Cedia's Tech Council Podcast

In this Podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Garrett Farnam of Josh.ai, Ray Altman of WAC and Aspire, Chris Gilray of Phoenix Marketing Group, and Steven Brawner of Pro Audio Georgia about their experience at the Atlanta Tech Summit.

In this Podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Nuno Duarte from Olympic Broadcasting Services and Ben Goff, Technical Director of Cinema Lusso about capturing audio for the Olympics and preserving the art.  Whilst most talk about consumer entertainment spaces revolves around movies, this discussion will put the spotlight firmly onto sports. We will be discussing what it takes to capture, live mix and distribute immersive content from live events, then examining how well this is rendered in people’s homes to best capture the art and action

In this Podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Peter Aylett, Partner at Officina Acustica, Roberto Gamba, International Business Development Director for Custom Installation at Sonus Faber and Adam Pels, Owner of Bespoke Cinemas about the role applying technical standards to a design plays with delivering exceptional experiences. 

In this Podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Rich Green of Rech Green Design and Christiaan Beukes of Sphere Custom and Jesus Delg, a guest to the stage and someone we met last year at the ISE show who is taking a deeper look into human interaction with technology.  In this talk, we get into the discussion of the 'smarts' of a connected home.

In this Podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Rich Green of Rech Green Design and Christiaan Beukes of Sphere Custom about how generative AI tools will streamline business and about how your clients will be drawn to the Metaverse like moths to a flame. But Real Reality is what people crave. You need them all to survive.

In this Podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Christiaan Beukes of Sphere Custom, Ben Goff of Cinema Lusso, Jesus Delg (newcomer to the industry!), Peter Aylett of Officina Acustica, Dave Pedigo of Trinnov,  and Manojkumar Soni of AV4U about their experiences during the second day of the Integrated Systems Europe Show.

In this Podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Pete Trauth of Nirvana Home Entertainment, Rich Green of Rich Green Design, Geoff Meads of Presto Web Design and Rob Sabin of Projector Central about their experiences during the second day of the Integrated Systems Europe Show. 

n this Podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Hassen Ahouiek of Habi, Bart Devos of Barco, Pete Trauth of Nirvana Home Entertainment, Scott McMurray of Epitome Living, and David Meyer of CEDIA about their experiences during the second day of the Integrated Systems Europe Show. 

In this Podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Christiaan Beukes of Sphere Custom, Ben Goff of Cinema Lusso, Hassan Ahouiek of Habi, Peter Aylett of Officina Acustica, Rich Green of Rich Green Design and Steven Rissi of CEDIA about their experiences at the opening day of the Integrated Systems Europe Show. 

In this Podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Rob Sabin, Editor and Chief, ProjectorCentral.com and Michal Heiss, freelance writter for Residential Tech Todal and Hidden Wires about all things display technology at the 2023 CES show.

In this Podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Eric Fry, Director of Engineering for IoT & Smart Hospitality and Mitchel Klein, Director of Alliances Strategy for Silicon Labs and Executive Director of the Z-Wave Alliance about our experiences walking around the CES show floor on the second day of the show.

In this Podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Rich Green of Rich Green Design about our experiences walking around the CES show floor on the second day of the show.

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Steven Rissi, Sr. Director of Technical Education and Ken Erdmann, Director of Educational Programs at CEDIA about learning.  We dive into what CEDIA is doing and talk about the differences between competency, skill, knowledge, and many other things.

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA podcast talks with Morgan Scarboro, Sr. Director of Tax Policy & Economist at MultiState Associates and Darren Reaman, Director of Government Affairs at CEDIA about what to expect in 2023 regarding potential legislative and tax issues.  We talk about how the political landscape may have an effect on the issues and policies we care about in the integration channel as well as new potential tax law that may affect us.

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talks with Peter Crane, Director of White Room Technology and Geoff Meads, owner of Presto AV about photography for installations.  We talk about file size, pixel size, lenses, camera sensor size, lighting, iphones, using professional photographers and a whole host of things.

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talks with Jonathan Marshall and Alex Buchan who are founding members of Safeshark about the new Product Security & Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill (PSTI) based around ETSI EN 303 645 soon going into effect in the UK that will affect all connected products and how you do business.  Compliance will become mandatory!   This is the first of it's kind and like ERP and GDRP, will undoubtly make it way to the entire worls in some fashion at some point in time. https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3069 https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/303600_303699/303645/02.01.01_60/en_303645v020101p.pdf

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA does a power mashup between three podcasts that cover DC Micro Grids, Digital Electricity, NEC 2023 code changes and policy. The guests on the podcasts are: Harry Stokman, DC Entrepreneur, Allan Burns, Director of Telemental, Ken Erdmann, Director of Technical Education at CEDIA, Michael Cogbill, Principle at Rev2 Consulting, and Darren Reaman, Director of Public Affairs at CEDIA.