyn (Microsoft Corporate VP, Teams Calling, Meetings and Devices) on AI-powered collaboration, Espen Løberg (Cisco VP/GM, Collaboration Devices) on "Connected Intelligence," and journalist Mariana Atencio at the AVIXA Women's Breakfast on building trust in an AI-shaped media landscape.
Multiple trade publications ran independent award programs. rAVe's Best of InfoComm winners included the Klvr Charger Pro (Best New Product), Epson EB-XQ2030B 4K laser projector, ViewSonic LDS136-152 all-in-one LED, Magewell Director Plus, and HoverCam Pilot 8. Separately, the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) earned multiple Best of Show awards for its IPMX open standard, Appotronics' AIMapper won a ProjectorCentral Best of Show, and Cobalt Digital's blueCORE won a Future Best of Show award.
RESIDE is a new residential-integration event from AVIXA, developed with HTSA and ProSource and announced in May 2026. It debuts alongside InfoComm 2027, co-located with Lightapalooza under a "3-shows-1-badge" format, and marks AVIXA's first dedicated event expansion into the custom-install and smart-home market.
InfoComm 2027 takes place June 12-18, 2027, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, with exhibits open June 16-18. RESIDE and Lightapalooza will be co-located with the event. Visit infocommshow.org for details.
