DSrupted Mixer Now A DSF Regional Council Meet & Greet September 3, 2014 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation has established four DSF Regional Councils – one each in Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis and Toronto – and the DSF Toronto Regional Council is now formally the host of the mixer set for 6:30-9:00 pm Sept. 16th at Shoeless Joe’s Sports Grill in downtown Toronto. The event is the evening before the all day DSrupted conference …
DSrupted Is Two Weeks Out – Here’s Who’s Coming September 2, 2014 by Super User The first digital signage conference focused just on disruptive technologies is now just a couple of weeks, and if you are still on the fence about attending, here’s a rundown on the companies sending people to DSrupted on Sept. 17th. First, there will be a bunch of people from venue hosts Telus (a big Canadian …
DSrupted By A Tesla August 27, 2014 by Super User DSrupted speaker Paul Vincent, CEO of the HTML5-responsive ad firm Neuranet, had a chance to fiddle around in the front seat of a Tesla Model S Sedan the other day, and tried a few things with the car’s live web browser. Yes, the car has a browser. So he pointed at a URL for one of …
Beacons: A Better Idea For Indoor Wayfinding August 19, 2014 by Super User Interactive wayfinding directories absolutely have a role in helping people find their way around sprawling retail, health care, higher education and corporate campuses. But emerging technology is going to erode some of their core reasons for existing. The directories are very good at telling people what’s there – through lookups and category sorting. But they’re …
DSrupted Networking Mixer Details, Sept. 16th August 14, 2014 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation is one of the sponsors of DSrupted 2014, the first conference focused on disruptive technology in digital signage, and it’s also the host for a pre-event networking mixer. This has been in the works for months but now the details are set. When: Sept. 16th, starting at 6:30 PM. DSrupted is …
DSrupted Adds A DSF Mixer August 1, 2014 by Super User Details about exact location and time location are still to be worked out, but one of DSrupted’s sponsor, the Digital Signage Federation, will put together a networking event/mixer on the evening before the day-long conference in Toronto. The DSF is looking to build its membership ranks in the target-rich London-Kitchener-Toronto-Montreal corridor, which has for years …
Attendees Coming All Over For DSrupted 2014 July 29, 2014 by Super User When DSrupted first started coming together I assumed the great majority of attendees would be from Toronto and the surrounding area. But a surprising number of people are coming in from much further afield – all the way from the US West Coast to little Price Edward Island in Maritimes Canada. I’ve also been trading …
DSrupted: “Growth Hacking” Retail With Beacon Technology July 29, 2014 by Charles Regula Guest Post: Doug Thompson, Dot 3 Retail is the New Digital Battleground Physical world retailers will need to adopt the growth hacking strategies of their digital cousins if they’re going to survive. To some, growth hacking might just be a fancy name for online marketing. But at its core it represents the idea that marketing, …
DSrupted: Google’s Move Into Digital Signage July 23, 2014 by Super User Vidya Nagarajan of Google is coming from San Francisco to speak at DSrupted, and provide perspective and insight into how the technology giant plugs into and inevitably disrupts the digital signage space. A Product Manager in the Chrome for Business group, she was at the Intel booth at DSE, answering questions about the Chrome platform and …
DSrupted Promises Full Day Look At Digital Signage And Disruptive Technology July 21, 2014 by Super User We’re now less than two months out from DSrupted, the first conference to focus just on the rapidly evolving and emerging technologies that are disrupting the digital signage business. On Sept. 17th in downtown Toronto, a full day has been set aside to much more closely examine the opportunities and implications of technologies such as …
