AV Alliance News Round-Up | September-October 2024 – Part 1

Our Linköping-based member Adapt spent six months working on the 3000m2 immersive and interactive museum NAOM in Stockholm. Adapt’s ongoing mission has been to design and install sound, light and image technology – including a digital installation of 360° projection by 37 projectors – , as well as playback and overall control of all equipment.

On September 9th, together with NAOM, Mötesbaren and Eventeffect, Adapt hosted a special screening for those who work with meetings and events. Hundreds registrants attended the event to experience the latest technology in immersive experiences and digital art.

“The Big Event,” a regular podcast hosted by our Pennsylvania-based member Advanced Staging Productions, dives into all facets of the event industry—from audio and video to lighting and beyond. In their latest episode, their team’s Lead Video Producer Andy DiAngelis and Videographer & Editor Paul Chrismer explore the subject of Video Production in the AI Age. They discuss the challenges of identifying AI-generated content, recommend essential AI tools, and share their predictions on future trends in video production.

The  Frihamnsdagarna festival in Gothenburg, which focuses on change, sustainability and democracy attracted thousands of people over the course of three days at the end of August. Our local member AV1 had the pleasure of being responsible for sound, light, image and streaming. See their event recap below:

In their latest issue, Business In Focus Magazine published a great interview with Matt Emerson, CEO of our member company AVFX. In this article Matt speaks not only about the history of the company, but also elaborates on the secret to AVFX’s success story and on what makes them stand out in the event industry. You can read the interview here: https://businessinfocusmagazine.com/2024/10/people-plus-technology-equals-av-production-success/

In early September AVFX’s Boston office welcomed Jeff Robinson as its new Managing Director. Jeff is a true veteran in the AV industry with 40 years of experience under his belt. Welcome to the AVFX team, Jeff!

The AVFX team excels not only in AV support, but also in giving back to the community. Last month their Denver office came out in full support of the Girl Scouts of Colorado in Genesee, Colorado on their volunteer day, where 31 of the AVFX team members put their dedication and hard work into making the area safer by cutting down hazardous trees and implementing forest fire safety measures on the hiking trails.

For the fifth time in a row, AV MEDIA EVENTS provided technical support to the Project, Agile & Leadership Conference at the Cubex Centrum Praha earlier this fall.

The AV MEDIA EVENTS team firmly believes that sometimes only simple projection and audio can bring an internal meeting to a whole new level. This time they provided AV technology for an international IT client, implementing an impressive visual solution with frameless canvases and decoration at the Hilton Prague.

Once again our Brussel-based member company’ AVP‘s team worked with the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc Hospital, where they supplied the audiovisual link between the operating theatre and the students in the auditorium as part of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) learning program.

Our Dubai-based member company BeWunder is no stranger to to EXPOs and carrying out immense, technologically complex and stunning projects. After their involvement with a large number of pavilions at past EXPOs, for example in Astana, Kazakhstan in 2017 and in Dubai in 2021 (then under the name Neumann&Müller Middle East), BeWunder is already working on delivering pavilions – such as that of the Netherlands, Kuwait, Austria, and Germany – at the upcoming EXPO 2025 in Osaka, Japan. With the first few “spoilers” already out, we cannot wait to see all of their work in action as part of our AV Alliance AGM next April in Osaka.

On September 27th our Warsaw-based member company Brill AV Media supplied immersive event lighting to a musical event that took place in a unique setting at the Muzeum Historii Polski.

This October our Serbian member company Congress Rental Ltd. delivered two consecutive events at the Metropol Palace Hotel Belgrade: after the Regional Compliance & Business Regulation Conference on October 16th, the team also provided full AV support to the Belgrade Economic Forum on October 29-30.

Our South African member company Gearhouse SA‘s Johannesburg office and LEDVision, their affiliate and part of Gearhouse Group of Companies, collaborated with The Mason Africa Group on a recent, exclusive launch for TATA for their dealers, where they supplied two LED screens and a gauze backdrop by SDS (also part of Gearhouse Group of Companies).

For the seventh year in a row, our Zürich-based member company Habegger was the production partner of Showsupport Europe LLC for “Screen-up”, a joint event of Swiss TV marketer Admeira and advertising and marketing agency Goldbach Media, at which more than 40 TV stations annually present their formats for the following year to marketers. In addition to the technical planning and implementation of the event, the Habegger team was also in charge of the direction and the stage design, as well as the recording, editing, and broadcasting of the event. Read more here.

Our Vienna-based member company Habegger Austria was asked to provide AV support – for the 10th year in a row – to the stage production of Giuseppe Verdi’s AIDA at the Oper im Steinbruch, this time with audio, lighting, and projection technology, as well as special effects.