DPAA Shifts Its Annual NYC Event Online, Over Three Days August 19, 2020 by Dave Haynes It’s pretty easy to lose track of the various live events that have been cancelled or deferred or turned virtual, but I THINK this is news that the DPAA has given up on the idea of an in-person version of its annual NYC conference, going fully online for 2020. The out of home media-focused trade …
Digital Signage Summit Videos: Technologies For Re-Opening; Global Perspectives August 18, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a pair of videos from the recent Digital Signage Summit, run by invidis and Integrated Systems Events. I was asked to moderate a couple of key sessions, which were done live but also recorded and have now been loaded for open viewing to YouTube. The first is a roundtable discussion with vendors and …
Is Virtual Marketing Working? Aug. 18 DS Roundtable Looks At Online Trade Shows, Conferences August 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes Work From Home requirements that last few months have put most of us in front of monitors watching no end of webinars and attending trade shows and conferences virtually. There are things to like about it, and many things that could be improved … or will always be compromised. Big companies like Samsung have done …
Display Week 2020: So Now That You’ve Sorted Out All The LED Acronyms, Here’s Some More August 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes With the industry rank and file maybe, possibly starting to gets its collective head wrapped around relatively new terms like OLED, QLED, miniLED and microLED, it’s time to introduce yet more acronyms and differing display technologies that we’ll be talking about and looking at soon enough. In clicking and scrolling my way this week around …
Pro AV Survey Suggests EMEA Industry People Comfy With Trade Shows Again By Q1 ’21 August 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes The UK-based publication Inavate, which covers the pro AV market in the EMEA regions, has issued the results of a reader survey that suggests few buyers would attend physical industry events for the balkance of this year, but see Q1 of 2021 as the start of a return to normal. The questionnaire, that canvassed for …
Display Week 2020: LG’s Future OLED Is Bendy, Flexy, See-Thru And As Big As Walls August 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes I am virtually wandering the exhibit hall of SID Display Week – mentally walking right on past a whole bunch of vendors that sell things like polymer microstructures and light measurement tools. But I am stopping and looking at some of what the display guys are toting this year. A lot of it is geared …
Display Week 2020: This New Mexico Spin-out Making MicroLED Displays On Paper-Thin Metal Foil August 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes I am virtually attending the Society for Information Display’s annual display-nerd festival – DisplayWeek. The live show was done in by COVID-19, but lives on as a virtual show. It is NO replacement for the real deal – having seen that last year in Silicon Valley – but a reasonable alternative, given our collectively crappy …
ISE Starts Attendee Push; Suggests Health Safety Risk For Barcelona In Feb. Is Low July 31, 2020 by Dave Haynes The organizers of ISE started their push this week to both market the February show and reassure exhibitors and potential attendees that it will be safe. There were several videotaped segments done in Barcelona shown during the Digital Signage Summit held online earlier this week, from a studio space in Hanover, Germany. That event was …
2020 NACS Show Cancelled, By Convention Authority; Will Now Be Virtual July 31, 2020 by Dave Haynes The big c-store trade show NACS, which was set for mid-October in Las Vegas, is the latest high profile, big dollar casualty of COVID-19. In an interesting development, it was the venue, not the organizer, that did the event in. “As part of daily communications with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), NACS …
Two-Day Digital Signage Summit Kicking Off Online This AM July 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes Getting set to log in and mostly monitor the 2-day Digital Signage Summit, which is normally a live event held each summer in Germany, but is virtual – like just about everything – this time around. I am moderating a panel midday focused on retail re-opening and ops challenges, as well as talking about the …
