11:30AM – 12:30PM & 2:00PM – 3:00PM
CTS 1.0   
Lake Thoreau – MTR Room

Amanda Stewart | N. Am. Distribution Channels – MS Teams Rooms Specialist; Microsoft

Moving beyond the AI bandwagon, embark on a journey into the transformative power of AI, revolutionizing the way we work, communicate, and collaborate. Participate in a live AI-enabled experience as this class provides an overview of AI’s power and its diverse use cases while offering best practices and recommendations for effective adoption within Professional AV to drive productivity collaboration, and an enhanced end-user experience.

11:30AM – 12:30PM
CTS 1.0 
Lake Fairfax B – Training Room 2

Gary Kayye | Director & Co-founder: THE rAVe Agency, 3-Time Award-Winning Speaker

The concept of Smart Buildings is not new. For over two dozen years, the construction design and management industries have been implementing the standards of Building Information Modeling and making each building “smarter” than the next. Gone are the days with manual security systems, manual fire control systems, camera-less buildings or floors and nowadays everything is connected to some sort of networked backbone. And, for good reason.

The average 20-story besieging can save well over $800,000 a year in HVAC, security and power costs by going “smart.” But, it’s only been recent that BIM has been implemented in the world of AV. We’ve always been an afterthought. But, now, we are part of the model — our CAD drawings can be implemented right in to the building drawings as a layer of the original design — even before construction.

That’s key as, if you’re an integrator, you can get in on the ground floor of a building — literally. Meaning, you can be specified to be the AV contractor before the building is ever built by being the system designer that provides systems and sight-line drawings to the general contractor before construction starts. You’re drawings will be a layer of the overall system. Solidifying you as part of the integrated design and installation of everything AV.

But, this means you, the integrator, has to actually design the room well in advance of it ever being built. In addition, the design has to include everything — not just a list of AV gear. It has to include 3D drawings of where each and every piece of AV gear (and cable) goes — yes, every single piece. This takes a special type of AV designer — and one with way more skills than just CAD.

12:45 – 1:45PM
CTS 1.0 , CTS-D 1.0 
Lake Fairfax B – Training Room 2

Sharath Abraham | Sr. Solutions Consultant – Channel; Jabra

Users who attend this session will learn about the current state of hybrid work. We will explore the best tools for an optimal hybrid work experience no matter where the user is working. Additionally, attendees will gain knowledge and insights around how using professional and certified devices drives a more inclusive and productive working environment.

12:45 – 1:45PM
CTS 1.0
Lake Fairfax A – Training Room 1

Tom Kehr | CTS-D, CTS-I, Network+, LEED Green Associate, ISF-C, ATD Master Trainer; Exertis Almo

Is the new meeting room merely a revamped version of the old space only now with more “technology stuff”?  Throughout this session, we’ll look at what’s required to give the technology the best opportunity to do what it’s supposed to do – help people communicate with one another.  Our goal is to leverage the available resources to truly begin building high performance rooms that foster connections in the modern workspace.

3:15 – 4:15PM
CTS 1.0
Lake Fairfax B – Training Room 2

Tom Kehr | CTS-D, CTS-I, Network+, LEED Green Associate, ISF-C, ATD Master Trainer; Exertis Almo

We’ll focus on two main issues: Acoustics and Background Noise.  Why does this room sound the way it does?  Why do you like certain rooms and not others?  Why does communication seem easier in some rooms?  Each room has a unique “sound” to it.  Learn why they sound the way they do and what you might be able to do about it.  Meeting rooms are for communicating.  Learn how to remove the barriers and create a comfortable space for people to exchange ideas.

3:15 – 4:15PM
CTS 1.0
Lake Fairfax A – Training Room 1

Joe Cornwall | CTS-D, CTS-I; AVIXA

Once upon a time video meant television, and television meant antennae for transmitting and receiving content. Today we do many things wirelessly, but for the typical AV professional familiarity with RF is outside the scope of our day-to-day endeavors. This course will help address this important, but often overlooked AV system design element.

We’ll look at the latest Bluetooth (5.3LE), WiFi (802.11be) and cellular connectivity, terrestrial and satellite broadcasting. Along the way we’ll learn how these important communication pathways have evolved, how they continue to change, and how they will be bridged to lend ever greater performance, dependability and flexibility to AV system design.

• Participants will learn about the electromagnetic spectrum, frequency allocation and licensing, ISM bands and the future of RF.
• Participants will learn about Bluetooth technology and how BT 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 have taken Bluetooth from a method for connecting HID peripherals to a computer to a fully functional, secure channel that can support hundreds of devices over surprising distances (up to 300m).
• Participants will learn about 802.11ax and 802.11af including WiFi 6, 6E and 7 connectivity and the impact on AV system design.

2:00 – 3:00PM
CTS 1.0
Lake Fairfax A – Training Room 1

Joe Cornwall | CTS-D, CTS-I; AVIXA

In this fast-paced course we’ll explore USB Type-C as an AV signal transport method, examine the challenges associated with multiple user configurations, find solutions that work today and identify trends that will impact how we prepare for tomorrow.

USB4, Thunderbolt and the USB Type-C connector are at the razor’s edge of AV evolution; don’t let it cut into your successful classroom and meeting room technology deployment.