Take Ten for Super Tuesday
May 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Celebrating its third anniversary, Super Tuesday continues to grow with new sessions for 2006. The daylong sessions offer the ultimate in intermediate and advanced instruction for AV professionals, offering six hours of pre-show training in various focus areas — helping make the most of your time on the InfoComm show floor.
Rental & Staging Management & Operations has something to offer everyone with two separate tracks to fit your job: The Management Track includes topics like Everyday Financial Analysis, Human Resource Management, and Risk Management; The Operations Track includes Leadership for Supervisors and Logistics for Staging Companies. Includes a discussion on rigging safety. In Designing in the Digital Age, you'll learn new design strategies by examining user-centered design ideas that match systems design with users' operational goals. You'll also get the chance to discuss and explore some of the challenging aspects of digital system design, including system documentation and post-installation reconfiguration, “deferred design,” as well as study how digital AV tools and systems will change the traditional professional roles within the industry. Included is a discussion on rigging safety.
Is the Residential Market Right for Your Company? This session takes a look at the size of the residential market and examines the differences and mentality of the corporate/education client and the residential client. In this intermediate level session you'll not only learn the type of user interfaces needed and the customer service, business, and personnel issues involved, you'll also learn what manufacturers have to say about the market and why you may not want to get in to it. Your AV system is vulnerable! The Government and Corporate AV Information Security session focuses on the security of AV systems and the information they process. You'll learn how to apply design and operational best practices to protect your communication. Designed for individuals at the president, vice president, and director levels, Project Management Overview for Executives is an intermediate session that provides an overview of the five project management processes. You'll gain insight into the authority and responsibilities associated with the key roles within a project and you'll discuss the different facets of an organization, which must be in alignment in order to gain the full benefits of mature project management. Introduction to Collaboration Conferencing is a basic session that provides a detailed overview of the industry — where it has been, what it is like today, and where it is going in the future — for those who are new to the collaborative conferencing space (audio, web, and video technologies).
Do you manage technology for your organization? Don't miss the intermediate Technology Manager How-Tos session focusing on all aspects of AV technology management. Participants in the Digital Signage session will come away able to plan for digital signage technology requirements; identify and create a core group of champions within an organization to foster a successful system; and avoid the pitfalls that many digital signage integrations suffer. This intermediate session is lead by industry leaders who have been in the trenches and can bring an in-depth look at the market. The intermediate Tools, Tactics and Technologies for Presentation Professionals session is designed for attendees who are tasked with communicating visually, from the business communicator in sales and technology looking to sharpen his or her training points to the presentation designer seeking new avenues for creativity. The Technology Trends session gets you up to speed on all the latest technology before you start exploring the show floor. This intermediate session will examine trends in control and connection, visual, audio, and conferencing.
June 6, 8:00 a.m. — 3:30 p.m.
Price: $295 (InfoComm International members);
$450 (for nonmembers)
