The Integration Conversation

He calls it "The Midsummer Mikey Report," in which the man behind M. Heiss Consulting brings us up to speed on a variety of TV topics. There's also a preview of what's to come at Expo from both Mike and the 2018 keynote speaker, John Penney.

Mike's got a new website, too. Find it at michaelheiss.com.

Want to learn more about CEDIA? Check out CEDIA.net.

Joel Silver is the founder of the The Imaging Science Foundation — and the winner of the 2018 CEDIA Lifetime Achievement Award. This one-on-one conversation is practically a pair of master classes in both starting a business (and a wildly unique one at that) and the development of reference-quality video calibration.

You can help us honor Mr. Silver at the 2018 CEDIA Awards ceremony. Find tickets and more info here.

Here's more info on CEDIA in general.

It's a "Best Of" show, with highlights from our chats on Blockchain technology, the rollout and impact of 5g, and what builders think about smart home tech.

For more info on CEDIA, check out cedia.net.

Suppose a building could be "wellness certified" in the same way it might be LEED Certified? That's the concept behind Delos, and we speak to the CEO of that company, Paul Scialla. Scialla fills us in on what the potential here may be for the residential integrator.

Here are the URLs pertinent to the conversation:

Delos.com

Wellcertified.com

Darwinpremier.com

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We talk HVAC, climate control, and indoor air quality in smart homes with Jon Fischer, HVAC Automation Sales Manager for Aprilaire.

PLUS: Nominations fore the CEDIA Board of Directors are NOW OPEN. Omar Hikal of the Governance Committee gives us the deets. Find more info here.

For more info on CEDIA, check out cedia.net.

"The lighting in Victoria's Secret is perfectly focused so that you'll spend $85 on a small piece of fabric." Matt Scott, OMEGA Audio Video

Something of a two-parter here: Matt Scott talks about serving on the CEDIA Board (and the importance of voting, nominating, and volunteering), and then dives into his experiences as an integrator with a focus on lighting design and making those projects look spectacular.

For more info on CEDIA, check out cedia.net.

"Innovate or vegetate." -- Mario Leone (Electronic Solutions Company) quoting the founder of Rowan University

Mario Leone is a CEDIA volunteer who also works at Rowan University in New Jersey. One of the projects he worked on with the students? MemSat, a four-inch cube satellite launched in May as part of a NASA project. He talks about this and other projects that inform the knowledge he brings to his integration projects.

Find more info here.

Here's the class Mr. Leone will be teaching at CEDIA Expo 2018.

(Also, remember Heathkit? We do!)

Mike Heiss (M Heiss Consulting), Rich Green (Rich Green Design), and Eddie Shapiro (SmartTouch) share their takeaways from InfoComm 2018 — and how those trends will impact the CEDIA industry.

CEDIA's Dave Pedigo, Walt Zerbe, and Ed Wenck are joined by Ian Bryant (ZenArray) to talk about all the goodies that are going into CEDIA's new HQ and training facility in Fishers, Indiana.

ALSO: DO NOT forget to take the CEDIA Size and Scope survey!

It only takes a few minutes, the info helps us help YOU, and there's free stuff involved. Here's the link.

A lot of new technologies directly impact the CEDIA universe, and this podcast covers literally EVERYTHING the Tech Council has been mulling over in the last few months. It's a free-wheeling discussion that covers topics ranging from AI to AR to the latest developments in the labs at Amazon and Boston Dynamics.

A ton of links are mentioned in this one (they all make sense after a listen):

The CEDIA Size and Scope Survey:

http://v2.decipherinc.com/survey/selfserve/20ec/180504?list=0&[email protected]#?

"Uninvited Guests"

https://vimeo.com/128873380

"What's Next for Humanity: Automation, New Morality and a Global Useless Class"

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/world/europe/yuval-noah-harari-future-tech.html?referer=

"The Future of Jobs"

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs.pdf

Amazon Skills

https://blueprints.amazon.com/

GoFundMe for Ella Whistler

https://www.gofundme.com/ella-whistler

Also, here's the text of that DVR issue Walt mentioned: "An Argentinian security researcher names Ezequiel Fernandez has published a powerful new tool that can easily extract plain text credentials for various DVR brands and grant attackers access to those systems, and inherently the video feeds they're supposed to record. The tool named getDVR_credentials is proof of concept for CVE-2018-9995, a vulnerability discovered by Fernandez at the start of April."