At PIE 2026, Kent King, VP of Sales at Parker Technology, moderated a panel called “Scaling Smart: Insights from Fast-Growth Parking Leaders.” Joining him were Matt Adey, President of Platinum Parking; Jose Barbosa, Vice President of Product and Technology at Parking Base; Chris Archer, Senior Vice President for the Americas at SKIDATA; and Brian Pierce, Senior Director of Parking and ID Card Services at Southern Methodist University.
Together, the group brought decades of experience navigating rapid growth across private, institutional, and technology-driven parking operations.
Read More At Parker Technology, we spend a lot of time thinking about where our industry is headed, and what it will take to lead through the change ahead. FUSION26 is a direct reflection of that thinking. It exists because we believe the future of parking customer experience will NOT be overshadowed or eliminated by technological innovation.
Read More In a world buzzing with digital notifications and constant online noise, there’s something deeply powerful about shaking someone’s hand.
The moment you find something in common over coffee, share a laugh at happy hour or make eye contact across the expo hall – that’s not just a connection. That’s a conversion (or retention) in motion.
Read More Sometimes meaningful collaboration can even mean partnering with organizations you may have previously thought of as competitors. After all, it’s far better to fully serve your customer’s needs and foster positive, lasting relationships with them by partnering with a “competitor” that complements their facility’s particular skill set than it is for either organization to provide substandard service and lose a customer forever. At the end of the day, if you’re serving the customer’s needs, it’s a win for everyone.
Read More Parking can be such a multi-faceted enterprise. If you work in parking operations, odds are high that you’ll work with dozens of different vendors to address a wide range of needs—everything from software implementation to government compliance, car detailing, facilities maintenance, and more.
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