Something significant happened in AV during the pandemic - ‘A’ became greater than ‘V’. With everyone working and learning remotely, we had to be able to hear, making audio a priority like never before. This was the unanimous opinion of the audio experts who gathered – virtually – for our…
Roundtables
AV Roundtable: Conferencing audio in a post-Covid world
Videoconferencing has now become a part of everyday life, with people meeting via Teams or Zoom, and you might even say that the laptop has become the new codec. For most people, this is no longer something that happens in a special room; conference rooms and meeting rooms are no…
Planning for a flexible future
Universities have clocked up a year of living dangerously - literally - in a Covid-19 challenged world, and what a year it’s been. The initial scramble online morphed into a veritable hokey-cokey sequence of virtual followed by a return to campus, then a blend of both and back to remote…
Thinking differently
Covid hit this particular segment of the industry hard in 2020 with extended closures and reduced capacity resulting in significant lost revenues. 2021 has already brought us a mix of good and bad news, with new variants of the virus and more shutdowns, but it has also renewed hope, as…
The office is dead. Long live the office.
A group of global experts gathered for the first of our virtual executive roundtables, neatly demonstrating how technology, combined with a dose of ‘the show must go on’ spirit, has enabled us to continue in our strange new world, while at the same time widening our possibilities. Taking our roundtable…
Architects and consultants roundtable: the trailer
The last Roundtable looked at how architects and AV consultants work together, and understand how each fits in the design + build process. Now we’re looking to use their combined expertise to see how we can take a fit-for-purpose approach to a range of environments. Participating: Andrew Lazarow, Senior Designer,…
Two worlds collide
Once upon a time there were two different worlds of IT and AV, and never the twain would meet. Or so it seemed. Today, few would challenge the notion that their integration isn’t well underway as AV shifts from nice-to-have to essential tools for business and moves on to the…