Higher Ed Classroom 2025/6: Sony Electronics
Larry DeFazio, Regional Sales Manager, East, Professional Display Solutions at Sony Electronics, shares insights on emerging trends and how AV/IT technologies are reshaping higher education classrooms and beyond.
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AVT Question: Please share your insights into emerging trends and how AV/IT technologies are reshaping the higher education classroom and beyond.
Thought Leader: Larry DeFazio, Regional Sales Manager, East, Professional Display Solutions at Sony Electronics
The higher education classroom continues to use technology to evolve and connect with students where they are. In a post-COVID world that has normalized flexible learning models and prioritizes collaboration, having the latest innovations helps provide equity, facilitates engagement, and supports comprehension and retention.
Article continues belowTechnology is critical to enabling consistent and immersive learning experiences, whether in person, hybrid, or remote." —Larry DeFazio, Regional Sales Manager, East, Professional Display Solutions at Sony Electronics
Technology is critical to enabling consistent and immersive learning experiences, whether in person, hybrid, or remote. Products such as PTZ cameras—such as Sony’s SRG-A Series, which implement AI for built-in auto tracking, framing, and focus—allow everyone to have a clear, optimized view of the presenter, and this high-quality imagery with impressive production values can be achieved with minimal operational effort.
Display technology is also providing participants with a more dynamic learning experience. Displays can enable new forms of collaboration and sharing capabilities, using our SOC Android platform, for a BYOD environment. Sony’s professional BRAVIA display lineup ranges in size from 32 to 98 inches, offering classrooms and huddle spaces—large and small—with visuals that meet their needs and suit their footprint. Sony’s Pro BRAVIA displays also feature powerful processors, vibrant and accurate colors, detailed imagery, and easy-to-read text, allowing for enhanced visuals for both presentations and meetings.
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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.
