Almost all of the emails I get from industry awards that involve shifting dates have to do with extending submission deadlines, but in the case of the global Digital Signage Awards, the date for handing out the prizes has been necessarily shifted because of COVID-19. […]
This a quick but interesting interview with Integrated Systems Europe show director Mike Blackman, where he suggests the intention remains to hold an in-person ISE in Barcelona, come the start of June. Speaking with Florian Rotberg of invidis, Blackman says of the top 100 exhibitor brands that turn up year on year, more than 80% say they still plan to have stands there. […]
It is late January, and InfoComm in June seems like way, way, way off – but exhibitors need to plan their presence well in advance, or with the special circumstances of the moment, decide whether or not to exhibit. In the case of Panasonic, it doesn’t see health safety conditions being at a level that would allow it to send people and product to Orlando in mid-June. […]
Here are the winners of the Digital Signage Federation awards for creative and projects in 2019-2020. They were announced this afternoon, virtually. […]
CES 2021 is on, but it is virtual, so there’s no jammed trade show in Las Vegas and we will all likely see far fewer broadcast news stories about the buzzworthy, crazy or purpose-deficient gadgets being launched annually at this circus. The show is indeed on, though, and the big tech companies are still using the event as the launch platform for consumer electronics goods. […]
This year, the CFP National Championship game will be played at Hard Rock Stadium. Learn more about how Daktronics products and services will help provide an amazing experience for fans. […]
The Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association (AVIXA) and the Digital Signage Federation (DSF) have pushed out numbers on the recent D=SIGN: the Digital Signage Conference, with more than 2,500 industry people registering. “Total registrations for D=SIGN came to 2,540, and 41% were from outside the U.S.,” the organizations say in joint PR. […]
The inaugural D=SIGN online digital signage conference is now live. BrightSign’s Jeff Hastings is on right now talking about cloud networks. You can still register, and last time I heard there was north of 2,000 people who had done so. […]
Re-upping this … registrations are coming in, but there are still slots available for industry friends to log in and see what their spare bedrooms, dining rooms or other makeshift home offices. […]
The registration page is now live for the first-ever D=SIGN Happy Hour, a virtual mixer that puts a cap on next week’s two-day online conference developed by the Digital Signage Federation and AVIXA, and hosted by those associations as well as Sixteen:Nine. […]
The agenda has been built out for D=SIGN, the two-day online conference being organized by AVIXA and the Digital Signage Federation for Dec. 8-9. It has a pile of my fellow DSF board members, as well as general members and other industry folks – all subject matter experts in one or numerous aspects of the business. […]
The next AVIXA Digital Signage Power Hour is coming up quick, on Dec. 1, the date moved up to make way for the D=SIGN 2-day conference. This one is a roundtable format again, focused this time on how COVID-19 has changed the way retailing needs to be done. […]
Via AV Magazine … Projection-mapped multimedia experiences are starting to pop up as touring or fixed site shows in many major cities. I have a good friend set to open up one just like that in a big city. But the pandemic has made it challenging to open, or stay open, and to host an experience that involves large-ish gatherings walking around an enclosed space. […]
Digital signage and AV nerds who do ops and events may want to make a calendar note to check in on an auction set for Nov. 17-19 organized to sell off the physical assets of Toronto’s Westbury National Show Systems Ltd. […]
This is live events AV more than digital signage, but shows what’s possible with projection on a grand scale, and great creative. It is the digital curtain of the new theater, open in August, at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music (SGCM) in Japan, in the general orbit of Tokyo. The school decided to use a “digital curtain” instead of installing a traditional Japanese tab curtain. […]
