Philadelphia, PA — August 22, 2016 — Almo Professional A/V, North America’s largest professional audio visual distributor, today announced the E4 AV Tour, its top-billed training and networking event for resellers, integrators and consultants, is revving up the engines for stops this fall in Boston, MA on September 23 and Dallas, Texas on October 18.
Continuing the theme “Experience Your Future Now,” E4 is promises an action-packed day of training sessions worth InfoComm Renewal Units (RUs), hands-on workshops, product and service launches and new manufacturing partners.
“We expect the fall E4 tour to be highly attended as it is our first time visiting Boston and Dallas since the completion of our acquisition with IAVI,” explained Melody Craigmyle, vice president of marketing for Almo Professional A/V. “We will have our full staff on hand, including all 12 of our specialized Business Development Managers, and we look forward to bringing our newest vendors — Optoma, InFocus and ViewSonic – on the tour. In addition, Samsung will be hosting an exclusive showcase room demonstrating its newest products, such as the mirror display and indoor LED.”
E4 Keynote Due to its great interest this spring, E4 begins again with the world’s first keynote focused specifically on 4K. Led by Gary Kayye, founder of rAVe Publications, the session (worth 1.5 RUs) discusses the misinformation about 4K, such as exaggerated specs, compatibility and performance. Kayye teaches how to specify, sell and integrate these systems right the first time with just the facts and shares the top four applications for 4K. This session will be streamed live on Facebook at www.facebook.com/rAVePubs.
Other technical, technology and business-oriented E4 sessions include:
Encouraging Interaction in the World of “Me”: Using Interactive LCDs for Productivity (1 RU)
• NEW! Installation Issues for Converged AV/IT Systems (1 RU)
• NEW! OLED: The Curve of the Future (1 RU)
• NEW! Designing Commercial Audio Systems for Maximum Performance & Profit (1 RU) • The Great Outdoors: High Bright, Outdoor and Weatherized Displays Defined (Dallas Only) (1 RU)
• NEW! Cables, Terminations and Rack-Building (1 RU) • Dante Audio Networking Fundamentals (1RU)
• NEW! The Planar LED, LCD and 4K Image Experience (1 RU)
CTS-Certified E4 Experience Workshops The E4 Experience workshops allow attendees to participate in two practical application sessions, both worth InfoComm RUs and available multiple times throughout the E4 events:
• Design a Huddle Space. Put the finishing touches on the design for an interactive huddle space. Use tools such as Barco’s ClickShare to experience how to share, collaborate and inspire.
• Media Players – Beyond the Basics. Create and publish emergency notifications, modify live text and how to power on/off displays in your network. Throughout the session, you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions, engage with peers on challenges & successes, and learn more features as time permits.
Samsung Showcase at E4 Samsung’s exclusive showcase room will feature a creative mix of indoor SMART LED signage, semi-outdoor high ambient light displays for storefronts, outdoor displays certified to withstand the elements, a videowall made with seamless tiling and embedded System-on-Chip (SoC) technology, an interactive 82-inch E-Board display solution, a mirror display, and products from the new Samsung 4K display series.
The Samsung Showcase will also include an outdoor display course that highlights research pertaining to outdoor commercial display marketing conditions, what end users look for in outdoor displays, the ROI end users gain for leveraging outdoor technology, and ways to bring bright, brilliant messages outside.
Exhibition Hall The E4 exhibit hall welcomes Almo’s newest manufacturing partners InFocus, Optoma and ViewSonic. Other fall E4 exhibitors include ADTI Media, AKG, Almo Connect Services, Almo Content Creation Services, Almo Installation Services, AMX, ATEN, Barco, Bose Professional, BrightSign, BWG, C2G, Canon, Chief, ClearOne, Comprehensive Connectivity, Da-Lite, dbx, Draper, ELO, Epson, Hitachi, InfoComm, JBL, LG, Listen, NEC, Panasonic, Peerless-AV, Planar, Premier Mounts, QSC, Samsung, SecurityTronix, Sharp, Soundcraft, SunBrite, Tightrope Media, TouchSystems, Tripplite, tvONE and ZeeVee
About the E4 AV Tour The E4 AV tour has traveled to cities around the country to provide product, technical and business training needs to thousands of resellers and installers while creating the ideal forum for professional networking. Named the best Training, Consulting/Business Service for the third year in a row, the E4 program offers AV professionals a full day of educational sessions worth InfoComm Renewal Units as well as exclusive access to the newest AV products and services.
E4 Boston and Dallas DetailsE4 Boston is on September 23 at the Boston Marriott Newton and E4 Dallas is on October 18 at the Hyatt Regency Dallas. Both events run from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and are entirely free — including parking — for Almo Pro A/V’s reseller, integrator and consultant partners. To register, go to www.e4avtour.com.
About Almo Professional A/V Almo Professional A/V is the nation’s largest professional audio visual distributor with forward-thinking product integration, training and education, managed services, and technical support capabilities. With highly skilled sales and business development manager teams, reseller education programs, distribution centers across the U.S. and carefully chosen product lines for the Pro A/V channel, Almo Professional A/V provides customers with the full distribution experience on a local and a personal level. Almo Professional A/V is a division of Almo Corp., the nation’s leading independent distributor of consumer electronics and major appliances. For more information about Almo Professional A/V, please call 888-420-2566 or go to www.almoproav.com. Almo Professional A/V can also be followed on Twitter at https://twitter.com/almoproav and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/almoproav.
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