Day 1 At DSE 2014 February 13, 2014 by Dave Haynes Out the door at 8 AM, back in the hotel room at 12:30 AM. No time to write. Booked all day. Maybe will be posting from the plane Friday. Generally, quite busy. Everything busy, brighter, thinner, easier, etc, etc. Very little you would look at and think, That’s different or amazing or whatever. Lots of …
Great Night At The Annual Preset Group Mixer February 12, 2014 by Dave Haynes Another Preset Mixer is in the can and the reviews last night were all good. We had 317 registered and 311 showed up. Now, there were a bunch of no-shows but there were, in turn, dozens of people who just kinda showed up. That could have been a problem because we were understanding the …
Experiential Can’t Be Just A Buzzword: Denys Lavigne February 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes High-impact digital visual projects in corporate and public venues are quickly growing commonplace, but they only truly work when they deliver an experience that respects key parameters, says Denys Lavigne, the President of creative agency Arsenal Media, looking ahead to a couple of speaking gigs at DSE. “Experiential can’t be just a buzzword,” says Lavigne. …
Glasses-Free 3D Goes 4K February 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes I was wondering if next week’s Digital Signage Expo would have any companies there still trying to get the industry interested in glasses-free 3D – a tech that seems to move people quickly from amazed to ambivalent. Turns out there is, and it’s a bit different. Buffalo-based pro AV distributor Stampede Presentation Products will be …
DSE Disrupted Tech Talk Approaching Sold Out February 5, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Expo team tells me the seminar on Disrupted Technology that I’m chairing/moderating/referee’ing a week today ion Las Vegas is approaching sold out. There were 100 registrants as of today and the room can take a dozen or so more. So … let’s sell it out!!! The session is Wed. Feb. 12 at …
Preset Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Multiband February 4, 2014 by Dave Haynes Last but by no means least in our series of profiles of Preset Mixer Sponsors is Multiband, which in very broad strokes does digital signage deployments across the US and into Canada. I asked Matt Weldon, the National Sales Director for Multiband Subscriber Services, to readers and particularly Mixer attendees an idea of what his …
Preset Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Capital Networks February 4, 2014 by Dave Haynes I go back 15 years now with Bil Trainor and his crew at Capital Networks, most of them the same people. Loyal bunch, which says a lot about the company and the guy who runs it. Capital Networks is a Toronto-area provider of dynamic digital signage software solutions for digital signage, digital display networks, digital …
Seenspire Heading To Vegas For Three Creative Awards, Less Than Year After Opening Up February 4, 2014 by Dave Haynes I’m looking forward to meeting a bunch of people next week that I know by phone, e-mail and Skype, but have never talked to in person. One of them is Sam Mekonen, a co-founder of Seenspire. It’s a Belgian company that does a really interesting, somewhat rare blend of automated content feeds for signage networks, …
Preset Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Digital Signage Expo February 3, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Expo trade show has itself been a sponsor of the annual Preset Mixer, which is really cool. When Chris Gibbs, the guy who runs DSE, approached me about sponsorship he said the mixer was now firmly part of the DSE experience, and the show wanted to support it. That backing started in …
Mixer Host Profile: The Preset Group February 3, 2014 by Dave Haynes The annual Preset Group Mixer at DSE actually pre-dates the host company, as the first mixer was a loosely organized gathering in 2009 among the flaming fire pools, brass rails and red velvet of the Peppermill Lounge in Las Vegas. I did that one under the auspices of Digital Out-of-home Professionals and Executives Society, otherwise …
