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WORLD EVENTS...


Digital Signage Expo 2020


(Conference) 31 March 31 - 3 April 2020 (Exhibit Hall)1-2 April 2020 Hall N2-N4 Las Vegas Convention Center Las Vegas Nevada USA


Digital Signage Expo is a fully immersive experience that explores every aspect of digital and interactive display, from concept and design to content and analytics. It’s the world’s only comprehensive international event dedicated to digital signage solutions, where every end-user vertical market is covered, from retail to entertainment and it surrounds you with all of the buzzworthy technologies and content solutions that are transforming business communi- cation, customer engagement and brand experiences today. DSE brings together:


•4,000+ digital signage users, systems integrators, distributors, installers, advertising and marketing professionals and many more •200+ suppliers and service providers specializing in digital technology, con- tent creation and display solutions


•75 unique education sessions, workshops and panel discussions •Learn from industry thought leaders and leading brands •Eye-opening guided tour of notable Las Vegas installations showing cut- ting-edge trends and innovations in action


UC Expo 2020


13 – 14 May 2020 ExCel London


Entering its 12th year, UC EXPO is the largest dedicated event of its kind serv- ing the unified communications & collab- oration industry. Encompassing collaboration, networks & cloud, AI, security, customer contact, video & AV, we connect, inform and empower you on your journey to a more efficient way to work.


Infocomm 2020


Conference: 13-19 June 2020 Exhibition: 17 -19 June 2020 Las Vegas Convention Centre Nevada USA


Not only is InfoComm the largest show in the US for audiovisual technolo- gy--with the greatest collection of audio, digital signage, and collaboration companies all under one roof--but we're also one of the top tradeshows in any industry overall. InfoComm ranked as one of the Top 25 Fastest-Growing Shows for Attendance in the 2018 Trade Show News Network list. •InfoComm 2020 will take place from June 13-19. The exhibits are June 17-19, with training on June 13-19. •InfoComm will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. •Cost to attend InfoComm is $299 for a three-day exhibit hall pass but watch your inbox for special offers from us (and from exhibitors!) on how you can attend at a discount.


Zoomtopia 2020


23 – 24 September, 2020 San Jose McEnery Convention Center 150 W San Carlos St. San Jose, CA 95113 USA


Zoom Video Communications has announced its Green Leader customers - the ten companies estimated to be avoiding the most carbon dioxide (CO2) emis- sions by replacing face-to-face, in-person meetings with face-to-face Zoom video meetings. In total, the top ten were estimated to have avoided 685,205 metric tons of CO2 in the 90 days preceding October 31, 2019, the equiva- lent of the annual CO2 emissions from 148,958 cars, and the equivalent of 11,420,077 trees planted.


While face-to-face meetings are essential to sustain and grow businesses, hosting these meetings in person can have adverse effects on the environ- ment. Local meetings reached by car commute create literally tons of CO2 a year. With an average daily round trip commute of 30 miles, the annual CO2 emissions for a typical passenger vehicle is 4.6 metric tons (epa.gov). Air travel is even less efficient. A single economy class round-trip flight from San Francisco (SFO) to New York (LGA) expels 1.4 tons of CO2 (co2.myclimate.org). While air travel currently accounts for 2.5 percent of global CO2 emissions, this emissions source is growing at a faster rate than predicted in previous, already dire, projections (nytimes.com).


The AV News Webinar: “Everything you need to know about the hottest display technology on the market – dvLED!” featured an explanation of the detailed characteristics of LED displays which impact on quality and reliability – some of which are not disclosed on manufacturer’s spec sheets.


had to offer the option of a dongle to link the display” ex- plained Holger. Futuresource also reported that there are 11 million meeting rooms and so there is a great opportunity to add collaborative wireless solutions to these. “The idea to start with was to get rid of cables.” “Where no display has been added to a meeting space, or the display needs an upgrade, we want to offer a solution where the wireless col- laboration solution is built into the display.” “We invented the term Col- laborative Display, which char- acterises displays which offer great ease-of-use, stability and good integration possibilities (including security). Today, we have a multitude of technol- ogies that work with displays which is known to be solid and is tested in our own meeting rooms and improved commen- surably,” said Holger. Craig Scott, Chief Technology Officer for the ViewSonic Corpo- ration, spoke next and focused on “human centric design”. “For example, if you are deal- ing with a presentation by an individual to a group you might to lose the background”. “The technology is subservient to de- fining the problem that you are trying to solve. For a teacher, for example, the problem is one of engaging a class of pupils”. In business, meetings spaces might be physical, virtual or a


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signed collaboration spaces: hardware is like chairs and ta- ble.” The nature of the meeting space is again a very much hu- man centric issue. Appropriately, the next speak- er was Katherine Moholt of Zoom Video Communications, one of the leaders of the soft- ware designed collaboration space who explained her com- pany’s strategy for partnering with hardware partners. She ex- plained that the basis premise was that the software platform should be hardware agnostic. Partners are favoured for their commitment to affordable costs and flexibility, but the speakers concurred that, “ev- eryone has to play nice togeth- er”, rather than facing-off in different directions. The basis of UC is that solutions have to work together in order to cope with device diversity, genera- tional gaps and different class- es of user and their priorities. This requirement triggered a discussion about sustainability and the conflict with the ‘Fast- er. Better. Cheaper.’ approach of the AV industry. Remmelt van der Wolde, CEO of CTouch explained the BRIX concept and its effect of stretching the lifetime of the product. Rem- melt commented on the impact that a sustainable approach impacts on the traditional busi- ness model. Craig Scott joined the discussion, arguing that the software developers are driving


in manufacturer’s spec sheets. These relate to the quality of the laser diodes that manufac- turers buy in from third party


The inaugural AV News we- binars


hosted at ISE 2020


included “Choosing the right collaborative solution for your clients” and “Everything you need to know about dvLED”. The first speaker for the col- laboration event was Holger Graeff, General Manager of Display Solutions, Vivitek, who made the point that many cur- rent collaboration technologies have their origins in the ed- ucation arena. Even now the wireless collaboration market is split 75% corporate and 25% education sales (Futuresource) But rearranging the Vivitek product line-up for the corpo- rate market the company found that some users are allowed to put software on their comput- ers, while some are not. “We


mixture of both – and each of these has a variety of human centric challenges.


Craig argues that: “There is a contrast between communi- cation originating inside the organisation, particularly if the communication is virtual, with no eye contact, body language or any of the external noise that contributes to the ambience of the meeting space.” In corpo- rate applications, the range of problems to be solved are usu- ally related to productivity or creativity. “The problem is that participants in meeting often don’t know why they are even involved. Problem statements should trump technologies ev- ery time.”


Craig concluded that: “The future of UC is software de-


the market, which forces the hand of the hardware builders. His answer to the environmen- tal issue is recycling. Holger Graeff commented on the in- dustry trend to announce the next level of innovation even before the current generation is fully rolled out.


dvLED


AV News’ second webinar took the subject, “Everything you need to know about the hot- test display technology on the market! – dvLED”. Mark Tay- lor, Solutions Sales Manager, at NEC Display Solutions, kicked off the session, explaining that there are a number of crucial characteristics of a dvLED dis- play that are often not reported


situation when a smaller diode makes an image ‘pop’ because customers get a greater per- centage of black when com- pared to a larger diode. Like- wise, a ‘black package’ LED will offer a greater degree of contrast. Other factors include the complexity of installation, levels of redundancy in critical components, EMC protection and power consumption. Mark Taylor finished his presentation by admitting that there are cur- rently no available tools or soft- ware to answer these questions for the customer.


Installation


Tom Fenton, Senior Business Development Manager, EMEA Peerless-AV stressed the im- portance of understanding the LED’s cabinet, environments and load-bearing capacity of the installation site. He high- lighted the importance of the characteristics of the site when striving for the ultimate goal of the ‘one man install’. Tom explained


the Seamless Pro-


gramme which trains integra- tors not to fear dvLED but to embrace the opportunity. Paul


Training


Streffon, CTS-D CTS-I, Manager


at tvONE.


and Andy Fliss, VP of Sales and Marketing, tvONE looked at ex- amples of applications of LED projects in sports stadia and the problems posed by video formats. Difficulties start with nonstandard formats which can often present too many pixels in the content (as apposed the traditional issue of not enough). The result can be spectacular, but they can also be horrible. The key is the role of a quality integrator who understands the process from content genera- tion to design and implemen- tation of the technology. The


The AV News’ webinar on “Choosing the right collaborative solution for your clients,” was hosted from ISE in the RAI Amsterdam and was streamed live to 361 participants who were able to pose questions via Zoom’s webinar technology and Logitech’s 4K Brio camera.


manufacturers, and also the ‘binning’ which influences the consistency of colour across di- odes. Other factors influencing quality relates to the dying and packages processes.


The ‘fill factor describes the


AV News’s ISE Webinars can be viewed online in the Webinars Sec- tion of www.myshowguide.com


speakers explained the need to teach the creative world what is possible: “If you hit a limit we’ll be surprised; if you hit a limit, we’ll help you through it!"


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