Projection-Mapping Transform Historic LA Park For Live Event May 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a live event using projection mapping, but the techniques and technologies used could certainly apply to more permanent digital signage installations. Projection Designer Hana Kim uses Panasonic laser projectors and projection mapping technology to create visuals for SWEET LAND, an outdoor opera set inside Los Angeles State Historic Park. The production blended the …
ICX Summit Shifts Dates From June To November; Stays In Columbus, OH April 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes Pretty much the last event in the first half of the year that might attract a digital signage crowd has been forced to shift dates because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Networld Media Group, the producers of the Interactive Customer Experience (ICX) Summit, has announced that the early June event has been postponed to Nov. 4-6. The …
SID Pushes Display Week Off Two Months To August; Moves Down I-280 To San Jose April 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Society for Information Display (SID) has rescheduled its annual Display Week from June to August, and shifted the symposium, seminar and trade show from downtown San Francisco to the San Jose Convention Center, where it was run in 2019. The revised schedule is Aug. 2-7. “COVID-19 has had an unprecedented, unanticipated effect on all …
Learning Calendar Improved, Ready For Vendor Submissions March 31, 2020 by Dave Haynes Last week, Sixteen:Nine introduced a new service aimed at helping companies get the word out about their webinars – events that have always been a thing, but heightened in importance now that much of the world is working from home. Version 1 of Learning was buggy, mostly because I didn’t have the time, knowledge or …
InfoComm Cancelled, Next U.S. Show In June 2021 In Orlando March 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes InfoComm 2020 is the latest trade show to fall victim to the coronavirus outbreak, with the show not postponed by just flat cancelled for this year. Says AVIXA: With concern for the health and safety of our exhibitors, attendees, partners and staff, the show management of InfoComm and the executive leadership of AVIXA have chosen …
World Out of Home Organization Cancels Toronto Congress That Was Set For June March 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes The World Out of Home Organization has cancelled its big Toronto Congress, originally slated for early June, due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus and the variety of travel restrictions. The Congress is being rescheduled for Toronto in June 2021. “COVID-19 is now officially designated a pandemic by the World Health Organization and is …
AVIXA CEO Labuskes Says Premature To Make A Go/No-Go Call On InfoComm 2020 March 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes Via rAVe Publications and Gary Kayye … This is a statement AVIXA CEO Dave Labuskes put out today, re InfoComm (short version – it’s too early to make a call on running or postponing the June show, but AVIXA is anything but oblivious about the situation). A Letter to the AV Industry I , as …
The Big 16:9 Digital Signage Mixer Re-Directed To InfoComm In June March 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes It was clear in the last two or three weeks that Digital Signage Expo was going to be under the same pressure that almost every trade show is facing in the age of COVID-19. I concluded about 10 days ago that the show would either be forced to cancel or postpone, or go on with …
Another Show Taken Out By COVID-19: NAB Cancels Show Planned For April In Vegas March 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is getting nutty. On the heels of ISA’s SignExpo postponing to late summer comes word that the National Association of Broadcasters has just flat cancelled the annual NAB show, which was to run next Month in Las Vegas. That show is not a digital signage show, but signage is largely a video and data …
Int’l Sign Association Pushes Sign Expo Back From April To Late August, Citing COVID-19 March 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes The International Sign Association has rescheduled its annual ISA Sign Expo – which is heavily about print but has tried in recent years to also encompass digital – has postposed the show to late August from early April. As with other trade shows and conferences, the big drivers are health safety concerns and logistical issues …
