Heading home, yay, after almost seven days in Taipei for the Touch Taiwan trade show. By day three I had very thoroughly walked the floor and saw what I needed and what was relevant. It is a show focused on manufacturers and that ecosystem, which makes sense for a country known for its technology manufacturing. […]
Back at my desk after a week of travel and meetings in my old haunts. It is clearly summer now, as emails and press releases have gone from a pretty much steady flow to a slow drip-drip. Though it is summer, it is time to think about late winter, if one of your things is raising your profile and that of your company at trade shows like Digital Signage Expo. […]
This seems to be the Year of the Trade Show around Sixteen:Nine. So far, I’ve done six, and number seven will be Touch Taiwan, in late August in Taipei. It is the biggest event of the year for Taiwan’s display industry, and should pull some 40,000 attendees Aug. […]
AVIXA – the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association – says last week’s InfoComm show in Orlando logged 44,129 registered attendees, up modestly from the last Florida show and about 1,300 over last year in Las Vegas. The show gets roughly half the attendees who go to Integrated Systems Europe (ISE had 81,000), which runs in February and is co-owned by AVIXA. […]
You know direct view LED is catching on in a big way with the pro AV crowd when companies known for projectors have big LED displays as focal points of booths. That was the case at InfoComm with Optoma and with Digital Projection, which has, umm, projection in its name. The latter has had LED in its product line for a while, but I don’t recall this prominence. […]
It is InfoComm week, and this year the show is in Orlando once again, as it is every second year. The weather forecast says high 80s, high humidity and thunderstorms – so if you venture outdoors you are going to be soaked either by perspiration or passing storms. Always fun! […]
In the past year or so I have really started to notice a lot of big printed graphics make way for LED in trade show booths, and not just for display industry shows. This is the GlaxoSmithKline booth at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, held recently in Chicago. The digital work was done by Fusion CI Studios (the small shop best known for its CGI waterfalls). […]
If you don’t use Linkedin much, here’s the many things I’ve posted over there in the last few days – embedded here as there are pix and short videos. […]
I pulled the ripcord this afternoon after 2.5+ days at Display Week. My brain hurt, and the symposium sessions in the afternoon looked terrifyingly technical. […]
Random insights, so far, from SID Display Week in San Jose, CA: The display industry is slowing down, with compounded annual growth expected to sit at around 4% for next eight or nine years: Touch Display Report forecast; LCD sales will be flat-ish, over that time, but OLED sales will grow steadily: also from Touch Display Report forecast; It’s chilly here, which is a bit of a WTF? […]
LG has announced the schedule for its annual TechTour, with the first roving road show date set for two weeks in Washington, DC. The electronics giant has events planned for: May 14 – Washington, DC July 24 – Dallas Aug. 22 – Orange County, CA Sept. […]
A UK events company is busily recruiting vendors and end-users for a digital signage matchmaking event in greater London this fall. The Digital Signage & Interactive Solutions Summit is one of those specialized events that sees vendors paying for access – both focused and relaxed – with interested, engaged buyers. […]
InfoComm is less than a couple of months out and I have sorted out my air, hotel and press registration, which means I can now start to look at why I am going and what I will see that I have not already seen this year at NRF, ISE, ShopTalk and DSE. Probably not much, but I tend to have more time to poke around at this event than, certainly, DSE. […]
Pro AV road shows have been a staple of distributors like Almo for many years, and the display companies have also done variations here and there, most notably the big showcases NEC and LG do each year in New York. But I don’t think I’ve seen one like what Samsung is starting this week. Today, actually. […]
Digital Signage Expo says its verified total attendance at its 2019 event was 4,260 people, up six percent from 2018 and the second largest total in its 15 or so years. The show’s organizers also say DSE delivered the highest number of qualified end users in its history – 1,848. That number is the one exhibitors tend to care about the most. […]
