Steph Beckett (01:35)
Hello everyone. ⁓ Hello from the DC Metro area. Gary is joining in a few minutes. Gary is also offsite. He is coming back from South by Southwest. I’m excited for him to join because I want him to tell me about everything that he did there. South by Southwest is a really cool show. Not necessarily AV, but Logitech was there. There were movies that were coming out there. Gary like met celebrities by the way, or just like

stood in front of them long enough to get pictures of them. So I want to know the stories behind all of this. So I made him wait to explain all the pictures he took until he could come on rAVe [TV] so that all of you could hear what was going on too. yeah, and I’m in DC. ⁓ Gary here. yes. Hello.

Gary Kayye (02:24)
Hey!

How are you?

Steph Beckett (02:27)
Good, how are you?

Gary Kayye (02:29)
Good, good, do I sound okay? Okay, good.

Steph Beckett (02:31)
Yes.

yeah, you’re coming through your Mac though. Do you want to be doing that? Or do you want to… a little muffled?

Gary Kayye (02:36)
Does that sound okay? Or do want me to try the other mics? Or the other headphones?

How about that? Is that better?

Steph Beckett (02:45)
a little bit.

well now he’s muted.

Well, he’s gonna come back. But yeah, he sent me all of these pictures last night and he was like, look, Paul Rudd, look, Nick Jonas. And I just wanna know the context of this and what his students thought. He took a whole group of students to South by Southwest with him, which I think is really cool. And I am in DC because I was at Elmo’s E4 experience yesterday teaching a course and he’s back. Hello, Gary.

Gary Kayye (03:22)
How are you? Sorry to disrupt your live recording.

Steph Beckett (03:24)
That’s okay.

Okay, you sound like clearer now.

Gary Kayye (03:28)
Okay, good, good. I’m in Austin, Texas. I’m at the airport. I’m at an outdoor little parking area or park area here inside the terminal. yeah. ⁓

Steph Beckett (03:36)
Nice. Amazing. Okay,

I talked this up. So you’re coming back from South by Southwest.

Gary Kayye (03:44)
Yes, ⁓ what an incredible set. What an incredible set. Yeah, I got a lot out of it. I had a chance to obviously meet with brands in our industry, but also had a chance to talk to a bunch of people that are on the cursory of our industry. As you know, I teach advertising at the University of North Carolina and I brought 12 of my students. There’s some of them at the Logitech pop-up to Austin. I brought them to Austin, Texas with me.

And there’s Nathan from the last year. And yeah, they got to meet some pretty famous people. There’s Nick Jonas. That was kind of a cool experience. There’s Paul Rudd. Yeah, yeah, he got there. It’s such a small place. Everybody came comes up and talks to you and stuff. Yeah. Paul Rudd, Paul Rudd actually held the camera and did a selfie. I don’t know are with the with the students. This is one of my former students that I ran up ran up on the roof. This is this is

Steph Beckett (04:15)
Thanks, then.

Did you meet Nick Jonas?

Gary Kayye (04:41)
producer at Miga. Since one of my former students, graduated two years ago, and I’m walking down the street and she goes, Gary? So she lives in Austin now. Yeah. This is producer Pat from, Patrick from Hollywood. He’s, he’s a very opinionated person on what’s going on in the world of entertainment. I had a chance to meet with him and he met with my students while we were there. There’s Andy Cohen. Is that awesome or what? Yeah. He spoke at one of the.

Steph Beckett (04:48)
That’s so crazy! Aww.

Cool. Yeah, you’re in. That is really awesome.

Gary Kayye (05:09)
Yeah, he spoke at one of the sessions I was at, which was really a lot of fun. You know, I’m big Danny Cohen fan. ⁓ And then, Lucina Fisher, she spoke to my students. She’s got a documentary coming out. There’s Steve Correll. He was there on yesterday’s panel. ⁓ Yeah, it’s crazy how close we were. Look how close we were. Like, that’s not even zoomed in. That’s just like a regular picture right there. ⁓

Steph Beckett (05:12)
That’s so cool.

That’s so crazy. Yeah.

That’s

so cool.

Gary Kayye (05:35)
Yeah, it’s a great experience. It was great experience to the students. I really loved the educational sessions that I went to. I learned a lot.

Steph Beckett (05:45)
That’s cool. Did you get to go, I know that there are some movie premieres there. Did you get to go watch the movies?

Gary Kayye (05:49)
Yeah.

A couple. Most of the time we went to a lot of the music stuff. And then of course we went to a lot of the sessions. They were more interested in the music stuff. But you know, was kind of funny how many actors and people were just like, you know, Maddie Ziegler, I was a big fan of hers from Dance Moms, you know, little Maddie’s in Dance Moms. She was walking around on the street. It was kind of crazy, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Just like walking around the street.

Steph Beckett (06:13)
You’re close.

Did you tell her you’re a fan of her work?

Gary Kayye (06:21)
I told her that my daughter and I watched her growing up. Yeah. So.

Steph Beckett (06:25)
and she’s

at all the Sia videos and you like Sia too.

Gary Kayye (06:28)
Yeah,

I do. I do like to see if she won’t see it wasn’t here though, but the Luminers played a free concert night before last. Luke Bryan played a free concert. I can’t remember all the tie dollar sign who I don’t even really know him, but you probably do. He played a free concert across streets from our hotel. There’s there’s like 40 concerts going on at the same time, so it’s kind of hard. It’s it’s overwhelming for anyone over the age of 30. How’s that?

Steph Beckett (06:33)
What?

Yeah.

Well, Tim and Nathan said they want me to come too next year, so.

Gary Kayye (06:59)
Yeah, I think what we’ll do is do rAVe [TV] live next year. I think it’d be a good idea. and have the students produce it and stuff. But yeah, so lot going on in the industry,

Steph Beckett (07:03)
That would be so cool. Live from South by Southwest. Yeah.

Yeah, a lot going on in the industry. Before we get into everything, we have David Danto, who’s gonna come on and be our guest today. I did just wanna take a second to quickly remind everyone to go fill out our March, 2026 temperature check survey. This one is all about thinking about how higher ed classrooms are built, how they’re structured, how they’re designed and how they’re used. ⁓ Of course, many campuses still have traditional lecture style spaces.

But there is a growing demand for environments that can support multiple teaching styles, very similar to Gary’s classroom at UNC that we’ve showed on rAVe [TV] and on launch and on all sorts of things before. ⁓ I think that in higher ed, we’re still kind of figuring out what exactly flexibility means. Everyone said high flex for a minute. I don’t know if that term is like still being used, but I do think it is. Okay, so I think that there is like.

Gary Kayye (08:04)
It is. Yeah. Yeah.

Steph Beckett (08:08)
a need and a want for more flexible higher ed spaces. So go fill out the survey. It’s just three questions. And as always, we’ll pick two ⁓ winners to get $50 Amazon gift cards. So that is my reminder to all of you.

Gary Kayye (08:22)
Very cool. And of course we can’t do the show without some amazing sponsors. And here’s a piece from Crestron.

Steph Beckett (09:40)
We’re gonna bring on… Yeah. But let’s bring on David Danto. He wrote a new column this week. And before that, there was some big news that just broke, right David?

Gary Kayye (09:41)
You hear those airplanes in the background?

Yeah, sorry. It’s been noisy.

David Danto (09:54)
Yeah, I’m bopping around with the NEET Center this morning because I’m all

excited about it. We got out of breaking news this morning that ex Cisco collaboration lead Javed Khan has joined NEET as their new CEO. They’ve announced it this morning. He’s got an all hands with the team in about an hour, hour and a half. I’ll give everybody a sneak peek that Dave Michaels and I knew about it for a couple of days and we had a conversation with him. So we’re going to run that at about 1030 this morning on all the social channels. And it’s exciting to see him.

Steph Beckett (10:22)
Thanks.

David Danto (10:24)
He left Cisco to go to the automotive industry and now he’s coming back into the collaboration space. know that we keep pulling everybody back in, right? As Al Pacino said.

Steph Beckett (10:33)
Yeah, right when I think I’m out and say, call me back in.

Gary Kayye (10:34)
We can’t get, you can’t get rid of this.

David Danto (10:37)
So we’re excited for him. We’re excited for Neat. Neat’s doing some great things. They’ve got some incredible equipment and they’re making strides and they’re growing exponentially quickly. So it looks like it’s going to be a great combination. Lots more. But that news just broke today. In fact, if you saw me looking to the side, I was typing to make sure that I had everything posted in time because we weren’t allowed to post it until 9 a.m. this morning.

Steph Beckett (10:57)
That’s really awesome though. Neat has been kind of sneaking up on us the past few years. Like I’ve been hearing more and more about them when initially I just thought of them as like essentially a video bar manufacturer when that’s not true at all.

David Danto (11:11)
Well, he…

This goes back to the, and Gary, you’ll understand this, Steph, I don’t know if you remember the Tanberg days. This is the diaspora. This is the Tanberg DNA going throughout the industry. You know, the board of NEET, I think it’s Obon Partners, I could be wrong about that, but you know, it’s got OJ and Frederick Halvorsen and all the people that ran Tanberg in the day. And it’s a lot of that ⁓ Oslo design in a lot of the products. They keep them slick and easy to use and it’s a great company.

the equipment. I like other companies equipment too. Not that I’m on their payroll or anything, but it’s nice to see that they’ve got their new CEO in place. Janine did a great job there and ⁓ now Javed’s going to be running the reins for little while. see what the changes are.

Steph Beckett (11:55)
Note, this is exciting.

Gary Kayye (11:57)
So are you

in Norway right now Dave?

David Danto (12:00)
No, no, not at all. Mentally, I’m always on the fjords. But now I’m back in my crowded office in New Jersey, taking it all in after coming back from Enterprise Connect this year.

Gary Kayye (12:07)
Okay.

Okay.

Steph Beckett (12:11)
The spirit longs for the fjords.

David Danto (12:14)
Exactly. Although

this year it looks like I’m going to be doing Alaska and Hawaii on personal travel. So you know, it’s like, why not? What the heck? I’m sorry. Totally personal. Nothing to do with anything else.

Steph Beckett (12:20)
yes.

Gary Kayye (12:21)
Well.

Steph Beckett (12:24)
No, that’s

amazing though, that’s exciting. I’ve only been to Alaska once, but I totally recommend. There’s a lot of good hiking if that’s what you’re into. Wow, see the glaciers, that’ll be awesome. Okay, moving on. I would love to talk about Camp NY because you wrote this piece for Rave, I posted it yesterday. Am I saying it right or do you say it C-A-M-P-N-Y? I feel like it’s Camp NY, right? Yeah, Camp New York.

David Danto (12:30)
That and we want to see the glaciers before they melt.

No, Camp New York.

⁓ As

I wrote in the article, ⁓ it actually was short for something. Corporate and academia, multimedia, professionals, and nobody knows that anymore. Everybody thinks I’m just making fun of campers and we’re doing the summer camp thing. But I looked at the last event, which we just had, if you look in that picture, I guess it was one of the lower right ones over there. The one we just did ⁓ was one of the ones that are not our sit down dinner. It was just our cocktail party. And I realized, we’re at 24 years we’ve been doing this thing.

Steph Beckett (13:16)
Wow,

David Danto (13:17)
And it’s

Steph Beckett (13:17)
that’s really cool.

David Danto (13:19)
really been a long time and it’s been great experience.

Steph Beckett (13:22)
So for those who might not

know what it is, explain a little bit about what you do. You pull all these people to a location in New York, what happens?

David Danto (13:32)
Yeah, so as I wrote in the article, I attended one of these in the broadcasting industry. My roots are in broadcasting, and I realized, you know, we should really do this ourselves.

Everybody pays their own way. mean, I’ve been to any number of events that are sponsored. do a few of these, you know, at Infocomm and ISE that are sponsored, that are great roundtable discussions. But this is a case where, you if you want to come, all you need to do is tell me that you’re in the industry and say you want to come. I’m not a gatekeeper at all. Everybody who wants to be there can be there. Everybody pays their own way. ⁓ I keep the restaurant on hold and I tell them how many people it’ll be. And a ⁓ couple of hours before the event, I pay the restaurant because everybody’s paid me on loan.

People show up when we do the sit-down dinners It’s around a big square table and we all sit and talk and I’ll typically have a topic or two to get it started But on good events, I just have to sit back and you know Like like sip my diet coke and watch everybody else go at it and make sure there’s only one person talking at a time Because we want to share these stories and some days I’ll have to like bring in you know. Hey, what do you think of AI today? What do you think of this new device that came out? What do you think of Neat’s new CEO and I’m in

them quarterly ⁓ and believe it or not you know we’ve got one or two people that have been to all of them ⁓ other than me and ⁓ most of them anyway and you know the new faces come in old faces leave somebody says hey can I bring so-and-so and it’s like yeah and and people realize they don’t have an opportunity to network when there isn’t an overriding overarching thing going on like hey you can come to our event and network but let me tell you about what this distributor does about what this man

Steph Beckett (14:46)
that’s

David Danto (15:11)
Here’s our slide presentation. And to have that part of the event, which is the gold mine of talking with people without any of those overarching, well, you’ve got to be at the session or the keynote, it actually brings out a lot of people and creates some great conversation and networking. And I’ve been told by people who attend that they actually do business there, that they’ve started deals because of the casual conversations with people that they’ve met.

Steph Beckett (15:35)
Oh, that’s cool.

That’s awesome. What would you how do you think it’s changed throughout the years now that you’ve done it 24 times?

David Danto (15:43)
Wow. Well, the most obvious changes, we don’t do it for 50 bucks a person anymore. can’t, I can’t, I can’t get into a restaurant unless I started like a hundred, And so, you know, but that’s just the cost of eating and drinking in Manhattan. I think the nature of the people in the room have changed. There were a lot more people involved in like a pure collaboration in the day and more corporate broadcasting. And now we’re more of a collaboration and IT crowd, but you know, it’s, it, it, varies in ebbs and flows.

Steph Beckett (15:48)
Yeah

David Danto (16:13)
⁓ The other change is that people start calling them by my name. They start calling them Danto dinners, which is fine. Again, I’m not making any money doing this, but if there’s a reason for people to network and they go, I think it’s awesome. And you make connections. And this is one of the things that I tried. The whole reason I wrote the article is not just to brag about doing these things. I’ve had people that have been colleagues of mine that just won’t go. I’ll say, hey, Crestron’s doing an event or Shor’s doing an event. Are you going to be there? you going to go? You know, I’m tired.

got kids to look after, I’m not really interested. And then unfortunately, the way this industry works, four or five years down the road, they’re looking for work and they haven’t really networked. And I keep telling everybody, the opportunity to network is always now, whenever somebody invites you, whenever you can go, go and build your network and know who your contacts are and that lets people build their careers. So I think it’s very important. I always think this is a people business, not a technology business.

Steph Beckett (17:10)
I think that’s true.

What’s one thing that hosting all of these has taught you that you think you’ll like take with you forever?

David Danto (17:19)
⁓ Well, just as a side note, as a quick answer, I’ve learned that as the host, I get very little of the networking done myself. I’m so busy in terms of organizing and bringing people and everything else. I’d be lucky if I have one or two quick conversations with people. Other than that, I’m just kind of floating around dealing with things. I think what I’ve learned is that people will float from company to company to company in our industry, but the value of the connection is critical and important. So rather than have a connection

with company A or company B or company C, which is good to have as professionals, as we do, you know, we’re working with them. I really want to talk with Jerry or with Mike or with Alice because I don’t know where they’ll be the next time and they don’t know where I’ll be. And my clients, you know, as a consultant and an analyst are often people that used to work for me or people that I’ve met at events and we kind of support each other. And that’s a really good thing to have in our industry and it’s kind of rare.

And the good thing, people walked up to me and told me, you know, I love what you did so much, but I can’t get to New York or I can’t get to Infocomm. So we started one ourselves in Utah, or we started one ourselves in Cleveland. The folks in California, that’s been the hardest venue for us because they’ll generally never do anything after work. ⁓ that’s, spurring on the networking is the best thing that I’ve learned and enjoyed.

Steph Beckett (18:37)
Thank you.

Well, you’re a good

networker though. feel like at any event I’ve been to with you, you’ve been like, ⁓ let me introduce you to so and so. Let me introduce you to so and so. Like you’re very good at, you know a lot of people.

David Danto (18:58)
Being a matchmaker has helped and I enjoy that and it also hides the fact that I’m an introvert. Because if I’ve got a role, like I’m going to be the person introducing and I know what my goal is and I know what everybody’s job is in the room, that masks the fact that if that wasn’t happening, I’d be sitting in the corner of the room playing on my phone because I’m fighting the introverted aspects of myself.

Steph Beckett (19:03)
you

Yeah.

That’s a lot.

Most of our industry are introverts though, I would argue. So I feel like networking can kind of feel like pulling teeth sometimes. So you just almost have to, in a smaller event like yours, it’s almost like a safer space than just being like pushed onto the show floor at Infocomm and being told to like go find someone to talk to. Like that’s very daunting.

David Danto (19:43)
It’s great, but I’m sure the two of you have the same experience. Gary, I’m sure you have the experience as well. It’s difficult.

navigating an Infocomm or an ISE because as you’re walking to the meeting that you’re late for, you’re being stopped every couple of feet. Sometimes you’re hugging people, sometimes you’re having a quick conversation. You have to. I’m a little grayer than you guys. Many times I don’t remember the name of the person I’m talking to. remember the person, but I don’t remember the name. That’s why the badges are good. But that comes from networking, is everybody knows you.

Steph Beckett (19:56)
Very especially.

Yes.

That’s so

true. Gary especially, he can’t walk two feet on a show floor without someone stopping him.

Gary Kayye (20:20)
And I haven’t

met either of these pieces, these people so and so you said that you’ve met two so and so’s and I haven’t met either one of them so I can’t wait to meet them.

Steph Beckett (20:29)
I’ll introduce you.

David Danto (20:30)
okay.

That’s good. And Gary, I’m sure, same thing, it’s not just walking, it’s standing still. You know, God pity us if we stand still in a corner for a second, then people will come up to us. You’re holding court. Yes.

Steph Beckett (20:38)
it’s a crowd. It’s a crowd.

Gary Kayye (20:41)
But I love that it shows. That’s what I get it shows for us when I crave is to be able to talk to people and find out what they’re thinking about what they’re doing. So it doesn’t bother me. I really enjoy it. But you’re correct that sometimes it can stress you to be late. But

David Danto (20:56)
Well, most

of the show rooming doesn’t exist anymore. You guys remember the projection shootout or when we looked at paired products. Everybody has their own show and their own displays nowadays. We go to these events to meet people, to hear what’s going on. And that’s the most valuable part.

Gary Kayye (21:01)
Yeah.

Steph Beckett (21:11)
Thanks.

Gary Kayye (21:12)
Yeah, well,

thank you for joining us, Dave. Really appreciate it as always. ⁓ good luck on your event. I’m sure you don’t need it, but good luck on the event. And yeah, this is awesome. Maybe I’ll tell my daughter about it, because she’s in the industry and she lives in New York.

David Danto (21:26)
Well, I’ll put both of you guys on the list for the next one and we’ll see if you can make it out for that one. Or at least the anniversary next year.

Steph Beckett (21:32)
would love to.

Gary Kayye (21:32)
Perfect,

perfect, perfect. All right, well, as I mentioned, we have a few sponsors that help us do this and I want you to check out this video on a new all-in-one pre-configured LED line of products from ViewSonic a company that you probably won’t think of very often for LED, but you should be.

Steph Beckett (23:29)
Alright.

Gary Kayye (23:31)
Ilija from Microsoft is going to be doing the keynote at Infocom 2026. He’s the vice president of Microsoft. Basically, it’s going to be a lot about AI. And he oversees the Microsoft Teams team, which is kind of hard to say, right? But ultimately, I’m sure he’s going to talk a lot about AI and sort of how AI has infiltrated Teams, Teams rooms, Teams events, Teams premium.

Steph Beckett (23:51)
for the next one.

Yeah.

Gary Kayye (24:00)
And our industry’s squarely in the team’s camp right now. seems like fewer and fewer Zoom users, but most platforms are still big and you’ve got the emerging platform of Google Meet. But they’ll be doing the keynote.

Steph Beckett (24:05)
on.

Does Infocomm always have a keynote?

Gary Kayye (24:20)
It went many, years without a keynote, but now they do. I think this is the second year they brought it back maybe. ⁓ ISE of course has always had a keynote. think doing the keynote is controversial because all the big brands that spend all the money want their person to be the keynote speaker. ⁓ And so I think it’s tough to do something like that. I think it’s in this case, everyone kind of wants to know the latest with

Steph Beckett (24:27)
Okay.

Gary Kayye (24:50)
Microsoft, it’s sort of like, they’re sort of like the Apple-ish company in our industry. know, when Apple has a conference, they introduce new phones, everybody pays attention. Microsoft introducing, you know, new features to teams, people pay attention. But obviously, you know, if he doesn’t, you know, if he doesn’t keep it interesting and only talk about Microsoft, I think that will frustrate Google. But ultimately, they’ll probably be a good team out.

Steph Beckett (25:15)
I agree. I almost think that keynotes at trade shows should always be like someone completely separate from the industry. Like someone who can speak like more broadly about the future of tech or something like that. Like I’ve always gotten the most out of keynotes when it’s someone like completely separate from us almost.

Gary Kayye (25:33)
Yeah. for example, South by Southwest, the keynote speaker was Steven Spielberg. And, you know, he could talk about a lot of different kinds of things, but he focused on sort of how technologies change the industry and how it’s impacted the business he does. You know, business he’s in. I thought it was phenomenal. He wasn’t selling anything, wasn’t pushing anything, wasn’t talking about anything specific that you should buy. But yeah, I

Steph Beckett (25:37)
That’s cool.

Yeah.

Gary Kayye (25:58)
I don’t disagree. think we’ll see. mean, like obviously Microsoft’s a giant company, very well respected. Ilya’s knows his stuff. He’s a smart smart guy. So he will be interesting to watch because he, is a good presenter.

Steph Beckett (26:06)
Yeah, he.

Absolutely, well we will cover it. So next up GPO display. They launched a new 57 inch ultra HD panoramic LCD. Of course, this is going to be for your digital signage situations. This has a 700 nit brightness, LED edge lip panel, anti-glare coating. So of course, for like a really high traffic area, this is going to be great for like wayfinding, emergency messaging.

⁓ Any kind of application where a standard display size is not really going to be effective. So room status, advertising, anything like that. So good for like a meeting room availability indicator, directional messaging, promotional content in a retail Shure even. ⁓ And it features 50,000 plus hours of performance and 24 seven operational reliability. So again, perfect for a digital signage scenario where this has to be on all the time.

You’re muted, Gary.

Gary Kayye (27:11)
is now being

distributed by, oh, am I muted? How about now? Yeah, there you go. So-ton education is now being distributed by Midwich. I’m gonna do two stories in a row because that story really only affects one distributor. also Crestron launched a new, or sorry, Extron launched a new DTP3 crosspoint 42 USB matrix switcher. This one’s kind of interesting because Steph, it’s a four by two matrix that

Steph Beckett (27:15)
You’re there now.

Mm-hmm.

Gary Kayye (27:40)
has a 10 gigabit processing, which means you can do full 4K, right? But it has USB and HDMI. So that’s kind of an interesting sort of hybrid kind of application. And it can do USB to extension as well. And of course, you can send everything out on a Cat 5 cable because it’s HDB HD as well. It will charge your laptop, all that kind of stuff. It’s really kind of a cool product.

Steph Beckett (28:10)
Absolutely. And then last thing is kind of a piece of industry news. This was something that WyreStorm talked about at ISE. It is now official. They have launched the WyreStorm Academy, their AV professional training platform, which is custom built, completely online platform for professionals in the industry. It provides them with structured learning, knowledge, and cert pathways so that you can get some certifications. It has two foundational courses.

And then there is also a specific course for WyreStorm Asia. So definitely go and check it out. The first one provides a 45 minutes of video learning and knowledge assets. And then there’s a 75 minute training and then 11 tests. And I think that you have to watch at least 90 % of the video content and get at least an 80 on the assessments to complete the course and get your cert. So check it out.

Gary Kayye (29:03)
All right, and we have another sponsor of Ray TV. They’ve been there since the very beginning in that Shure And they want to just check out this message for them. It talks about the importance of communication and the part they play in our industry.

Steph Beckett (29:51)
Perfect. Well, one last story here. This one is from giving back.tech. This is launched. is a sustainability effort for repurposing AV equipment. I’m excited to see a few of these kind of pop up throughout our industry. This one aims to provide UK specific charities and community interest companies with AV equipment through repurposed materials. So they take some of these that, you know, would initially be given to a landfill and they repurpose them into places

like hospitals that need a cinema area for kids who are getting better and a few other similar local charities. So check out, go to givingback.tech and check out everything that they’re doing. They’re a pretty cool organization and I’d love to have them on to talk a little bit more about what they do. yeah. Oh, Gary, there you go. You’re good now.

Gary Kayye (30:44)
up.

All we have a couple of virtual events coming up. ⁓ Rooms to respond is on March 19th, which is tomorrow at 2 p.m. Eastern. Steph, tell me about that event, because I don’t know much about that.

Steph Beckett (30:58)
Yeah, so it kind of goes with the temp check that I was doing this year about how hybrid and classrooms that are able to move around and have different functionalities are gaining popularity in our industry and I wanted to see if that was real. So I invited someone who kind of does some integration work, kind of an in-house integrator but also an advisor at UCLA to come on and then also ⁓ an integrator who’s done some work in some universities to come on and they’re going to

me a little bit about if this real what they’re seeing in the market. So yeah again that’s tomorrow at 2 Eastern. Yeah I’m excited about it.

Gary Kayye (31:35)
Yeah.

there’s a Sony, of course, is a partnering with us on a launch and learning planning, a direct view LED wall, everything you need to know before buying. And this one is aimed to IT managers and AV managers, tech managers, end users. OK, so if you have any customers and you sell Sony, you should tell them about it. If you’re an end user watching our show, should check this out. This is on March 24th next week.

At 2 PM you can register by going to launch.com, L-A-V-M-C-H.com.

Steph Beckett (32:10)
Very cool. And then the last one is also kind of for those AVIT end users, even some security end users. This is Amplifying Safety Security Integrators Pipeline into Audio Systems. This is March 31st, 2 p.m. And this one is sponsored by Atlas IED. So definitely come and check this one out as well. But yeah, that’s our show. Absolutely.

Gary Kayye (32:32)
Well, that’s it, right? Yeah, pretty good. Big busy

show. We only are one minute over.

Steph Beckett (32:40)
I know, isn’t that a shocker? Because usually you and I are yappers.

Gary Kayye (32:43)
Yeah, we

shut up on that long enough to let Dave down. But anyway, thanks for joining us everyone. We come to you live every Wednesday on all the platforms. And of course you can always watch our shows and pass them on to your friends and colleagues by going to ravepubs.com. Click on the rAVe [TV link, TV link I should say at the very top. Everyone have a great day.

Steph Beckett (32:48)
Yeah

Yeah, all right, see you guys next week.