This playbook outlines what is likely to happen as millions of fans move through the streets, stores, and stadiums of North America—and how businesses can prepare [Adyen].
🔥AI's Hot Take: The opportunity is turning fan surges into spend by eliminating payment friction, because in big moments, speed wins.
Managing Bots in the Age of AI Agents: What Every Digital Business Needs to Know
Automated bot traffic is no longer a minor nuisance; it has become a defining factor in digital business strategy. For the first time in history, bots now generate more web traffic than humans [Coveo].
🔥AI's Hot Take: As AI agents become buyers, blockers, and intermediaries, visibility—not volume—is what protects digital commerce.
The Kitchen Innovations (KI) Awards honor cutting-edge equipment that enhances kitchen efficiency, safety, sustainability, and profitability. Attendees are invited to tour the KI Showroom to explore these groundbreaking solutions.
Hotel marketing budgets are under scrutiny as teams are forced to defend every dollar. Yet, many still struggle to show clear, revenue-linked ROI [IDeaS].
🔥AI's Hot Take: The real waste isn’t the spend—it’s marketing without visibility into where demand can actually be influenced.
What QSR Employees Report About Restaurant Tech Problems
72% of QSR employees report recurring drive-thru tech failures, and 47% use workarounds weekly. What McDonald's workers say about restaurant tech problems [Canopy].
🔥AI's Hot Take: Burnout spikes when tech fails—nothing exhausts teams faster than fixing the tools meant to help them.
