UCLA’s AV/IT Solutions Team, was tasked with reimagining how technology could drive the university’s Five-Year Focus on digital transformation, innovation, and global readiness for events such as the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Rising to the challenge, this rockstar team of engineers, architects, and project coordinators to design a next-generation cloud-first AV platform. This vision shifts audiovisual systems from isolated, siloed models to an agile, enterprise-scale service model.

This new platform embodies the philosophy “Smart = Zero, Zero = Everything,” where zero hardware, zero latency, and zero touch create the foundation for an innovative, sustainable, and scalable campus. By integrating cloud control, real-time monitoring, and data analytics, the team unified classrooms, digital signage, research spaces, and event infrastructure into a single, resilient AV ecosystem. The result is an operational model that not only simplifies system management but also enhances user experience, accessibility, and data-driven decision-making across the UCLA environment.

More than a technology project, UCLA’s AV-as-a-Platform (AVaaP) initiative represents a cultural and architectural shift. It demonstrates how cloud innovation, platform thinking, and collaborative leadership can transform AV/IT operations into a connected digital backbone for education, research, and community engagement. Attendees will see how strategic design, cross-departmental collaboration, and cloud integration have come together to build a more innovative, adaptive campus—one that connects everything, everywhere, and everyone.

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