Soundtrack Your Brand (Soundtrack) offers businesses the world's largest catalog of music, licensed for business use, with over 100 million tracks. Soundtrack is the first on-demand music streaming service, available in 75 markets globally and expanding. We understand that music isn't background noise; it's a powerful tool that strengthens brand identity, shapes experiences and influences emotions. PLATFORM BUILT FOR BUSINESSES The Soundtrack platform is built for businesses, making it easy to manage music at multiple locations remotely. Dedicated business functionality like playlist scheduling, messaging, central management of locations and zones, explicit filter, SSO/SAML and advanced role- and permission settings help companies get on top of music selection, to help strengthen brand identity and have a positive influence on sales. WORLD-CLASS MUSIC SELECTION Soundtrack offers over 1,000 ready-made playlists for business types, seasons and situations and the ability to create unique, radio-like stations tailored to your customers by selecting genres, energy, decade and sounds that describe your brand. Build a playlist from scratch or drag in any Spotify playlist and make it legal for use in a commercial setting. TECHNOLOGY AND SUPPORTED DEVICES You can access the Soundtrack platform through our central web interface and apps for iOS and Android. We also offer a hardware player, SP3, that can be used as your streaming device. Furthermore, we have several integration partnerships with audio/player HW-manufacturers, where our player technology is integrated into their solutions (Wiim, Audac, Q-SYS, Sonos).

Speech Processing Solutions (SPS) is an international technology company and a global leader in dictation solutions. More than four million users worldwide work with speech-to-text solutions developed by SPS and sold under the Philips brand. These solutions include web-based and desktop workflow software as well as dictation devices. These smart solutions save users’ time and allow them to focus on their core tasks, making their business more efficient, customer-centric, and profitable. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, SPS has regional offices in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Belgium, and Austria, as well as a network of more than 1000 distribution and implementation partners worldwide. About Sembly AI Sembly AI is a voice and conversation analytics technology company, focused on bringing the power of natural language processing to professional meeting environments. Sembly’s products can simplify the work life of distributed teams while providing powerful analytics to help teams attend less while getting more done. Sembly AI was founded by CEO Gil Makleff and CPO Artem Koren in 2019. Gil Makleff was CEO of UMT Consulting Group which was acquired by Ernst & Young. Artem Koren was a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young and CTO at Visual Trading Systems.

HyLite LED Lighting is a well-diversified manufacturer of high-quality, future-generation energy-efficient lighting products that are engineered for years of dependable performance. Our company focuses on innovation by providing efficient and cost-effective lighting solutions. HyLite LED Lighting, a family-owned, certified MBE/DBE/ACDBE, operates out of an 58,000 square foot facility in Charlotte, North Carolina.  HyLite LED Lighting prides itself on bringing innovative and cost-effective Energy Conservation lighting products such as LED lamps, luminaires, and retrofits. As the cost of energy continues to rise, there is an increasing global demand for long-lasting, low maintenance lighting products that perform with optimal energy efficiency. HyLite LED Lighting is established to meet this growing demand. Our products are designed for government, commercial, industrial, outdoor and other infrastructure lighting applications. HyLite LED Lighting offers the most advanced energy-efficient products on the market today.

We laminate LED displays and specialty projection films into architectural safety glass allowing for ultra thin, transparent, protective digital canvases for art and digital signage. Ready to replace existing glass or stand alone displays, our products fit easily into any walling system, railing, flooring, canopy, facade, etc. We can turn any stale glass spaces into amazing new customizable digital displays, with unobstructed see-though views to cultivate mass attention. We offer Transparent LED Glass, Switchable Glass, and Projection Glass, all scalable to any custom size needed to fit your project. Come visit us at booth W1458 in the Trailblazers Section at this year's INFOCOMM in Vegas! 

We are THE #1 information source for the AV industry. Home of @rAVePubs & the first full-service AV industry creative agency. Makers of #AVisLIFE Our mission at THE rAVe Agency is to provide a creative marketing and advertising strategy, as well as an editorial pathway, to make sure the creative is seen, heard, read about and watched by everyone in AV. Learn more about us here: https://bit.ly/3gLVWQ9

Sixteen:Nine has been doing daily news and insights about the digital signage industry, globally, since Feb. 2006. Started as a blog, the online publication has since produced some 8,500 articles about the industry, technology and people. There is also a companion podcast with hundreds of long-form interviews. Sixteen:Nine is known as the industry's BS filter - a content resource driven by an effort to explain developments and advances in plain language and with context. The publication does not accept paid editorial, ignores roughly 9/10 press release sent its way, and never simply copies and pastes news from vendors and suppliers (something unfortunately common in pro AV and beyond). Sixteen:Nine was started and still edited by industry veteran Dave Haynes. In 2021, the publication was acquired by the Florida software firm Spectrio. Haynes remains its editor and primary content producer, however, operating out of a home office in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

I’m a has-been geek turned manager, turned executive, turned (hopefully) into leader.  I love technology and even more I love people.  So what I find really interesting is the intersection of people and technology…and in so many ways, that’s my definition of AV.