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In this episode, Chris Turner (@AAVChris) joins host Christa Bender (@AVChrista) and she proclaims him to be one of her favorite people (shocking, I know). Chris talks about his time in California before he joined the AV industry. Chris provides the perfect example of how being friendly and keeping in contact with people can lead […]

Yves Trelohan, Senior VP of HELAV (Home Electronic Luxury Audio Video), speaks with me about Auro Technologies hardware division, Storm. We cover new ISE announcements, a factory tour they’ll give during ISE day 2, new products moving forward, and a few other tidbits you can only find on this episode of AV Insider.

Gary Kayye teams up with Victoria Barela to outline their expectations for ISE 2017 show floor and products. From 4K to VR to holograms, many new technologies are being showcased in Amsterdam. Listen to this podcast to hear what they have to say! ​

How do you make the InFocus Mondopad better? Up it to 4K resolution, of course. The new Mondopad Ultra is a 4K resolution version of their Mondopad collaboration system that ups the videoconferencing quality as well as adds native resolution content display capabilities. InFocus’ CMO, Brady Bruce, joined Gary on today’s podcast to talk about the new 70” and […]

Kevin Main, President of Torus Power, speaks with me, yet again, about the upcoming Integrated Systems Europe show, and the solutions they intend on showing there. We also talk about, in traditional AV Insider fashion, a few things that aren’t announced yet, and a few easter eggs about the roadmap for Torus in the coming […]

At last year’s ISE, Vivitek launched the NovoPRO – a wirelsss sharing system for collaborative meeting spaces. At this year’s Ice, they will show it built-in to their Interactive flat-panel displays, will introduce a new Launcher USB “button” hard-ware connection to the NovoPro and show a new line of 4K large-venue projectors. And, that’s not all. Vivitek’s EMEA General […]

I did a live, real-time demo of the new Altia Systems Panacast 2 camera today. It was amazing – and, the best part about this is that this is a new product. The Panacast 2 is designed to be a one, automatic replacement of a PTZ camera in VTC and UCC installs. Integrated with over 30 patents and […]

The Altia Systems Panacast 2 is the ultimate UCC conference camera – what to know why? Listen to this podcast that Gary had today with Aurangzeb Khan  President and CEO of Altia Systems, so that you understand the basics and then come back to rAVe Pubs tomorrow and check out the real-time demo that Gary did using the […]

There are a plethora of all-in-one interactive, flat-panel conferencing solutions out there — InFocus’ Mondopad was the first. And, they’re up against heavyweights like Google, Cisco, Microsoft and Sharp, now. Big brands.  Yet, InFocus says the Mondopad is still the most universal and easiest to use. So, here’s a real-time demo that includes on-the-fly, far-site connectivity, an […]

Bose Professional has been in audio for 50+ years. But, they’ll use ISE next week in Amsterdam to launch themselves into a totally new market – audio conferencing. ISE will see the debut of their ControlSpace EX Conferencing Solution – a legacy and Dante-enabled audio conferencing processor for meeting rooms. Gary was joined on his podcast today, on […]

BrightSign used my rAVe RADIO Videocast this morning to launch a new HD3 line of media players – aimed at the embedded player market. It all starts with a new OPS (Open Pluggable Specification), originally developed by Intel, allows for a standardized sec for building digital signage player son a card that will connect (or slide […]

In this episode, Victoria Barela (@barelAVictoria_) joins host Christa Bender (@AVChrista) to discuss what technology they are currently loving. They share their thoughts on wearables, microphones, and phone apps. Christa and Victoria also talk about Integrated Systems Europe and how they are excited to be attending the show in Amsterdam, NL. Christa provides Victoria with […]

Have you seen SNL’s skit about a game show called The Secret Word? Well, I recently found myself in a meeting where I had to explain a system without using the secret word. What was it? Tune into this week’s selling AV to find out!

I was joined by Leyard‘s CMO, Jennifer Davis, today who told me of their big plans for ISE – including their first combined presence (in one stand in Hall 12 stand H85). Planar and Leyard both have big followings in EMEA so both brands will continue to exist and, as always, we can expect some big new impressive demos – Leyard […]

Shannon Townley, CEO of Stewart Filmscreen, speaks with me about his first six months as new CEO, Phantom HALR, Torrent and Stealth XM, FIDELEDY Vision LED enhancement material, and this little thing called 16K+, Stewart’s 70th Anniversary, what to expect to see at ISE, and more! We also talk about what’s to come in the coming quarters, but you’ll never know unless you wait. That […]

BrightSign CEO, Jeff Hastings, used rAVe RADIO to announce their new partnership with digital signage CMS provider ONELAN. Brightsign has integrated the ONELAN CMS as an option for their digital signage players and this is a great partnership – especially if you do retail signage. And, of course, they’ll demo this at ISE next week in Hall 8 […]

It’s the 9th episode of the Floating Point, and host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) is joined by Hal Dalzell (@MatthewArthur14), a programmer from the Frozen North, aka Canada, aka America’s Hat.  Hal is an honest to goodness engineer, got his start at the Canadian Broadcasting Company (Hope whiffed on her chance to make a Trailer Park […]

In this week’s episode of Coffee with Millennial-Z, catch Christa Bender with Pivot Communications and Khalil Pillai with Shac, Student Housing and Collective, as they talk about how polo, sticky notes, and a good personal reality check relieve their work stresses.  With our Pro, Christa Bender, juggling her 9-5, being on countless AV committees, and […]

Nureva will head to ISE next week and launch four new products into the EMEA market. It all start with a brand-new wall-mount projection system, the WM307i, designed specifically with their award-winning SPAN system in mind. In addition, the EMEA market will see the debut of the SPAN Mobile system, a new universal wireless sharing platform and […]

I wanted to kick off 2017 with advice and insight into the AV job market. This month, gather knowledge from a 30 year recruiting veteran, Rick Best, CSAM. Rick walks us through the current job market, common mistakes that job seekers make and some other really tactical steps that an AV pro should make to […]

As AV sales people you work hard to get meetings. Make sure you are getting the most out of those meetings with one simple piece of advice.

On Tuesday, January 31st, I will kick-off my first 2017 webinar in partnership with Almo ProAV. The topic will be all about how you can make more money, as an integrator, by specifying, selling and integrating GreenAV products or control systems that make systems more green. This was one of the most popular keynotes I led over the […]

I had a chance to catch up with Prysm’s CMO, Paige O’Neill, and get an update on how their transformation from just being a display company to becoming a collaboration company, through their Prysm Visual Workspace  SaaS initiative. AV integrators are used to selling hardware and I wondered how it was going as Prysm is a […]

The digital signage market in the US-alone is already bigger than the entire Education AV market worldwide. And, it’s growing faster than any other segment of the AV market. Yes, AV only touches about 22% of the digital signage installs. Why? And, why not? Well, I believe it’s mostly due to a lack of understanding […]

QSC’s Director of Installed Systems Product Marketing, TJ Adams  says the future of AV distribution and control is over the network – and they are already ready. At ISE, they will be demonstrating their 4th generation Q-SYS software on a standard Dell EMC PowerEdge R730 server – that’s right, on a non-QSC piece of hardware.   Why? What’s the point? Well, […]

Every year, I have a video call with ISE show Managing Director, Mike Blackman  Mike always gives rAVe a scoop about the show and this year is no different -for example, this year’s show will have record attendance and nearly 1200 exhibitors. And, a new Hall – Smart Buildings. Yes, a dedicated Smart Building’s hall. But, […]

Gary tells you how to find the 2017 ISE Microsite – which is already LIVE!

rAVe Founder, Gary Kayye, heads over to Amsterdam for ISE next month and he’ll be joined by Victoria Barela where they’ll be recording dozens of live podcasts all on the ISE show floor at the Amsterdam RAI. But, before heading over, he caught up with QSC’s Martin Barbour, their product manager for installed systems, who […]

In this episode, Alexis La Broi (@AlexisLaBroi) joins host Christa Bender (@AVChrista) to discuss what they learned in 2016. Christa continues to mispronounce the company Alexis works for (she’ll get it right one day). Christa and Alexis talk about what trends they think will continue into 2017. They talk about their love of remote working […]

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Ron Rouse, VP of sales at Wisdom Audio, speaks with me about 2-CH, distributed, audio, home theater options, line source vs. point source, and a couple of new products yet to be announced at ISE next month, and at CEDIA. You can either wait for the announcements later this year, or listen to the latest […]

I caught up with Nureva co-founder Nancy Knowlton this morning and we talked about their ISE 2017 plans. At InfoComm last year, they debuted a new audio product, the HDL300, which is now making its European debut. We also talk about the various configurations of their award-winning SPAN system, as well as the SPAN software […]