Reframing the Smart Home Conversation

So we're going to talk about our first ISE show for Kate today.

So this is your first ISE experience and your first real exposure to smart home technology.

What were you expecting before you arrived?

What summed it up quite interestingly at dinner was last night that someone said it's the only show they've ever been to where there's a queue for the men's and the ladies can just walk straight in.

So that was slightly what I expected and what I got.

But actually, I've also found it's been very approachable and very interesting.

And from my point of view, you don't know what you don't know, right? So I didn't...

come with any expectations of what to look for or I've heard about that thing, I need to see it because I haven't heard of any of it.

So it was really interesting to just be completely thrown in and see the amazing ideas that many people who come to this show take for granted.

But for the rest of us on the outside, we have no idea these things exist.

Yeah, amazing.

And

what was your first reaction when you had walked into the show floor? You saw the buzz and the hum of the first hall two that you walked into.

What was your first initial...

This is it.

This is it.

Well, yes.

And it is quite overwhelming because there's, as you would imagine, a lot of sound.

So there's lots of music sort of pumping and volumes going up and down as people demonstrate.

And then the lights are changing all the time.

So it's quite a full on experience for other trade shows I've been to where we float in on a sea of beautiful velvet cushions and, you know, discuss the sofa fabric.

And lovely pianos tinkling in the background.

It was a champagne bar at the trade fairs I go to.

They sound like trade shows that I'd be interested in.

What surprised you the most when you walked in? What was your first initial...