The Integration Conversation

"We have a moral and ethical responsibility to deliver great music to people." -- Rich Green, Rich Green Design

As we move towards renting and streaming our music and combining that with files we own, how can one best manage all of this? What formats should we embrace and what's going to handle the aspects switching between them? CEDIA's Ed Wenck and Walt Zerbe are joined by Green, Christiaan Beukes (Sphere Custom Design), and Wayne Hyde (CAVD).

This preview of CEDIA Expo 2018 includes education previews from CEDIA's Dave Pedigo, a dive into an "Architectural Cinema" class taught by John Bishop, a look at the additions Emerald Expositions is bringing to the table with Brain Pagel, and a rundown of content provided by CE Pro with Jason Knott.

Register here for CEDIA Expo 2018.

Day Two of the CEDIA 2018 Business Xchange included incredible epiphanies -- we uncover the "human-centric" products and processes with John Buchanan (Meridian), Nick Berry (Origin Acoustics), Ryan Thompson (Portal).

This recap of the 2018 Business Xchange takes the emerging trends developed by the Tech Council -- and asks groups of integrators and manufacturers (including Lutron, Sonos and Dish) which trends are most important, most likely to have impact, and how to address those trends with concrete action plans.

"5G will help the arrival of self-driving cars – and it'll be part of the answer as to how we help people age economically, comfortably, and in place." – Brian Markwalter, Senior Vice President, Research and Standards, Consumer Technology Association

Brian Markwalter speaks with CEDIA's Dave Pedigo, Walt Zerbe, and Ed Wenck about the development and deployment of 5G.

"NAB" stands for the National Association of Broadcasters — and "The NAB Show" is an annual event that now showcases everything and everyone creating and distributing content. Michael Heiss (M. Heiss Consulting) attends each year, and 2018 was no different.

Sam Woodward from Lutron, Peter Aylett from Archimedia, and Iain Shaw of Brilliant Lighting join the CEDIA podcast crew to parse the difference between lighting design and lighting control design — and reveal a ton of new info in the offing.

"No matter what size the firm, no matter what you do in that business, micromanagement leads to turnover." – Courtney Berg, CourtSide Consulting

http://www.courtsidehr.com/

Our guest for this podcast, Courtney Berg, has been consulting small businesses on HR issues for years, and she's volunteered as an instructor at numerous CEDIA Expos. She's hosting three small-business HR webinars for CEDIA this year: The first, titled "Employees 101, The Employee Life Cycle," was presented on April 5, 2018.

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5937867855081432067

The next webinar, called "5 Keys to Teamwork and Trust," will be presented May 3. On June 7, Berg tackles "Discipline to Termination – 5 Steps to Doing it Right."

http://cedia.net/events/event-detail-page/2018/05/03/default-calendar/webinar-the-5-keys-to-teamwork-and-trust

http://cedia.net/events/event-detail-page/2018/06/07/default-calendar/webinar-discipline-to-termination-5-steps-to-doing-it-right

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"Once you get that it's not about you, it's about somebody else, and how to enhance THEIR lives, then you can apply the process to anything: Your relationship with your customers, your sales staff, your installation staff, your marketing staff." -- Rich Green, Rich Green Design

Rich Green and Peter Aylett tell us about the incredibly broad applications of Design Thinking, and preview how they and Stanford Professor Michael Shanks will present the concept at the next CEDIA Business Xchange. (There's also a coupon code in this cast that'll save you $100.)

Register for the event at cedia.net/business-xchange.

Sam Woodward of Lutron and Mark Warburton of Ivory Egg both attended "L&B" in Frankfurt, Germany, and they've got info on the latest lighting tech. Peter Aylett (Archimedia) also joins in.

"Going back over the past 14 years, and you'd be hard-pressed to find much in the way of LED. Now it's dominant; it's everywhere." – Sam Woodward