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16:9: InfoComm 2020 Is Next Week, But All Online With Demos And Learning

In normal times – remember those? – many of you would be getting yourself organized to get in a car or hop on a flight to get to Las Vegas next week for the 2020 edition of the big pro AV trade show InfoComm. While Vegas is re-opening its casinos and other attractions (amidst 100+ daily new COVID-19 cases in Nevada), the trade show cancelled weeks ago. […]

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Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:48 AM

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16:9: The Huge IFA Tech Trade Show Is Going Ahead For September In Berlin, But Will Be Very Different

Anybody who regularly attends trade shows will likely have been wondering when those kinds of events will resume, and how they’ll work going forward – at least pre-vaccine. The giant consumer and business technology show IFA may hold a clue. In 2019, the Berlin show attracted 245,000 visitors, dwarfing even the insanely crowded CES show in Las Vegas. […]

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Tue, May 19, 2020 at 8:53 AM

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Projection-Mapping Transform Historic LA Park For Live Event

This is a live event using projection mapping, but the techniques and technologies used could certainly apply to more permanent digital signage installations. Projection Designer Hana Kim uses Panasonic laser projectors and projection mapping technology to create visuals for SWEET LAND, an outdoor opera set inside Los Angeles State Historic Park. […]

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Fri, May 1, 2020 at 8:42 AM

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16:9: ICX Summit Shifts Dates From June To November; Stays In Columbus, OH

Pretty much the last event in the first half of the year that might attract a digital signage crowd has been forced to shift dates because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Networld Media Group, the producers of the Interactive Customer Experience (ICX) Summit, has announced that the early June event has been postponed to Nov. 4-6. […]

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Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 8:19 AM

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16:9: SID Pushes Display Week Off Two Months To August; Moves Down I-280 To San Jose

The Society for Information Display (SID) has rescheduled its annual Display Week from June to August, and shifted the symposium, seminar and trade show from downtown San Francisco to the San Jose Convention Center, where it was run in 2019. The revised schedule is Aug. 2-7. […]

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Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 7:05 PM

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16:9: Digital Signage Learning Calendar Improved, Ready For Vendor Submissions

Last week, Sixteen:Nine introduced a new service aimed at helping companies get the word out about their webinars – events that have always been a thing, but heightened in importance now that much of the world is working from home. […]

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Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 8:13 AM

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16:9: InfoComm Cancelled, Next U.S. Show In June 2021 In Orlando

InfoComm 2020 is the latest trade show to fall victim to the coronavirus outbreak, with the show not postponed by just flat cancelled for this year. […]

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Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:34 AM

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16:9: World Out of Home Organization Cancels Toronto Congress That Was Set For June

The World Out of Home Organization has cancelled its big Toronto Congress, originally slated for early June, due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus and the variety of travel restrictions.  The Congress is being rescheduled for Toronto in June 2021.  “COVID-19 is now officially designated a pandemic by the World Health Organization and is impacting Out of Home companies worldwide,” says President Tom Goddard. […]

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Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 10:44 PM

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16:9: AVIXA CEO Labuskes Says Premature To Make A Go/No-Go Call On InfoComm 2020

Via rAVe Publications and Gary Kayye … This is a statement AVIXA CEO Dave Labuskes put out today, re InfoComm (short version – it’s too early to make a call on running or postponing the June show, but AVIXA is anything but oblivious about the situation). A Letter to the AV Industry I , as many of you, continue to watch the news on a moment-by-moment basis. […]

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Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 10:40 PM

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The Big 16:9 Digital Signage Mixer Re-Directed To InfoComm In June

It was clear in the last two or three weeks that Digital Signage Expo was going to be under the same pressure that almost every trade show is facing in the age of COVID-19. I concluded about 10 days ago that the show would either be forced to cancel or postpone, or go on with a few diehard exhibitors and attendees. […]

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Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 6:07 PM

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16:9: Another Show Taken Out By COVID-19: NAB Cancels Show Planned For April In Vegas

This is getting nutty. On the heels of ISA’s SignExpo postponing to late summer comes word that the National Association of Broadcasters has just flat cancelled the annual NAB show, which was to run next Month in Las Vegas. That show is not a digital signage show, but signage is largely a video and data business, so a lot of people in the Pro AV and signage ecosystem go. […]

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Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 7:02 PM

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16:9: Int’l Sign Association Pushes Sign Expo Back From April To Late August, Citing COVID-19

The International Sign Association has rescheduled its annual ISA Sign Expo – which is heavily about print but has tried in recent years to also encompass digital – has postposed the show to late August from early April. […]

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Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 7:01 PM

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Finalists Announced For DSF’s 2020 Apex Awards At DSE

Digital Signage Expo and the Digital Signage Federation have announced the 37 finalists for the 16th annual APEX Awards, which celebrate projects and creative done in the sector, globally, in the past year. The finalists were chosen by an independent panel of 11 industry experts and journalists from a pool of 115 entrants, from 19 countries, vying in 12 major digital signage categories. […]

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Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 12:03 PM

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16:9: ShopTalk Postponed, HIMSS Cancelled, As More Trade Shows Struggle With Virus Fears

DSE is hanging in there, but today has seen a couple of high-profile trade shows change 2020 plans in the midst of coronavirus concerns. The retail conference/trade show/speed-dating event ShopTalk has postponed the show set for Las Vegas in a couple of weeks, rescheduling for September. […]

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Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 7:05 PM

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A Different Take On The LED Waterfall Visual Trick, For Stand At UK Trade Show

The falling water thing on LED video walls has been done, a lot, but here’s a take on that visual that’s a bit different, and nicely integrated with a brand and strategy. It was the main feature of a stand for a bathroom fixtures (I think) company at a trade show earlier this week in Birmingham, in the UK. […]

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Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:24 PM

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