Mynd.ai’s Promethean has teamed up with MAXHUB to launch a complete Microsoft Teams-certified meeting-room solution.
The bundle combines Promethean’s ActivPanel 10 Premium touchscreen display, the all-in-one ActivPen 2 remote, and a cord-free 4K ePTZ camera from MAXHUB, designed to deliver fully integrated hybrid meetings.
The system allows users to present, annotate, and control sessions wirelessly, while ensuring that in-room and remote participants can see and hear each other clearly.
“Our partnership with MAXHUB underscores Promethean’s commitment to reshaping the modern workplace through innovation and a relentless focus on customer needs,” said Arthur Giterman, CEO of Mynd.ai.
“Together, we’re delivering an integrated solution that makes hybrid collaboration seamless, engaging, and effortless to deploy.”
The product comes in multiple configurations, including the Xcore Kit Pro for premium Teams Rooms and the V50 and U50 kits for smaller or standard ActivPanel 10 setups.
By pairing its hardware with MAXHUB’s Teams-certified cameras and audio, Promethean is positioning itself as a turnkey solution provider for offices seeking reliable, high-quality, platform-approved meeting technology.
The launch marks a deliberate push beyond education into the corporate hybrid-work market, where organisations are retrofitting offices for long-term remote collaboration.
Microsoft’s Certification Acts as the Gatekeeper
Microsoft Teams Rooms have transformed the office technology market.
A Teams-certified room centres the entire experience on Microsoft software.
IT teams lock these systems down and manage them centrally, ensuring meetings start reliably and run smoothly.
Users see fewer settings, and flexibility gives way to predictability.
IT departments appreciate the reduced support burden, while organisations gain confidence that meetings will start on time and devices will work seamlessly.
Certification now determines which hardware vendors gain access to corporate clients, creating a clear advantage for companies aligned with Microsoft’s ecosystem.
Vendors that fail to secure approval struggle to compete, even if their products are technically capable.
The Promethean–MAXHUB solution illustrates this shift.
It is built specifically for Teams, rather than trying to accommodate multiple platforms. The product combines video, audio, and interactive capabilities in a single package designed to simplify hybrid collaboration.
A Crowded and Intensifying Hybrid-Work Race
Microsoft does not operate in isolation though.
Zoom has heavily promoted Zoom Rooms as a simpler, platform-agnostic alternative, while Google pairs Meet with approved hardware through Workspace. Cisco continues to sell premium integrated systems to large enterprises.
Even so, Microsoft holds a structural advantage.
Teams comes bundled with Microsoft 365, and employees use it for calendars, chat, calls, and document collaboration.
Once organisations standardise on Teams, choosing certified hardware becomes the path of least resistance.
Over time, the meeting room transforms from a neutral space into an extension of Microsoft’s platform, pressuring smaller vendors and making certification increasingly critical.
Why Promethean Is Looking Beyond Education
Promethean has historically built its reputation in schools and universities.
While it still dominates parts of the education market, growth there has slowed. Budget fluctuations, long sales cycles, and thin margins make expansion difficult.
Corporate offices, by contrast, offer significant opportunity.
Organisations are spending heavily to retrofit spaces for permanent hybrid work.
Meeting rooms are being upgraded, standardised, and multiplied at scale.
Promethean’s displays translate easily from classrooms to boardrooms, but the company needed enterprise-grade conferencing hardware and platform legitimacy.
MAXHUB provides the hardware, Microsoft supplies the authority, and together they offer a turnkey solution that meets modern corporate demands.
The Quiet Role of Chinese Hardware
MAXHUB’s involvement adds another dimension.
While not a household name in Western markets, it is part of a broader trend: Chinese firms supply much of the hardware underpinning global digital work, from cameras and displays to embedded systems.
Microsoft’s certification gives buyers confidence.
Teams approval signals compliance and trust, reducing concerns about supply-chain security.
Governments may scrutinise networked devices in the future, but for now, organisations prioritise functionality, reliability, and ease of deployment.
The Office Becomes a Managed Platform
The partnership reveals a broader trend in corporate workplaces.
Microsoft treats the office as a managed platform, provisioning meetings rather than leaving users to configure devices themselves.
Employers gain predictability, vendors accept constraints, and Microsoft consolidates control.
Meeting rooms once held only a table and a screen, but now software dictates how meetings operate.
Certification determines who participates and which devices work together.
Standardisation Over Experimentation
Standardisation now drives enterprise technology decisions. Companies want meetings to start on time and end without confusion, not to let staff experiment with hardware settings.
Microsoft’s Teams Rooms meet that demand by replacing choice with consistency. Vendors now innovate inside strict platform constraints rather than across open systems. Over time, this reduces diversity in meeting-room setups and strengthens Microsoft’s influence over both software and hardware in the office.
The Promethean–MAXHUB launch highlights this shift – signalling that corporate buyers increasingly prioritise integrated, certified systems over standalone products or flexible alternatives.
