Putting our technology hat to one side momentarily, one takeaway from the recent IBC 2023 show is that many attendees speaking to Faultline noticed the triumphant and full return of visitors from Asia, as the final covid restrictions and impairments lifted. Many of the customer announcements filling the Faultline inbox during and since the event corroborate this observation. APAC is back. This helped boost attendance to 43,000 people from 170 countries, but this is still down from 2019’s record of a little over 56,000 attendees. Back to technology now, and of those 43,000 attendees, a sizable share were either in Amsterdam to learn about artificial intelligence, or to talk about artificial intelligence. As Faultline outlined in discussions with vendors in…