ISE 2026 shattered every record in its 22-year history. Over four days, 92,170 visitors from around the world descended on Barcelona’s Fira Gran Via, an 8% jump over 2025, with the largest single day ever recorded (64,198 visitors, nearly matching the total attendance of the last pre-pandemic show in Amsterdam). The show floor stretched across 101,000 square meters, with 1,751 exhibitors, including 323 first-timers.
Among those record-breaking crowds was a growing contingent that would have seemed out of place at ISE just a few years ago: public safety professionals, government decision-makers, and defense technologists walking the same halls as broadcast engineers and AV integrators. That convergence isn’t a coincidence. It’s the future. And it’s exactly where Dejero lives.
So naturally, we did something nobody had ever done before.
Storm ISE: A World-First Partner Demo
From left to right: Simon Tillyer with KitPlus listens as our Eric Cuadra explains the Storm ISE workflow across three booths.
We called it Storm ISE, a live, multi-booth emergency response simulation spanning three locations across the show floor, powered by eight technology companies working as one integrated ecosystem. No pre-recorded demos. No controlled environments. Real data, real video, real connectivity challenges, in real time, at one of the most RF-congested venues on the planet.
The premise was simple: a crisis unfolds. What happens next?
The Crisis Zone simulated an emergency scene with live reporters and first responders on the ground. The Command Center, anchored by RGB Spectrum’s visualization technology and FOR-A’s production systems, showed how situational awareness and real-time decision-making come together when connectivity is rock-solid. And the Broadcast Room, featuring Alfalite’s LED displays and Brainstorm’s real-time graphics engine, told the story to the world with broadcast-quality production.
As I told viewers during one of our daily live streams with KitPlus: “We’re not just showing you one product or two products. We’re showing you how they all work together to ensure seamless communication, whether it’s emergency response, broadcasters, or remote teams. No one’s ever done this, especially at a show like ISE in Barcelona, where connectivity is already so congested.”
Every feed, every data stream, every live broadcast flowing between those three booths was powered by one thing: Dejero TITAN Command.
A Connectivity Lifeline for Mission Success
From left to right: Dejero’s Chief Revenue Officer, Kevin Fernandes, chatting with Matt Robbins from KitPlus about TITAN Command.
ISE 2026 marked the global debut of Dejero TITAN Command, the first product of our new TITAN platform, and the industry’s first triple 5G connectivity solution with integrated antennas. It’s purpose-built for the environments where connectivity matters most and works least.
Our Chief Revenue Officer Kevin Fernandes put the origin story plainly during a KitPlus interview on the show floor: “When we decided to take our broadcast connectivity products into critical connectivity for public safety, federal, and DoD, we noticed that people were trying to put them in server rooms, backing up really important things like 911 call centers and power substations. And they went and put our routers down in the basement, those basements were concrete and rebar, creating a big nice faraday cage that made connectivity really, really challenging.”
TITAN Command was the answer. Three 5G modems. Fourteen integrated antennas. Power over Ethernet simplicity. A single unit that can be mounted on the outside of a building, bolted to a command vehicle, or deployed in minutes at a pop-up operation center. As Kevin described it: “All you have to do is plug in a PoE connection, turn it on, and you’ve got instant connectivity.”
What makes it even more powerful is the seamless integration with LEO satellite constellations. Kevin noted during the interview: “Whether it’s Starlink, Eutelsat OneWeb, or Project Kuiper (now Amazon LEO), any IP connection, you plug it in and you’re ready to go. Instantly blend it together to create that one reliable pipe for connectivity.”
At a venue where more than 92,000 people were competing for bandwidth, TITAN Command didn’t just demonstrate connectivity, it proved it under pressure. (Honestly, the Fira during ISE week might be harder on a network than some actual disaster zones.)
The Ecosystem Is the Product
I’ll admit something: coordinating eight companies across three booths at the world’s largest AV trade show is a logistical puzzle that at times resembled the crisis we were simulating. But that was part of the point. Mission-critical connectivity has to perform under pressure and so did we.
What I’m most proud of is the partner ecosystem we built. This wasn’t a collection of co-located standalone demos. It was a fully integrated workflow where Alfalite, Brainstorm, Domo Broadcast Systems, FOR-A, KitPlus, Ontario Soluciones, and RGB Spectrum each played an essential, interdependent role.
Eric Cuadra with the Dejero team captured it well during one of the live streams: “Dejero is the backbone for the connectivity as well as being able to feed all these feeds in, but all of these partners do their own thing very, very well. What we have is a full suite of solutions that, no matter if you’re from broadcast or you’re in a command center or you’re in public safety, you’ll be able to utilize any and all of these in one way or another.”
RGB Spectrum’s Scott Norder pointed to exactly the kind of real-world application that drew public safety professionals to our booths: “Many of our customers are involved in providing safety and oversight for the World Cup locations. The connectivity that you guys offer (Dejero) allows the same information that’s happening in the command center to get out to the remote location and vice versa, so that everybody knows what’s going on.”
The flyaway kit concept, RGB Spectrum and Dejero’s “command center in a box,” drew particular attention from government and public safety attendees exploring rapid-deployment solutions. The fact that these conversations were happening at ISE, a show historically rooted in AV and systems integration, tells you everything about where this industry is headed.
A Canadian Award at a European Show
From left to right: RGB Spectrum’s Rachel Archibald and Scott Norder holding the Mix Best of Show Award beside Dejero’s Ivy Cuervo and Kevin Fernandes.
The industry noticed what we built. Dejero TITAN Command was selected as a winner of Future B2B’s Mix Best of Show Award at ISE 2026, recognized by a panel of anonymous AV industry experts who evaluated products on the basis of features, ease of use, innovation, and market uniqueness. We were honored alongside products from L-Acoustics, Renkus-Heinz, ShowCode, and Shure.
There’s something particularly meaningful about a connectivity company from Waterloo, Ontario winning Best of Show at Europe’s largest professional AV event. Dejero has always punched above its weight class internationally, but this felt like a moment, a validation not just of a product, but of the idea that critical connectivity deserves a seat at the table alongside the industry’s biggest names.
And the award doesn’t belong to Dejero alone. It belongs to every partner who said yes to something that had never been attempted, and then made it work live on a show floor in front of tens of thousands of attendees.
What ISE 2026 Proved
The convergence happening at ISE tells a bigger story. When public safety agencies, broadcast engineers, government technologists, and AV integrators are all walking the same show floor, and stopping at the same booths, you’re witnessing a fundamental shift in how industries think about connectivity and collaboration.
ISE 2026 proved that the future of trade shows isn’t about standing behind a booth and handing out spec sheets. It’s about building something real, something integrated, something that works when everything else fails and inviting 92,000 plus people to come see for themselves.
The TITAN platform is just getting started. The ecosystem we demonstrated in Barcelona isn’t a one-time showcase. It’s a blueprint for how Dejero and our partners will continue to serve the markets that need us most, from emergency response and disaster recovery to large-scale event security and global broadcast operations.
To every partner who said yes. To the KitPlus crew who brought the story to life through daily live streams. To every attendee who followed the color-coded mission path across the show floor. And to the team back in Waterloo who built the technology that held it all together: thank you!
