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 …
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 …
Time’s Running Out – Get Your Entries In For The 2022 Global Digital Signage Awards! September 21, 2021 by Super User A last reminder that vendors, service providers and end-users like network operators and agencies have a little more than a week left to pull together submissions for the 2022 edition of the global Digital Signage Awards, which are backed, in part, by Sixteen:Nine. As I have noted a number of times, a little bit of …
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 …
ISE’s London Micro-Show On Today, Tomorrow; Looks Small, But AV People Happy To Be There June 23, 2021 by Super User The London micro-ISE show is on today and tomorrow, and it appears to have the same sort of dimensions and foot traffic as the one earlier in the month in Barcelona. It is a hybrid virtual and in-person show and the photos and tweets appearing online suggest a few things: UK AV people are just …
ISE’s Barcelona Event Drew Just Over 2,400 In-Person Attendees June 9, 2021 by Super User The live event side of last week’s two-day physical ISE exhibition drew about 2,400 people to the Barcelona venue, with another 8,000 registered for the online presentations and virtual fair. Integrated Systems Events Managing Director Mike Blackman, whose firm runs the show for co-owners AVIXA and CEDIA, says it was an important milestone for the …
The Greatest Success Of This Week’s ISE Is, Perhaps, That It Even Happened June 3, 2021 by Super User Guest Post: Florian Rotberg, Invidis I must make it clear that ISE 2021 in Barcelona this week was anything but a normal trade fair. Not only because the protocol required regular COVID-19 tests and ID checks, but because ISE took place inside an exhibition hall. And yet, in many ways, the ISE’s pandemic issue somehow felt …
ISE Barcelona Photo Gallery Already Up June 2, 2021 by Super User The mini-ISE in Barcelona came and went in a blink, it seems, and while the two-day event ended there earlier today, the organizers already have a photo gallery up. You can see the images here … I did NOT have the time – stupid-busy, not good ‘cuz the weather finally improved here – to take …
ISE’s Live Show Opens In Barcelona; Spun As Preview Of Full ISE In Eight Months June 1, 2021 by Super User Integrated Systems Europe is now open in Barcelona – running a small in-person show and a parallel virtual event. It is predictably small – certainly compared against ISEs held in more normal circumstances – and probably attended mostly by people from the region. Show director Mike Blackman is spinning it as an “exclusive preview” of …
ISE’s Barcelona Hybrid Live/Virtual Show Opens; Here’s What It’s Like To Get In May 31, 2021 by Super User There have been a few small gatherings here and there in recent weeks, but the seriously downsized and hybrid live/virtual Integrated Systems Europe event this week in Barcelona provides a glimpses at what going to trades shows might be like in the second half of this year. The German consultancy Invidis has close ties to …
