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Stadium Tech Report

May 7th, 2026

AI

Editorial

From broadcast booth to AI fabric: why stadiums are becoming technology platforms

Stadiums have historically treated broadcast, IT, and building systems as separate domains, each justified and optimized on its own terms. This approach has led to duplicated infrastructure, fragmented data, and operational complexity that continually increases as new systems and functions are added. To simplify operations and cut costs, a new model is emerging in which systems share a common IP-based...

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Editorial

Building the AI-Ready Stadium

What Google published in 2017 could unlock your venue's AI potential In 2017, a team of researchers at Google published a paper with an understated title: Attention Is All You Need. It introduced a new way of processing information called the transformer architecture that led to the AI explosion we are experiencing today. Most people outside the field ignored it...

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Editorial

Is your stadium ready for AI?

I speak with sports, stadium, and live environment executives around the world frequently, and AI continues to come up as a board-level topic. Leadership teams are asking the same questions: what should we be doing with AI, where is the value of using it, and how fast do we need to move? The urgency is understandable. AI is already changing...

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Editorial

Do less, expose more: The AI-powered future of stadium tech

Stadium technologists are expected to be all things to all people, all the time. The result is predictable: swollen stacks of proprietary apps and vendor lock-ins held together by the few people who “understand IT.” If we bring the same habits into the age of AI, we’ll recreate the same mess, only in natural language instead of code. AI’s real...

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News

DOJ sues to block HPE’s $14 B acquisition of Juniper, possibly slowing HPE’s ability to bring AI to stadium networks

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit challenging Hewlett Packard Enterprise's pending $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks, a move that could potentially keep HPE from bringing Juniper's innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) products to the stadium technology marketplace. Though the complaint filed by the DOJ primarily focuses on its claims that the merger would "reduce competition and weaken...

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News

Walk-through tech provider AiFi secures $65 million in funding from Verizon Ventures and others

Verizon Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures LLC announced strategic investments in AiFi, an autonomous shopping solutions company, as it raised $65 million in a Series B round, with the help of other partners ALDI South Group, Żabka Group and REWE. With the pandemic accelerating the adoption of self-checkout lines and in-store pickup, entrepreneurs are creating the next generation of retail,” according...

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