Integrating Technology

David Bianciardi founded AV&C or Audio, Video and Controls in 1999 where he leads a team of designers, developers, and engineers that deliver software-driven installations to enhance storytelling, placemaking, connectivity and responsiveness. And I am really excited to hear more about what all of that means how an AV programmer like myself can start applying these ideas. 

• Conversational engagement resonates more with guests than Power Point slides and how technology can be used to spark those conversations (and still show slides too).

• Experience design should consider the experience of system operators as well as guests.

• Technology is being viewed by architects less as FF&E (furnishings, fixture and equipment) and more as a raw building material.

• David explains the concept of Evergreen Media and how assets like print, podcasts, video and blog posts can be integrated into a storytelling environment in a dynamic way (instead of a static looping playlist). 

• He also talks about mixing assets with data to create dynamic content that reduces production costs.

• Adding metadata to content makes it “programmable”.

• Consider the different budgetary concerns of the stakeholders. An operations manager views content and delivery as a capital expense, while marketing will see it as an operating expense.

• He talks about some software tools AV&C has developed. Conductor is their event manager and Sensor Fusion uses sensor data to understand how people are using a space. Examples include if people are moving into or out of a space, what direction they are facing and skeletal modelling that can indicate the movement of arms and fingers.

• An innovation desire means there is a responsibility to manage risk.

• David explains how AV&C uses gaming engines and virtual reality to create a Digital Twin of a project. This reduces technology risk by creating a virtual environment where the physical space, sensitivity to occupants and generation of media can be previewed. Software can also be tested against the virtual model.

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Jason Jaworski is a veteran of the US Marine Corp and has over 20 years experience working in Government and Military Systems for multi level classification video conferencing, command, control and operation centers.

He is currently VP of Federal Practice at Unassailable Solutions.

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I first met Ryan Howard while working on a rather complicated AV project at Goldman Sachs in New York City where he was playing the role of superhero programmer for AMX’s Professional Services. 

Since then he has held been a design engineer and consultants and most recently circling back to GS as VP technology. 

He recently founded Storied Systems that designs systems strategies and environments for storytelling at a human scale.

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Mark Day has held many positions in the Las Vegas AV scene including installation, sales and programming. He is currently

President of Idea Box, a design and installation company he founded in 2009. 

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Dave Silberstein has a long history working with AV manufacturers like Audio Video Corporation and Crestron Electronics where he worked as a Director for almost 20 years. I remember the first Crestron courses I attended in NJ around the year 2000, he was a big part of getting to know what that company was all about and how their technology worked.

He is currently VP of Technology at Wyrestorm, a manufacturer of pro AV signal distribution and control solutions and I am really excited to speak with someone with such experience in AV manufacturing and hear their view on the changing role of software in AV.

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Dave Schoenbeck has a long history in managing and operating retail stores like Toys R Us and is one of the founders of Babies R Us where he served as senior VP of operations for 10 years. So what does that have to do with software? For more than a decade he’s been helping business owners in AV and beyond reach their goals as an executive coach. 

When I started this podcast, I did not realise how much shifting to software defined systems affects the business models. But the words ”as a service” keep coming up, so I am really excited to learn a lot today from Dave Schoenbeck.

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I first met Frank Damiano in an AMX training room in Horsham PA around the year 2000. 

And since then, he has been Founder and CTO of Damiano Global Corporation, an independent control system and audio DPS programming company.

His company has developed AV management software called DGnet that looks like a software defined solution to a hardware defined problem.

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