TJ Gwynn

Co-Founder, StellarSky Systems
Bartha is a full service creative event production company based out of Columbus, OH.    We provide content creation and overall production support for associations, corporations and religious organizations throughout the US.   Experience in stadiums, arenas, convention centers and ballrooms across the country.  
Since 1972, Auerbach Pollock Friedlander’s holistic approach to the design of spaces and technology for performance venues has produced a wide range of successful innovative projects. The firm’s extensive portfolio includes resident repertory theaters, opera houses, concert halls, corporate auditoriums and event spaces, college/university and secondary school performing and visual arts facilities, museums and planetariums as well as popular entertainment venues and show-specific theatres in theme parks, casinos, cruise ships and night clubs. The firm’s performance and presentation system design expertise includes lighting, audio, production communication, video distribution, projection and broadcast, stage rigging, lifts and automation systems of all types. Our facility planning, design and delivery projects comprise performing arts venues for every type of live and media-based performance and an expanding number of unique immersive environments and non-traditional spaces that utilize our experience with sophisticated systems to create singular variable architecture for corporate, educational and private clients. Performance environments typically involve facilities that include planning and design of auditoria, public spaces, theatre instructional labs and classrooms, scenic, prop and costume shops, loading areas, dressing and makeup facilities and other production operations areas. More recent commissions have leveraged the firm’s 48-years of experience and innovation to support unique event and educational projects that extend well beyond traditional performing arts venues. These projects bolster our reputation for embracing and successfully completing assignments for the most forward-thinking and inventive clients. Our contribution is always provided as part of an open collaborative process with the larger design team. Services range from programming and master planning either pre-architectural or as part of a full team, theatre space design, specifications of systems and equipment as well as construction administration services. We consider our work to be integral to the creative architectural process. Our principals and staff have diverse backgrounds in programming, planning and architectural design disciplines as well as hands-on experience in theatre production design, technology, media technology, audio, video, production management, technical direction and scenography. Our core principles of hearing our clients’ needs and approaching each project without preconceived ideas of the outcome enables us to think outside-the-box while providing practical, cost-effective solutions at a variety of levels. Hundreds of successful projects, numerous awards and long-term client relationships are the result of our attention to quality, an unparalleled methodology, superior communication and peerless documentation.
Andrea Rokicsak

Owner & CFO, AV Imagined Inc

Brandy Alvarado-Miranda

CEO/Owner, BAM! Marketing & PR Agency

Cheryl Walton

Director of Business Development, USAV Group, a div of PSA

Bill Shiverick

President, Vertical AVTV

Vertical AVTV was founded in 2002 in Atlanta, GA by Robert Harlin and Bill Shiverick.  We provide a range of technology services - design, installation, integration and management - in the commercial market.   Audio Visual | Structured Cabling | Access Security | Digital Signage | Sound Masking | Satellite Television | WiFi/DAS We provide these services to our clients throughout the US.
Coleen Sterns Leith

President, Marketing Matters

Dave Haynes

Editor, Sixteen:Nine

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.