Joan Vandermate

Joan Vandermate

Joan Vandermate joined Logitech in January 2016 and serves as global Head of Marketing for Logitech's Video Collaboration business. Vandermate has more than 20 years of experience in marketing, product management, sales and business development. Her background includes tenures in the enterprise software, telecommunications and network infrastructure industries. Prior to joining Logitech, she served in executive leadership positions at Vidyo, Avaya, Polycom, and Siemens.

Notes From the Trenches

Over the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with dozens of AV and IT professionals tasked with deploying and supporting enterprise video conferencing. Although every project is different, a few themes seem to be consistent across all my conversations, and so I’ve come up with the following “notes from the AV/IT trenches.” […]

Notes From the Trenches

The World Has Gone Wireless, So Why Do We Still Have Cables?

We live in an age of ubiquitous wireless connectivity. Whether you are on the corporate Wi-Fi at the office, teleworking using your home Wi-Fi, logged on at the local coffee shop, or using the mobile cellular network, it’s pretty much a given that you won’t need a cable to get a reliable network connection. But […]

The World Has Gone Wireless, So Why Do We Still Have Cables?

Can We Finally Throw Away the Dreaded Videoconferencing Remote?

Videoconferencing technologies have improved tremendously over the past several years. Cloud services have made it possible to cost effectively scale deployments to thousands of desktops and conference rooms. Improvements in video encoding, compute power and broadband services mean anyone can join a video call, from almost anywhere, via practically any device. And USB conference cams […]

Can We Finally Throw Away the Dreaded Videoconferencing Remote?

Top AV and Collaboration Predictions for 2019

2018 has been an interesting and eventful year in the AV and collaboration industries.  We’ve seen a number of mergers and acquisitions, rebranding of products, new players big and small entering the market and an avalanche of new products. So what does 2019 have in store for us? I don’t have a crystal ball, but […]

Top AV and Collaboration Predictions for 2019

Audio Tips & Tricks for Video-Enabled Meeting Rooms

If you’ve been in the conferencing industry for a while, you know that vendors (both legacy and new entrants) are constantly introducing new and improved video and audio solutions. When it comes time to roll out video solutions or refresh technology in in existing rooms, or even install video in large spaces like classrooms and […]

Audio Tips & Tricks for Video-Enabled Meeting Rooms

Best Practices for Mid-sized Meeting Room Collaboration

When it comes to workplace collaboration, huddle rooms are all the rage these days, and it makes sense — the number of huddle rooms, which are great for ad-hoc and small group collaboration, is growing at staggering rates. And while huddle rooms are well worth the hype, it’s important that we don’t overlook the mainstay […]

Best Practices for Mid-sized Meeting Room Collaboration

Seven Best Practices for Huddle Room Collaboration

Huddle spaces are the Goldilocks of meeting rooms: not so big and formal they stifle creativity, yet not too small for a team to get work done. And while they’re great at facilitating collaboration, it’s important to note that they’re not “just another meeting room” when it comes to implementing video conferencing. These ad-hoc collaboration […]

Seven Best Practices for Huddle Room Collaboration

Three Reasons to Invest in a 4K Video Conferencing Camera

Lately, it seems like just about every device maker in the conferencing space is coming out with a 4K webcam or conference camera. It started in February 2017 when the Logitech BRIO 4K Pro Webcam was introduced at ISE, and since then I’ve seen announcements from Cisco, Panacast, Aver and Dolby (just to name a […]

Three Reasons to Invest in a 4K Video Conferencing Camera