The CEDIA Podcast

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 Fetter, 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.

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.

In 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, CEDIA Sr. Director of Technology & Standards and host of the CEDIA Podcast talks with Rob Sabin, Editor-in-Chief of ProjectorCentral.com and Michael Heiss, freelance writer for Residential Tech Today 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.

In this podcast, Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talked with Matt Bernath, President of Vital about planning for market downturns and, more importantly, knowing your business in a way many don't. We get into best practices for your business in regard to financial health, metrics and leeding indicators to watch.

In this podcast, Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talkes with David Weinstien, Chair of the CEDIA Board of Directors, Jamie Briesemeister, Vice Chair and Chair of the CEDIA Governance Committee, and Daryl Freidman, Global President and CEO of CEDIA about the importance of voting for the board representatives and we talk about governance transparancy.

In this podcast, Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talked with Chris Oram, owner of Oram Home Technologies about attending his first CEDIA Expo.

In this episode Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology and Standards at CEDIA with Ashley Kimsey of AVA, Gordon Van Zuiden of Cyber Manor, Jon Stein of Stone Gliden and Mitch Klein of Silicon Labs about their experience at day two of the CEDIA Expo.

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talks with Luke O'Brien, Director of Content at Kaleidescape about the up-comming CEDIA Expo Keynote, "Entertainment Evolution 2022: Content Overload" presented by Greg Durkin of Enact Insight and about Kaleidescape, and being a sponsor of that Keynote.

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talks with Kris Hogg, Head of Luxury Living at Samsung and Norma Garcia Muro, VP of Marketing at Kaleidescape about taking a different, more simplified approach at the initial sales pitch. This podcast was inspired by an article Kris wrote and published on Linked-In. Link to Kris's article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sell-feeling-dream-dont-details-kris-hogg/

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talks with Darren Raeman, Director of Government Affairs at CEDIA, Michael Cogbill, Principle at Rev2 Consultants, ane Ken Erdmann, DIrector of Technical Education Programs at CEDIA about recent NEC 2023 code changes and government affairs.

In this Podcast, we take key excerpts from a panel discussion held at the 2022 ISE show that talks about CEDIA Certification. Mandy Becker, VP of Education at CEDIA hosts a panel with Andy and Annie Baker of Baker Stone Systems, Mike Ranpura od Smart Life AV, Pete Trauth of Nirvana Home Entertainment Systems and Alan Matthews of Automated Spaces.

In this Podcast, we take key excerpts from a panel discussion about the most recent white paper CEDIA released titled, "The Integrator of 2027." Peter Aylett of Officina Acustica and Christiaan Beukes of Sphere Custom join me on the stage to talk about the underpinnings of this paper. Link to the paper: https://landing.cedia.net/IO27/io27.html

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talks with Mark Taylor, Commercial Director at Invision, Peter Alloway, Head of Business Development at Invision, Yadev Tailor, Channel Account Manager for Sony, Julian Scott, Managing Director at Display Calibrations, and Steven Carter, Business Development Manager EMEA at CEDIA about the recent Invision event held in Sunny Bracknell in Yorkshire.

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA talks with Peter Aylett, Partner at Officina Acustica, Sam Cavitt, founder of Paradise Theater & the Cinema-Connoisseur magazine, Adam Pelz, Owner of Bespoke Cinemas, and Ben Goff, Techincal Director of Cinema Lusso about creative intent from an integrators point of view. You can catch part one, which focuses on the creators side here: https://traffic.libsyn.com/cedia/Creative_Intent_mixdown.mp3

In this podcast Walt Zerbe, Sr. Director of Technology & Standards at CEDIA and host for the CEDIA Podcast talks with Mitchel Klein, Executive Director of the Z-Wave Alliance about where we are with Matter, the common protocol apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and others are working on bringing to fruition.