DSE Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Digital Signage Expo/Exponation February 20, 2013 by Super User All the sponsors of the Preset Group DSE Mixer have now been Q&A’d here, save one. Digital Signage Expo kindly stepped up this year to directly sponsor the Mixer, with Chris Gibbs explaining the evening was now firmly a part of the DSE week experience, and he wanted to support that. That was cool, since …
DSE PR: Announce Now, Not Next Week February 19, 2013 by Super User If form holds, there will be all kinds of product and deal announcements timed next week to coincide with the Digital Signage Expo trade show. All those announcements are aimed at people like me who do what amounts to coverage of the sector. That’s exactly the wrong time to make announcements, and here’s why: I’m …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Cineplex Digital Solutions February 18, 2013 by Super User The original DSE Mixer was a near impromptu thing held at a very strange but oddly cool place on the strip, with lots of red velvet, brass and flaming fire pools. I’d never been there when I told readers, “Hey, let’s go there!!!” So I walk in, and the first two people I see at …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Chief/Milestone AV February 17, 2013 by Super User If there is connective tissue in this goofy little sector, it’s the mount and rack companies with the gear that puts displays in place and makes deployments work, and who provide a lot of overall support for the industry. Companies like Chief are always investing directly in the trade shows, in educational work, and in …
Preset Mixer: Who’s Going (Chart) February 16, 2013 by Super User Here’s a look at how the nearly 350 people coming to the mixer breaks down in terms of what they do. The actual number of end-users is higher than that (I have a non-official list and also see how people are registered). But I wouldn’t expect a whole pile of end-users coming to DSE for …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Capital Networks February 15, 2013 by Super User I got into the digital signage space coming on 14 years ago, and the first software company I dealt with was Capital Networks. We bought dozens of their servers and software and put them in racks in office tower closets and machine rooms to drive a signal over coax to screens in elevators. Capital wasn’t …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: NEC Display Solutions February 14, 2013 by Super User Next up in our profiles of Preset Group DSE 2013 Mixer Sponsors is NEC Display Solutions, the professional display and projection system giant from Japan, via suburban Chicago. President and CEO Pierre Richer was kind enough to A – throw some money at me to help with 2013 mixer costs, and B – field my five …
Interactive Merchandising Part of Future Retail Panel At DSE2013 February 13, 2013 by Super User The keynote breakfast panel on the second day of Digital Signage Expo 2013 is all about future tech and one of the guys who’ll be there talking about his company’s cool pots and pans is Jared Schiffman, co-founder and CEO of NYC-based PERCH Interactive. Speaking with Curt Bailey (Sundberg-Ferar), Tim Huckaby (InterKnowlogy), and Christine Outram …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Multiband USA February 12, 2013 by Super User The Preset Mixer is now just two weeks out and it is time to start profiles of the great companies that kindly chipped in financial support to pull off an event for some 300 people. First up is Multiband, which in very broad strokes does digital signage deployments. I asked Matt Weldon, the National Sales Director of …
Guzzle Energy Drink, Make It To Lightning Round February 11, 2013 by Super User So Day 2 of 2, at 4 PM, is not my idea of the feature speaking slot at a trade show, but hopefully a pile of people will grab a coffee or one of those crazily-overpriced cans of caffeine and make their way to the DSE session my Preset Group partner Pat Hellberg is running …
