The Integration Conversation

Joel Silver is the founder of the The Imaging Science Foundation — and the winner of the 2018 CEDIA Lifetime Achievement Award . This one-on-one conversation is practically a pair of master classes in both starting a business (and a wildly unique one at that) and the development of reference-quality video calibration. You can help us honor Mr. Silver at the 2018 CEDIA Awards ceremony. Find tickets...

It's a "Best Of" show, with highlights from our chats on Blockchain technology, the rollout and impact of 5g, and what builders think about smart home tech. For more info on CEDIA, check out cedia.net .

Suppose a building could be "wellness certified" in the same way it might be LEED Certified? That's the concept behind Delos, and we speak to the CEO of that company, Paul Scialla. Scialla fills us in on what the potential here may be for the residential integrator. Here are the URLs pertinent to the conversation: Delos.com Wellcertified.com Darwinpremier.com For more info on CEDIA, check out cedi...

We talk HVAC, climate control, and indoor air quality in smart homes with Jon Fischer, HVAC Automation Sales Manager for Aprilaire . PLUS: Nominations fore the CEDIA Board of Directors are NOW OPEN. Omar Hikal of the Governance Committee gives us the deets. Find more info here . For more info on CEDIA, check out cedia.net .

"The lighting in Victoria's Secret is perfectly focused so that you'll spend $85 on a small piece of fabric." Matt Scott, OMEGA Audio Video Something of a two-parter here: Matt Scott talks about serving on the CEDIA Board (and the importance of voting, nominating, and volunteering), and then dives into his experiences as an integrator with a focus on lighting design and making those projects look...

"Innovate or vegetate." -- Mario Leone ( Electronic Solutions Company ) quoting the founder of Rowan University Mario Leone is a CEDIA volunteer who also works at Rowan University in New Jersey. One of the projects he worked on with the students? MemSat, a four-inch cube satellite launched in May as part of a NASA project. He talks about this and other projects that inform the knowledge he brings...

Mike Heiss ( M Heiss Consulting ), Rich Green (Rich Green Design), and Eddie Shapiro ( SmartTouch ) share their takeaways from InfoComm 2018 — and how those trends will impact the CEDIA industry.

CEDIA's Dave Pedigo, Walt Zerbe, and Ed Wenck are joined by Ian Bryant ( ZenArray ) to talk about all the goodies that are going into CEDIA's new HQ and training facility in Fishers, Indiana. ALSO: DO NOT forget to take the CEDIA Size and Scope survey! It only takes a few minutes, the info helps us help YOU, and there's free stuff involved. Here's the link.  

A lot of new technologies directly impact the CEDIA universe, and this podcast covers literally EVERYTHING the Tech Council has been mulling over in the last few months. It's a free-wheeling discussion that covers topics ranging from AI to AR to the latest developments in the labs at Amazon and Boston Dynamics. A ton of links are mentioned in this one (they all make sense after a listen): The CEDI...

"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 Beuk...

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 th...

"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...

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

Mitchell Klein ( Z-Wave Alliance ), Rich Green (Rich Green Design), and Gordon van Zuiden ( cyberManor ) were all at this year's TecHomeX event — as presenters. What did they learn from the design and build pros in attendance? What new ideas did they encounter? Give a listen. "TecHomeX unites residential design/build and tech integration/contracting companies in the nation's most lucrative regiona...

"Are we inducing 'gadget fatigue' amongst our clients?" -- Michael Heiss, M Heiss Consulting From big-picture cultural questions to the latest video tech (HDR, 8K), it was all covered at the HPA Tech Retreat (and no, the "end of projection" is not upon us). Here's an overview. Brought to you by DISH -- check out dish.com/cedia for the latest news.  

"Cloud computing can have latency … when you're local you don't have access to a lot of devices and processing … and fog is that in-between." -Alex Capecelatro Cloud, mist, fog — nope, this isn't about the weather, it's about these terms as they apply to computing. Alex Capecelatro ( Josh.ai ) and Mike Maniscalco join CEDIA's Dave Pedigo, Walt Zerbe and Ed Wenck to discuss the concepts. Plus, CEDI...

"Go listen to live music. I think it will really help you when you're installing and calibrating your systems." – Geoff Meads CEDIA companies seem to include a pretty high percentage of people who've been involved in music and/or live sound. How does this inform one's career as an integrator? What perspectives do those experiences bring to the gig? Our guests include accomplished guitarist/recordi...

Simply put, blockchain technology is going to be a major disruptor -- but the possibilities for its use in the home tech universe are incredible. Our guest this week is at the leading edge of this development: John Fitch from Animal Ventures .

"We have a connected toothbrush that tells you how long you've been brushing your teeth. To quote one of our comedians here in the UK: 'I know! I was there!'" -- David Mudd, BSI Group David Mudd of the BSI Group joins CEDIA's Dave Pedigo, Ed Wenck and Walt Zerbe to speak on the Internet of Things -- namely, the risks and rewards of the IoT. Brought you you by Streem.pro .