What Digital Signage Nerds Should See For First Time Back To Vegas In Ages May 18, 2022 by Dave Haynes It will have been three years, I think, since I was last in Las Vegas – a city I’m usually in two or three times in a calendar year. Much has changed and much has been added since COVID lockdowns cancelled events or made business travel even less enticing. But I will be there for …
InfoComm Forecasting 20,000 Attendees, 525 Exhibitors For Almost-Back-To-Normal Vegas Show In June May 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes In the wake of last week’s Integrated Systems Europe, the folks at the trade association AVIXA (which co-owns ISE) are now putting the focus on InfoComm, the sister pro AV trade show in Las Vegas. Instead of ISE and InfoComm being a few months apart, they are a few weeks this year – the tight …
Last Week’s NAB Show Pulls 52K+ Attendees; Hints At What We Might See With InfoComm In June April 29, 2022 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is coming up shortly in Spain and InfoComm is just a few weeks later in las Vegas, so trade shows this spring that attract some of the same exhibitors and attendees offer clues as to what might happen when the giant scissors come out and the exhibit halls open for those big …
Pro AV Industry Saw Record Sales Growth In March 2022: AVIXA Research April 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Despite ongoing supply chain issues, the pro AV industry saw record sales growth last month in North America and even more so globally, according the latest business index numbers from the research wing of the trade association AVIXA. The new Pro AV Business Index says its AV Sales Index (AVI-S) measured 72.7 for March, up …
InfoComm Organizing AV Experience Tours To Show Latest Wow Factor Projects In Las Vegas April 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes It has likely been at least a couple of years since many digital signage industry people have made a trade show pilgrimage to Las Vegas, and a whole bunch of interesting visual experiences have been lit up over that time. That makes the case alone for a series of “Integrated Experience Tours” being organized by …
AVIXA Suspends Russian Member Companies, Blocks Exhibiting At ISE, InfoComm March 30, 2022 by Dave Haynes The trade association AVIXA has suspended the memberships of Russian companies and individuals, and banned Russian companies from exhibiting at its biggest trade shows, Integrated Systems Europe (co-owned wth CEDIA) and InfoComm. The organization has also withdrawn support for an event called ISRussia. The statement came out a few days ago, but I managed to …
AVIXA Firms Up Plans For Digital Signage At June’s InfoComm Trade Show March 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes The pro AV trade organization AVIXA has firmed up plans for the digital signage educational efforts at the upcoming InfoComm 2022 show in Las Vegas in June, with the return of the D=SIGN Conference, as well as workshops, training and lunch ‘n learn sessions. InfoComm is June 4-10, with the exhibit hall running June 8-10. …
AVIXA Releases Digital Signage Plans For InfoComm In June February 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes The trade association AVIXA has released some of the plans for the digital signage component of the planned InfoComm trade show in June in Las Vegas – with a dedicated zone in the exhibit hall and on-premise conference done in conjunction with the Digital Signage Federation. There will again be a D=Sign conference at the …
Going Back To (Hopefully) Normal, InfoComm Opens Registration For Traditional June Show In Vegas February 10, 2022 by Dave Haynes The big pro AV trade show InfoComm is angling back to some kind of normalcy, with the 2022 event back in the blast furnace of Las Vegas from June 4-10 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Education is at the front end of these days, with the exhibit hall open from the 8th to 10th. Most …
To No One’s Surprise, Last Month’s InfoComm Saw Attendee Numbers Down By 70%-85% November 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes AVIXA has released the numbers for its 2021 InfoComm trade show, run in Florida couple of weeks ago. As anyone paying attention expected, the numbers were way down. Verified attendance was 7,335, a little more than half of the 14,017 who registered to attend. The AVIXA press release does not say if the verified total …