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Latest Episodes:

The CEDIA Podcast: Living in Place and the Pandemic (2020_24b) Jun 12, 2020

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As Grandcare's Laura Mitchell tells us, "With COVID19 we have just seen aging and senior housing turned on its head with social isolation, lack of healthcare workers, and the fear of hospitals. We are inundated with calls and requests for the video chat, telehealth capabilities, and activity monitoring." Mitchell joins us to talk about the state of the post-COVID aging industry and best practices to stay safe.

https://www.grandcare.com/

The CEDIA Podcast: The Business Pivot (2020_24a) Jun 09, 2020

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How do you change products or services to fit a lockdown situation or match your client's comfort level? Can you do that even without having techs in the house? Pete Trauth (Nirvana Home Entertainment), Mike Ranpura (Smart Life AV), and Mike McMaster (Wilshire Media Systems) have all been working on solutions to that problem. Peter Aylett (HTE), meanwhile, has some ideas about business opportunities created by this pandemic that he offered on a recent CEDIA webinar.

https://www.nirvanahomeentertainment.com/

https://www.smartlifeav.com/

https://www.wilshirehe.com/

https://www.hte.design/

The CEDIA Podcast: Keeping Your Sanity (2020_23b) Jun 05, 2020

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Paul Gionfriddo, President and CEO Mental Health America joins us to speak about mental health as it relates to the small business owner (and their employees) during this pandemic. What are good coping mechanisms? How does one deal with these added pressures? What should someone be on the lookout for; the danger signs that things are getting away from them?

https://mhanational.org/

The CEDIA Podcast: The All New CEDIA Site (2020_23a) Jun 02, 2020

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CEDIA's Desiree Friedman and James Bliss tell us about the work (and thought) that went into CEDIA's new website: the look, the learning systems, and the combination of several sites into one location serving our global community of integrators, specifiers, and clients.

CEDIA.net

The CEDIA Podcast: The Culture Shift (2020_22b) May 29, 2020

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Two integrators share how their conversations with suppliers and clients have changed – and so has the way they do business. Guests include Heather Sidorowicz (SouthTown AV) and Jamie Briesemeister (Integration Controls).

http://www.southtownav.com/

https://integrationcontrols.com/

The CEDIA Podcast: The Design/Build Conference (2020_22a) May 26, 2020

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A recap of the panel discussion with integrators and interior designers from the CEDIA Design Build Conference at ISE. Guests include Dean Keyworth, Armstrong Keyworth; Susie Rumbold, Tessuto; plus integrators James Ratcliffe, Homeplay; and Pip Evans, NV Integration.

https://armstrong-keyworth.co.uk/

https://tessuto.co.uk/

https://www.homeplay.tv/

https://nvintegration.co.uk/

The CEDIA Podcast: Say Goodbye to Hollywood? (2020_21b) May 22, 2020

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John Penney, who's been a strategy officer for some of the biggest names in media, joins Ed and Walt to talk about the myriad changes wrought by the pandemic in content production and delivery, and what that means for integrators.

For more on CEDIA, check out CEDIA.net.

The CEDIA Podcast: Cameras and Thermography (2020_21a) May 19, 2020

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Michael Cogbill (Rev2 Consulting) walks us through the latest – and incredibly powerful – camera technologies, including techniques that can screen for fever through facial imagery alone. Why are the challenges? And how can a residential integrator find the opportunities here?

Resource: https://ipvm.com/

The CEDIA Podcast: HR in the Age of the Pandemic (2020_20b) May 15, 2020

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We discuss setting expectations, holding our employees accountable, and driving behavior to performance success as we embrace the new normal of the work-from-home environment, and the shifting protocols that come with working in the client's home.

Our guest: Courtney Berg, Courtside Consulting: https://www.courtsidehr.com/

The CEDIA Podcast: Podcast: Pandemic (and Other) impacts Around the World (2020_20a) May 12, 2020

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Growing segments? Challenges? What's business like across the globe these days?

Europe – Peter Aylett https://www.hte.design/

India - Manoj Soni, AV Solutions India, AV4U www.av4u.in

Africa - Christiaan Beukes, Sphere Custom http://spherecustom.com/

Middle East - Karim Zaki, Archimedia's founder and CEO http://www.archimedia-me.com/

Australia - Stuart Robertson, Sound Living www.soundliving.com.au