Impressions: Sign Expo 2013 April 6, 2013 by Dave Haynes The last couple of days have been very full ones, hanging out and looking around at the International Sign Association’s Sign Expo trade show in Las Vegas. I was there hanging out with a client and trying to assess whether this was s show and a crowd worth the attention, and a couple of days …
Heading Back To LV April 2, 2013 by Dave Haynes It has been a whole month, I think, since I’ve had to flash my passport and empty my pockets at an airport – but that all changes tomorrow. Back to Las Vegas, which was my last trip. I am going to the International Sign Association trade show – called SignExpo – at the Mandalay Bay. …
Taiwan Digital Signage Forum Looking For Speaker March 19, 2013 by Dave Haynes Taiwan’s Digital Signage Multimedia Association has its annual Digital Signage Forum on Friday, June 7th in Taipei, and has a call out for a speaker who can do 30 minutes on where the industry os at and where it is going. The DSMA will reimburse air and two nights hotel for whoever sticks up their …
DSF Plans Four Networking Mixers, Inc June Event In Toronto March 12, 2013 by Dave Haynes It has been almost a couple of years since I last organized a mixer in Toronto, and I get fairly regular emails asking when that would be revived. Well, left to me, who knows? Between business travel and spinning a whole bunch of client dishes at once, it’s enough to do the Preset one in …
DSA Plans 2-Day Spring Symposium In DFW March 7, 2013 by Dave Haynes The Digital Screenmedia Association staging a two-day symposium May 9-10 in Dallas – kind of a micro-conference that has fees but also appears to be bankrolled by a handful of sponsoring vendors. The event, which is day of yakking split across two days, is at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center. Thursday, May 9 …
Mixer Wrap-Up And 2014 Plans March 5, 2013 by Dave Haynes I sent off an email to everyone who registered for last week’s mixer, thanking them for coming out (297 did) and asking for comments. A separate email went to sponsors. The consensus seems to be that the venue was ideal in location, size, style and service – so our much-travelled little event may finally have …
New Digital Signage Conference Set For October In NYC February 27, 2013 by Dave Haynes In an interesting turn of events, the annual digital signage executive conference in NYC that has for years been put on by Toronto-based Strategy Institute will be put on instead by a couple of well-known industry people, Steve Nesbit and Adrian Cotterill. Consultants Nesbit and Cotterill (the latter you will also know as the DailyDOOH …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Chief/Milestone AV February 17, 2013 by Dave Haynes 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 …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Capital Networks February 15, 2013 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
