And for something a little different: Imagine a cross between Bill Nye and the guys from Jackass, but with content focusing on electronics, debunking fake viral videos ABOUT electronics, and dispelling myths about 5G panic and what have you. That's Mehdi Sadaghdar. This YouTube sensation is informative, funny as heck, and apparently impervious to injury.

https://www.youtube.com/user/msadaghd

A chat with CEDIA's Keynote speaker at the 2020 Virtual Expo Experience. Boyd will deliver two addresses: Building Brands to Shift Industries: Today, Tomorrow, The Future; and Economic, Societal, and Consumer Trends for a 21st Century Mindset: In Conversation with Linzi Boyd and Darren Shirlaw.

http://www.linziboyd.com/

Mike Heiss (M Heiss Consulting) attended the annual Display Week show (virtual this year) to fill us in on the latest gear – that you can't even buy yet. This show from SID (the Society for Information Display) is a look at emerging tech as it begins to come to market.

https://michaelheiss.com/

http://www.displayweek.org/2020.aspx

Google and Ring are now offering products and services tailor-made for CEDIA firms – and we'll learn more about the philosophy behind their growing pro divisions. Guests include Google's Adeel Tufail and Ring's Andrew Vloyanetes.

Google Duplex https://youtu.be/D5VN56jQMWM

Google Nest Pro https://pro.nest.com/build/

Ring https://ring.com/

Guy Singleton, creator of The CEDIA Designer, joins us to talk about handling "non-traditional" room shapes (that perhaps aren't optimum for cinemas), proper audio for displays like Samsung's The Wall, and how CEDIA's standards and practices work informs TCD.

TCD: https://cedia.net/tcd/tcd-home

Samsung's The Wall: https://bit.ly/3gCY0te

Want to add lighting to your integration projects? Start here. Pete Romaniello (IALD) of https://www.conceptuallighting.com/ gives us an overview of the lighting segment from the certified lighting designer's perspective. Pete has volunteered as a CEDIA instructor and has trained CEDIA integrators who've won awards for their lighting projects. Romaniello is teaching a class called "How to Work with Lighting Designers" at the CEDIA Virtual Lighting Conference on August 11. https://cedia.net/education-events/lighting-conference

Creating lasting change is much easier said than done. How do you know what change is needed? How do you get your team on board? How do you make it stick? OneVision's Jason Griffing walks us through the steps of change management.

https://www.onevisionresources.com/

By the way, Griffing will be presenting a webinar on this very subject soon:

https://www.onevisionresources.com/create-lasting-change

CEDIA's Steve Rissi and Samantha Ventura break down the philosophy behind the curriculum in the new CEDIA Academy coursework, and the differences between holistic and utilitarian educational styles.

https://cedia.net/education

Dr. Rebecca Homkes outlines her three-step strategy for actually growing your business during a downturn.

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From 5G to cybersecurity to managing streaming content for your clients, our twice-yearly highlight wrap-up features clips from the five most popular shows we recorded this year.

Also -- here's the link for nominations to the CEDIA Board of Directors:

https://cedia.net/about/leadership/board-of-directors/cedia-board-nominations