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♦ InfoComm International Becomes ANSI Accredited Standards Developer InfoComm International, the trade association representing the professional audiovisual industry has been recognized as an American National Standards Institute Accredited Standards Developer. InfoComm’s standards will be developed as international standards and, as warranted, will be presented for adoption by the International Standards Organization (ISO). (more)
♦ InfoComm Central – Start Your Engines Stop by the InfoComm International Booth at InfoComm Central located in the Grand Lobby between the North and Central Halls, each day of the Show to race around our NASCAR inspired racetrack and win hourly prizes! Sponsored by DLP-Texas Instruments. You can have a chance at winning $35,000! A Sanyo Xacti VPC-CG9 digital media camera will be given away each day of the show to a winning driver sponsored by Sanyo, Booth C2848. At InfoComm Central you can learn about InfoComm Membership — your association for AV education, certification, market research, outreach and more. Listen to experts offering free business and professional advice on everything from government relations to international business development. Find out about InfoComm’s Member Benefits including information on our new social networking initiatives. Relax in the theatre and be dazzled with industry awards presentations, including the ARCHI-TECH AV Awards, Lighting&Sound America Staged Events Awards, NewBay Media’s Systems Contractor News Installation Product Awards and NewBay Media’s Rental & Staging Systems Product Awards. InfoComm Central is also your destination for Show info, badge pick-up, the Show store and much more! Each year leading manufacturers showcase their newest models in a union of high-end display and presentation technology at InfoComm’s trade show, in the Large Venue Display Gallery. Managed for the sixth year by Extron Electronics and led by Steve Somers, Vice Present of Engineering for Extron, the gallery features high-definition sources centrally fed to multiple projectors from a full-featured control room via digital video and audio over fiber optic cabling. The Large Venue Display Gallery, located in North Hall 4, provides leading manufacturers screen rooms, right on the Show floor, equipped to demonstrate their latest advancements in large venue projection technologies. This year’s Large Venue Display Gallery will bring to light new projection technology from Barco, Christie, Digital Projection, Sanyo and Sony. If integration of large venue video for rental and staging applications, entertainment, digital cinema, corporate events, museums, command and control, as well as other applications is important to you, then the Large Venue Display Gallery is your one-stop ultimate projection shopping and learning experience. The only way to experience the latest in digital cinema and large venue HD display is to stop by! The Large Venue Display Gallery is located in North Hall 4 and brought to you by platinum sponsor, Extron, with a projector giveaway sponsored by Sony, and support from contributing sponsors Bosch, Crestron, Da-Lite, Meyer Sound and Quest Drape. ♦ AV Systems Rack Integration Challenge The AV Systems Rack Integration Challenge is back by popular demand! In its second year, this exciting 12-hour competition has system integrator teams design and build a fully operational AV system. This year’s teams include Advanced Audio Visual, Audio Visual Systems Inc., ExhibitOne Corporation, Spinitar and The Whitlock Group. Be sure to stop by the contest area, located in Central Hall 2, Booth C1755 throughout the Show to watch the build process and see the winner. Visit sponsors’ booths to enter to win the contest’s winning rack system valued at $25,000. The AV Systems Rack Integration Challenge is supported by platinum sponsor Middle Atlantic Products, Inc. and gold sponsor AMX.
InfoComm Shines challenges InfoComm members to work together to benefit nonprofit organizations and raise visibility and goodwill for the AV industry. In 2005, the initial InfoComm Shines project included the donation of nearly $100,000 in AV products and services to the Helen Keller National Center. In 2006, the headquarters of Southface, an Atlanta-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting environmentally-friendly practices, was selected as an InfoComm Shines project. The building, nearing completion, was scheduled to be the first LEED® Certified Platinum office building in the southeast United States. This week, the ICIF Board selected the Walker School in Needham, Massachusetts, as its newest InfoComm Shines project. Recommended by Stewart B. Randall, CTS-D, of Communications Designs Associates, the Walker School is exploring potential uses of assistive communications technology for more effective classroom teaching of seriously emotional disturbed children and youth in the classroom. Through InfoComm Shines, Walker School, a comprehensive network of special education and mental health services for hundreds of the most troubled children, adolescents and their families, will create a web-based communications system for use by Walker staff and families to conduct meetings, seminars, parental conferences and staff supervision. This will involve the development of basic video and graphics production. The project will also increase and enhance the instructional technology available to teaching staff in the Walker School. This will involve a partnership with one or more local Universities to employ graduate students to research and develop technology solutions for this population. During the study various technologies will be employed for evaluation and testing with the possibility of being incorporated into the Walker curriculum. An arts and technology curriculum at Beacon High School will also be developed and implemented with support from the companies contributing to this project. So far, Extron, Crestron, Polycom, HB Communications, Vbrick, AMX, FSR and others have pledged their support. If you are interested in getting involved with this project, please contact Stewart B. Randall, CTS-D . If you are interested in submitting an InfoComm Shines project proposal, please complete an application.
To be eligible for ICIF scholarships , students must be majoring in audiovisual subjects or related fields, including audio, video, telecommunications, electronics, technical aspects of the theater, data networking, software development and information technology. Students with other majors may be considered if they can demonstrate a relationship to career goals in the AV industry.
♦ InfoComm’s Mini Member Roundtable – Coming to a Town Near You! InfoComm is traveling to Minneapolis and Milwaukee, May 21-22. Area members can learn more about the key issues that affect the AV community, the technicalities of intellectual property and how to protect your company at our free, members-only, roundtable event. There will also be an opportunity to discuss your views on major issues affecting the AV industry and ways InfoComm can better serve you. Register today! Plan to attend an upcoming regional roundtable:
Roundtables are available only to InfoComm members. Learn more about InfoComm membership benefits or apply today.
♦ Advanced Courses at InfoComm 08 If you are an experienced audiovisual professional looking to fulfill Renewal Unit needs or just looking to focus on more difficult topics, try one of these courses offered at InfoComm 08. Click on the links below course descriptions or to register, or download a list of all the advanced courses and descriptions. IPD1: Advanced Integrated Systems Sales | Bill Sharer, CTS, Exxel Management IPD7, IPD8: Facilities Design | L. William Nattress III, CTS-D, CTS-I, Shen, Milsom & Wilke IPD9: Systems Design | Mario Maltese, CTS-D, CTS-I, Audio Visual Resources IS13: Display Color Management | Steve Somers, Extron Electronics IS19: Commissioning Audio Visual Systems for the Designer and the Installer - Assuring Zero Defects in AV | James Maltese, CTS-D, CTS-I, Audio Visual Resources; Mario Maltese, CTS-D, CTS-I, Audio Visual Resources IS49: Mono, Stereo, and Positional Audio Conferencing Applications - Improving the Conference Room Experience | Craig Richardson, Ph.D., Polycom Installed Voice Business IS69: How to Issue an RFQ and RFP for AV Designers | Lisa Thorburn, CTS, Thornburn Associates, Inc. IS70: Live Audio 401: limiters, Eqs, and Speaker Processors | Bill Magod, Michael Andrews Audio Visual Services, Inc. IS75: Videoconferencing from the Camera’s Point of View | Steve Thorburn, PE, CTS-D, CTS-I, Thornburn Associates, Inc. IS83: Commissioning and Maintaining Audio Visual Systems for the Technology Manager — Assuring Zero Defects in AV |
Mario Maltese, CTS-D, CTS-I, Audio Visual Resources; IS85: Projected Image Quality | Greg Jeffreys, Paradigm Audio Visual, Ltd. IST3: Design Master Class: The Ten Biggest AV Design Challenges *Sold Out* | Joseph Bocchiaro III, Ph.D., CTS-D, CTS-I, InfoComm International IST7: Selling and Managing AV Projects | Brad Malone, PMP, Twin Star Consulting IW2: Power & Grounding: A New Look at the Issues | Tom Kehr, CTS-D, CTS-I, InfoComm International; L. William Nattress III, CTS-D, CTS-I, Shen, Milsom & Wilke, Inc. IW3: Advanced Display Technologies |
Alan Brawn, CTS, ISF, ISF-C, Brawn Consulting; Jonathan Brawn, Brawn Consulting IW6: Presentation Facility Design and Integration | Derek Meares, CTS-D, Thorburn Assoociates, Inc. IW9: Acoustic CAD Workshop | Frederick J. Ampel, Technology Visions
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