AVIXA Announces 2021 AV Professional Awards October 29, 2021 by Super User AVIXA – aka the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association – yesterday announced the 2021 winners of its AV Professional Awards. While a lot of the winners may be more familiar to other corners of the pro AV, there are some great people like Brandy Alvarado-Miranda who work in or touch on digital signage. The awards, …
Video: We Go Walkies At InfoComm 2021 With Manny And Ben Of Q Division October 28, 2021 by Super User Manolo Almagro and Ben Gauthier from the consultancy Q Division are down at InfoComm walking the floor and getting set to speak tomorrow morning. They very kindly offered to give me a quick walk-around and impressions from the floor. The quick summary: it’s busier than expected, but in the context of digital signage, there’s not …
It’s Impossible And Silly To Cover InfoComm From 2,000 Miles Away, So Here Goes … October 27, 2021 by Super User It is impossible, and arguably silly, to try to get much of a sense of how a trade show is going in Florida, from a home office in Nova Scotia, but what the hell, here goes … Based on some emails, texts and social media monitoring, the now-open InfoComm trade show hall looks pretty much …
InfoComm Underway, Exhibit Hall Opens Tomorrow October 26, 2021 by Super User InfoComm is on this week in Orlando, with the the Digital Signage Federation running its D=Sign education event today in collaboration with AVIXA. It will be super-interesting to get photos, video and commentary on how the show works and operates this week, as I will not be there in person. COVID, among a billion things, …
ISE Floor Plan Coming Together; Digital Signage Firms Grouped In One Hall Again October 21, 2021 by Super User I am starting to look ahead to Integrated Systems Europe, even though the next big pro AV show is actually next week – InfoComm in Orlando. I am looking past that because I am not going, and this year’s InfoComm is expected be a shadow of its normal self in terms of numbers. There has …
AVIXA Pushes Out Details On Virtual Side Of InfoComm Show October 13, 2021 by Super User AVIXA has been working hard to convince both buyers and sellers that it is safe to be in Orlando in just a couple of weeks (Oct. 27-29) for its pro AV trade show InfoComm, but has announced fuller details on the virtual side of the show aimed at pro AV buyers and sellers who will …
While Many Displaycos Have Revised Or Cancelled InfoComm Plans, Philips Announces It Is All In For 2021 October 12, 2021 by Super User There has been a periodic drip-drip of announcements from AV companies saying they had decided to pull out of InfoComm at the end of this month because of worries about COVID-19, but in a different twist, PPDS (aka Philips) has pushed out an announcement saying specifically it WILL be there. The PR firm passing that …
ISE Opens Registration For Feb. Show In Barcelona October 7, 2021 by Super User Integrated Systems Europe has opened registration for its 2022 trade show, set for Feb. 1-4 in Barcelona, Spain. The timing seems a bit odd, as show co-owner AVIXA has a full court press on right now convincing pro AV people to come to InfoComm at the end of this month. That show’s attendance and exhibitor …
When Your Pro AV Company Is Named Covid, All You Can Do Is Laugh, Shrug And Carry On September 23, 2021 by Super User The organizers of the InfoComm trade show coming up in a few weeks are doing everything possible to keep COVID out of the convention center venue, but in an exceptionally weird twist, Covid has booth 3354 on the exhibit hall floor. A Tempe, AZ company called Covid has been manufacturing audio-visual connectivity solutions for nearly …
CEDIA Attendance Clobbered By COVID September 20, 2021 by Super User The numbers for the recent home AV/residential tech trade show CEDIA Expo are in, and both attendee and exhibitor numbers were utterly clobbered. The last normal times version of the show, in 2019, attracted almost 20,000 attendees and 500 exhibitors, when it was held in Denver two years ago. The 2021 show was held at …
