Microsoft Copilot at AfroTech: A Four-Screen 98-Inch Touch Tower Where Guests Told Copilot What to Create

Guests walk up to any of the four faces and tap "Tap here to start". Step one asks what Copilot should create, with five real work tasks: an influencer media kit pitching a creator to consumer brands, a family reunion planning hub, a post-event networking app, a booking page for a nail salon, and an event discovery page for an underground music venue in Berlin. Step two picks the look: Dopamine design, Retro arcade, Techno futurist, Y2K web, or Bold and maximalist. The sentence at the top fills in as they tap, so the prompt builds itself in front of them.

They review the prompt, tap Create, and a short "Creating your design" screen leads into a 15-second walkthrough of a finished, working site for that exact pairing. All 25 combinations have their own site and video, so no two choices land in the same place. The end card shows their prompt, a QR code to download the Copilot app, and Replay or Start over.

Every control sits in the middle band of the screen, between 18% and 66% of its height, and each question is its own step, so guests never reach for the top or crouch for the bottom.

Our developer was on site in Houston for both event days. The install brought real-world problems that we fixed on the spot. All four 98-inch TVs switching on together tripped the shared circuit until the power was split. Touch frames were swapped between faces and arrived reporting touches upside down, so we flipped each frame's axes in its own firmware and checked every face with a tap test.

When guests pressed and held buttons, or slid a finger while tapping, some presses lit up without advancing. We rebuilt how the app reads a touch, tested it with real injected touches on one face, then rolled it to the other three.

The evening of November 3 peaked at 37 designs created in a single hour. When the team asked for more time on each step, we raised the idle timeout from 15 to 30 seconds and slipped it onto each face only while it sat on its attract loop, so no guest was cut off mid-session. Guests created an estimated 200+ designs across the two days. Our analytics recorded 128 of them before the venue network dropped late on November 4, just ahead of the busiest evening of the event.