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December 2, 2020 | Volume: 18 | Issue: 45
Next week, on Dec. 8 and 9, AVIXA and the Digital Signage Federation are hosting a new virtual, digital signage conference called D=SIGN that will explore technology, solutions and big ideas around digital signage and DOOH. The free conference will feature sessions from industry thought leaders including:
Laura Davis-Taylor, DSF board member and chief strategy officer for InReality
Beth Warren, senior vice president of marketing for Creative Realities
Paul Fleuranges, DSF board member
Jeff Hastings, CEO, BrightSign
Ken Goldberg, CEO, Real Digital Media
Any many others!
It will be hosted on our virtual platform, LAVNCH, so attendees will be able to chat, ask presenters questions, participate in polls and fun gamification features. There’s also a trivia night and virtual networking mixer hosted by Sixteen:Nine. The conference is free — if you’re an AV’er interested in digital signage or DOOH, don’t miss it. You can sign up here.
Seoul extends its “destination marketing” by being the first city to offer a virtual meetings platform for event organizers. In response to the COVID-19 era, Seoul Convention Bureau (SCB) launches the “Virtual Seoul Platform” to be used for holding MICE events in the digital world. According to the organization (and our own knowledge), this is the first city destination marketing organization to build a platform as a MICE destination.
In my biweekly blog series, I am highlighting some of the incredible people who work for the Audio Video Industry. In this post, we are profiling Sharath Abraham, an engineering manager at AVI-SPL.