Roadmap 2023: AIMS Alliance

Andrew Starks, Director of Product Management for Macnica and AIMS Marketing Work Group Chair
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AVT Question: Please share insight into your company's roadmap for 2023.

Thought Leader: Andrew Starks, Director of Product Management for Macnica and AIMS Marketing Work Group Chair

The IPMX roadmap, which is publicly on display on JT-NM’s website, continues to guide the growing number of engineers and companies that are behind IPMX.

We anticipate that several major pro AV and technology companies will make IPMX-related announcements in 2023, as happened in 2022." —Andrew Starks, Director of Product Management for Macnica and AIMS Marketing Work Group Chair

For 2023, we expect to reach the few remaining critical milestones required for the widespread adoption of IPMX as a fully interoperable open standard in pro AV. At ISE, we debuted HDCP interoperability with IPMX’s HKEP protocol, and the final specifications for FEC are soon to follow. With these two items, the bulk AV-over-IP use cases are covered with multi-vendor IPMX-compliant hardware and software. This is in addition to the many use cases, especially for live events and dvLED applications, that IPMX is uniquely suited to handle. That is why we anticipate that several major pro AV and technology companies will make IPMX-related announcements in 2023, as happened in 2022.

Cindy Davis
Brand and content director of AV Technology

Cindy Davis is the brand and content director of AV Technology (AVT). She was a critical member of the AVT team when the title won the “Best Media Brand” laurel in the 2018 SIIA Jesse H. Neal Awards. A storyteller at heart, Davis enjoys facilitating and engaging in deeper conversations about the complex topics shaping the evolving AV/IT industry. She develops and moderates AV/IT roundtables and co-hosts the AV/IT Summit. Davis explores the experiential ethos of the modern workplace and higher ed campus to provide insight into the drivers that will impact decisions. For more than 25 years, she has developed and delivered multiplatform content for AV/IT B2B and consumer B2C publications, associations, and companies. Recently, she has become obsessed with the role of AI in the workplace.