Golf Day Set For Digital Signage Folks Ahead Of InfoComm April 28, 2023 by Super User Golfers in the digital signage community who are heading down to InfoComm in, gulp, just a few weeks may want to sign up for an informal golf day being organized by industry vet Kevin Cosbey. The “InfoGolf Open” has been set up for Tuesday, June 13th at the Shingle Creek Golf Club in Orlando, less …
DSF’s Next Mix And Mingle Set For May 4th In Toronto April 17, 2023 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation has settled on a date and venue for its next “Mix & Mingle” networking event – May 4th at the as Canadian-as-it-gets Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, and then at a (very) nearby pub. The hall of fame venue, if you don’t know Toronto, is in a historic corner building …
AVIXA Details Its Digital Signage Plans For InfoComm In June, Including A Sixteen:Nine Mixer! April 14, 2023 by Super User AVIXA, the pro AV-focused trade organization, has released its digital signage event and programming plans for the 2023 edition of InfoComm, June 10-16 in Orlando. Among many things is a version of the Sixteen:Nine networking mixers that have been part of big digital signage events for the past decade or so. The Sixteen:Nine Digital Signage …
DSF Launches Free Careers Center To Connect People Looking And Companies Hiring March 30, 2023 by Super User I get lots of phone calls and emails from people on both ends of the hiring process – those looking for jobs and those looking for the right people. So news that the Digital Signage Federation has launched a jobs board is a welcome development, as it has the potential to create some focus that’s …
MediaVue Founder and CEO David DeGiorgi (1954-2023) March 27, 2023 by Super User Sad news out of New England: the founder and CEO of the media play-out hardware and software services company MediaVue Systems has passed away. David DeGiorgi died on Saturday after a 16-month battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer. He passed peacefully, surrounded by his family, and is survived by his sisters, Debbie and …
XUSC Plans London Networking Event April 13th For UK Digital Signage Crowd March 23, 2023 by Super User I’m not sure if this is tied to a conference or trade show of some sort, or just a fun thing to do, but the other guy who does digital signage networking events is doing one in a few weeks in London. Bryan Meszaros and his company Open Eye Global are doing a version of …
DSF Pulls Crowd For Louisville Meet And Mingle Event February 16, 2023 by Super User It looks like the Digital Signage Federation pulled a good crowd for its networking event in Louisville, Kentucky last night – with a nice fringe benefit to the meet-up being a look around the venue, the famed Churchill Downs horse racing track that is home to the Kentucky Derby. The industry association’s events are done …
Chalk Elevated To VP Sales For BrightSign February 14, 2023 by Super User Analytics tell me readers aren’t all that interested in news about new hires and titles at companies, but BrightSign ships a LOT of little purple media play-out boxes, so news of who is now running sales at the Silicon Valley company will matter to all kinds of resellers and integrators. Misty Chalk has been bumped …
Great Success: Sixteen:Nine Mixer Well-Received (But I Need Pix!) February 3, 2023 by Super User The curious element of the digital signage industry “mixer” events that I have been doing since forever is that as they have grown in size and scope, I experience less and less of the event. I spent most of last night’s event in Barcelona outside the venue entrance, welcoming people and taking advantage of relative …
Women in AV/IT Forms With Goal Of Making Industries Safer And More Inclusive January 17, 2023 by Super User If you have spent any time in the pro AV industry, you’ll know that the gender mix is very much like it is in much of the tech sector – VERY male-dominant. That’s been slowly changing, and while Sales and Marketing, HR and Finance still seem to be the main executive level jobs in this …
