• Systems Integrator Council Overview
• AVIXA Compliance Statement
• AVIXA AI Statement
• Systems Integrator Council Purpose Statement
• The purpose of the Systems Integrators Council is to help advance the interests and capabilities of system integrators in the audiovisual industry by emphasizing standards and best practices, supporting continuing education, and increasing industry outreach with an eye on recruitment and retention. These elements are intended to drive excellence and growth in the Audio Visual Industry.

• AVIXA News
• AVIXA Council Support
• Council Leadership
• Jen Squirewell - Council Administration
• Stefan Lefebvre - Senior Manager

• Xchange
• Council Member Overview Video -
• Council Member Overview of Xchange | AVIXA Xchange

• AVIXA Insights Community

avip.avixa.org

• Events
• Infocomm 26 - June 13–19 (exhibits June 17–19) at the Las Vegas Convention Center

• ISE 26 - February 3-6

• AVIXA - Career Center
• Finding Jobs
• Finding New Hires

• Other Council News

• New Member Recognition
• Welcome New Members

Mike Treacy

Bryan Sarmiento

Jay Rubik

Glen Slough

John Day

Jason Mitchell

Daniel Parker

Alexandra Boychyn

Matthew Oliver

Sujith Kumar Thomas

• New Business

• Continued Business
• 2025 Goals
• Actively support the initiative of Systems Integrators Best Practices through discovery and learning sessions on the topics of USB and Project Management
• IN PROGRESS
• Actively promote and engage with Systems Integrators on the AVIXA Xchange Platform to increase awareness
• IN PROGRESS
• Reviewing membership with an eye to increasing participation and retention. 
• MEMBER STATISTICS
• Growth of membership
• Includes ITS merger
• Attendance
• High Water Mark - 50!

• Guest Speakers 2025
• November
• No Speaker

• Next Options:
• Mass Notification - Emergency
• Scott Lord
• Consultants Council - where are they at, initiatives
• Modern Work Design - Ergonomics, Average Measurements
• Command and Control Systems - Education and Best Practices

• Workshop or Webinar
• Engagement
• Sub-Committee?
• 3 to 4 times a year?
• Subjects -
• AI How To workshop?
• AI for Dummies
• AI and Sustainability -
• Crowd Sourcing Materials
• Business trends in the SI Council
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• How does it affect the industry
• Sustainability
• Numbers - what you actually need to 'run your business' and how to automatically get them/ and tools to visualize them
• Sales - a hands-on workshop on how to better present yourself and close more deals
• Public speaking (this can act as a pre workshop to a speaker at InfoComm?)

• ITS Subcommittee 
• “Best Practices: Independent Contractors in the AV Industry”
• Committee Lead - Elizabeth Fleming
• Volunteers

Total Group is now over 30!!!

NEW - Welcome!

• Alexandra Boychyn
• Matthew Oliver
• Sujith Kumar Thomas

• Goals
• Update the ITS skills matrix
• Elizabeth and Nathan will coordinate with AVIXA to get this updated, likely aiming for an April 2026 release
• April 2025 Systems Integrators ITS Subcommittee Skills Matrix
• Update Best Practices: Independent Contractors in the AV Industry
• Review and potentially update the document published by the Systems Integrator Council
• 2019 Independent Contractors in the AV Industry
• Support the AVIXA Charitable Contribution Initiative
•  Looking for feedback and recommendations
• ITS Question of the Month
• November - Question of the Month as submitted by members like you:

Definition -

Fixed Firm

Time and Materials

Poll -

US Operators - What are you seeing more of Fixed-firm vs T&M?

Poll -

International Operators - What are you seeing more of Fixed-firm vs T&M?

• Reminder - Submit your questions in chat or email
• Each month we will feature one topic with answers from the ITS subcommittee

• Next Meeting Scheduled
• Wednesday January 7th 1p ET
• Join the ITS Committee and get engaged

• Quality Assurance Subcommittee
• Committee Leadership Needed
• Nathan to start leading January 2026
• Participants
• Farrell Wood
• Chris Brammell
• Chris Perritt
• Brandon Stephens
• Scott Simpson
• Jeff Miller
• Tom Norman
• Carille Walcott
• Sujith Sivaram
• Jayaprabhu Anbumani
• Pedro Retes
• Nate Jones
• Production
• Who What when where why
• Who/Audience
• Systems Integrators, Consultants, End Users, Manufacturers advisement
• What/Production
• Documentation, Best practices, check out plans
• How does is scale, how is it measured/metrics
• Quality Control and Quality Assurance
• Interaction with Consultants Council
• Ask Chair to connect
• How can we collaborate?
• What is the end Product?
• When do we release/produce?
• Meeting Schedule
• First Meeting In February

• Project Management Best Practice Subcommittee
• Committee Lead - Brian Zaremba
• Participants
• Leslie Gannon
• Carille Walcott
• Steve  Peters
• Jerry Richards
• Rodrigo Baca
• Phil Ayche
• Farrell Wood
• Jeremy Forward
• Samantha Cronin
• Mike Costa
• Maru Gaitan
• Mohannad
• Elizabeth Flemming
• Progress
• Product Review and Approval by Council
• Any Feedback - Final Ask
• Should we include links to various educational items
• PMI
• AVIXA PM Classes
• AVIXA marketing touch up
• CURRENT - In Review at AVIXA Marketing
• Next Steps - Final SI Council Review
• Around Nov 14th
• SI Council Review in January
• Publish
• Around February

• Industry Impact
• Attracting new talent to the industry
• How do we collaborate closer with AVIXA in Educational Growth -
• AVIXA Foundation
• Provided link to various material that we can use
• LINK
• Examples of Edu fac involvement Pace University - Technical Training Centers - VoTech/Higher Education -
• Other Groups -HETMA
• Awareness of Various Roles in SI Roles - Cable Pull, Installer, Technician, Programmer, Project Manager, Designer, Account Rep/Sales
• Intern Programs - Credits to Education
• Intern Program LINK
• Educational Skills Set - Soft Skills (EQ), AI Education
• Manufacture Education Efforts - Crestron and others
• Grass Roots Approach Options
• Having the resources with unified messaging
• Post Card - Order through council or Avixa - add your brand marketing
• Charitable Efforts
• Our Industry, Our Council Giving Back
• Support from Manufacture Sponsors
• Can we network with SAVE?
• What do we provide?
• What National or Global organizations can we engage with?
• Mark D will pull a doc to outline efforts

• SI Council Member Benefits
• Networking and connecting with others
• Feedback to AVIXA
• Increased activity on Exchange
• More awareness
• Benefits for Members of the council
• Discounted Headshots - Sponsored by OfficePro
• POST ON EXCHANGE - Exclusive Offer for Systems Integrators Council Members | AVIXA Xchange
• Embroidery/Clothing
• Logoed Stuff
• What do we want, and Who can Sponsor
• Training / Knowledge path cost offsetting
• Classes support
• How to find RU's - Create Doc or Link List
• Council - RU's for being a member
• Being Looked Into
• Codes for Infocomm Sessions?

• Next Production Efforts for Best Practices
• USB Best Practices
• Target Delivery
• MOVED TO HOLD - Target 2026
• Tuesday Wednesday Thursday at 1p
• Form from AVIXA Ready
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• Other Business
• Xchange and MS Teams are UP - reach out to us to help with access if needed
• Xchange - Daily Emails are available to remind you of recent activity.
• MS Teams Channel Created for Project Management Best Practice.
• MS Teams Channel Created for USB Best Practice.
• MS Teams Channel Created for ITS Subcommittee
• MS Teams Channel Created for QA Subcommittee

• Roundtable - Open Discussion - Feedback
• AI Impact
• Tools
• Anthropic - Claude
• Nerd in the Corner
• Programming
• Learning

• What Areas of AI Impact Systems Integrators the most - Goal Setting
• Business vs Educational
• How does it benefit internally (Business)
• Tool Aspects -
• Considerations prior to implementing AI in your business
• Cost, Legal, HR,
• How can we use it to affect clients
• Use Cases
• Hardware
• Camera Systems
• Software Applications
• Text to Speech Learning
• Interpretation and simplification for clarity of communications
• BOM to SOW, Proposal, Summary
• PDF to AI
• BOM to Drawing
• Labor calculation reviews

• Programming, Drivers
• Creating own INTERNAL AI bot applications
• Clients
• AV integrators
• Internal Support - IT, Admin
• Driving Efficiencies - Reduced workforce need?
• Legal Reviews? NDA'S, MSA, MPSA, Contract Reviews
• Reduction on bottlenecks
• IT Helpdesk - Tier 1 Support
• Estimating Tools
• Searching tools in docs

• Quality
• More quality information input yield better results
• Verification of data is good
• AI Checker -
• Who is checking, is using it innovative or cheating?
• Risk Concerns
• Legal, SLA, MSA, relations to internal standards and cross reference internal documents
• Risk Mitigation, Policy Adherence
• All statements of work have to be pushed through bots (AI)
• Breach causes Shut Down of use of AI
• Security Analysis of the Metadata
• Validation and Trust
• External AI to an On prem?
• What is being tracked and how can that be used?
• Maintaining check and balance
• How to confirm that the result is accurate or true?
• Ensure AI provided references -
• Copyrights
• What are the risks to copyright?
• Is it AI or Programmed?
• Where are we seeing demand?
• MS and Dell are pushing AI in the deliverable approach (Co-Pilot)
• Quick Serve Restaurant - Using recall of record to image
• Where is it Actionable?

• Old Topics
• Public Address Standards
• Where is this in the AVIXA Criteria/Standards
• Life safety, public safety
• Atlas has additional information
• Mass Notification
• Seeing an uptick in requests
• GEM areas
• Private communities -
• Multiple communications methods
• Equipping our team to be aware of AV practices.
• Building Management Systems
• Realtime Data, Metrics, Analytics
• Wayfinding, scheduling,
• Large EcoSystem Integrations
• Is this an opportunity to create a goal of leading the charge of "Integrated Systems"
• Making disparate systems speak to each other
• Creating the experience for the client
• What is the role of AI
• BMI
• Lighting
• Data Management / Metrics
• Network bridge and interface / Primary vs secondary - Defining Roles
• Evaluation of control, latency
• Challenges
• Working with other trades (Network, Facilities, Security)
• AVIXA Certifications
• ANP
• Learning Portal has a Networking Course (free for elite) - 23 RU's
• SI Council is Looking for Published material for training
• Avixa working on a study guide
• Content and Learning Committee
• Among others involved
• ANP - Prep Class - Through AVIXA - ONLINE
• Response from Shantal, Certification Coor., regarding ANP Prep -The ANP Prep Course is the only studying material that has been released so far. Also, there aren’t any dedicated Prep Courses for ANP that are happening this year, but I do believe we have some networking courses that applies to some of the material.

• Next Meetings
• Next Council Meeting Date -
• January 15th at 12:30p ET
• PM Team
• Waiting on final Markups from AVIXA Marketing
• ITS Team
• Wednesday January 7th at 1p ET
• QA Team
• Need Leadership
• Who else do you know that could benefit from or bring expertise to our council?
• Invite them to join us and share in the collaborative effort