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Consider These Classes The CEDIA Expo in Denver Will Feature 60 New Educational Offerings
By Ed Wenck
For CEDIA Expo 2019, CEDIA built courses for a business owner looking for leadership-based education, as well as project
management, or sales classes that could really take their skillsets to the next level.
When CEDIA’s Senior Director of Education
Samantha Ventura began mapping the
educational offerings for CEDIA Expo 2019 in
Denver, she asked her team a question: “How
would somebody coming to Expo this year want
to spend their money?” The answer was to build
courses for a business owner looking for
leadership-based education, as well as project
management or sales classes that could really
take their skillsets to the next level.
We also asked ourselves: “If that business
owner was to bring technicians along, what
would he or she want those people to learn?”
Ventura answered, “We’ve put in a new-hire
track – a specific class list for those folks new to
the industry – as well as more advanced
technical classes that would make sense for
somebody to come and bring along one or two
or three guys or gals to learn at the same time.”
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Derick Abshire, CEDIA’s director of
curriculum, echoed that CEDIA has been
particularly conscious of identifying the level of
experience people have and matching class
offerings, appropriately. “We have basic classes
that are designed for anyone with less than two
years’ experience in the industry,” she said.
“Then we have intermediate classes that cover
folks with up to five years’ experience, and
advanced for people with more than five years
of experience in the industry.”
Abshire noted that this year’s curriculum will
include 125 different classes, 60 of which are
brand new.
Below are just a few classes that attendees
seem to be excited about as seats are filling up
fast; make sure to browse the entire course list at
cediaexpo.com.
“Home Cinema Master Class”
(September 11, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.) will
help attendees learn the secrets of
high-performance home cinema
design and maximize their
knowledge in the strongest revenuegenerating
sector of the industry. It
will feature a deep dive focused on
video performance, advanced audio
techniques, and the cinema
environment, taught by three worldrenowned
experts in the field
– Anthony Grimani, Joel Silver, and
Theo Kalomirakis.
“Save Money, Make More Profit,
and Satisfy More Customers
Through Process Improvement”
(September 10, 10:30 a.m.-12:00
p.m.) will focus on Lean Six Sigma
tools CEDIA integrators can apply
to their businesses immediately to
eliminate waste and increase
profitability. Instructor Jason Sayen,
LK & Associates, will take an indepth
look at the most common
processes used on a daily basis and analyze two
of them to help spot areas for improvement.
During “Wash, Rinse, Repeat: Standardizing
the Design and Engineering Process,”
(September 11, 8-10 a.m.) instructor Ron
Callis, Jr., One Firefly, will show attendees how
to create a well-documented, repeatable process
to save time, reduce errors, add profit, and
decrease stress.
In the always-popular class, “Future
Technologies: The Inside Scoop from Silicon
Valley,” (September 12, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.) Rich
Green, Rich Green Ink, will provide a
completely new perspective on stampeding
technologies, their importance, and how they
can make you more profitable. x
Register for CEDIA Expo and the CEDIA
education conference at cediaexpo.com.
Photos: Patrick Williams, (Top Right) Les Kamens, (Bottom Row) PWP Studio
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