Cedia's Tech Council Podcast

In this episode, Walt Zerbe Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA Talks with Rob Sabin, Editor and Chief of Projector Central and Jim Hunter, founder of ncent about what we saw at the show today.  We cover what's happening with consumer video projectors, power products, some things in Eureka Park, media management and a whole bunch of other things including lasers and phasers. https://www.projectorcentral.com/ https://www.ncent.ai/    

In this episode, Walt Zerbe Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA Talks with Chris Thorne, Director of Imperium Build Systems in the UK.  Chris and I have a discussion on the complexities of HVAC control, the way control systems interact with the components of these systems, the user interfaces, sensors, interior designers and when you may need to consider bringing in an outside expert. https://imperium.uk/    

In this episode, Walt Zerbe Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA Talks with Pete Trauth, Owner and principle of Nirvana Home Entertainment, Sam Fruzzetti, Lead Tech at Nivrana Home Entertainment, Rae Ridgway, Professor on the Geology Faculty at Glendale Community College, Avonna Nichol, student at Glendale Community Collage and Lytzy Trorrer, student at Glendale Community Collage about a challange they were presented by Pete to do a design thinking exercise centered around Pete's desire to understand and focus his integration business to cater to different neuro types. If this sounds strange, listen to the podcast to get a better understanding of what we're talking about.  Basically, it's about using technology to improve the human condition like the CEDIA integrator of 2027 white paper talked about.   A few links: https://landing.cedia.net/IO27/io27.html https://www.glendale.edu/physicalscience rridgway@glendale.edu https://www.nirvanahomeentertainment.com/ Pete Trauth        

  In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talks with Michael Don Ham, President and Co-Founder of RePure and Peter Dyroff, President and Co-Founder of the Pure Tech Alliance about the state of Wellness in our industry.  We dive into the opportunity to offer air and water quality to our customers.  We talk about how the CEDIA Integrator of 2027 white paper (IO27) talked about the need to deliver technology to improve the human condition and this is it!  Our industry has fullly adopted lighting and shades, that one of the legs to this three legged stool.  Air and water are the other two.  It's total opportunity that many integrators are now taking advantage of and so should you.   NOTE:  This podcast was sponsored by Lutron, one of the three legs of the wellness stool.    For more than 60 years, the same core belief has guided Lutron: that innovative design and the transformative nature of light have the power to enrich people’s lives. Our newest products are the latest e

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talks with Wallace, Wally and Warren as they went around the 75th Audio Engineering Society Convention where they attended seminars, paper presentations, toured the trade show floor and reported on general trends in audio.   As mentioned, here's a link to the RP22 Immersive Audio Design Recommended Practice: https://cedia.org/advocacy/standards-best-practices/immersive-audio-design-excellence/

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talks with Michael & Haily Daly of Wired by MJD, Stuart Tickle of Sound Living and CEDIA's Paul Skelton and David Meyer about what happened at the Australian Tech Summit.

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talks with a marvelous crew of integrators, manufactures and distributors about their experience at the Toronto Tech Summit

In this Podcast, Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talks with Poul Holleman of 4D Sound and Peter Aylett of Officina Acustica about what 4D sound is.  Peter attended a live electronic music event where Max Cooper was performing live through 4D sound system which brought prompted a discussion with Poul at 4D Sound. Links https://4dsound.net/ https://maxcooper.net/ https://bloomline.com/phantom-ii https://meshmeshmesh.net/ https://officinaacustica.com/  

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and the host of the CEDIA Podcast has a discussion with a giant cast of international integrators, manufactures and distributors about third and final day of the CEDIA Expo. https://cedia.net/advocacy/rp22   https://cedia.net/advocacy/workforce-development/jobseekers   https://cedia.net/product.aspx?ID=3360

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and the host of the CEDIA Podcast has a discussion with Leslie Shiner, owner of the ShinerGroup, Pete Trauth, CEO of Nirvana Home Entertainment, Caleb Fetterman, President and Managing Partner of Residential Media Systems (RMS), and Daryl Friedman, CEO and President of CEDIA about first day of the CEDIA Expo.   https://cedia.net/advocacy/rp22   https://cedia.net/advocacy/workforce-development/jobseekers   https://cedia.net/product.aspx?ID=3360

In this Podcast, Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talks with Michael Hedges, Technical Director and Michael Johnson, Global Marketing Director of Monitor Audio about their company, products and industry support.  Monitor Audio has been a long-time CEDIA member and supporter and graciously decided to sponsor the CEDIA Podcast. https://www.monitoraudio.com/ https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/hyphn/ https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/creator-series/  

In this Podcast, Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talks with Geoff Meads, owner, and creator of PrestoAV and half of a musical dual called Tennessee Twin about the realities of music streaming and royalties today.  We also touch on production, formats, purchasing vs. streaming and other things.  We also discuss which services pay the artist more so there's a little here to noddle on regarding how you and your customers may want to decide which music streaming services to support. PrestoAV:  www.prestoav.com Web: https://www.tennesseetwin.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tennesseetwinuk YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tennesseetwinuk Twitter: https://twitter.com/tennesseetwinuk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tennesseetwinuk/ Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/s6wo9a9

In this podcast, Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards moderates a panel with Nick Pidgeon of Visulation Limited and Jack Cornish of Tateside at the 2023 ISE show.  We talk about the crossover between the commercial, residential and ProAV markets.  Spoiler.....there isn't much talk about technology!  

In this podcast, Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards moderates a panel at the 2023 ISE show that talks about an opportunity that's big for our industry and ripe for opportunity.  I have a discussion with Paul Doyle who is an assistive technology consultant and clinical technologist and Alan Burns, who is a renewable energy and smart home installer about these two large topics that happen to affect every human on the planet.

In this podcast, Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards moderates a panel at the 2023 ISE show that talks about business oportunities for 2023.  You may be surprised that it's not just about new things to do, we have a decent discussion on looking at your business as a whole and making some changes within.  Joining me are Rich Green, Owner if Rich Green Design and Jan Martens, Managing Director of Woelf.

In this Podcast, Mandy Beckner, VP of Education and Training at CEDIA moderates a panel of CEDIA volunteers and certification holders about the importance and benefit of being CEDIA Certified.  Included in the discussion are: Amanda Wildman, Owner of TruMedia (USA), Mike Ranpura, Director of SmartLife AV (UK), Pete Trauth, Owner of Nirvana Home Entertainment, (USA) and Paul Skelton, Regional Development Consultant for CEDIA covering Australia and New Zealand. Link to the video on the CEDIA YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/j6hj0CMiP1U  

In this podcast, Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards talked with Leslie Shiner, finance and management consultant and owner of The Shiner Group and Henry Clifford, CEO of Livewire during a recent CEDIA webinar titled, "Recession Ready: Leaning Into the Downturn.  This discussion was so good it merited rebroadcasting as a webinar. Link to the webinar from the CEDIA HQ YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/9T_NVqJAi3s Link to the CEDIA Business Took Kit:  https://cedia.net/product.aspx?ID=3360  

In this podcast, Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards Attended a HAA training in Las Vegas.  This podcast goes over what happened at the training, and how important it is to know these fundamentals if you are designing spaces that have audio in them!  On a side note, this training supports the up and coming CEDIA/CTA Immersive Audio Design Recommended Practice (RP22).  Joining me on this cast are most of the students as well as Gerry Lemay, creator of HAA and Adam Pelz of Bespoke Cinemas who likes to co-instruct with Gerry. Others on the cast are:   Alex Otto of Otto System Works, Andy Gandini of TSP, Patrick Serrian of A+ Calibration, David Foster of Boise Smart Homes, Thomas Lobo of Atlanta Home Theater and Chris Oram of Eagle Century.

In this podcast, Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards talks with Micahel Heiss, CEDIA Fellow, long tome CEDIA volunteer, and AV industry veteran about the 2023 NAB show he attended.

In this Podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Ian Morrish, Founder of Together For Cinema, Steven Nevison, Director  of Intutive Homes, Michael Johnson, Global Marketing Director of Monitor Audio Group, and Stuart Tickle, Managing Director of AWE-Europe about Together For Cinema and their involvement in this amazing cause.