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Summary
On this special episode of Catching Up with, the Collab Collective’s Craig Durr takes viewers on a dynamic floor walk at ISE 2026, joined by industry leaders Tim Albright of AVNation TV, Nathan Coutinho and Neil Fluester of Logitech, Danny Hayasaka of Mago, and Tom Arbuthnot of Empowering.Cloud.
Recorded live on the show floor in Barcelona, Craig and his guests explore major announcements and hands-on demos from Crestron, Heckler, Shure, Neat, and Logitech—unpacking how each company is approaching enterprise collaboration in 2026.
Their discussion covers:
- Crestron’s AI-Ready Collaboration Stack: Collab Compute, MDEP-based security, edge processing, and AutoMeasure to streamline deployment
- Shure’s IntelliMix Evolution: The Android-based IntelliMix Bar Pro with quad-camera IntelliMix View and advanced audio processing
- Heckler’s Modular Deployment Model: Tool-less Framework systems and Express Install solutions designed for faster Teams Room rollouts
- Mago’s Meet, Present, Collaborate Platform: Software-driven interoperability across major meeting platforms with interactive whiteboarding and browser-based sharing
- Logitech’s Sustainability + Room Intelligence: Recycled materials, serviceable devices, ergonomic design, and Logitech Spot for occupancy and room health insights
Transcript
Craig Durr: Hey, everybody. This is Craig Durr, Chief Analyst and Founder of the Collab Collective. I'm excited to be here at ISE 2026. We're gonna go and see some booths.
Hey, wait. Hold on, I’m supposed to meet up with you guys. We're doing the booth walk, right?
Tim Albright: You know, you're going the wrong way.
Craig Durr: Oh, all right. Well, these are my guests, Tim Albright and Nathan Coutinho.
How are you guys doing?
Tim Albright: We’re fine, but you were going the wrong way.
Craig Durr: But we're gonna do this, right?
Nathan Coutinho: Okay, yeah.
Craig Durr: You and I have stayed in touch a lot right now. We've already done the background history, but you've been really busy as of late, right?
Tim Albright: Travel wise, yeah.
Craig Durr: You've been everywhere. Let's go over the hit list of where you've been.
Tim Albright: Since you and I talked about a year ago, certainly NAB, right? National Association of Broadcasters. You've got InfoComm, of course, in June. Then, I turned around and came to Europe for IBC. So yeah, it's been really great. And this year, I added to that Almo E4 for in the U.S. I’m doing the keynote.
Craig Durr: Really? That’s fantastic.
Tim Albright: Yeah, so the week after ISE, I start those. There's four stops—doing a keynote in Anaheim, DC, Dallas, and Boston.
Craig Durr: You're kidding me? You're like… what's beyond platinum status here?
Tim Albright: Not yet, no. A million-mile or whatever that is, right?
Craig Durr: So we're gonna go to Crestron, right? You and I had a chance to visit with these guys yesterday. You were doing some work for AVNation, right?
Tim Albright: And we're doing some interviews with our buddy, Brad Hensley, and really talking about their expanded move into the collaboration ecosystem.
Craig Durr: What does that mean?
Tim Albright: Well, it's where they're saying that IT managers and AV decision makers can leverage their technology, Crestron technology, to incorporate into a corporation's or a higher education institution’s environment, their ecosystem, their lifeblood, that collaboration idea. And one of the things they did was some of their new UC tools, as well as some of their integration tools.
Craig Durr: Let's go and find some of those right now there.
Content, Collaboration, and Control—this is the 3Cs that they do.
Tim Albright: I was in Madrid for Masters. So Content, Collaboration, and Control, they’re leaning into that idea for Crestron and a couple things.
Number one, certainly control—Crestron is known for that. Collaboration and content, though, when you have that, that is when you're talking about their UC engine, that's when you're talking about their screen sharing or their content sharing. So they’re wrapping all those up together and saying, “Hey, under one umbrella, under one manufacturer. We can bring all of this stuff together for your system, for your corporation, or your higher education institution.”
Craig Durr: Got it. Now, there's a new system they've been talking about, right? The Collab Compute. Did you have a chance to see that?
Tim Albright: I saw it last night for the first time.
Craig Durr:That's pretty powerful.
Tim Albright: What that does, though, is they are leveraging a lot of existing technologies when it comes to MDEP.
Craig Durr: Oh, yeah.
Tim Albright: From a security standpoint. One of the things that IT managers are concerned with is security, right? And leveraging that platform gives the IT directors peace of mind. They know Microsoft, they trust Microsoft, and obviously, Teams is a huge platform. Microsoft, in general, is a huge platform. So leveraging that MDEP platform helps a lot.
Craig Durr: Now it looks like they must have one over there on the wall. What if we have a chance to go take a look at it?
Is this the Collab Compute? All right, so this is the one that you were talking about before, right? I love this. This is a single form factor. It's got all that I/O management in the back side, right?
Tim Albright: And this mounting is very interesting because the way they've got it, that is a built-in way to hide technology. Here's the thing, when you and I were younger, racks were the thing, right? The bigger the rack, the better the system, right? Today, both architects, interior designers, the decision makers themselves, they don't want to see it.
Craig Durr: Yes, there's a lot of aesthetic needs.
Tim Albright: Absolutely. If I've got to see the technology, then we've got an issue, right? So this mounting system allows you to hide that behind the display. You've got a powerful package right there, all behind the display.
Craig Durr: And you know, one of the best things I like about this is the whole idea that this has got that new MPU compute in this world. So they talk about this as being enabled for an AI architecture, right? The fact that it's taking audio and video processing and has all that compute ready to go. It's a pretty powerful box, right?
Tim Albright: It is, and here's the other thing that AI extends into the team's platform because you've got excellent audio, excellent video, and with that, then the Microsoft Teams AI can use that for things like facilitator and tasks.
Craig Durr: Hey, by the way, I saw another great one over here. Did you see this last night as well?
Tim Albright: I saw this, the cameras are awesome. But here's what I want to show you.
Craig Durr: Oh, this is a really good one.
Tim Albright: So this is not a QR code. This is AutoMeasure, a box that you put on microphones, and in the ceiling. Used to be, you had to measure a system with a tape measure.
Craig Durr: Right, you'd actually be there…
Tim Albright: Yes, and double check the whole measure twice, cut once type idea, right? Well, with this, this takes what used to take, about three or four hours is what I was told by some integrator friends of mine. I never personally done it, but I was told it takes three to four hours, and that cuts it down to about a half an hour to an hour
Craig Durr: What does this actually do?
Tim Albright: So you hang this up, and you point through the cameras to this using Crestron software.
Craig Durr: Yeah, it was talking about using computer vision, right?
Tim Albright: Yes, and it says, “Okay, well, this is how far this is away from said microphone down to the quarter of an inch or millimeter.” And it automatically configures your system.
Craig Durr: This is fantastic. So this plays into that next thing they've been talking about, which they call Deploy, Core, and Peripherals, right? It's a great thing.
Speaking of peripherals, we got a few. Let's do this real quick. This is one that I really like that you might be able to talk about as well. But this is their new i12D, part of the 1 Beyond Cameras, right? So you've seen this with the two camera heads, but it also has that third camera eye right there for room vision, right? It's a pretty powerful system.
Tim Albright: It's a very powerful system, and it goes back to our talk about AI. And leveraging edge computing, Edge AI, to make your system and your meetings more equitable and more engaging.
Craig Durr: I love it. This is a great solution. All right, I think it's about time to go see Nathan. All right, I'm gonna head out this way.
Tim Albright: I'm gonna head this way.
Craig Durr: We'll talk to you later, okay? Bye now.
All right, that was pretty good. We had a chance to learn about Crestron. Who's next? I'm supposed to meet Nathan.
Nathan, how was that cup of coffee?
Nathan Coutinho: It was good. I was actually getting lost in the Epson lights.
Craig Durr: Look at this here. That is amazing, huh?
Nathan Coutinho: There's just so much this conference you can just get lost in.
Craig Durr: Speaking of which, getting lost in the conference, you want to go visit your friends at Heckler, right?
Nathan Coutinho: I do
Craig Durr: Which is a far way away. Why don't we go ahead and start walking up that way.
Nathan Coutinho: Let’s do it.
Craig Durr: All right, so you and I have actually been working together on these side projects for a while.
Nathan Coutinho: Lots of side projects
Craig Durr: I'm telling you. You've got a lot of great stuff going on right now, and I would love to learn more about it or share with the audience right now. You kind of leaned into this idea of creating content as a form of communication.
Nathan Coutinho: I would say I've fallen into it. I don't know how far I've fallen. I think I've fallen pretty deep.
Craig Durr: Did you really?
Nathan Coutinho: But I don't know where the end is, so I'm just exploring different mediums and just trying out. You know, you're never going to be good at everything. I'm not expecting to, but I'm just trying out a couple things to see what I like, what I don't like. I kind of began with unscripted.
Craig Durr: Hold on, explain what unscripted is.
Nathan Coutinho: It actually started the year before at ISE. I said, “Hey, listen, I met all these great people, and there's so many things…” I mean, you know this. It's not just the booths; it's all the people behind the booths. It's all the creativity, and I met so many people. I'm like, “Hey, I want to interview these people.” So it started, you were one of the first people in the episode.
But I started with a gentleman. I just saw him from Canada. He's one of our partners, and I wanted to learn more about his business, about how we come into the play. Then I got another one, and I got another one. It just kept going.
Craig Durr: You are now going on season three.
Nathan Coutinho: I'm starting season three, and we're taking a different approach. This whole time, I've been recording everything online, and there are goods and bads. The goods are, it's easy to get anyone on—all they need is a webcam and a decent microphone. Physically, it is much harder, but the quality is very impressive.
Craig Durr: Yeah. I mean, you and I talked about being in person, making these videos is so much more natural. Yeah, so unscripted, you're on season three, but then you also had the one that we did here in Barcelona, the Collaboration Cafes.
Nathan Coutinho: And for obvious reasons, mostly fear of you suing me. I decided not to use that name, and then I'm like, “All right, if I keep doing this right, the thought process was, find creative people like yourself, find a city that's worth exploring, check out the local sites, the culture, the cuisine, and make it kind of like a documentary. But then let's talk about tech, and the market, and everything else as well.”
Craig Durr: I love the idea and in-person is really great, too. And you had some great friends of ours there, right? You did one where we had somebody visiting Chicago, right?
Nathan Coutinho: Yep, Tim Albright. We did some singing in there, which I don't know, I'm not really singing, but you know.
Craig Durr: That was on the cutting room floor, I hope. Is that what that was?
Nathan Coutinho: I made it into the video, but only the good bits.
Craig Durr: And then here's a fun one you also did. You are one of the most dedicated family men I know, and you film your son's baseball, right? You started great and doing great content around that as well.
Nathan Coutinho: I started with an iPhone, and now I have eight cameras in the center field everywhere. IIt's become kind of an addiction, and my wife has to remind me. She's like, “You know, this is not MLB, right? This is like 14U baseball.” But it's fun, and I've explored. I use all our own cameras, Mevo Core.
Craig Durr: I love those cameras.
Nathan Coutinho: I know you're using them this week.
Craig Durr: Yeah, I'm using some here as well.
Nathan Coutinho: It's a really simple setup. It's all wireless. You use an iPad, and you can capture all the different scenes, first base, second base… You know, once you get past eight cameras, you’re nuts.
Craig Durr: You've even converted some of the other dads to also invest in this as well.
Nathan Coutinho: Yeah, there's a whole cult of us baseball dads that are figuring this out.
Craig Durr: It's a cult following.
Nathan Coutinho: But, yeah, it's all around content.
Craig Durr: You know, it's perfect. I'm going to come back here with our friend Neil Fluester later on, but let's keep going. You want to take me to Heckler, right? Let's go ahead. Tell me a little bit about Heckler.
Nathan Coutinho: So Heckler has been a partner for quite a while, for a number of years, actually. And the thing I really like about them is they make really, really simple solutions that are almost all toolless. I think all their new products are all toolless. So what happens is, when customers try to install a video conferencing monitor or video bar, preferably, they want to be able to set it up really quickly. So they make it super simple, and they can pack in a really, really small assembly, and ship it all over the world. It's so many great things.
Craig Durr: It's one of those key problem points, the deployment and simplicity of that as well.
Nathan Coutinho: We're here. Let's check out Frame. Oh, wait, we've got Dean here.
Dean, how are you? This is Dean. He's the CEO.
Dean Heckler: Hey, it’s Dean. How are you doing?
Craig Durr: Craig Durr, pleasure to meet you. How's the show been so far for you?
Dean Heckler: It's been great. Busy morning… coming for your bottle openers?
Nathan Coutinho: Sure, I’ll take one
Craig Durr: I’m gonna get one as well. Look at that. That's awesome.
Actually, we really came here to see some of the products. So Nathan, wanted to show me some of the great partnerships that you guys are working on together, as well as some of the cool installations that you're able to enable.
Nathan Coutinho: And there's a number of things… I see you have Framework, so I was actually going to take the trouble and try to explain it. But since you're here, I think I might know it better. So tell us about Framework. It just looks fantastic
Dean Heckler: Heckler Framework is a modular system. It's something we've learned from listening to our customers over the years, making products for small rooms, medium rooms, and large rooms. Could we make a product that's for every room and really scales from one bay to two bays to nine bays to 20 bays, and can support anything from a single 43-inch display all the way up to the largest displays on the market. We now support 115-inch displays. So all that weight’s loaded to the ground.
Craig Durr: I love that it’s like, you know, instead of the traditional credenza, you got this nice and compact up against the wall.
Dean Heckler: Yeah, room space at a premium. We want to keep enough room for the gear, but no more. This helps redefine the guide path in the room, so you get a bit more room for devices up above.
Nathan Coutinho: Now, is this ADA compliant as well?
Dean Heckler: Yes, this is all in the cane detect area so that you redefine your guide path.
Craig Durr: You know, you even have some sound treatment on here, which winds up being…
Dean Heckler: Yeah, different panel options, and some of those panel options have acoustic absorbing qualities. This is really wood looks we can do texture wrap.
Nathan Coutinho: Now, if so, following along, I was just telling him that one of the best things you guys do is you make it not just easy to ship, easy to install, toolless assembly, some of the other products that we'll see as well, but this is a big deal because think about the impact on the AV team that you don't need to install.
Dean Heckler: That’s right. It completely changes all their projects because the style of the paneling is sold separately, and it's completely independent. The AV teams can get to work, they get standardized on very few parts. So what would have been an overly complex project is now broken down to very simple parts that can make an interchange very easily. And we do special mounts.
Craig Durr: A nice product here that we're gonna highlight a little bit. But this isn't the only Logitech Bar product I've seen here.
Nathan Coutinho: No, in fact, I already see that there's a couple of other models here. That’s Rally Board. I'm really excited to see this. I saw a prototype of this last year at ISE. So this is the finished product, right?
Dean Heckler: This is the finished product. This is the fixed height stand, To expand the ecosystem of accessories, Rally Board 65, this is kind of an entry level basic stand. It doesn't support flip over, but you can install the 65 camera above or below. One thing is it breaks down to a very small box for large deployments. The package for the cart can fit on the same palette as the display and cut way down on freight shipping. And you see a lot of projects get over-complicated and stalled due to budgets and logistics.
Craig Durr: We're here in Europe. You know, one of the biggest hindrances here is elevators and being able to load content into them. That's gotta be a great solution.
Nathan Coutinho: Now, if you have a fleet of these, I've seen the pictures on your website where, literally, they're not touching each other, but they're stacked neatly in the closet, so you can actually roll them away…
Dean Heckler: The geometry of this… the next leg would slide right behind. So you can have every few inches, have another one. So floor space being at a premium, again.
Craig Durr: You got some more stuff over there. This is pretty cool.
Nathan Coutinho:I love this podium. I don't even know the name, but obviously you do.
Dean Heckler: It's Heckler Lectern. My last name plus whatever it is.
Craig Durr: You were just raising and lowering it.
Dean Heckler: It’s a sit stand, and we just wanted to reinvent what a lectern is. Start with a white sheet, start with modern requirements. Everything about this is ADA compliant, so everything is meant for reach and for people in wheelchairs or standing. We wanted to give the same exact experience for any kind of instructor, any person.
Craig Durr: He did say reach, by the way, right?
Nathan Coutinho: Yeah, there is reach right there. There we go.
Craig Durr: That wasn't even planned. I love that. This is good.
Dean Heckler: We have different console inserts. We can do tap console inserts. A lot of universities use a tap for room control or presentation control.
Nathan Coutinho: I also like the effective display on the front.
Dean Heckler: Yeah, there's an optional front display mount, which has all sorts of interesting use cases.
Nathan Coutinho: I bet it does. I was just telling them if you're in a room that the screen is so close to the person in the front row, they can just look there. They don't even have to look up on the screen. I mean, you can use it for different purposes.
Dean Heckler: So simple to put your presentation right there, or nowadays with AI transcribing or translation. You know that clad all the students’ attention still flowing in this direction. Lots of really cool uses.
Craig Durr: I see this one. I love this because I actually wrote an ebook for you guys. But this is not just the Rally Huddle. It’s also part of the Express Install.
Nathan Coutinho: This is part of Express Install, and that's the tabletop, and this is the rolling, right?
Craig Durr: Well, explain to me the Express Install ecosystem. What is that?
Nathan Coutinho: Microsoft basically worked really hard trying to figure out, “Okay, we've got to be able to install Teams rooms faster.” One of the biggest challenges with installation is the length of time it takes to physically get everything on the wall. So because Heckler has already pioneered all these different stands, being able to ship it in small containers, quick assembly toolless assembly even, they basically use the same principles and built both of them. Did I do good?
Dean Heckler: Did good? They would like one person, one room, one hour, preferably. So display size, these stands are max out of 55 inches. One person can easily mount that display. You're not complicating things with facilities and room or wall modification. So this is a scaled down stand about the size of an office chair, so any room that's got a table and chairs in it, you can pull away a chair…
Craig Durr: It could be the fourth person up at the table, right there and there. And then this is the credenza idea, right?
Nathan Coutinho: Yeah. I don't know if the cable management's all set up, but the cable manager is awesome in this thing, so you definitely want to take a look at that.
Dean Heckler: Both products have a PoE adapter for the controller.
Craig Durr: This is part of that toolless system.
Dean Heckler: Yeah, all thumbs screws. You can imagine one person going into a room.
Craig Durr: I like the consolidated power bank there.
Dean Heckler: Yeah, a global power strip so that AV specifiers can specify globally.
Nathan Coutinho: It's so neat and clean. I love it.
Craig Durr: I mean, this is great. This has been a wonderful education. And look, you couldn't find a better instructor at all, too, right?
Nathan Coutinho: Yeah, I know I lucked out having Dean here.
Craig Durr: I appreciate you walking us through this. Now, we're gonna head on. I gotta go see someone over at Shure.
Nathan Coutinho: Cool, I'll walk over with you.
Craig Durr: This area is so crazy crowded. What's going on? Oh, hey, there they are. Tom, Danny, so busy here, man. How's your show been?
Danny Hayasaka: It’s fantastic.
Craig Durr: Have you seen a lot of stuff already? Meeting after meeting after meeting
Danny Hayasaka: Yeah, what about you?
Tom Arbuthnot: Yeah, it's been busy. We're just saying loads are going on in the team space. And obviously, oversee what Shure is doing in the space now. So let’s head onto Hall 3.
Craig Durr: And you got to run off somewhere else, but I want to steal you before you go somewhere.
These guys at shore have a new solution, and I've been talking about it as well, right?
Tom Arbuthnot: Yeah, the new MDEP bar.
Craig Durr: The problem is we got to work our way through here. Let's do our best. There's one thing these guys are never short of, which is a crowd in their building. I feel like I need to do the school line. Follow me through here. I see the bar.
Tom Arbuthnot: There's a perfect opening. Look at this.
Craig Durr: This is the new Room Bar Pro.
Tom Arbuthnot: So this is the Shure IntelliMix Bar. It’s an MDEP bar, which is Shure’s first in the ecosystem.
Craig Durr: And they've announced about this partnership for a while. So this is actually back.
Tom Arbuthnot: Yeah, it’s the first time it's coming to market. Basically, there's a lot of bars out there, so the unique Shure we’re bringing to the party is all their clever IntelliMix audio processing but on Android. And if you look carefully, there's cameras on the outside, so not just your typical camera bulb, but outside in camera.
Craig Durr: These are the quad cameras that I heard so much about, right? I love that they actually have this in two different colors here.
Tom Arbuthnot: Yeah, I quite like the white.
Craig Durr: Do you really? This will work well in your conference room.
Tom Arbuthnot: Yeah, I think I can have one of these.
Craig Durr: So now we've got another Android bar that's coming out. But these guys are doing it differently because they have 100 years of DNA within audio, right?
Tom Arbuthnot: Yeah, and we all know the bar space is crowded, so this is what Shure is bringing to the party—their unique audio processing. They've got the Windows MTR brought out last year, and that has the IntelliMix on the Windows platform. So this is the same type of technology but on the Android platform.
Craig Durr: I've been talking to these guys, and this isn't like an OEM product right now. This is not a partnership. This is IP from the video space that these guys have been working on for years. Pretty impressive, right? They talk about calling this the IntelliMix View. I don't know if you heard that or not. The idea is instead of having those panels that kind of don't line up, this can get a clear shot of you and Danny, if you're over here, it's gonna get a clear shot of me as well.
Tom Arbuthnot: Yeah, I've seen you in some tests, and it's pretty impressive. It’s publicly announced. I think it's coming later this year to market, if I'm right.
Craig Durr: So you mix this with the Room Kits for the Windows solutions?
Tom Arbuthnot: Yeah, so you can have, either Windows-based compute and separate outside in cameras, and they've got the Hudley relationship, and they've got the ceiling tiles, or you've got more of an all-in-one experience here in the bar with a controller as well.
Craig Durr: This is pretty good. Did you have a chance to see this as of yet?
Tom Arbuthnot: Yeah, I've had some private briefings.
Danny Hayasaka: Oh, yeah. I was at the event yesterday, but unfortunately I had to go meet a client, so I didn't get to do the hands on that's why I'm here.
Tom Arbuthnot: It's really quite competitive. Well, I gotta go for my next…
Craig Durr: You're a busy man.
Tom Arbuthnot: See you, Craig.
Craig Durr: Over there, they have some really cool space called the Innovation Lab. Let’s spend some time doing that.
That was pretty cool.
Danny Hayasaka: Yeah, that was. I love that part.
Craig Durr: All right, so you want to take me to see Neat, right? Now, tell me why we're gonna see Neat.
Danny Hayasaka: So Neat is doing something really cool with the Mago software. Unlike some of the other bars where you have to have a separate PC to operate Mago or use Mago, Neat actually has Neat Pulse, and they have the app available through their App Hub, so customers that have Neat devices or are looking at Neat devices simply have to turn it on, enable it.
Craig Durr: We'll save that when we get there. You hit a great point, though. You and I, we had a cup of coffee at the Collaboration Cafe. We talked about that. It was great, man. It was hot down there. You were saying, even since then, since you and I visited this summer, there's a lot of stuff going on, right?
Danny Hayasaka: Yeah, there's been a lot of evolution since we first met over in Florida with Neat and Mago and others.
Craig Durr: I'm gonna have you tell them all about it. Okay, go on. Let's go after you, my friend. Yeah. So what you're telling me is this, there's been a lot going on just since this summer, when I talked about a whole lot.
Danny Hayasaka: When we first started with Mago, they had these pieces of hardware that you had to kind of use in order to use Mago. But since then, we've evolved, and we're completely software now. So we're not dependent on any one specific computer or device.
Craig Durr: So that's where some of these partnerships come into play, that you're talking about, right? Some of the best things here is you've got partners that are probably all over this floor here. So who are some of the partners you guys have been working with?
Danny Hayasaka: We're currently working with Neat, with Yealink, with Como, with ProDVX… we're also working with Shure in some regions of the world. We're working with Jabra in some regions.
Craig Durr: This is like a hit list of all the right people. And you're still going down this path. You had a really great three point phrase. You talked about how the path worked. Tell me that again.
Danny Hayasaka: So it's Meet, Present, Collaborate. We still have that. So now we're making it easier for customers to access Mago. They can use their existing hardware, or like, we're headed over to Neat, to show you how easy it is to access Mago right from their devices.
Craig Durr: All right, Danny, this is the new interface?
Danny Hayasaka: This is the new interface. In the previous version, you have to actually physically connect to access the various meeting platforms. With this new version of Mago, you now have the ability to join all the multiple meeting platforms right from the device.
Craig Durr: So this is solving that crazy problem that we've talked about before, right? Is it a Teams room? Is it a Zoom Room? Direct guest join that doesn't work, things like that?
Danny Hayasaka: Correct
Craig Durr: It doesn't matter what platform I need to go to, it's gonna do that?
Danny Hayasaka: Yeah, if you look at here, you're able to see all the various meeting platforms that you can join, and you have the option to either book the room, or you can literally just start a meeting with one tap.
Craig Durr: And this is the Mago UI? This is Mago driving that experience.
Danny Hayasaka: So now we're able to just simply join the meeting, and this is a Teams meeting.
Craig Durr: There we are. That's fantastic. Now, you've got other platforms on here as well, right? I see that you have Zoom. I saw Webex as well. What is Mago Meet?
Danny Hayasaka: Mago Meet is yet another meeting platform. It’s great for especially high security environments, where they only want to talk to each other. So we're talking about a closed-air gap kind of environment. We have an on-prem solution as well. That on-prem solution, they can still use Teams and Zoom and all the other media.
Craig Durr: Now, this is the meeting experience? Why don't you share with me? Can you show me anything about the present or the share?
Danny Hayasaka: Yeah, it's probably better to go on that since this is a passive display and that's an interactive display, so it looks way better to do Collaborate.
Craig Durr: All right, perfect. So what is this experience over here we're talking about now?
Danny Hayasaka: All right, so we're gonna go and show you a couple of experiences.
Craig Durr: Here's the phrase you talked about before—Meet, Present, Collaborate.
Danny Hayasaka: Yeah, so it's all here. Present is the option that we provide customers to very quickly and easily share content, present content.
Craig Durr: So we're talking about, I'm just in the room, and I got to get something up on the screen?
Danny Hayasaka: Yeah, so you're not joining any meeting. You just simply walk in the room and you want to present a presentation, whatever it may be, a PowerPoint, a document, a spreadsheet. You have multiple options from the native casting solutions, like Windows K and Shard, or if you're not on the same network, which happens a lot, you simply scan the QR code, or you go to magolink.com.
Craig Durr: And that's a key to load it in
Danny Hayasaka: And you just load, yes.
Craig Durr: This is actually a new interface, a new graphic you told me about as well. I love that as well. This is fantastic.
Danny Hayasaka: And Mago link, like I said, works on any device—Apple, Chrome OS, Windows 11, Android. It just works.
Craig Durr: It's browser-based, is that what you want to say?
Danny Hayasaka: Yes, it’s browser-based.
Craig Durr: That is so cool. Do you have a chance to show me the last one, which is Collaborate.
Danny Hayasaka: This is basically a whiteboard on steroids. So all whiteboards have the option to write. You can write, you can erase—that's not new. What we're able to do is inject different solutions. For example, if people like airplanes or you're an engineer, you can get a list of 3D objects. That 3D object is going to render here on the screen, and then you're able to actually manipulate this. You can also make it spin around. So if you size it, you can spin this around all over.
Craig Durr: That this was, by the way, a little bit like my flight coming over here. I pulled out of Atlanta. You should have seen the weather traffic pattern there.
Danny Hayasaka: *laughs* In addition to having 3D objects, you can also inject videos. Let's see, do you guys have Collab Collective?
Craig Durr: Yeah, there's a Collab Collective. I love this. This is unrehearsed. Let's hope this works.
Danny Hayasaka: We'll give Dave some airtime here. So now you can add that video to the board. You can also size it. You can play it.
Craig Durr: Now we're playing this video embedded in, next to this. I'm working with this in a multi directional idea. This is fantastic.
Danny Hayasaka: You can also insert websites and anything else. So it's just robust.
Craig Durr: Total steroids here. This is so cool. Hey, I appreciate you showing me. This is fantastic.
Danny Hayasaka: Yeah, you're welcome. You can save it, too. You can save it or you can delete and leave.
Craig Durr: All right, let's do this. I want to spend so much time here, but I'm gonna come back to the Neat team and talk to them tomorrow. I think you and I need to go find Neil over at Logitech. You want to join me?
Danny Hayasaka: Oh, yeah, let's go find Neil.
Craig Durr: All right, good. Let's go. We're supposed to meet Neil.
Neil Fluester: What’s up?
Craig Durr: How's it going?
Neil Fluester: I'm good. How are you doing?
Craig Durr: Since I saw you last, new logo.
Neil Fluester: Absolutely matches my eyes
Craig Durr: And you guys have a lot of cool stuff to say, right?
Neil Fluester: We do, absolutely. But there's a specific thing I want to talk about which isn't a product, it's part of our thinking and our way of life.
Craig Durr: Okay, good. Danny, let's show it. We're right here. Yeah, right here.
Neil Fluester: One of the things we're really good at, and it was a real eye opener to me when I joined Logi… A lot of companies have got a sustainability story, sure, which is just normally a page on the website that says, “You know, we use recycled cardboard,” but to Logitech, it's part of our DNA. And we're showcasing that.
You can see some of these pellets here. This is post consumer recycled plastics that we use, and we actually outlining per product how much PCR is in the product. So again, 71% of that keyboard is made up of post recycled plastic, 68% of this webcam.
Again, it really goes to show that Logitech is not just putting stuff in recycled cardboard. We're using consumer recycled plastics, and things like our headsets, they're actually serviceable, so that the ear cups come off.
Craig Durr: Which is an important element now, especially where the new ruling within the U.S. or within your European region. You make these serviceable devices, right?
Neil Fluester: Yes, batteries can be changed. And the cobalt in the batteries are 100% recycled. This band, again, changeable and replaceable. If you're giving this to someone else, and go, "Here's your recycled headset,” you want to give someone a new cut. At least not with someone else's sweat and stuff.
Craig Durr: I don't know, at least these might look good on me if I have them this way. *laughs*
Neil Fluester: The other thing that we're showing here is our Ergo line. There's a lot of people that have things like carpal tunnel syndrome, arthritis… if you're sitting there on a keyboard and a mouse all day, it’s really challenging from a health point of view. Our ergonomic line, not just of our mice, but our keyboards, from the wave keyboard to the comfort keyboard, really help users to be more productive without having to have that health challenge.
Craig Durr: That's actually the mouse that is on my desk right now. It’s the MX Ergo. And you're a big Logitech fan, too.
Danny Hayasaka: I have the MX4, and I am loving it.
Neil Fluester: I want to take you into the meeting room. It's free because the whole mural you see there is post recycled plastic. But also, we got another product in there I want to talk about.
Craig Durr: This way. Come on.
Neil Fluester: This is our Logitech Spot. It's not just an occupancy sensor for a room; it does room health as well. So it's measuring carbon dioxide, and it also measures humidity and the temperature of the room. It feeds all that data back into our sync portal, so you can actually manage the health of your room. Use it as an occupancy sensor if you don't have an oxygen sensor in your video bar to also get all that room health. A lot of people want to look at their rooms to see how they're performing. It pairs via Bluetooth, low energy to any of our bars or our screens. The other thing is we're using a new wireless technology called LoRaWAN, which allows you to deploy into any space over a wide range of multiple devices.
Craig Durr: I just want to say one thing, he was giving us such a hard time. This is a guy playing to the audience really well, right now. He just told him the entire story, right? I love hearing this. So Spot is one of the key things. I love all the sensors and all the data, but it ties into the other story, going all into the management console, right?
Neil Fluester: And its battery lasts three years. It’s a lithium battery. There’s one last thing I want to show you. Let's go out this way.
So Craig, we've got a special room for special people. This has a Spot in it, which we're using for occupancy, and it also has our bring your own device with Google Meet inside it—one of our other ecosystems. Do you want to check it out?
Craig Durr: Yeah, let me do that. Okay, let's see what's going on here.
Neil Fluester: Okay, so now that Craig is in there, Danny, what do you say? Should we go and get some real coffee?
Danny Hayasaka: Let’s go get some real coffee.
Craig Durr: Hey, no. Wait, you can't.
All right, everyone, I don't know if you can hear me or not. This is Craig Durr with the Collab Cafe. No, this is Craig Durr with the Collaboration…. I can't even think in this place, the oxygen is going to my brain. I get the names wrong. Hold on. Let me try it one more time.
This is Craig with the Collab Collective. Thank you for taking this tour around ISE 2026 with me, and we'll see you next time.
