Monday, April 4th, 2016
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
#dse2016, the world’s largest international trade show and educational conference dedicated specifically to digital displays, interactive technology and digital communications networks, reached all-time records in attendance and exhibit space. The conference and trade show, which ran March 15-18, surpassed last year’s attendance record with more than 4,100 attendees from 69 countries worldwide, setting a new […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
It’s always frustrating that we don’t get to see everybody we’d like to see at any Digital Signage Expo event, and #dse2016 was no exception. I personally always wish that the exhibit was a three-day event rather than two. However, Andrea Varrone, show director, says that until the show reaches about 10,000 visitors, it wouldn’t […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
We had a short talk with Ricardo Belmar, director of vertical market solutions, N.A. division, at Hughes, or what seems to be now called HughesON. “We are concentrating on interactivity with a customer engage suite of solutions and an employee engage suite of solutions,” said Belmar. “We are putting a lot of attention on training, […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
When Susie Opare-Abetia, founder and CEO, started Woven Media in San Francisco five years ago, she wasn’t a neophyte. Opare-Abetia’s 20 years experience included working in technology, product development and senior management positions for BBC, Abekas, Virage and. lastly, for PRN, where she was active in the building of the digital signage network for Wal-Mart. […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Well, we finally got to see a few of the numerous displays at the Samsung Electronics America booth at #dse2016, thanks to Marcus Le Clerc, senior manager, EBD-Digital Signage Integration. We started off with an interactive white board with no need for a media player as it was SoC. Like several other companies, Samsung is […]
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Monday, March 21st, 2016
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
There couldn’t have been a more enthusiastic young team of exhibitors than that of TransitScreen, headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Portland, London and Toronto. “We’re saving people time in the 24/7 connected world,” said David Nebinski, who holds the interesting title of ‘head of growth’ and was manning the […]
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Monday, March 21st, 2016
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
We never have enough time to meet everyone that we’d like to at #dse2016 (or any other year) but when we can, we do: Makitso was a company that we’d never met before. Although already operating in the UK, Dubai and Australia (and with a factory in China), Makitso only entered the US market six […]
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Monday, March 21st, 2016
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
BrightSign’s CEO Jeff Hastings wanted us to know about the company’s two new partners: Sirius XM for Business, and Appspace. Available for the first time ever to customers using a BrightSign music player, SiriusXM Music for Business pairs SiriusXM’s wide variety of commercial-free music from every genre with BrightSign’s music player to deliver an affordable, […]
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Monday, March 21st, 2016
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Looking at the displays at Planar’s busy booth at #dse2016 last Thursday made me wonder how some companies can really get it so right: the screens and video walls by Planar have such narrow bezels that they seem almost non-existent. Perhaps we should be saying Leyard’s/Planar’s ‘seamless’ video walls because it’s a little hard to […]
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Monday, March 21st, 2016
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Dan Deem was disappointed when I said that I didn’t want to talk about projectors. Deem holds the title of director of sales, visual systems, at Panasonic System Communications Company of North America, and it was hard to convince him that DailyDOOH was only interested in talking to him about the variety of digital signage […]
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