Av+ - Commercial Integrator Podcast

Hello everyone and welcome to AV+ your weekly source for integration industry news. I’m you’re host Jonathan Blackwood, editorial director of Commercial Integrator, and this is the news for the week of August 20th, 2021. Today’s guest is Richard McPherson of Sharp NEC Display solutions to discuss ActiveScene.

Welcome to AV+ your weekly source for integration industry news. For this week, June 25th, 2021, we bring you the latest news including InfoComm 2021 registration, new acquisitions, partnerships, and products from manufacturers, and more. What’s happening at CI this week include awards programs and new websites from Emerald. Our guest this week is Ryna Pitterle of Sharp NEC Display Solutions on to discuss non-traditional projection.

In this episode of AV+ for June 4, 2021, we cover the news from the past week including new Google updates, studies on remote work and customer habits, and more.

In this week’s episode of AV+ for May 21, 2021, we say goodbye to John Greene of New Era Technology, we discuss the recent cyberattacks in 2021 and the amount of money amassed for hackers, we go over the latest industry news, and we welcome John Hall of Leon Speakers as our guest.

In this episode of AV+ for May 14, 2021, we discuss language processing in meeting spaces, Nureva and Almo, Zoom Rooms, Teams, and more.

In this episode of AV+ for May 7, 2021, our guest is Ed Gibbons of Almo on to discuss the company’s new solar panel installation in their Wisconsin warehouse. Headlines include new Alexa capabilities from Poly, Basecamp CEO banning political talk in the company, a shortage of semiconductors affecting the Pro AV industry, and more.

In this episode of AV+ we have Alan Brawn on to discuss Digital Signage Certification Week. We have headlines from the latest news of the week including Digital Signage Expo being purchased by Questex, VetsinTech Academy offering military veterans tech training, a Solutionz digital signage project at a cannabis dispensary, and more. We also discuss our recent profiles of CEC, ArtMedia Corp., and our recent Distance Learning Deep Dive.

NEC joins the show to discuss the issues that retail, entertainment, and corporate markets are facing right now and what AV can do to help.

Today on AV+, we’re speaking with Lionel Felix from Felix Media Solutions all about some new ways integrators can transition towards signage content.

We’re speaking with Mark Knox at NEC & Brad Thomas at Diversified all about visual solution trends in education spaces right now.

We speak with the owner of DMI Technologies, who does things a little differently when it comes to bidding on AV projects.

Today on AV+ we speak with Frank Padikkala of Diversified about how to avoid cybersecurity breaches in AV projects.

Conversation with Craig Bonner of Kinly is the 2nd part of a series where we examine what it’s like to start a career in Pro AV.

This is part one of a series where we interview AVTweeps all about how they found their careers in the AV integration industry.

CEO of Singlewire Software breaks down how selling MNEC WITH collaboration benefits integrators and their clients.

COO of an integration company talks about his firm’s first experience in the legal cannabis market & how other integrators can follow up.

We roundup a few of the 2021 pro AV predictions from fellow AVTweeps and hear from a couple of them directly.

On episode 134 of AV+, we review some of the most prescient numbers found in our yearly State of the Industry research.

Roundup of pro AV industry news definitely touches on…well, what you’d expect it would. But it also has a few other important footnotes.

On today’s episode of AV+, we speak with a live entertainment expert about what integrators can do to keep the live events industry going.