Korbyt to Showcase New AI-Powered Meeting Room and Desk Booking Capabilities for Law Firms at ILTACON 2026

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 13, 2026--

Korbyt, the leader in enterprise space management and digital signage solutions, will showcase new AI-powered workplace booking capabilities for law firms at ILTACON 2026, taking place August 23-27 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, TN. At booth 665, Korbyt will demonstrate three additions to the Korbyt Anywhere platform – updated Korbyt Booking Calendar for reception and conference service teams, Concierge AI and the Korbyt Booking Add-In for Microsoft 365 – all designed to help legal teams find, book and manage meeting rooms and desks without friction, while protecting the confidentiality their clients expect.

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Korbyt will host a live virtual session on Tuesday, August 18 at 12:00 p.m. ET to showcase these latest additions to the Korbyt Anywhere platform. To learn more and register, click here.

In the legal profession, the meeting room is where strategy is built, negotiations are won and client relationships are solidified. Yet finding and booking the right space is often surprisingly friction-heavy: attorneys lose billable minutes to double-bookings, administrative teams spend hours reworking schedules around last-minute changes and clients are left waiting in hallways. Korbyt Booking’s capabilities are built to remove this friction within the tools legal professionals already use every day.

“Law firms run on billable time and client trust, both of which are quietly eroded by the everyday friction of booking space,” said Natalie Appleton, VP Workplace at Korbyt. “We’re giving firms a single, intelligent way to see every space, book it in seconds and enforce their own rules automatically to ensure attorneys stay focused on client work and administrators spend less time playing ‘conference room Tetris.’”

Korbyt Booking Calendar: The Whole Workplace, One View

The Korbyt Booking Calendar for reception and conference service users gives administrators and workplace teams a single screen to see and manage every desk, room and shared space across the firm’s entire facility, with every floor, building and office on a single, scrollable canvas. A frozen time header stays locked in place as users scroll through hundreds of resources, so a multi-office firm never loses track of which location, time zone or time slot it is viewing.

Administrators can save the space and floor combinations they use most as one-click presets, filter instantly to their own bookings, and book, copy, move, recur or cancel any reservation without a single pop-up pulling them away. Information-dense booking cards surface relevant details, while color-coded cards make meeting types instantly readable across the day. While this new capability is available now in Korbyt Booking, the new calendar can be piloted with a single team before expanding across the entire firm.

Concierge AI: Book the Right Space in One Message

Concierge AI is a specialist booking agent within the Korbyt Anywhere 5C AI agent suite that lets employees book a desk or meeting room in a single message from Microsoft Teams, Outlook or the Korbyt web app with no filter panels, floor maps or guesswork. An attorney can simply type “room for eight with video conferencing on the 7th floor on Friday at 2pm” and Concierge AI returns the right space.

Unlike AI tools that show options and then fail at the moment of booking, Concierge AI enforces a firm’s rules such as advance windows, access controls and after-hours restrictions before offering a single option, so it never proposes a space it cannot actually book. Concierge AI capabilities include:

Because Concierge AI reads a firm’s existing resources, floors, availability and booking rules from day one, it is the booking specialist attorneys and staff can use immediately, without a tutorial.

Korbyt Booking Add-In for Microsoft 365: Book Where Legal Teams Already Work

Most legal professionals live in Outlook. The Korbyt Booking Add-In for Microsoft 365 lets them reserve desks, meeting rooms and collaboration spaces directly from the Outlook calendar, with real-time room availability that helps prevent double bookings that could send two partners and their clients into the same conference room. From the same interface, users can:

Behind the scenes, utilization analytics give operations and facilities teams the insight to right-size space and reduce real estate cost.

Built for the Modern Legal Workplace

Together, these new capabilities address the specific demands of legal environments, where client confidentiality and efficient space utilization are paramount. Centralized booking ensures meeting room signage shows whether a room is occupied without exposing client names or case matters. And no-show “ghost meetings” stop draining capacity: if no one checks in within 15 minutes of the scheduled start, the room is automatically released back into the pool of available spaces, preserving workspace resources during periods of peak demand.

The Korbyt Booking Calendar, Korbyt Booking Add-In for Microsoft 365 and Concierge AI are available now within the Korbyt Anywhere platform. Visit https://gokorbyt.com to learn more about Korbyt Anywhere, and follow Korbyt on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

About Korbyt

Korbyt helps corporate enterprises deliver AI-powered workplace and customer experiences across digital channels and physical locations that engage employees, visitors and customers more effectively. The Korbyt Anywhere platform empowers organizations with dynamic, data-driven communication through digital signage, desktop, email, mobile devices and space management solutions, enabling seamless collaboration across all touchpoints. Korbyt serves enterprise organizations across industries including financial services, banking, legal, manufacturing and logistics. Headquartered in Dallas, TX, Korbyt is a portfolio company of Boston-based private equity firm Clearhaven Partners. For more information, visit GoKorbyt.com.

Korbyt will showcase new AI-powered workplace booking capabilities for law firms at ILTACON 2026. These updates to the Korbyt Anywhere platform include Korbyt Booking Calendar for reception and conference service teams, ConciergeAI and the Korbyt Booking Add-In for Microsoft 365.

QUSRA, West Bank (AP) — Israeli settlers have besieged three homes in the occupied West Bank for several days, including one owned by a Palestinian American, in what the U.S. ambassador called a “horrific act of terror” on Thursday.

Mike Huckabee's remarks on X represented an unusually sharp rebuke from the Trump administration of the latest episode in a surge of settler violencein the region.

Starting Sunday, settlers gathered around three houses in the village of Qusra, according to local officials, Palestinian American homeowner Loui Ridi, and Ridi's brother. At times numbering dozens, the settlers threw stones, attempted to bring down a stone wall nearby, and prevented the occupants from leaving as their food and water dwindled.

Israeli troops have intervened to try to restore order. On Thursday morning, Ridi's brother, Qusai Abu Rida, who had holed up in the house with his own teenage son to defend it, said they were moved by Israel’s military to another home but still cannot leave the area, which is about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the Palestinian city of Nablus.

The military said that its troops dismantled “two illegal outposts” near the homes on the outskirts of Qusra and a nearby village, and detained one Israeli. It added that additional soldiers were sent to “carry out defensive missions and patrols.”

Mayor Abdel Azim Wadi said that Israeli forces evacuated seven homes in total to take positions in the village. The settlers, though removed from their outposts, remain in other parts of the village, he added. The military said the soldiers have subsequently been instructed to allow families to remain in their homes and not to operate in them, but families have not yet returned, Abu Rida said.

It's still not clear when families in the besieged area will be able to get basic supplies and what would happen to their homes.

“No one is allowed to enter. Even food and water are prohibited from reaching those besieged,” Yasser Ahmad, a resident of a neighboring village, said as he watched the operation unfold from one hilltop over.

Journalists on the outskirts of Qusra said roads into the village were closed on Thursday afternoon. Israeli police did not immediately respond to questions about whether any detained Israelis had been arrested.

Palestinians and the Israeli opposition accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line government of turning a blind eye to attacks by settlers against Palestinians that have increased in the last few years.

Israeli ministers and Cabinet members have downplayed settler violence and described it as the actions of a few fringe youth acting outside the law. Huckabee is a longtime ally of Israel’s settler movement and in the past has expressed support for Israeli control over the occupied West Bank, while condemning settler violence.

“Actions by those who carried out this horrific act of terror meant to intimidate and harass this family are disgusting,” Huckabee said in his post, noting that the embassy has been coordinating with the Israeli military and police.

Settlers began their siege of the homes five days ago, blocking the doors and preventing inhabitants from leaving, Abu Rida said. Israel’s military condemned the siege as “illegal, reprehensible, and unacceptable” on Tuesday and declared the area a closed military zone. But by Wednesday, dozens of settlers had returned and begun to block the road with rocks.

Speaking to The Associated Press by phone on Wednesday from Ohio, where he lives, Ridi said his 48-year-old brother and nephew had not had access to new food or water supplies for several days.

Ridi said that settlers have been targeting his home for months before the situation escalated in recent days, saying they had cut off the water and electricity to his house and thrown stones, causing damage to the property.

“We are prisoners in our own house, hostages in our own house,” he said.

Qusra is in one of the most violent pockets of the northern West Bank, surrounded by settlements.

Last month, a mosque in Qusra was set on fire in another apparent settler attack. That followed the killing of an Israeli settler, triggering violence that left two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinian villagers dead.

Settlers have been building more outposts in an effort condemned by many in the international community as aimed at dismantling any remaining hopes of establishing a Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinians seek the West Bank, captured by Israel in the 1967 war, as part of a future state. Many settlers and their supporters say the entire area should belong to Israel for historical, religious and security reasons.

This story has been updated to correct the first name of the homeowner to Loui.

Metz reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Sam Mednick and Giovanna Dell'Orto contributed from Jerusalem. Koral Saeed contributed reporting from Herzliya, Israel.

Israeli soldiers stand guard next to settlers in front of Palestinian homes that they have blockaded in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Nidal Eshtayeh)

Israeli soldiers stand guard next to settlers in front of Palestinian homes that they have blockaded in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Nidal Eshtayeh)