People who’ve been around the digital signage industry for a few years will know Pat Hellberg from his days starting and running Nike’s retail signage network, and then from his time as a partner, with me, in the Preset Group consultancy. We wound Preset down at the end of 2016 because Pat was in a position to go off and drink. Wine. […]
I’m still at it today and tomorrow, and maybe even Friday – but my guess is a lot of industry people are already in holiday mode, or imminently so. With that in mind, I wanted to get a note out while there are still people at their desks, and reasonably sober. […]
Ok, back at World HQ after DSE and a mini-vacation three hours northeast of Vegas ay Zion National Park. One word review: Amazing. I arranged for a local guy to run around at the mixer last week and grab shots of the venue and people. […]
We had about 300 people over for drinks last night at the Hard Rock Cafe, I’m guessing 70% of the 400-plus who were registered for the annual Preset Group Mixer. It was a great night that I think went off quite well, save a few registrations that went missing. That’s why I bring a label printer with me. […]
We are a little more than week out from Digital Signage Expo and, on Tuesday evening, the biggest social event of the show – the annual Preset Group Mixer. The event does not come off without the support of sponsors. Anyone who has organized a networking event will confirm that between the bar and food tabs, insurance, DJs, printing and on and on, the costs add up. […]
Diversified is among the longest running sponsors of the annual Preset Group Mixer at DSE 2016. I’d do a booth field guide for the systems integrator , but the company doesn’t have a booth, as expertise is a hard thing to showcase in a sea of tangible things like displays and PCs and software demos. […]
The name badges for the sold-out Preset Mixer have arrived, and next we’ll just slap on all the names and companies labels my little Dymo printer has spat out. In past years, we’ve handed out drink tickets, which has turned into a bit of a problem controlling how many tickets were out there and arbitrating whether people got their drink tickets. […]
It’s six weeks tomorrow to the annual Preset Group DSE Mixer, but as of 9:01 this morning the general admission tickets were sold out. We will be hosting as many as 400 people at the annual networking event, on the eve of the trade show floor opening in Las Vegas. If you did not bag a ticket, all is not lost. […]
Ticketing is now good to go for the 2016 Preset Group DSE Mixer in Las Vegas, March 15th at the Hard Rock Cafe on the Las Vegas Strip. It’s the 8th annual version of this puppy, and every year we get a little better at it. […]
Digital Signage Expo is now nine or 10 weeks out, and work has quietly been going on in planning the annual Preset Group Mixer – the unofficial kickoff party to DSE week in Las Vegas. I got my first “Hey Dave, can you get us in …” e-mail today, so I figured I’d knock out an update on where we are at for the 2016 version. […]
The annual Digital Signage Expo is less than three months out now, so it’s time for me to have a look at at what’s up with the event this year, as well as start planning the annual Preset Group Mixer. The latter is already somewhat in hand – the venue secure and several sponsors lined up. […]
We had about 340 people out last night to the 6th annual Preset Group DSE Mixer at the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas. That’s the biggest crowd ever. We had people hanging out in the lobby, ahead of the event. […]
The first name badges get handed out and the first drinks poured for the 6th annual Preset Group Mixer – the now traditional social opener to Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas. This will undoubtedly be the largest, and we should be seeing at least 350 people tonight. That’s roughly 10 percent of the crowd attending the trade show. […]
It’s less than two weeks out to DSE and to the annual Preset Group Mixer. We’re now well over 300 in registrants, between people who signed up and sponsors who invited folks. The venue is all set, signed and insured. […]
The 2015 version of the annual Preset Group DSE kickoff mixer is once again sold out. Most of the tickets went in the 1st couple of days this past week, and the balance have dribbled in since then, the last ones going this weekend. […]
