Google Cloud NEXT 2026

Google Cloud Next 2026 ushered in the ‘Agentic Era’ with a dynamic keynote experience at the Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The main stage featured a massive LED canvas with curved surfaces, moving walls, and six large overhead strips extending out over the audience.

Creative Technology partnered with Jack Morton Worldwide to deliver technical support across the event’s keynote arena and Spotlight session environments. The production combined expansive LED architecture, advanced broadcast infrastructure, and integrated audio systems to support the multi-day event.

The center of the keynote experience was a large LED environment combining more than 1,400 ROE Graphite 2.6 and ROE CB 3.75 LED tiles into one connected, dynamic backdrop. The stage design featured a 55-foot-wide LED Hero Wall, engineered to move and separate for dramatic center-stage entrances, with large flanking screens left and right. Overhead, six long LED strips extended out across the arena creating an immersive ceiling treatment that connected the audience to the stage.

CT deployed a video over IP, SMPTE 2110 solution to manage signal distribution throughout the venue, supported by an NEP broadcast truck and an Analog Way Aquilon Rs6 switching package.  Specialty camera packages included a DynamiCam cable-cam package and an Agito RC system to provide dynamic shots of the action on stage.

Audio support included a large L-Acoustics sound system for the arena driven by a Yamaha Rivage PM5 console. In addition to the keynote environment, Creative Technology also delivered audio, video, and LED systems for the event’s two Spotlight session rooms across the property.