Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Kristin Russell, Arrow Intelligent Systems August 9, 2017 by Super User Kristin Russell jokes about Arrow being a massive company few people even know about – with $24 billion in annual sales and some 18,000 people walking around with Arrow on their business cards, in 90 countries. She runs Arrow Intelligent Systems, which does everything from design engineering and integration services to global logistics. One of the …
Hacking Dangers In Digital Signage, with Gary Feather, CTO, NanoLumens August 2, 2017 by Super User I’m changing up the podcast a little bit this week. I have my own rule that I want to talk to a bunch of other companies first before I talk to one a second time. I’ve also made this podcast about people and not issues. But this week I am talking to Gary Feather, CTO …
Best Of Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Randy Dearborn, MGM Resorts July 26, 2017 by Super User A planned interview went south on me and there was no time to pull a replacement together, so in lieu of a new one this week, here is one of my favourite interviews to date – with Randy Dearborn of MGM Resorts, done a little more than a year ago. Dearborn has been running digital …
16:9 Projects Podcast: Terrell Place, by ESI Design July 23, 2017 by Danica Trapara Downtown Washington, D.C.’s Terrell Place is an office and retail complex named after civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell, a founding member of the NAACP, who led the protest against segregation at Hecht’s lunch counter in the 1950s. Building owners, Beacon Capital asked ESI Design to transform the disjointed lobby, which is comprised of three …
Michael Higgins, Harris School Solutions July 19, 2017 by Super User Public schools would seem like a natural fit for digital signage because of all the communications that circulate, all the time, in K-12 schools. A software company that’s focused on the education market – Harris School Solutions – recently announced a product that’s an interesting blend of digital signage and smartphone apps. It’s designed to …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Robin Carlisle, Framestore Labs July 12, 2017 by Super User Robin Carlisle is Global Head of Creative for Framestore Labs, a UK-based creative technology shop that specializes in making beautiful and cinematic real-time visuals. Framestore Labs is part of a larger company, Framestore, that has been doing amazing visuals for years. For example, that’s Framestore’s work in movies like Gravity, which somehow imagineers what happens …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Steve Rickless, Tripleplay July 5, 2017 by Super User Steve Rickless, one of the founders of the UK firm Tripleplay, believes likes a lot of people that technology is converging, and thinks his company is in a good spot because it has already converged its technology. The company started in IP television for the corporate market, but by 2008 was doing a blended hardware …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Meric Adriansen, D3 June 28, 2017 by Super User I find, more and more, that some of the more successful companies in this business are a bit like stealth submarines. They run silent and deep, and you don’t hear much about them or see them around. That would apply pretty nicely to D3, a New York company that is in the LED display business. …
Dave Needs Women – 16:9 Podcast Summer Plans June 26, 2017 by Super User I’m banking podcasts so they’ll be ready to air over the next few weeks, while I’m on an extended road trip – some interviews and also some advance work that might see World HQ relocated next year. The back-end stats on my cloud podcast host say between iTunes, Google Play, RSS feed apps and the …
16:9 Projects Podcast: Allied Reit – Mirmir’s Well June 22, 2017 by Danica Trapara Every year, Toronto hosts “Scotiabank Nuit Blanche” an overnight art event that takes place across the entire city. In 2015, SapientNitro (now SapientRazorfish) had just moved into their new offices and worked with their landlord, Allied Reit, to come up with something interesting for the lobby of the building. The result: Mimir’s Well, a very …
