The Collaboration Space: Building AI-Ready Collaboration Spaces at Scale with Crestron
As AI becomes a standard part of workplace productivity, organizations are rethinking how they design, deploy and manage collaboration spaces. In this episode of The Collaboration Space, Nancy Lussier sits down with Joel Mulpeter from Crestron at InfoComm 2026 to discuss what it takes to build AI-ready meeting environments that scale across rooms, campuses and global enterprises.
They explore the role of the compute layer in supporting emerging AI applications, the importance of standardizing collaboration experiences across different room types, and how cloud-based management tools help IT teams deploy and maintain hundreds of spaces efficiently. The conversation also looks ahead at how AI is influencing room design, deployment workflows and the future meeting experience.
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