Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Cineplex Digital Solutions February 18, 2013 by Super User The original DSE Mixer was a near impromptu thing held at a very strange but oddly cool place on the strip, with lots of red velvet, brass and flaming fire pools. I’d never been there when I told readers, “Hey, let’s go there!!!” So I walk in, and the first two people I see at …
Preset DSE Mixer Attendee Word Cloud February 18, 2013 by Super User Here’s what the mob looks like in terms of job titles at the Preset Group Mixer next week. Looks like about 100 or so of the folks have either CEO or President on their business cards, or both.
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Chief/Milestone AV February 17, 2013 by Super User If there is connective tissue in this goofy little sector, it’s the mount and rack companies with the gear that puts displays in place and makes deployments work, and who provide a lot of overall support for the industry. Companies like Chief are always investing directly in the trade shows, in educational work, and in …
Preset Mixer: Who’s Going (Chart) February 16, 2013 by Super User Here’s a look at how the nearly 350 people coming to the mixer breaks down in terms of what they do. The actual number of end-users is higher than that (I have a non-official list and also see how people are registered). But I wouldn’t expect a whole pile of end-users coming to DSE for …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Multiband USA February 12, 2013 by Super User The Preset Mixer is now just two weeks out and it is time to start profiles of the great companies that kindly chipped in financial support to pull off an event for some 300 people. First up is Multiband, which in very broad strokes does digital signage deployments. I asked Matt Weldon, the National Sales Director of …
Guzzle Energy Drink, Make It To Lightning Round February 11, 2013 by Super User So Day 2 of 2, at 4 PM, is not my idea of the feature speaking slot at a trade show, but hopefully a pile of people will grab a coffee or one of those crazily-overpriced cans of caffeine and make their way to the DSE session my Preset Group partner Pat Hellberg is running …
Stratacache Putting Big Focus On Asian Opportunities February 11, 2013 by Super User There are two companies in this space right now finding their way into the final consideration stage of many or most of the big digital signage jobs: Four Winds (who I wrote about the other day after its Forbes Top 50 listing) and Stratacache. They are wildly different companies in terms of corporate culture, software …
Four Winds Gets Top 50 Ranking Among Forbes’ Most Promising US Firms February 8, 2013 by Super User Denver-based Four Winds Interactive has been ranked #41 in Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of America’s Most Promising Companies, which is a list of 100 privately-held, high-flying companies. David Levin, President and CEO of FWi, was also pegged by the business publication as one of America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35. The company, which does digital signage …
Phil Cohen New Head Of Digital Signage Federation January 17, 2013 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation has done its annual board vote, and Phil Cohen of Care Media has been pegged as the new Chairman. Consultant/trainer Alan Brawn becomes Chairman Emeritus, Kim Sarubbi of Saddle Ranch Digital shifts to Vice Chairman and Ken Goldberg (Real Digital Media) is the Secretary/Treasurer. Carre Dawson (Harris), Jeff Dowell (3M), Brian …
Senior RIM Guy Signs On As ScreenScape CTO January 10, 2013 by Super User It has been tough, as a Canadian, to see Research In Motion go on a downward slide in the past couple of years, but the waning popularity of BlackBerries and resulting staff reductions has been a bit of a boon for other technology companies. I have met some ex-RIM people at tech sector networking events …
