InfoComm 2017 Will Welcome the First Class of Emerging Trends Fellows, Registration Officially Opens

February 13, 2017

InfoComm International will host a day of emerging trends education on Tuesday, June 13, the day before the InfoComm 2017 show floor opens at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. The special day of insight into the future of the AV industry will feature the inaugural class of Emerging Trends Fellows- experts chosen for their knowledge of a […]

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InfoComm International Wins Awards from International Association of Exhibitions and Events

November 29, 2016

InfoComm International was honored with two awards in the International Association of Exhibitions and Events’ (IAEE) Art of the Show competition. IAEE is the global association for the exhibitions and events industry. InfoComm 2016 won in the categories of Show Brand Design/Development and Signage & Decoration for shows over 200,001 net square feet. It also […]

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rAVe Partners with TASCAM for Podcasting Excellence

September 20, 2016

In June, InfoComm in Las Vegas saw rAVe Publications reporter, Johnny Mota, and podcasting partner, Victoria Barela, having fun, as usual. The two had set up rAVe [RADIO] podcast desk and were hard at work, creating podcasts from the show floor that featured interviews with a variety of exhibitors and attendees. Key to this year’s […]

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The Science Behind the Technology – Part 2: An Interview with John Underkoffler, Oblong Industries

July 20, 2016

Those who have read my Disruptive Top 10 at InfoComm blog know that this year I selected Oblong Industries Mezzanine as my number one choice: At InfoComm16, Oblong Industries demonstrated its ground-breaking immersive visual collaboration solution, Mezzanine™, featuring a dynamic and interactive experience across multiple devices, display surfaces, and locations.  Mezzanine is characterized by its […]

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Read This First: How to Get the Most from the rAVe InfoComm 2016 MicroSite

July 17, 2016

The 2016 version of InfoComm has come to a close, but our coverage here will live forever — on our InfoComm 2016 microsite! We have so much coverage — and there’s so much information on this InfoComm microsite that it can be overwhelming. So, please take moment to read this so we can familiarize you […]

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THE Best of InfoComm 2016 Awards are Announced

July 13, 2016

Welcome to rAVe’s annual Best of InfoComm 2016 Awards! It’s tough to pick out the best and the brightest from the thousands of products and hundreds of exhibitors introduced on the show floor. After much consideration, our entire team picked what we thought were the best things on the show floor. Congratulations to all the […]

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Gaining New Customers – Strategic Social Media and Marketing Focus For Integrators

June 30, 2016

Today, some well-known (and even some lesser known) systems integrators have made their mark in marketing and social media, however many are still looking for the proper strategies as well as the more enhanced ways to build the industry profile – especially to gain new customers. It seems that for any company to compete and advance […]

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InfoComm 2016 — Life from the Podcast Desk

June 24, 2016

The world from the podcast station in Vegas from June 8th through the 10th was filled with #AVselfies, magical Tascam gear, and interviews galore. My partner in crime, Johnny Mota, and I set up rAVe Pubs RADIO desk successfully in the Kramer booth with the help from our friends Eric Larsen of Tascam and our rAVe […]

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Miss Our Snapchat Stories LIVE from InfoComm?

June 23, 2016

When we started using Twitter back at InfoComm 2008, only 80 or so people in the ProAV market were even on the social media platform. Same with Snapchat earlier this month. The day before we sent our eBlast out saying we’d be broadcasting via Snapchat at InfoComm, there were only 160-some AV ‘Snapchatters.’ Well, we […]

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Our InfoComm 2016 Wrap-Up Video Launches

June 23, 2016

Each year, we produce a video-review of the InfoComm show — sort of an AV Geek music video! Well, it’s already ready and we’ve already posted it. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed shooting it! You may be in here, so watch below:

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Rants and rAVes — Episode 530: What Did Planar & Leyard Do at InfoComm?

June 23, 2016

One of the most popular booths at InfoComm was the Leyard booth – thanks to a giant 31’ wide and 19’ tall 8K LED wall – the brainchild of Jennifer Davis, Leyard’s CMO. And, Gary spoke to Jennifer today about that and the other products that both Leyard and Planar launched at InfoComm 2016. It’s […]

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The Science Behind the Technology – Part 1: An Interview with Dr. Roger Hajjar, Prysm

June 22, 2016

Months back, I had a conversation with an associate in the industry and told him about my blog concept of the science behind AV technology. As I have been one to create certain types of interview series’ on rAVe (My first series Disruptive Forces in AV/IT was back in April, 2014), I decided to create a new […]

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