Sean, Randy, and Dan recently attended the InfoComm Conference in Las Vegas.  Sean, with added comments from Dan, had this to report:

InfoComm is a professional AV industry gathering that takes place annually, bouncing between Las Vegas, NV and Orlando, FL.  There are a vast amount of manufacturers on display and training courses to take, as well as tons of industry networking that occur during the week.

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This year we were looking for specific information on a few special projects and paying attention to IT/AV convergence classes.  We also hoped to have many conversations with other professionals at the conference.

For example, here are some acoustic treatment solutions to address acoustic issues in Gates Common Room from Primacoustic.

These “paintings” are actually acoustic tiles!

Acoustic solutions that hang from the ceiling.

Another interesting acoustic wall tile.

We looked at some digital signage solutions, and saw this giant interactive screen:

Digital signage giant interactive screen.

Dan added: “We met with several vendors of digital signage solutions and forwarded information from the more impressive companies to David White, who is working on finding a replacement system for campus signage. We also saw presentations by companies focused on video conferencing over the web, some utilizing a cloud hosted model.”

Globall Coach offers annotation solutions for the new hockey coach’s locker room needs:

Annotation solution for Coach Mike Haviland.

A really cool “under” desk projector mount from Canon:

Under desk mounted projector.

A slick mobile design for the video streaming gear from SKB:

Mobile design for video streaming gear.

A good time was had by all at the conference, and I was able to continue my training on my CTS Certification.  I look forward to gaining my next level CTS-I and CTS-D Certifications as well.

Thank you, Sean (and Dan!), for your report and great pictures!  This helped to open my eyes on what you all look for when going to a professional conference and what is on your mind for projects here at CC.

I hope everyone will checkout the links located in this post to find out more about the different solutions that were viewed, as well as about InfoComm in general.

Stay tuned for another report from Sean and Dan on their visit to UNLV to check out the AV Department there.

ITS:Always fun, never boring
Respectfully submitted,
Linda Petro