ISE 2024 Impressions: Some Curious Booth Bait January 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes I’ve no idea what it was like getting in to ISE 2024 in Barcelona on Day One because I didn’t get to the exhibition center until late morning. Late night and late next day movement. A combination of heightened awareness of how things were going to work, and opening some halls early, likely limited what …
Impressions And Lotsa Pix From Last Night’s Industry Mixer In Barcelona January 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes The 2024 digital signage industry mixer went off nicely last night in Barcelona – with a packed house and, finally, a tech-driven check-in process. Miguel Fonseca, the CEO of Displax and a founder of sister company Moviik, hand-carried a kiosk unit in a backpack from Braga, Portugal to Barcelona – so we didn’t repeat the …
Winners And High Commendations From Last Night’s Global Digital Signage Awards January 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes The winners and companies with entries that ALMOST won – getting High Commendations instead – were announced last night for the global Digital Signage Awards, at a dinner in Barcelona that directly followed the Sixteen:Nine digital signage mixer. The categories were reinvented and rewritten for this edition of the awards to boost their relevance and …
ISE 2024 Sixteen:Nine Mixer Sponsor Profile: Videri Launches “VIP” Zero-Touch Intelligent Provisioning For Digital Signage Screens January 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is now on, and I have this post timed to run the day after the mixer that I am assuming went off in Barcelona just fine. The event had eight great sponsors, who helped cover the considerable costs of the evening, and one of them – Videri – wanted to hold their …
The ISE 2024 Mixer Is Tonight: Here’s The Last-Minute, Need-To-Know Stuff For Attendees January 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes Hi! The annual Sixteen:Nine Mixer at ISE 2024 is tonight. I am sure you’re looking forward to connecting once again with industry friends … as well as making new ones. The basics: The event is sold out, and we have a hard cap on capacity … and therefore attendance. So I’d appreciate people NOT grabbing …
Intuiface To Show Tight AI/GPT-4 Workflow Integrations For Interactive Screens At ISE January 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the things I was intending to look for at ISE in Barcelona next week were tangible uses of AI/Large Language Models by digital signage companies within their products, and the French interactive software firm Intuiface has passed along news that will make me want to stop by its stand. CMO Geoff Bessin tells …
Workplace Communications Clearly Improved When Digital Signage Deployed: New Research January 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Google’s Chrome OS team and UK-based CMS software firm ScreenCloud have jointly released findings from extensive survey research about using digital signage for workplace communications, with the crowd confirming digital signage significantly improves employee engagement, motivation and performance. The survey done in Q4 2023 simultaneously polled both decision-makers and employees from larger manufacturing, logistics, transportation …
ISE 2024 Mixer Tech Provider Profile: Agile Queue Platform Provider Moviik Enabling Easy, Swift Guest Check-Ins January 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Unless something kooky happens, we really, really should finally have kiosks handling check-ins at the Sixteen:Nine mixer come Monday night in Barcelona, ahead of ISE next week. I tried at DSE in late 2022, but the suppliers turned out to be knuckleheads (I will will spare you the details). We had it all down and …
SignageOS Bulks Up Expert Services Capabilities Via Acquisition Of Power-User Partner SignageLab January 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Czech software firm signageOS has bulked up its ability to do custom implementations and integrations of its core products by acquiring one of its most hands-on customers Signagelab, a digital signage solutions provider and professional services company. The deal means signageOS can expand what it calls its Expert Services arm – non-standard work on …
UK University Testing Big Hologram-ish Displays For Remote Guest Lectures January 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have my doubts about some of the retail and consumer being floated by the companies who make and market those big, shower stall-sized transparent LCD displays marketed as holographic, but I can definitely buy into this plan by a UK university to enable guest lectures by people unable to physically get to the school. …
