Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
The Digital Signage Federation, the independent not-for-profit trade organization serving the digital signage industry, will be hosting Coffee & Controversy – a Breakfast Debate featuring a spirited panel discussion being held during New York Digital Signage Week on Tuesday, November 3 at Guy’s American Kitchen and Bar, 220 W. 44th St. in the heart of Times Square – followed immediately by an optional installation tour of the Fulton Center.
The DSF panel discussion, moderated by Ken Goldberg, DSF’s outgoing 2015 chairman, and CEO of Real Digital Media, will explore a number of topics related to technology, content and operations. The morning’s format will be rapid fire, possibly irreverent and will invite audience participation by providing a mobile voting app allowing those in attendance to weigh in after each topic. Audience results will be displayed in real time.
Attendees are also invited to suggest panel topics by tweeting to @DSFederation with the hashtag #CoffeeTopic. Topic authors will be identified as topics are posed to the panel, which will consist of:
- Randy Dearborn, DSF 2015 vice-chairman, and vice-president multimedia technologies, MGM Resorts International, Las Vegas;
- Phil Lenger, president and creative director, Show + Tell, New York;
- Bryan Meszaros, CEO and founder, OpenEye, New York;
- Tom Nix, CEO, Scala, Malvern, Pennsylvania.
The Fulton Center is located in Lower Manhattan and those readers with a REALLY good memory will remember that it was featured on the front page of the very first DailyDOOH New York Special Edition newspaper back in 2014. The Fulton Center is a fully digital transit and retail hub which pretty much, now serves as NYC’s next great public space!
On this exciting tour you will see the integration of architectural ingenuity that fuses history, art, and sustainable engineering. The center will eventually house five levels of retail run by Westfield Properties, which manages the overall property for the MTA.
The public areas have a total of 52 screens ranging from 55-inch LCD’s to 32’x19’ LED walls. Fulton Center’s Digital Out-Of-Home Network reaches more than 300,000 commuters per day and the center’s customer information center also includes 16 interactive On the Go! Kiosks.
This is a behind-the-scenes tour of our industry’s latest and greatest technology in NYC that you, quite simply, will not want to miss.
The entire event will run from 08:30-12:30. A breakfast buffet will be served starting at 8:30am and the panel discussion will start at 9:00am and finishes at 10:15. A bus for the tour leaves at 10:30 and returns at 12:30.
Admittance is complimentary for DSF Members, $25 for non-members and includes the breakfast buffet.
Registration is available on the DSF website here.
#ff @openeyeglobal’ Bryan Meszaros @ScalaInc’s @tomnixnyc moderated by @NEOCAST & @DSFederation Chairman Ken Goldberg
September 25th, 2015 at 13:46 @615
This looks like a great panel! Definitely worth the time. (The DSF Breakfast panel at DSE2015 was excellent and I could have sat there for another hour just listening to all their insight into the industry trajectory.)