ISE 2025: Logitech’s Prakash Arunkundrum on Collaboration Boards and the Future of Workplace Tech

Great, nice to see you. And nice to see you again at ISC. Yes, what a fantastic year this has been. I've heard it's already broken several records. This is just a fantastic, fantastic year and a great time to be here. Absolutely. I think we have the biggest presence here at ISC this year because we think this is the moment in time where workplace experience is changing, people are reimagining things. We're bringing AI into our products, making productivity better, but actually also making it just delightful for users and employees at companies. So yeah, super excited. We've got a lot of cool things happening. I just want to show off this wall that we made in celebration of Barcelona, very cool, inspired by Gaudi. And you know, just the moment in time where AI, sustainability, trust, all these topics are coinciding. So super exciting and they're important.

Absolutely. Our booth itself is using recycled materials. We actually have a tree that's going to get planted after the show. And these are made with recycled materials. Our products, as you know, 3 in 4 products use recycled plastics. We've been working on making energy use lower and lower. And we just announced that we will have Android 12 support, so extending the life of our products. So we are on this journey and we'll continue to do this for a while, yeah.

Our mission was to help equip workplace experience for all people in all spaces. You obviously know us for meeting rooms and desks, and we looked at this whole space and said we need to make something that fits in a meeting room but also outside a meeting room. So we took a view of flexible spaces. As people bring people back to work, space is a big challenge, so making space utilization is one of the big things we thought about. So we made Rally Board. It has our best sensor ever, our most advanced AI capabilities. In a crowded environment, we can set camera zones to pick up only the people in a particular zone, even in a crowded flexible space. And also pick up sound within a sound cone. If you have it in a meeting room, it works fine. You pull it out of a meeting room and you can set it up. We have this amazing feature called flipping: we can flip the Rally Board and it goes from having a camera at the top to being at eye level when you're sitting in a meeting room. But if you're in a standing space, you can have it up here and have the right level of view and focus. So that's really what we built in.

Yeah, so we really thought about environmental sensing and power use. You mentioned sustainability. We've been passionate about this. Energy and power savings is a big thing, but we also think in the same context wellness in a room. So when you think about a room, the CO2 in a room, if you have too many people, you don't really have a productive meeting. So we put a lot of effort into making Logitech Spot, which is an environmental sensor that connects with any of our existing products, and also to other gateways. It's as simple as taking off a sticker and putting it on a wall. You can get CO2 metrics, temperature metrics, humidity metrics, just the environment, but also the energy use because temperature drives energy use in a building. So making sure you can optimize energy use, connect it to building management systems, and go beyond meeting rooms and desks to think about the whole office space. That's really what we thought about.

Yeah, so I really think workplace experience, which is AV, IT, facilities, and HR coming together to actually design spaces that work for people, that meet people where they are. You know, we all went through COVID, we know what the square tiles look like in a pretty Zoom call, but you want the same experience, an equitable experience, you want everybody to be seen, heard, engaged. So being able to do that in an easy way was really what we focused on. So um yeah, this is happening. I'm super excited to see workplace experience happening because for a long time, the AV and IT convergence has been going on. Now you add facilities, that is the next convergence, and Logitech is right in that space.

We have a ton of new things. We have done a custom, bespoke Microsoft Teams experience which is super easy to deploy, furniture built in. But the thing that I'm super proud of our engineering design teams is we extended Logitech Sight, which won last year's Times invention of the year, and added what we call daisy chaining. So we connect two Sights together, six cameras orchestrating at the same time, providing you context. I call it a little bit of Hollywood and a little bit of Silicon Valley working together to give you a meeting experience that makes you feel like you were almost there. So we're showing that off in our booth today. Super exciting to see that happen. It's perhaps the most advanced capability that we have put in place in our products.

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