Integrated Systems Europe, the world’s fastest growing AV and systems integration
exhibition, is to host a specialist half-day AV/IT Seminar Programme exploring the
synergy between IT and AV technology. It is taking place on the last day of the 2016
exhibition and will examine how AV and IT convergence impacts upon our traditional
understanding of installed networks and the requirement for increased technical and
operational expertise for professionals operating in these sectors.

Stefani Renner and Dieter Michel will curate the AV/IT Seminar Programme, on
behalf of ISE. Stefani Renner is a sound and video engineer and has 25 years of
experience working as a journalist and technical consultant. Dieter Michel is a
physicist and the editor of Media Technology and Systems Integration magazine. In
addition to having 25 years’ experience as a technology journalist Michel also runs a
measuring laboratory, which undertakes studies on displays, projectors and media
technology.

The AV/IT Seminar Programme will seek to provide a mixture of presentations,
tutorials and case studies from leading business consultants and educational
experts. The programme will look to show IT professionals how modern media
systems operate and to demonstrate to AV system planners and integrators how IT
personnel in large companies run their departments and networks. It will combine
sessions covering both the technical issues faced when specifying and building a
network and the business considerations in securing adequate budget to make it
happen.

Sessions include:

• AV Systems and IT: what you need to know about AV networks? Rolf Mayer and
Volker Lower: IFBcon
• Who owns the AV department? Creating a “Master Plan’ to secure investment.
Harald Steindl: HST-Consulting
• Network based AV and IT Infrastructure for large-scale projects. Lutz Rathman:
Riedel

Integrated Systems Events MD, Mike Blackman, commented: “This seminar
programme helps to strengthen the positioning of AV and IT professionals in their
respective fields and also to help create specialists operating in both. We believe
this is part of the unique manner in which ISE can add value to the AV and IT
sectors.’

The AV/IT Seminar Programme will take place on 12 February 2016 from 10.00 to
14.00 in room G104 in the RAI, Amsterdam, as part of ISE’s FRDY@ISE attendee and
exhibitor event programme. Registration for the seminar available at: www.iseurope.org.