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Stadium Tech Report

January 16th, 2026

Editorial

The future of stadium security screening

"You have to do screening at the pace of life. If you have to stop, it just doesn't work." Those words, from Mike Ellenbogen, founder and chief innovation officer at the Waltham, Mass.-based Evolv Technology, sum up the company's approach to security screening at stadiums and other large public venues. The old ways, of waiting in line while fans empty...

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STR Podcast: How AT&T Stadium rewrote the DAS playbook with its new network

STR Podcast ยท Stadium Tech Report: Building the DAS for the future at AT&T Stadium When the building now known as AT&T Stadium opened in 2009, it arguably changed the way the world thought about large entertainment venues. And early on, the building was already well on its way to being one of the leaders in fan-facing wireless networks, with both...

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Building the DAS for the future at AT&T Stadium

When the building now known as AT&T Stadium opened in 2009, it arguably changed the way the world thought about large entertainment venues. And early on, the building was already well on its way to being one of the leaders in fan-facing wireless networks, with both a cellular distributed antenna system (DAS) and a Wi-Fi network that were both expanded on...

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Stadium concessions innovation with 49ers CSO Moon Javaid

Since Levi's Stadium opened in 2014, the San Francisco 49ers have used their new home to push the envelope on technology-inspired innovation, mostly to see how they could improve the fan experience. One of the latest twists introduced by the Niners at Levi's Stadium was an innovation that combined technology with process: Under a program called the "Member inclusive Menu,"...

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Stadium parking and payment operations with George Baker Sr., CEO of ParkHub

While there are still many venues where you still need to pay cash to park your car, thanks to innovators like ParkHub CEO George Baker Sr., those places are becoming fewer and farther between. Baker, who founded ParkHub in 2010 in part to bring digital innovation to the venue parking market, has built the company into something much more than...

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Race is on for walk-through detector market share

Here are some quick snapshots of the leading providers in the new market for walk-through weapons detection systems for stadiums and large public venues. Data in the snapshots is mainly from company interviews and published website information. CEIA Opengate Company: CEIA USA (U.S. subsidiary of Italian parent CEIA, whose initials stand for Costruzioni Elettroniche Industriali Automatism; but everyone calls the...

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