In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology and Standards at CEDIA and host of the CEDIA podcast talks with Leslie Shiner, owner of the Shiner Group, Rich Green, owner of Rich Green Design, and Jon Rehwaldt, Director of Curriculum at CEDIA about stuff and people.  We get into employee retention, new generational issues, staffing, using AI and lots more ..read more

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology and Standards at CEDIA and Host of the CEDIA podcast talks with Morgan Scarboro, Vice President of MultiState and Darren Reaman, Director of Government Affairs at CEDIA about how the latest legislative sessions have affected Tax and business policies that may affect you.  We also talk about other issues that CEDIA's state wide advocacy work is concerned with.  Interestingly, AI is top of mind of many of these legislators as well as data and digital taxes ..read more

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology and Standards at CEDIA and Host of the CEDIA podcast hosts a panel at the 2024 Integrated Systems Europe Show (aka ISE) with Rich Green, Owner of Rich Green Design, Jeff Sonnnleitner, Cyber Security teacher and subject matter expert, and Giles Sutton, Sr. VP of Product & Business Development at CEDIA.  ..read more

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology and Standards at CEDIA and Host of the CEDIA podcast talks with Bill Ekstrand and Alex Mondragon of Barrett's Technology Solutions, Carl Horne of AV Design & Sales and Hank Alexander of Oasys Residential Technology Group about what they saw, experienced and learned at the Chicago Tech & Business Summit that also hosted a two-day Immersive Audio Design Recommended Practice Workshop [RP22].  ..read more

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology and Standards at CEDIA and Host of the CEDIA podcast talks with Owen Maddock, Owner of Cinema Works and Tom Dellicompagni, Director of Dellicompagni about their experience attending an Immersive Audio Design Recommended Practice [RP22] workshop and why everyone should do the same.  The Immersive Audio Design Recommended Practice and the workshop is for everyone.  Whether you just started in business, have ten years in or have been doing immersive audio systems for thirty years, this workshop is for you. This recommended practice ..read more

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology and Standards at CEDIA and Host of the CEDIA podcast talks with Owen Maddock, Owner of Cinemaworks, Ben Goff, Technical Director of Cinema Lusso, Mike Chorney, President of La Scala Media, and Eddie Shapiro, Founder and CEO of SmartTouch USA about the 2024 CEDIA awards program. We discuss what it does for your business when you participate and how being considered a finalist is a major win.  We discuss how much you learn just by following the process for submitting a project and what it's like to be a judge. To find our more email: aw ..read more

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology and Standards at CEDIA and Host of the CEDIA podcast talks with Giles Sutton Sr. VP of Product & Business Development at CEDIA, and Jonathan Toomey, Director of Conference Strategy at CEDIA about CEDIA Tech Summits and how they are changing. Link to CEDIA Tech Summits:  https://cedia.org/connection/tech-business-summits ..read more

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology and Standards at CEDIA and Host of the CEDIA podcast talks with Michael Cogbill, Founder of Rev2 Consulting, Daren Reaman, Director of Government Affairs at CEDIA and Ken Erdmann, Director of Technical Education Programs at CEDIA about the latest NEC code updates that are coming up that will affect your business and how they dovetail into CEDIA's government affairs activities ..read more

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology and Standards at CEDIA and Host of the CEDIA podcast talks with Manojkumar Soni of AV4U, Rich Green of Rich Green Designs, Amanda Wildman of TruMedia, Pete Trauth of Nirvana Home Entartainment, and Peter Aylett of Officina Acustica about all of their their experiences at the this years ISE show ..read more

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology and Standards at CEDIA and Host of the CEDIA podcast talks with Rich Green of, Creator of Rich Green Design, J.B. Fowler, Chief Product Officer of Domotz, Simon Brown, Partner of Positive Momentum, and Matt Manalis, Managing Director of Experience One about their experiences at the ISE show on Day 3 ..read more