Retail Tech 14: Retailer Perceptions Of Mobile Use, And Reality, Quite Different October 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes I zipped around the outer fringe of Toronto this morning to get up near the airport in a timely way and catch the half-day Retail Tech Conference, which attracted an impressively well-stocked room full of retailers and agency people. The event also had a healthy bunch of speakers, including folks from SapientNitro and from Google. All …
Toronto Ad Club’s Big OOH Showdown Set For Thursday October 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes If you are in, or getting into, the Digital OOH advertising business, and are around Toronto, you’ll want to be at the Advertising Club of Toronto’s 3rd Annual Out-of-Home Showdown. The annual competition, this Thursday, celebrates of out-of-home campaigns executed in Canada over the past year. This year’s event has a Mad Men, which may …
If Your Job’s About Effective Digital Signage, You Want To Be At Xlab October 2, 2014 by Dave Haynes With DSrupted, a speaking thing earlier this week and a quick 1-day run through G2E out of the way, I’m now looking forward to my next conference -SEGD’s Xlab 2014 in New York on Nov. 6th. It will be a kooky few days because there’s also the DPAA’s annual event, CEW (formerly CETW and before …
Global Gaming Expo Impressions From A Digital Signage Perspective October 1, 2014 by Dave Haynes I went to the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas Tuesday – the first time I’d been at an event geared to the industry that almost entirely drives the economy in that city. It is not, by any measure, a digital signage show, though it is full of screens running content. But that great majority …
DSrupted Speaker Ratings September 22, 2014 by Dave Haynes One of the tools used last week at DSrupted was a real-time speaker rating web app called Pheedloop, which is the product of a local Toronto start-up. They approached me with a template that was ready to go, and for all of $50, I gave it a crack. It was cool, and beat the crap …
Fall Is Learning Time In Digital Signage September 18, 2014 by Dave Haynes Selfishly, I’ve held off making much noise about other conferences and summits going on in the digital signage sector this fall, as I wanted people placing their learning bet on DSrupted. With that over, let’s look at the many events going on in the next few weeks: Next week, it’s the Digital Screenmedia Association’s symposium, called …
DSrupted Is In the Can; Happy Crowd, Happy Organizer September 18, 2014 by Dave Haynes It’s a few hours after DSrupted shut down, and I am just a wee bit tired. Forget about detailed coverage on what people said because the host and MC doesn’t get much time to sit and take notes. What I can say about the one-day conference – the first to focus specifically on disruptive tech …
Reminder: DSF Mixer Is Tomorrow Night In Toronto September 15, 2014 by Dave Haynes Lauren Taggart from the Digital Signage Federation tells me there are 50+ people already registered for tomorrow night’s mixer in Toronto, and she expects that if things play out as they normally do, more people will just show. The mixer – more formally called the DSF Toronto Night of Networking – runs from 6:30 to …
Fabulous Parting Gifts From Our DSrupted Sponsors September 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes We’ll have some genuinely “fabulous parting gifts” for the folks who register and attend DSrupted next week in Toronto. Google and Rise Vision – Google’s Vidya Nagarajan is our lead-off speaker and Rise is an event sponsor – have very kindly offered up 10 Asus Chromeboxes, teeny put powerful little devices that Rise already has in …
DSrupted Mixer Now A DSF Regional Council Meet & Greet September 3, 2014 by Dave Haynes 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 …
