Pro AV Solutions at ISE 2019

Five staff members and eight clients from the Pro AV Solutions team made the very long journey to Amsterdam to attend the GPA Conference and the industry’s largest event, ISE 2019.
Over four full days, our team participated in stand tours, key presentations from the Global Presence Alliance (GPA), workshops, a panel session, a customer roundtable and numerous other sessions.

For the first time ever on the show floor, the GPA booth featured our joint value proposition and global story, while the lounge area was used to walk customers through an interactive experience
of the GPA’s new ecosystem called Velocity. Included here were live room solutions,
which drove discussions on planning and design, standardization,
Global Care services and a powerful Dashboard for enterprise data and analytics.
The GPA also discussed Collaboration as a Service on a global scale, and reinforced the power and reach of our combined sales organizations as “One GPA,”
fine-tuning our value proposition and our shared customer strategies.

For Pro AV Solutions (SA), there was also an Awards night in which the University of SA’s Cancer Research Institute for Education Project of the Year. Although we didn’t win it was great achievement to reach the finals of the global InAVation awards.

At the show floor, we met with vendors including Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, NEC, LG, Microsoft, Crestron, avt, Smart Technology, Condeco and more to see the latest and greatest to hit the industry.

Key Highlights from ISE 2019

•       Historically, GPA roundtable events have attracted 30-50 attendees; at ISE 2019, we had 180 customer visits across the week. If you add in our influential tech partners and other industry specialists, the GPA scanners tracked more than 400 visitors in total.
•       We topped the charts with 65 visitors to our Global Lounge on Wed. Feb 6, where we hosted and recorded speakers from Microsoft, TargetPath, Recon Research and ABN-AMRO.
•       Big global brands who showed up in teams to the lounge included Deutsche Bank, Google, HSBC, Idexx, IKEA, Philip Morris, Rabobank, Red Hat and SAP.
•       Other relationships progressed during the show through private meetings included Capital One, Coca Cola and Salesforce.
•       The industry press stopped by our events and featured GPA members in articles and on pod casts, including AV Magazine, rAVe and IHS Markit.
•        Tech partners who came and networked with GPA members and customers across the week included Crestron, Microsoft, Logitech, NEC, Samsung, Harman, LG, Legrand, Shure, Bose, Barco, Biamp, Cisco, QSC, Haivision, Mersive, and Huddly, along with leaders from Herman Miller and Tech Data.