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Maximizing Rehearsal Time: Help Your Speakers Make the Most of AV Support Welcome to Part 2 of our three-part series.  This one is created to help your conference speakers arrive prepared, polished, and presentation-ready, with a special focus today on those delivering keynotes, featured talks, or general session presentations. In Part 1, we shared howRead more

Welcome to the first post in our three-part series created to help your conference speakers arrive confident, prepared, and presentation-ready. This guidance is especially critical for breakout sessions, where presenters often don’t have the luxury of a dedicated AV tech at their side—and where a few small issues can quickly derail the session. This firstRead more

Captioning: Not Just for the General Session Anymore! I don’t know if it’s my age (or just my love for clarity), but at some point, I turned on captioning for all my streaming services—and I’m never going back. Now, whenever captions aren’t an option, I feel like I’m missing something. Turns out, I’m not alone.Read more

Picture This: A perfectly orchestrated event where every element harmonizes like a well-conducted symphony. As the event planner, you’re the composer, crafting the event’s vision and structure. Your AV production manager is the conductor, guiding the AV team onsite. But their role doesn’t start when the event begins.  Your production manager can offer valuable insightsRead more

Light It Up: Creating Unforgettable Events on a Budget with Smart Lighting “You’ve always had the power, dear. You just had to learn it for yourself.” When it comes to adding some interest and excitement to your event, this classic Wizard of Oz quote rings true.  We help a lot of association clients with theirRead more

We don’t normally geek out about technology & other productions too much, but this is about to be the exception because Rihanna. Wow! She delivered the hits. She served up flawless marshmallow couture. She repped for mighty mamas everywhere. She … gave the world a masterclass in advanced rigging, people management, and lawncare?   ThatRead more

We’re about to say something so controversial, yet so true: There is no such thing as “a simple internal meeting” if any aspect of that meeting happens remotely. At least not as far as your AV team is concerned. It’s easy to minimize the technical complexity of these meetings because they would, in fact, beRead more

As we wrap up each season, we like to take a look back at the lessons we’ve learned along the way. Normally, this wrap-up looks like comparing data in charts and tables, but 2022 has been a year unlike anything we’ve seen before, so we figured we’d have some fun with the wrap up. SoRead more

Moment of Honesty: Budgets matter. We prefer not to talk about it; nobody wants to be the killjoy that brings up budget concerns when everyone else in the meeting is letting their creative juices flow. But “creative juices” get expensive and there’s a lot to consider about events outside of creative expression. We need toRead more

Shedding Light is a series designed to take the mystery and overwhelm out of large-scale and corporate A/V; and maybe even make it fun!   Dig, if you will, this picture: You’ve been tasked with throwing an event for a few thousand people in Boston. The keynote speaker, known for being the C.E.O. of extra,Read more