WealthStream at Future Proof Festival
Two days on the Huntington Beach waterfront. We built WealthStream into the art itself, put a QR code on every print, and turned a festival crowd into 151 guest phone numbers.
179
AI Portraits
294
Branded Prints
151
Guest Phone Numbers
43,719
Est. Social Impressions
Booth analytics, September 15 to 18, 2026: 179 sessions, 179 AI portraits, 294 prints, 130 gallery views, 12,921 estimated reach, 43,719 estimated impressions. Lead counts exclude our own test shares: 158 guest photo shares from 151 unique phone numbers.
In short: An AI print booth is a staffed photo booth that photographs each guest, restyles the photo with generative AI, and prints the finished artwork on site. WealthStream hired Captured Celebrations to run one as an AI photo booth lead generation activation at its Booth 240 at Future Proof Festival in Huntington Beach, CA, on September 15 and 16, 2026. We built a custom AI portrait style set on the Huntington Beach boardwalk with a plane towing a WealthStream.ai banner, printed every portrait on site with the client’s QR code, and captured a guest phone number with every text share. Over two days the booth produced 179 AI portraits, 294 branded prints and 151 unique guest phone numbers.
The Event
Future Proof is a two-day outdoor festival for the wealth management industry, set along Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach. WealthStream builds advice intelligence for financial advisors, and it exhibited at Booth 240 on September 15 and 16, 2026. WealthStream booked Captured Celebrations to run the AI Print Booth inside its tent for both days, with a contract estimate of 1,000 guests at the booth.
A festival floor is not a ballroom. People are walking between stages, holding coffee, and deciding in seconds whether a booth is worth stopping for. Every exhibitor on that row wanted the same attendees. The activation had to earn the stop, hand something back fast, and leave the client with more than foot traffic.
Goals
WealthStream needed two things from one activation: a reason for advisors to stop at its booth, and a way to reach them after they left. A giveaway gets the first. It almost never gets the second.
The brief became a portrait good enough that a guest would carry it around the festival, with WealthStream built into the scene and a QR code on the print, and a share step that collects a phone number because the guest actually wants their photo. That is the difference between lead generation and a badge scan.
Setup
The Brand Lives Inside the Art
There was no print template for this job and there did not need to be one. The brand is in the scene itself: a vintage plane crossing a Huntington Beach sunset towing a WealthStream.ai banner, over the pier, the boardwalk and a festival crowd. Every guest became part of a WealthStream ad they actually wanted to keep.
A QR Code on Every Print
WealthStream’s QR code sits in the corner of every portrait. That code was the point of the activation: it turns a keepsake into a way back to the client. We framed the style so the plane, the banner, heads and hands stay clear of the edges, and planned the layout around the presentation folder so the QR stays fully visible and scannable.
Printed Into a Presentation Folder
Each portrait was handed over printed and slipped into a white 4x6 presentation folder, so guests walked the festival carrying a finished piece instead of a loose strip. One print per person, per session, which is why 179 sessions produced 294 prints: groups each left with their own.
Reference Art With No People In It
We hold this rule on every AI build. A reference image that contains a person can transfer that person’s features and skin tone onto the guest in front of the camera. Our references are scenes, textures and objects only, so guests come out looking like themselves, in the style.
Lead Capture at the Share Screen
Guests texted their portrait to their own phone at the booth. Every text share is a guest phone number, collected with a reason to give it, and delivered to WealthStream after the event with the date, time and a link to that guest’s photo.
Results
Over two days the booth ran 179 guest sessions. Every session produced an AI portrait, and 294 branded prints left the tent in presentation folders, each one carrying the WealthStream.ai banner and QR code into the rest of the festival.
The share step did the lead work. Guests sent their portrait to their own phone 158 times, from 151 unique phone numbers. We removed our own test shares before counting, so every number on that list is a real attendee who asked for their photo. The shares went on to reach an estimated 12,921 people with 43,719 estimated impressions, and the gallery was viewed 130 times.
WealthStream received everything two days after the festival closed, in one shared folder organized the way a marketing team uses it: 179 original photos without the QR code, 179 photos with it, and 179 AI portraits, plus a results report with the numbers and the full lead list, each guest with the date, time and a link to their photo.
How the AI Photo Booth Turned Guests Into Leads
- Stop: the guest walks into the WealthStream tent and steps in front of the booth.
- Capture: the booth takes the photo, solo or in a group.
- Transform: generative AI places the guest on the Huntington Beach boardwalk under a plane towing a WealthStream.ai banner.
- Share: the guest texts the portrait to their own phone, which captures their phone number for the lead list.
- Print: every person in the photo gets a 4x6 print with WealthStream’s QR code, handed over in a presentation folder.
- Deliver: after the festival, WealthStream receives the photos, the AI portraits and the lead list with the date, time and photo for every guest.
WealthStream Results at a Glance
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Event | Future Proof Festival, Huntington Beach, CA |
| Dates | September 15 and 16, 2026 |
| Guest sessions | 179 |
| AI portraits | 179 |
| Branded prints | 294 |
| Photo shares by text | 158 |
| Unique guest phone numbers | 151 |
| Gallery views | 130 |
| Estimated social reach | 12,921 |
| Estimated social impressions | 43,719 |
Source: Captured Celebrations booth analytics and lead capture export, September 15 to 18, 2026. Lead counts exclude our own test shares.
Why an AI Print Booth Works on a Festival Floor
Most booth giveaways end up in a hotel trash can. A portrait of yourself on the Huntington Beach boardwalk does not, and the brand goes wherever the print goes. When the brand is part of the scene instead of a logo stamped in a corner, guests share it without being asked.
The lead capture works for the same reason. Nobody minds typing their number to get their own photo, which makes it one of the few places on an exhibit floor where people hand over contact details willingly. If your team exhibits at conferences or festivals, see how we set this up on the trade show photo booth page.
“A festival booth has about ten seconds to earn a stop. Put the brand inside something people want to keep, and they carry it for you, and hand you their number to get it.”Liz Colón, Founder, Captured Celebrations
Event Details
- Client
- WealthStream
- Event
- Future Proof Festival
- Dates
- September 15 and 16, 2026
- Venue
- Booth 240, Future Proof Festival, Huntington Beach, CA
- Setting
- Outdoor festival, two full days
- Activation
- AI Print Booth
- AI Style
- Custom Huntington Beach boardwalk scene with a plane towing a WealthStream.ai banner
- Expected Attendance
- 1,000 guests at the booth
- Crew
- Two-person Captured Celebrations team
- Delivered
- 179 originals, 179 QR-branded photos, 179 AI portraits, lead report
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What We Learned
When the QR code is the whole point of a print, test the print in the exact holder it will be handed out in. A presentation folder hides a little of every edge, and a QR code in the corner is the first thing it would cut off. Framing the AI style to keep the banner, faces and QR clear of the edges was planned before event day, not discovered on it. The other lesson: count leads honestly. We took our own test shares out of the list before it went to the client, because a lead report is only useful if every number on it is a real person.
AI Print Booth Questions
How does an AI photo booth generate leads at a trade show or festival?
At Future Proof Festival, guests texted their AI portrait to their own phone at the booth, and each text share captured a guest phone number. Over two days the WealthStream booth collected 151 unique guest phone numbers from 158 photo shares, delivered to the client after the event with the date, time and a link to each guest’s photo.
How many people can an AI print booth serve in two days?
At WealthStream’s booth at Future Proof Festival on September 15 and 16, 2026, the AI Print Booth ran 179 guest sessions and produced 179 AI portraits and 294 branded prints. Prints outnumber sessions because every person in a group photo receives their own print.
Can an AI photo booth include our logo or QR code?
Yes. For WealthStream the brand was built into the AI scene itself, a plane towing a WealthStream.ai banner over Huntington Beach, and the client’s QR code was placed in the corner of every print. The style was framed so the banner and QR code stay visible and scannable once the print is in its presentation folder.
What does the client receive after an AI photo booth activation?
WealthStream received a shared folder with 179 original photos without the QR code, 179 photos with the QR code, and 179 AI portraits, plus a results report covering booth activity, estimated social reach and impressions, and the full guest lead list.
Can I rent an AI photo booth for an event in Huntington Beach?
Yes. Captured Celebrations brings its AI photo booth to Huntington Beach and across Orange County and Southern California, including festivals, trade shows and corporate events. WealthStream’s two-day activation at Future Proof Festival on the Huntington Beach waterfront ran 179 guest sessions and produced 294 branded prints.
Do AI photo booth reference images affect how guests look?
They can, which is why Captured Celebrations never uses reference images containing people. A reference image with a person in it can transfer that person’s features and skin tone onto the guest. Reference art is limited to scenes, textures and objects so guests come out looking like themselves in the chosen style.
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