DSrupted: Why You Should Attend – Reason #1 July 13, 2015 by Super User DSrupted is a conference I am running – all day Sept. 16th in downtown Toronto – focused on the disruptive technology that is or will be changing the way digital signage gets done. Here’s the first of a week-long series of reasons why – whether you are in or around Toronto, or further afield – you …
DSrupted: Mike Pell On Data Visualization And The Age Of Smart Signage July 10, 2015 by Super User I’ve written quite a bit lately about how data and particularly data visualization can and will play a large role in some future signage projects, and Mike Pell of Microsoft is coming to DSrupted in September to reinforce that, from the point of view of an expert. Pell speaks regularly about data visualization and has …
DSrupted: Brad Parler On Firing First Shot In Content Revolution July 9, 2015 by Super User Brad Parler has turned the typically bland business of corporate communications on its ears with a content programming model at his workplace – the online retailer Blinds.com – that actually makes people want to look, and keep looking. Instead of text and number lists of performance indicators or employee of the month photos, Parler shot, …
Liveposter’s Martin Porter Rounds Out Terrific DSrupted Line-up June 30, 2015 by Super User I’m very pleased to say the line-up is now fully set for DSrupted, which is set for Sept. 16th in Toronto. We’ve got a great line-up and a big highlight, I suspect, will be a talk by Martin Porter, Senior VP and Group Director for Posterscope, one of the biggest digital OOH agencies out there. …
DSrupted: Session Added On Digital Signage And The Internet Of Things June 10, 2015 by Super User The agenda is now pretty much rounded out for DSrupted, the annual conference that looks squarely at disruptive technologies in digital signage. I wanted a session on the Internet of Things, and needed it to be from someone who wasn’t going to just get up and talk about their device or process, and who could …
DSrupted Update: Two More Speakers Set May 26, 2015 by Super User After a second stretch of busy this year that has me pretty much in a fugue state (though tallboy cans of Shock Top snap me right out of it), I’m having a sufficiently slow week that there’s been time to actually plan. Cool concept. Must do that more. The big focus of planning at the moment is …
DSrupted: How One Guy Reimagined Digital Signage Content April 29, 2015 by Super User When I watched a video a couple of months back about a corporate communications digital signage program in the customer contact center at Blinds.com, the first words out of my mouth were: “That’s <naughty word> brilliant.” So I am very happy to report that the guy who put it together will be in Toronto this …
DSrupted: Microsoft Envisioneer Mike Pell To Talk Data Visualization April 22, 2015 by Super User Two of five speakers are now set for DSrupted and another two are getting sorted. These first two are going to be great, and today let’s look at Mike Pell, who will talk about Data Visualization. If you don’t know what that is, you should, and Mike’s the guy to tell you in September in …
DSrupted 2015 Site Live, Tickets On Sale April 6, 2015 by Super User The DSrupted 2015 website is now live, the agenda is out and ticketing is live for the event, Sept. 16th in Toronto. We’re pulling together our speakers and already have commitments from a couple of really, really good ones. Microsoft’s Mike Pell will talk about data visualization. He’s a Senior Designer in the Cloud + Enterprise …
DSrupted 2015 Taking Shape For Sept. 2015 March 24, 2015 by Super User I don’t think the mikes had even gone on for the first DSrupted last fall and a main sponsor was already talking about doing it again. Roughly six months out, I can say we are indeed planning to do it again. The one-day conference that looks at disruptive and emerging technologies is being shaped again …