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INTIX 2026
HIGHLIGHTS
Day One
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
INTIX 2026 Opens with a
Jaw-Dropping Surprise Guest!
On Tuesday, more than 1,400 INTIX attendees from 27
countries woke up in Las Vegas, a city built on spectacle,
storytelling, production and unforgettable moments.
The tone was set immediately with a powerful Welcome
General Session capped by a standout surprise guest and
morning coffee sponsored by StubHub.
“Las Vegas understands fans and the power of live
events. It is the perfect backdrop for our conference
dedicated to advancing the live-event and ticketing
experience,” said Maureen Andersen, President and
CEO of INTIX. “Looking around this theater, how cool
is it for us to experience our own live event inside of a
live event space? This is the 昀椀rst time we’ve actually
done this, which is just fantastic.”
What came next was a phenomenal surprise. Andersen
introduced the morning’s surprise guest — Colin Cloud,
the internationally acclaimed mentalist known as “The
Real Life Sherlock Holmes.” He is the only mentalist in
history to perform sell-out runs on London’s West End
and Broadway, and now does his own show at Harrah’s,
which is rated the number one show on Ticketmaster
and Vegas.com.
Cloud didn’t just walk onstage. He strolled straight into
the room’s collective brain. Cloud began by recruiting
David Winn of the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
handing him a long scroll and a crumpled paper ball
to lob to a random audience member. The catch? The
recipient had to con昀椀rm he had cash on him, then count
it and hang onto the ball for later.
Calling on a woman elsewhere in the theater, Cloud
correctly named the 昀椀rst person she had ever kissed.
Then he returned to the ticketing professional holding
the paper ball, guessed the total amount of cash he was
carrying to within a single dollar, and had him open the
ball to reveal a dollar bill inside.
Next, Cloud asked Winn to select three more ticketing
professionals from the audience. When he did, Cloud
approached them with a small notebook and asked each
to pick a random page, then simply think of the answer
to the question. Cloud called out the three topics, then
delivered all three answers without matching them to
their owners — because one was a bank card PIN.
For the 昀椀nale, Cloud asked three audience members to
call out random numbers and invited everyone to pull
out their phones and use the calculator to add and
multiply along. The answer was nine digits long and
revealed to be on the scroll Winn had been hanging on
to. When the scroll was 昀氀ipped around, the numbers
spelled out “INTIX 2026.”
A Warm Las Vegas Welcome from INTIX 2026
Conference Co-Charis
As the applause 昀椀nally settled and Cloud left the stage,
the focus shifted back to the week ahead. Attendees
were welcomed by 2026 Conference Co-Chairs
Lindsay Radic, Senior Director of Entertainment
Ticketing for Caesars Entertainment, and Siobhan
Steiermann, Vice President of Ticket Operations at the
Las Vegas Aviators.
“We are so happy to
welcome you to our
home,” said Radic.
“There are always
endless things to do,
and that is not stopping
anytime soon. I have
been told many times
that I have the coolest
job in the world, and
I agree, and in what I
think is the coolest city in the world.”
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