AwesomeCast: Tech and Gadget Talk

Awesome Chat: AI Event Marketing That Feels Human | Sam Eitzen from Snapbar

September 17th, 2026  |  50 mins 27 secs

aeo, ai entrepreneurship, ai image generation, ai marketing, ai models, ai photo booth, ai photo experiences, ai stories, artificial intelligence, audience engagement, b2b marketing, brand activations, business distribution, conference technology, customer experience, digital marketing, digital prize wheel, event activations, event marketing, event networking, event swag, event technology, experiential activations, experiential marketing, fan engagement, gemini, generative ai, gpt, lead generation, marketing technology, martech, personalized marketing, photo booth technology, prompt engineering, qr code marketing, sam eitzen, seo, snapbar, trade show giveaways, trade show marketing, trade show technology, world cup marketing

What happens when the photo booth becomes an AI-powered experiential marketing platform?

Michael Sorg and Katie Dudas talk with Sam Eitzen, CEO of Snapbar, about the company's evolution from physical event photo booths to web-based activations that can run on an iPad, touchscreen, QR code, or attendee's phone.

Sam shares how Snapbar uses AI photo experiences and AI Stories to build personalized brand activations, what they've learned from major sporting events and conferences, and why understanding the audience is still more important than simply adding AI.

They also dig into the messier realities of generative AI: prompt engineering, model updates, unexpected results, cloud reliability, testing, and why businesses shouldn't treat AI like an infallible employee.

Plus, Sam explains why he believes AI making products easier to build actually makes distribution, customer relationships, and good old-fashioned business fundamentals more important than ever.

Learn more: https://snapbar.com

Adobe Firefly Goes FREE (For Now) + Switch 2 Upgrades + Pittsburgh LEGO Set?! | AwesomeCast 766

February 4th, 2026  |  59 mins 46 secs

adobe firefly, ai image generation, ai video generation, amazon delivery vans, animal crossing, arcade pittsburgh, black history month spotlight, cat wars calendar, cnbc, content creation tools, duquesne church arcade, electret microphone, gadgets, generative ai, google ai, james west, lego ideas, nintendo switch 2 editions, pittsburgh lego, pittsburgh tech podcast, project genie, rivian, super mario bros wonder, switch 2, tech news, unity, video game industry

This week on AwesomeCast 766, Sorg, Dudders, and Podnar dig into the tools and stories shaping tech right now—AI’s growing role in creative work, what “free-for-now” Adobe Firefly means for creators, and the latest chatter around Switch 2 upgrades. Plus: a Pittsburgh LEGO Ideas set worth voting for, a new arcade inside an old church in Duquesne, Rivian delivery van updates, Cat Wars calendar chaos, and a Black History Month spotlight on inventor James West.