rAVe RADIO host Joel Rollins speaks with Joe Stopka of Starin, otherwise known as “Mr. Mipro”, about the Mipro line of portable sound. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
It’s the night before the show opens, and Gary Kayye and Joel Rollins talk about the show, the day’s news, and their predictions for InfoComm 2014. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
Joel Rollins speaks with Mark Coxon, fellow rAVe Blogger, about the show, his new role at Milestone, and the difference between working for an integrator and working for a manufacturer. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
Joel speaks with Rick Kamlet of Harman about the company, new products, and their exhibit and demo room program for this year’s show. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
Joel speaks with Brady Bruce of Jupiter Systems about their products for visual collaboration and display walls, and their plans and announcements for InfoComm ’14. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
We speak with Jeff Hastings, CEO of Brightsign, about their products, their new capabilities, and Brightsign’s place in the digital signage market. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
On this episode of THE WEEK, we speak with Cy Bates of Anchor Audio about their product lineup and new product developments to be shown at InfoComm 2014. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
We speak with Paul Ingebrigtsen of Williams Sound about an exciting new product and their plans for InfoComm 2014. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
On this episode of THE WEEK, we speak with George Preston of Spinetix about their products, the digital signage market, and their plans for InfoComm 2014. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
Joel speaks with Fredrik Svahnberg of Dataton about new WatchNet product. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
This week, Joel talks with Jim Kern, president of Comradity, a networking and virtual office facility for creative professionals. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
We cover the news of the week, then have a long talk with longtime friend of the show Jim Smith of Polycom about Heartbleed and what it really means to the industry. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
First the news of the week, then Joel has a conversation with Chris Poulin of BTX about their NDS digital signage offerings. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
This week, we follow the news with a conversation between Joel Rollins and Mark Coxon, both rAVe bloggers, about convergence, BYOD, and last week’s exchange between them from the blog. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
After this week’s news (and the answer to our trivia question) Joel speaks with George Walter, Vice President of Business Development at Digital Projection, about their new laser projection system, their plans for InfoComm, and the great party they threw at this year’s InfoComm Live event. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
We catch up on the news in AV, and follow up with an interview with Asmund Fodstad of Pexip, recorded at ISE, about how the Unified Communications game is being changed by platform-independent, software-only products. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
After this weeks news, we share a conversation between Joel Rollins and Tom Stimson about the InfoComm Live event, its future, and the AV Rental business in general. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
Well, after a frantic week of catchup caused by being in Amsterdam for a week for ISE, I am preparing to go off to Atlanta for the InfoComm Live event. For those of you not familiar with it, InfoComm Live is the association’s annual gathering for management in the Live Events (read “AV Rental and […]
At the very close of ISE, THE WEEK host Joel Rollins had a chance to sit down with Bob Snyder of rAVe Europe to talk about the finer points of doing business overseas. An American who has worked and lived in different parts of Europe for over a decade, Bob has an incredible perspective on […]
rAVe’s Gary Kayye and Joel Rollins wrap-up the 2014 edition of the Integrated Systems Europe show with one final podcast. They talk about their overall impressions of the show, the new products introduced at the show that will make an impact in 2014, show attendance and how ISE may effect the rest of the AV […]
We take an opportunity to sit down on the show floor at ISE with Mike Abernathy of Atlas Sound. We talk IED Electronics, about Atlas’ product lines, and hear his reasons for coming to the ISE show. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
rAVe RADIO host Joel Rollins speaks with Frazer Cousins of Smart technologies about ISE 2014 and Smart’s new push into the Unified Communications market in this special edition of THE WEEK. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
Gary Kayye and Joel Rollins comment on the technologies debuting at ISE 2014, including new wireless systems, new videoconferencing, cars with projection windows and refrigerators with movie capability. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
We cover the news, and then have a talk with Cisco’s Paul Depperschmidt and Steve Pryor about their stand and their objectives for ISE 2014 in Amsterdam. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
THE WEEK host Joel Rollins talks to Cisco’s Paul Depperschmidt and Steve Pryor about the company’s plans for the upcoming ISE 2014 show in Amsterdam, as well as their AV dealer programs. Any AV integrator that’s interested in getting leads from Cisco should definitely listen in. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
We kick off 2014 with news about an industry acquisition, finger gestures and the telegraph, followed by a great interview with Paul Depperschmidt of Cisco about his programs, his take on the future of Unified Communications, and the role of the AV integrator. Don’t miss it. iAuditor – Safety Audit and Checklist Podcast: Play in […]
Following this week’s AV news, Joel asks Gary Kayye to join him in wrapping up the AV news for the year, and in taking a brief look ahead at what’s in store for 2014. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
The Week wraps up 2013 with the news from the industry — both from 2013, and from 178 years ago with a special segment where Joel gets to pay tribute to two great heroes of technology and culture at once, in a news item where their paths crossed and they changed our industry together. Along the way, […]
A great show this week as we talk with Nelson Baumgratz as he prepares to teach at the InfoComm show in Colombia. We talk about the show, education and the state of the AV community in Latin America today. But first, the news… Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
Last week, Joel spoke with Infocomm’s Terry Friesenborg about what it was like to stage an AV tradeshow in the Middle East/Africa market. Today, we speak with Neil Willis about what it was like to exhibit, and the technical and cultural differences involved in getting started doing business in the Middle East. Podcast: Play in […]
Joel covers the news, and then has a talk with Infocomm’s Terry Friesenborg, who is at Infocomm Middle East and Africa show in Dubai, about the show, the market, and the growth of AV worldwide. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
This week, Joel has a talk with noted architect Gary Unger, president and founder of CPG Architects, about current trends in space planning and how they change the way our clients work and how AV and architecture work together. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS