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Episode 33: Dr. Jonathan Butts & Billy Rios On Cyber Security, Public Safety & The Layers Of Defense

Integrating Technology - October 22, 2018 05:04 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
I have the honour of having Two cyber security experts on the show today. Dr Jonathan Butts is a retired Air Force officer who among many other roles served as Research Director at the Air Force Center for Cyberspace Research. Billy Rios has held security positions with companies like Ernst & ...

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Episode 32: Vangelis Mihalopoulos On Opportunites In Digital Signage and IoT Security

Integrating Technology - October 15, 2018 14:41 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Vangelis Mihalopoulos has a background in software engineering and product marketing and startup investing. He is currently CEO and founder of yodeck. a digital signage management platform.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 31: Peter Krogh on Programmatic Curation, the Commoditization of AI and The Innovator's Dilemma

Integrating Technology - October 08, 2018 14:27 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Peter Krogh is a photographer and author the DAM book, Digital Asset Management aka the bible on digital photography. His currently the Acting Director of Digital Strategy at History Factory where he integrates storytelling, web-based media publishing and digital preservation into a seamless user...

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Episode 30: Thomas Walter On Customising Video Displays With A Built-In Raspberry Pi

Integrating Technology - October 01, 2018 07:19 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Thomas Walter is the Strategic Product Marketing Manager for NEC Display Solutions Europe where he also served as product manager for public display solutions. He’s also served as Product and Sales Manager for Sanyo Sales & Marketing Europe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...

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Episode 29: Bruno Napoli On Not Selling Technology And The Dangers Of Smart Homes

Integrating Technology - September 24, 2018 06:50 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Bruno Napoli has a background in the Home Cinema scene in Paris, France. Which over the years, evolved into luxury smart home integration. He is a columnist for Smart Integrations Mag and served as co-founder of Krika, a remote monitoring platform for integrated AV and smart home systems.  Host...

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Episode 28: Matt Dodd On The Difference Between Presenting and Training

Integrating Technology - September 17, 2018 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Matt Dodd has an extended background in training and has served on the board of Cedia and as Director of Education. He was Co-founder of smart home and residential integration company thinkingbrinks and is currently Managing Director of Clavia - a coaching and training development company that cr...

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Episode 27: BYU OIT AV Services On Raspberry Pi's, Open Source, Big Data & Security

Integrating Technology - September 10, 2018 05:52 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Today’s episode is a little different. Instead of interviewing a person, we review a University project that is changing it’s traditional control systems to Raspberry Pi’s and Raspberry Pi Touchscreens. Joining us from the Brigham Young University OIT AV Services team to discuss this project are ...

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Episode 26: Andrew Page on Raspberry Pi's, Sourcing AV From Alibaba, Virtual Reality and Continuous Deployment in AV Systems

Integrating Technology - September 03, 2018 08:21 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Andrew Page has been working at Cornell University for over 16 years and currently Manager of Integrated Audio and Video Engineering. He has experience designing and delivering for unified communications, digital signage, video conferencing, web conferencing, content delivery networks, webcasti...

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Episode 25: Mike Adams on Standardized User Experience, Professional USB and Meeting Rooms As A Service

Integrating Technology - August 27, 2018 04:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Mike Adams got his start as a Sales and Support Consultant for Apple, and has held several marketing and management positions for AV manufacturers like Polycom and integration companies such as Videonations and Vega Global. He’s also served as a startup mentor and is currently EMEA channel manag...

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Episode 24: Shane Springer On Human Centered Design And The Mythical Zero Punch List Project

Integrating Technology - August 20, 2018 13:24 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Episode 23: Shane Springer On Human Centered Design And The Mythical Zero Punch List ProjectShane Springer of OneWorkplace got his start in theatre lighting and sound before moving on to be an AV technician, programmer and engineer. He is also a member of the Leadership Committee for the Associ...

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Episode 23: Carlos Martinez On Deploying Lots Of Zoom Rooms, Being A Good Listener And Getting The Nerds Involved ASAP

Integrating Technology - August 13, 2018 10:14 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Carlos Martinez has held AV and telecommunications positions at some well known companies like, Juniper Networks, Zynga, Tesla and Uber. He was responsible for expanding the use of software codecs into quite a large operation environment at Uber.  He is currently Co-founder and Director of Bus...

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Episode 22: Dave Hatz on Next Level Service & Creating Revenue With AV Data Analytics

Integrating Technology - August 06, 2018 09:10 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Dave Hatz guest started his career at Disney World Technical Services where he learned about integrating show control with AMX systems. He’s held several other positions in lighting and sound before zeroing in on AV programming and project engineering at Roscor Corporation and currently AVI Syste...

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Episode 21: About Me, Steve Greenblatt Asks Patrick Murray About Staying Relevant In A Changing Industry

Integrating Technology - July 30, 2018 10:05 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Patrick Murray started his career as a freelance service technician. Moving up to serve the industry in various roles, as a systems engineer, a control systems programmer and finally pursuing his entrepreneurial spirit by starting an independent programming company. He has been in business for ...

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Episode 20: David Bianciardi on The Risk Of Innovation, Programmable Content & Virtual Reality

Integrating Technology - July 23, 2018 19:16 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
David Bianciardi founded AV&C or Audio, Video and Controls in 1999 where he leads a team of designers, developers, and engineers that deliver software-driven installations to enhance storytelling, placemaking, connectivity and responsiveness. And I am really excited to hear more about what all o...

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Episode 19: Jason Jaworski On Vulnerabilities In AV & How To Succeed With Government Projects

Integrating Technology - July 16, 2018 09:27 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Jason Jaworski is a veteran of the US Marine Corp and has over 20 years experience working in Government and Military Systems for multi level classification video conferencing, command, control and operation centers. He is currently VP of Federal Practice at Unassailable Solutions. Hosted on ...

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Episode 18: Ryan Howard On Storytelling, Content As Software and Finding Real Value

Integrating Technology - July 09, 2018 08:08 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
I first met Ryan Howard while working on a rather complicated AV project at Goldman Sachs in New York City where he was playing the role of superhero programmer for AMX’s Professional Services.  Since then he has held been a design engineer and consultants and most recently circling back to GS ...

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Episode 17: Mark Day on Decentralised Control and Designing an Object Oriented Life

Integrating Technology - July 02, 2018 05:24 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Mark Day has held many positions in the Las Vegas AV scene including installation, sales and programming. He is currently President of Idea Box, a design and installation company he founded in 2009.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 16: Dave Silberstein on IoT in AV, Plastic Surgery and Tornado Warnings

Integrating Technology - June 25, 2018 05:55 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Dave Silberstein has a long history working with AV manufacturers like Audio Video Corporation and Crestron Electronics where he worked as a Director for almost 20 years. I remember the first Crestron courses I attended in NJ around the year 2000, he was a big part of getting to know what that c...

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Episode 15: Dave Schoenbeck on Masterminds, Customer Surveys and Understanding Your Financials

Integrating Technology - June 20, 2018 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Dave Schoenbeck has a long history in managing and operating retail stores like Toys R Us and is one of the founders of Babies R Us where he served as senior VP of operations for 10 years. So what does that have to do with software? For more than a decade he’s been helping business owners in AV...

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Episode 14: Paul Harris On Keeping Margins Up, Popularity Contests and Why Programmers Should Be Scared

Integrating Technology - June 08, 2018 18:32 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Paul Harris has been CEO of Aurora Multimedia for over 20 years. When I worked in AV in NYC, I remember Aurora as an independent AMX and Crestron programming company that started making interesting hardware solutions. Now Aurora has a complete line of AV distribution products, touchpanels and con...

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Episode 13: Jeremy West On Learning To Talk IT, Virtual Control and Letting Web Designers Do The UI

Integrating Technology - June 01, 2018 08:47 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Jeremy West began his career in broadcast and theatre, working for Sky Australia and several theater companies as well as his own video production and software company. He’s worked as an AV engineer for AMX Australia and is currently revamping the way AV is done at Deakin University in Melbourne,...

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Episode 12: Frank Damiano On Recurring Revenue, Making Systems Smarter With Raspberry Pi's and Following Your Heart

Integrating Technology - May 25, 2018 08:45 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
I first met Frank Damiano in an AMX training room in Horsham PA around the year 2000.  And since then, he has been Founder and CTO of Damiano Global Corporation, an independent control system and audio DPS programming company. His company has developed AV management software called DGnet that ...

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Episode 11: Lee Rivers On Managing The Risk Of Business, Strategic Alliances And Controlling Your Own Destiny

Integrating Technology - May 18, 2018 08:10 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Lee Rivers talks about how programmers can guarantee AV project success by working directly with consultants and end users. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 10: Frank Pellkofer on Enterprise Sales and Why AV Is The Crown Jewel Of IT

Integrating Technology - May 11, 2018 07:35 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Frank Pellkofer has been CEO at several companies in the AV IT space and board or committee member of several organisations including the Order Of Odd Fellows whose mission it is to improve and elevate the character of man. The Petaluma music festival which funds musics in local schools and the ...

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Episode 9: Steve Greenblatt on Consumerism, Playing The Long Game And Why AV Programmers Need To Keep Learning

Integrating Technology - May 04, 2018 13:46 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Steve Greenblatt is probably least known for being one of my former employers. His AV career began by spending a few years working as a Systems Engineer for Crestron, then he went on to found what was probably one of the first Independent AV Programming companies, Control Concepts. With over 21 y...

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Episode 8: Micha Van Der Stoop on The Opportunity In AV, Compression vs. Bandwidth and Moving To The Cloud

Integrating Technology - April 27, 2018 11:35 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Micha Van Der Stoop started his career at Cisco where he was involved with everything from designing and implementing their internal office networks to business development for Cisco’s Proof Of Concept Lab. He also he worked at Shell Global Solutions where he was responsible for the global Refe...

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Episode 7: Erik Calissendorff On Life As A Mega Yacht ETO, And Outdated Control Systems

Integrating Technology - April 20, 2018 08:07 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Eirik Calissendorff has spent most of his career working on some of the largest mega yachts in the world. He also spent some time working as a software developer for a data analytics company called Tibco Spotfire. And I’m guessing that while he was working as an ETO, he had some ideas and eventu...

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Episode 6: Wes Hatchett & Nick Melin on Open Source, User Stories and Rising Above The Box

Integrating Technology - April 13, 2018 06:06 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
We have two guests on the show today, Wes Hatchett CEO and Nick Melin, VP of Customer Success at Control Envy. Both experienced in the world of AV and software. Along with a great team, they’ve taken that experience to form Control Envy.  Control Envy is an automation, control and monitoring pl...

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Episode 5: Colin Birney On Managing AV Projects The Google Way, Biohacking and Contract Manufacturing in AV

Integrating Technology - April 06, 2018 09:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Colin Birney has had an interesting career path working for both AV integrators and consultants and on the other side of the equation too for large end users like Hess Corporation and Google. He’s had a nice mix working in AV and IT as well as some time in the film industry as a sound editor. H...

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Episode 4: Jonathan Mangnall on AV as a Service, Unexpected Competition and The Machete Club

Integrating Technology - March 30, 2018 07:07 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Jonathan Mangnall has a long history working with video distribution systems. He was Sales Director at Endeleo which was acquired by AMX in 2006, which as you all know way acquired by Harman in 2014.  And our guest remained on a Sales Director and VP of Enterprise Sales through that time. Just la...

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