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Conference Programme
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Visitors to ISE 2023 will see some changes to the conference and content programme — including new content streams and a new location within the Fira
Pam Taggart, Vice President of Content Creation at AVIXA
AVIXA will be the thought leadership vehicle behind much of the ISE 2023 content, producing several of the conference programmes and the
Tech Talks for ISE. Pam Taggart, Vice President of Content Creation at AVIXA, explains: “The benefit to that is that AVIXA provides content and training year-round, so the ISE programme will be a culmination of the daily research, information gathering and conversations with global industry gurus that inform our content.” New for this show are the Content Production and Distribution Summit on the first day of the show, and the creation of a free Tech Talks stream throughout the show days. The Tech talks in the morning are in Spanish language, replacing the programme that was formally called AV Experience Zone, and the English programme takes place every afternoon. The conferences have moved upstairs to the CC5 conference suite. “Here we can have lunches, receptions and break-out sessions to enable those vital idea exchange conversations,” comments Taggart. In addition, show floor tours for each conference stream will tie together what is heard in the conference room to how it can physically be implemented using the technology showcased on the tradeshow floor. “The Tech Talks topics are gleaned from all the feedback, market research, and hot topics that AVIXA has gathered over the past months that are top of mind in the industry,” she continues. “The topics are truly diverse with something for everyone, and that is by design; you can pop into the freeof-charge Talks anytime to get a bite-sized bit of insight on something key to you and your business.”
An Early Bird discount of 30% is available on all tickets for conferences listed on pages 21-27 until 9 January. AVIXA and CEDIA members can claim a 30% discount at any time.
Smart Home Technology Conference | 31 January – 2 February | CC1
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CEDIA is offering over 65 hours of professional development within its three-day conference, covering topic areas such as technical installation and design, business excellence, and future trends; all through the lens of home technology integration.
While session places can be purchased individually, a CEDIA Conference Pass allows entry to any of the sessions that take place on Tuesday to Thursday.
Audio is one of the key themes of the Conference. The intensive RP22 Audio and Room Design Recommended Practice Workshop will return, focusing on the four objective levels of performance that will define the immersive experience. Delegates will work in small groups to apply what they have learned.
A series of seminars will focus on the management, design and implementation of bass in private entertainment spaces. These sessions will discuss theory, engineering, and implementation and offer key takeaways for integrators to apply to projects. These courses can be completed as a series or taken individually.
On Friday 3 February, the association will be holding two half-day examination review sessions — for the Cabling and Infrastructure Technician (CIT) and Integrated Systems Technician (IST) examinations. Daryl Friedman, CEDIA Global President & CEO, comments: “These globally accredited certifications demonstrate to other trades, customers and lawmakers that the custom integration industry is a clearly defined profession with rigorous, widely accepted criteria for competency.”
For details of the Smart Home Technology Conference, see the leaflet included in printed copies of RISE, or visit the ISE website.
Smart Building Conference | Tuesday 31 January, 10:30-17:15 | CC5.1 The Best Smart Tech is Yet to Come
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Smart building technology is still in its infancy.
Buildings deploying smart technologies will triple by 2026, as building operators and owners seek lower energy costs, healthier buildings, more control and automation, and an improved working environment for occupants. Disruptive digital, automation and sensor technologies will drive this.
By 2026, the number of sensors deployed in smart buildings will exceed 1 billion. IT and OT will move even closer to a single network as Big Data, AI and digital twin technology change the building network landscape.
Lower energy costs: • Machine learning and AI will make more use of sensors and IoT • AI-powered smart building automation can reduce energy consumption and
CO2 emissions by 30 to 40% Healthier buildings: • The industry now understands the value of monitoring indoor air quality and other health-related conditions • Connected devices can measure a wide set of parameters More control and automation: • Both incumbent providers and challengers are rectifying inefficient, complicated BMS • Digital twins continue to gain traction Improved work environment: • Businesses must evolve their physical workspaces for when nomad and hybrid workers return to the office part-time • Building owners and tenants must make the experience better and different from home Smart Building Conference, sponsored by KNX, will explore all this and more.
Content Production & Distribution Summit | Tuesday 31 January, 10:30-14:30 | CC5.3 How to Create Powerful Audience Engagement
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Ciarán Doran
As part of its new focus on these technologies (see pages 9-14), ISE has launched the Content Production & Distribution Summit, the inaugural edition of which will take place on the morning
of Tuesday 31 January. The content chair will be Ciarán Doran, a consultant and senior executive with extensive experience of the worlds of broadcast, content production and AV technology.
He comments: “It has never been easier for organisations to produce and deliver content directly to audiences globally and get direct feedback and sales.
“At ISE 2023 I’m delighted to be chairing the new Content Production & Distribution Summit where we will discuss with senior industry executives the technical, creative and commercial challenges
Digital Signage Summit | Wednesday 1 February, 10:30-14:30 | CC5.1 The Power of Pixels
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Digital Signage has become the most popular pro AV application
and dominates the ISE show floor. Digital Signage Summit ISE takes a look behind the scenes of market leaders and hidden champions. This year’s programme revolves around new industry trends and drivers, technologies premiering at ISE and sustainability.
For more than 15 years, Digital Signage Summit (DSS) has been the leading global industry conference series, featuring highlevel speakers from across the world of digital signage. DSS ISE is curated and hosted by Florian Rotberg and Stefan Schieker and jointly organised by Integrated Systems Events and invidis.
Traditionally the C-Level conference kicks off with an exclusive market outlook and keynote presented by invidis.
A session entitled The New Gold Standard in Omnichannel Retail will be jointly presented by a representative of Spanish fashion retailer Lefties and Alberto Caceres, CEO of integrator Trison.
Also with a retail theme, Brad Koerner leads hardware development for ‘the world’s first and largest in-store digital media and merchandising platform’ at Amsterdam-based Cooler Screens. He’ll discuss his work in The Next Big Thing — Retail Media.
Energy consumption and environmental issues are more important than ever in digital signage. In the session entitled Power Play, Tobias Lang, CEO of LANG AG, and Stan Richter, CEO of SignageOS, will give exclusive insights about the specific power consumption and performance boost of SoC systems compared with external media players.
Rounding off the event is the invidis Annual Outlook, where Rotberg and Schieker will offer their thoughts on the year ahead.
Control Rooms Summit | Wednesday 1 February, 10:30-14:30 | CC5.3 How the Continual Rise of Data is Changing Control Rooms
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Chris Dreyfus-Gibson, Vice Chairman and Co-founder, ICCRA
The digital world around us is constantly
changing. As we continue to connect our phones, devices, wearables, vehicles, buildings, and cities we drive the generation of data at an unprecedented rate. This leaves control rooms, often the epicentre of an organisation’s information gathering and decision making, with opportunities and challenges.
How do we make best use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyse this growing stream of data to support critical decision making? How do we get the right information to the right people when they need it? How do we visualise all this data in a way that doesn’t overwhelm control room staff? What impact does our changing relationship with data have on the role, skills and training of control room operators?
These are some of the topics that will be tackled at the Control Rooms Summit. This half-day conference has evolved into an essential event for all those in the AV sector who are involved in the design, build and operation of these mission-critical centres.
Chris Dreyfus-Gibson, Vice Chairman and Cofounder of the International Critical Control Rooms Alliance (ICCRA), will be reprising his role as chair of content. The summit will feature case studies and presentations by expert speakers from the academic, supplier and user communities around four key topic areas: operations, people, technology, and environment and ergonomics.
“Understanding those four areas gives you a really holistic view of control rooms regardless of what your business is in this field,” comments Dreyfus-Gibson.
Attendees of the Digital Signage Summit and Control Rooms Summit are invited to a networking lunch at 14:30.
Education Technology Summit | Wednesday 1 February, 15:30-19:30 | CC5.3 Connected, Compassionate and Creative: Edtech for a changing world
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The Education Technology Summit 2023 explores how technology is evolving to support learning in a challenging global
environment. To meet the needs of our changing world, education technology needs to be ‘Connected, Compassionate and Creative’.
Climate change, conflict and economic crisis are global problems that translate into day-today challenges for many learners and teachers. Those learners may be the future researchers and innovators that solve the problems if we can provide them with the opportunity to do so.
The pandemic years accelerated digital transformation and, at the same time, made us reflect on the place for our own humanity in our use of, and interaction with, digital tools. We now look to technology to improve accessibility, to make our curriculum more diverse and inclusive and to aid learner health and well-being. We see that online activity reduces travel but our increasingly media rich resources have their own carbon footprint and sustainability issues. The use of virtual and extended reality tools and artificial intelligence (AI) forces us to weigh up opportunity against ethical consequences and issues of equity.
Participants will hear from, and discuss with, experts from learning provider organisations and the edtech industry. There will be opportunities for peer-to-peer sharing in our interactive sessions.
Smart Workplace Summit | Thursday 2 February, 10:30-15:30 | CC5.1 New Priorities for the Workplace
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Workplace experience is very dependent upon smart technology, and the pandemic has inspired many new innovations, forcing a re-evaluation of technology priorities.
While makers of AV and IT reimagine their devices to fit the new marketplace, others want to reimagine the entire work experience and disrupt the incumbents. Both metaverse and holography industries covet the smart workplace and rising venture capital serves to enable their innovations.
One new technology, IoT, brings numerous opportunities to use sensors to improve office life — not only by measuring variables but also by allowing post-measurement personalisation in some cases. IoT does not stand alone: new solutions with artificial intelligence and Digital Twin can enhance what IoT brings to the office.
Even humble audio (oddly the quietest of technologies in a world where technologies all seem to shout) understands their products need to adapt to the shift in the workplace.
The theme of this year’s Smart Workplace Summit is New Priorities for the Workplace. It will explore the new strategy and technology priorities that must follow the conclusion that we have moved to mainly a hybrid workplace.
As well as sharing the newest technology and the latest thinking on strategies to move forward in smart workplaces, the summit will also bring together thought leaders and product innovators to move past the pandemic-related uncertainty to now chart specific courses of direction for companies, their integrators and their vendors.
Live Events Summit | Thursday 2 February, 14:00-18:00 | CC5.3 The Story Behind the Scene
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From on-site interviews with the industry’s most respected crew members to in-depth discussions with R&D departments creating the technology powering events, the Live Events Summit pulls back the curtain on those responsible for creating awe-inspiring spectacles for some of live music’s biggest stars.
Chaired by TPi Editor Stew Hume, the summit will highlight the state of the industry post-COVID-19, featuring insights from individuals involved in some of 2022’s biggest tours and live shows, as well an in-depth look at some of the latest technological innovations likely to feature on global stages in the coming years. It’s guaranteed to be an interesting afternoon of content and discourse.
“We’re proud to once again be flying the flag for the live events industry at the ISE show,” comments Hume. “Despite a tough start to the 2020s, the live events industry has never been busier. Although there are a number of issues facing the sector, there is still a huge amount of progress and innovation happening in real time, and we’re excited to share some of these stories with the ISE audience in Barcelona.”
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tech talks
Following on from the success of the AV Experience Zone at ISE 2022, Tech Talks Español will present a range of free-to-attend sessions, all in the
Spanish language. “We are bringing high-value people to the show,” explains Victor Alarcon, who has produced the programme for AVIXA. “We want to update them with some of the latest technology and industry trends, and then afterwards they can search out relevant solutions on the show floor.”
The speakers come from a variety of Catalonia-based and other Spanish organisations and partners. Each day’s programme will consist of three types of session: a masterclass on a niche topic, aimed at technicians and engineers; a session from an organisation supporting the industry in Catalonia; and a session for a more general AV/IT audience.
Among the topics covered in these Spanish-language sessions are: • Breathtaking aerobatic drones and some of the most daring feats of content capture • A behind-the-scenes look at the virtual sets of The Mandalorian • How AV technologies provide a fully immersive experience in
‘exerfitgaming’ – the gamification of exercise and fitness • Audio optimisation expert showcase: noiseless audio adjustment • State-of-the-art designers share the future of the restaurant experience
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tech talks
Like their Spanish counterparts, the English-language Tech Talks are designed to give new and existing visitors the opportunity to learn about technology innovations and business
developments. They’re also designed to offer something a little different from the main conference programme. These Tech Talks will be given by experts on the cutting edge, bringing new ideas, sharing best-practice case studies and offering a glimpse of the state of the art at ISE 2023.
Highlights include: • Corporate events and sound • A deep dive into the Metaverse — and how companies are factoring it into their business strategies • A series of sessions dissecting the challenges arising from the ever-changing business climate – sharing solutions that look at new revenue streams from the
RFP to a masterclass on SLAs • AV innovations: using video games to treat and rehabilitate patients • Understanding and managing speech intelligibility • The latest in innovative physical presence displays and immersive experiences
