Production Notes: Inside the Experience at Connections 2026

I'm standing in the middle of the floor, surrounded by organized chaos. Somewhere to my left, an arcade-style tapping game is chirping through its win sound for the third time in two minutes. Behind me, a group of attendees is laughing at something on a screen. And right in front of me, someone walks out of a storefront that looks like a scene from the Heathrow airport, and declares, "Oh, that's really cool."