InfoComm Prepares for Digital Signage Boom

  • InfoComm, which opens in Anaheim June 15 (show floor opens June 19) is gearing up for what will surely be a surge of interest in the commercial AV community for all things digital signage. The AV integrator attendees of InfoComm know technology–especially the hardware side of the equation. But there's still plenty of upside to the digital signage business for AV integrators and design consultants. They are still learning the nuances of marketing to a new base of digital signage customers and still learning about the content side of the digital signage equation. And there will be end-users on hand at InfoComm as well.
  • InfoComm’s Digital Signage Pavilion will provide end-users and integrators of digital signage technology in the retail, corporate, hospitality and institutional markets an opportunity to see top companies presenting the latest in this rapidly expanding field. Exhibitors include Electrograph, Covid, Grass Valley, Lighthouse, Scala and VBrick. Gold Sponsors of the Digital Signage Pavilion at InfoComm are Peerless, Sony, and Stampede, and many more. Media Sponsor is rAVe. Supporting organization is POPAI.
  • Digital signage expert Lyle Bunn leads a six-hour InfoComm Academy Super Monday session on Business Opportunities in Digital Dynamic Signage. Exhibitors like Avocent, Communications Specialties, OmniMount Systems, Peerless Industries, Roku and VBrick Systems will also offer Manufacturers Training sessions related to digital signage.
  • The six-hour InfoComm Academy Super Monday session is "SM5; Business Opportunities in Dynamic Digital Signage"
  • Track : Applied Technology Topics : Digital Signage
  • Moderator: Lyle Bunn
  • - Janice Lee Litvinoff, CISCO Systems, Inc.
  • - Michael White, CTS, Multimedia Solutions, Inc.
  • Dynamic digital signage (DDS) has passed the $1 billion industry level, growing at 40% annually toward one million installed displays by 2009. Project planning and technology integration are key as retailers and a wide range of service providers consider and proceed with DDS projects. Opportunities and key supply issues will be presented in this program by some of the industry’s most experienced professionals.
  • Additional panelists will include:
  • - Harris Liontas, Novra Technologies
  • - Jeff Porter, Scala
  • - Brian Dusho, Broadsign
  • - Jeff Collard, Omnivex
  • - Bill Trainer, Capital Networks
  • - Jeff Blankensop, NEC
  • - Don Fasick, LG Electronics
  • - Brad Gleeson, Planar Systems
  • - Wayne Moir, Adshift
  • Digital Signage Application Showcase: InfoComm and Spinitar have teamed with leaders from the digital signage industry to create the first InfoComm Digital Signage Application Showcase. Dedicated to educating attendees on industry specific applications utilizing digital signage, this area located in Hall E will allow them to be immersed in environments from airport terminals to casinos. These environments display fully functional digital signage applications deployed around the world. Attendees can through the exhibit to understand how digital signage impacts your everyday life. Within the Digital Signage Application Showcase there will also be an area dedicated to the future of digital signage which will house innovative presentations providing a unique perspective into the direction the digital signage industry is moving. Platinum Sponsor is Sony. Equipment Sponsors are Premier Mounts, and SoundTube
  • For more information on digital signage activity at InfoComm, visit www.infocomm.org.

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