Kai won't be at the booth whether he's competing or not. He'll have a team of experienced sales reps and demonstrators working instead. He may drop by to check for progress but that's about it
Experienced sales rep: "oh, hey Kai, what's up?
Kai: "I just want to make sure when market is performing their regression analysis they make sure to include a variety techniques for modeling and analyzing the variables, but keep focus on the relationship between the dependent variables and one or more of the independent ones"
Experienced sales rep: "oh yeah, Kai, of course".
Kai: "Cool, going back to room"