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While the design of a portable sound system design is of primary importance, equalization is the key to getting the best performance from a system in a given acoustic space. This fundamentals presentation will cover the uses of equalization in portable sound systems: theory of operation; types of equalizers; and applications. This seminar has been approved for CTS Renewal Units or 'RU's' and is worth 1.5 RU's. This is valid only for CTS holders, not the specialist CTS certifications CTS-I or CTS-D.

Speaker(s):

Andre LeJeune is a staff instructor at InfoComm International, specializing in training for live events.  LeJeune has over 30 years of staging and presentation expertise. He began his career in concert touring and later moved to AV staging for national touring accounts. He has produced events that incorporate the latest meeting techniques and technologies, sound, lighting and video presentation systems. He has been involved with InfoComm since the early 80’s, serving twice as chair of the Professional Education and Training Committee as well as authoring and presenting classes at the Institute for Professional Development and seminars at InfoComm. Most recently LeJeune was Senior Director of AV Training for an international hotel chain.

Audience:

Audio engineers and technicians working in a speech reinforcement environment.

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This presentation provides an opportunity to go over the fundamental mathematics found in InfoComm’s general CTS exam. Seminar attendees will learn basic calculations including aspect ratios for screens and direct-view displays, projection distance, and fundamental Ohm’s law formulas. This seminar has been approved for CTS Renewal Units or 'RU's' and is worth 1.5 RU's. This is valid only for CTS holders, not the specialist CTS certifications CTS-I or CTS-D.

Speaker(s):

Andre LeJeune is a staff instructor at InfoComm International, specializing in training for live events.  LeJeune has over 30 years of staging and presentation expertise. He began his career in concert touring and later moved to AV staging for national touring accounts. He has produced events that incorporate the latest meeting techniques and technologies, sound, lighting and video presentation systems. He has been involved with InfoComm since the early 80’s, serving twice as chair of the Professional Education and Training Committee as well as authoring and presenting classes at the Institute for Professional Development and seminars at InfoComm. Most recently LeJeune was Senior Director of AV Training for an international hotel chain.

Audience:

For anyone looking to learn or to brush-up on the essential mathematics used in AV.

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With the advent of HDMI, DVI, and SDI, getting a presentation system connected can present challenges. Presentation networks are evolving into non-specific infrastructures that communicate over standard TCP/IP. This seminar will explore the basics of signals, networks, and distribution, and will touch on the use of CAT5 and optical fibre. This seminar has been approved for CTS Renewal Units or 'RU's' and is worth 1.5 RU's. This is valid only for CTS holders, not the specialist CTS certifications CTS-I or CTS-D.

Speaker(s):

Andre LeJeune is a staff instructor at InfoComm International, specializing in training for live events.  LeJeune has over 30 years of staging and presentation expertise. He began his career in concert touring and later moved to AV staging for national touring accounts. He has produced events that incorporate the latest meeting techniques and technologies, sound, lighting and video presentation systems. He has been involved with InfoComm since the early 80’s, serving twice as chair of the Professional Education and Training Committee as well as authoring and presenting classes at the Institute for Professional Development and seminars at InfoComm. Most recently LeJeune was Senior Director of AV Training for an international hotel chain.

Audience:

For stage and video technicians and those that are new to the use of non-analogue video transmission.

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The Internet is a social medium, bringing together millions of users in an environment with few rules or structures - it's a staggering opportunity for marketers, but one that can also be a bit frightening in its fundamental lack of control. This session provides a valuable insight into how companies can harness social media by starting and owning debates rather than attempting to change them. The discussion will cover the following: What is social media | Getting started | Examples of best practice | Future trends |Q&A session.

Speaker(s):

Claire Adams and Jonathan Ross, Social Fuel

Audience:

Company owners, managing directors, marketeers and product managers

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This seminar will cover an overview of steerable loudspeaker technology, it’s benefits compared to traditional solutions, and it’s implementation in Renkus-Heinz’s Iconyx series of Digitally Steerable Column Arrays. Iconyx is Renkus-Heinz’s range Digitally Steerable Column Array loudspeakers for challenging acoustic spaces, enabling the designer to aim the sound at the audience and keep it off reflective surfaces minimizing echos and improving intelligibility. IC Live is the latest extension to this range, bringing Digital Beam Steering into the higher output and Live Sound markets. A real, Beam Steered, alternative to traditional line arrays, targeted at corporate events, hotel ball rooms and theatre productions, we’ll be discussing IC Live in detail and giving a hands on demonstration.

Speaker(s):

Rik Kirby, VP Operations, Renkus-Heinz

Audience:

Sound designers and installers, technicians, system consultants, integrated solution providers, acoustic consultants, architects

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Display Energy Certificates are currently required by public buildings with a floor area over 1,000 square metres, which can include theatres and performing arts venues. This seminar examines the impact of Display Energy Certificates on performing arts venues in the United Kingdom. Tim Atkinson, The Theatres Trust’s Theatre Building Services Adviser has been looking at Display Energy Certificates for smaller venues in London, and the benchmarketing used to create the Operational Ratings. The session will look at their scope, relevance, benchmarking, legal implications and long-term future and the overall impact of the Government's proposed roll out of Display Energy Certificates to all commercial premises, including theatres.

Speaker(s):

Tim Atkinson, Theatres Trust's Theatre Building Services Adviser, Hywel Davies, Technical Director of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers

Audience:

Theatre operators, technical directors and technicians, theatre building services managers, theatre designers and consultants, equipment specifiers and manufacturers

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During 2010 a joint venture between White Light, Arcola Energy and BOC has resulted in the first of a range of hydrogen powered fuel cells suitable for use in the entertainment industry. These fuel cells have already been used at the Natural History Museum. Latitude Festival and London Bubble Theatre. They provide virtually silent power suitable for use for lighting in remote locations with no emissions.

This seminar will explain the technology behind the system including the use of hydrogen as an alternative fuel source in the future.

Speaker(s):

Contributors include Ben Todd from Arcola Energy, the market leaders in the use of Hydrogen fuel cells in theatre and entertainment. Stewart Dow, a specialist in hydrogen from BOC and Bryan Raven, Managing Director of White Light Ltd.

Audience:

This session will be of interest to event organisers & technical managers who are involved events that would like to use sustainable energy sources. It will also be of interest to anyone who is keen to find out how we can use technology to reduce the environmental impact of providing power to remote locations.

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A chance to hear about Julie's Bicycle's UK-wide programme to help improve the environmental sustainability of the performing arts.

Industry Green for venues takes a broad approach, helping you to tackle waste, water, business and audience travel as well as energy use. It also encompasses engagement with staff, suppliers and audiences alongside innovation in adaptation and mitigation.

See a demo of free online tools, Smeasure and IG, now being used by more than 100 theatre, music and opera venues across the UK, and designed to help you measure and manage your venue's energy use and wider environmental performance.

Speaker(s):

Sian Alexander and Helen Heathfield, Julie's Bicycle with contributions from representatives of some of the venues engaged in the programme.

Audience:

Venue owners, managers and promoters, heads of facilities and building operations, venue sustainability representatives

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This seminar looks at the findings and recommendations arising from Moving Arts, a major report into UK and international touring for the bands, theatre and orchestra sectors conducted by Julie's Bicycle. Nine months in the making the report analyses the emissions arising from touring and makes practical recommendations to reduce them for each key player in the touring supply chain including production managers, tour managers, promoters, venues, suppliers and designers. As well as offering practical tips we will demo our free online tools and resources designed specifically for the touring industry.

Speaker(s):

Sian Alexander, Helen Heathfield and Christina Tsiarta from Julie's Bicycle with representatives from the touring industry who have been involved in the research.

Audience:

Anyone involved in the touring supply chain: production managers, tour managers, promoters, venues, suppliers and designers

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A round up of The Theatres Trust’s Ecovenue project, a European Regional Development Fund-backed programme working to improve the environmental performance of London’s smaller theatres. Tim Atkinson introduces the first 24 venues to join the project to improve the sustainability of 48 small to medium sized London performing arts venues. The seminar will look at the various issues that have presented themselves during the course of the project, as well as looking at how smaller venues can begin to address issues of sustainability.

Speaker(s):

Presented by Tim Atkinson, The Theatres Trust’s Theatre Building Services Adviser, along with representatives from the first 24 venues to join the project.

Audience:

Theatre operators, technical directors and technicians, theatre building services managers, theatre designers and consultants, equipment specifiers and manufacturers

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How can you properly find, train, mentor and sustain the right volunteers and team members? This panel will unlock many of these secrets and give clear insight through sharing real-world experiences and examples. The end goal will be for you to continue to strive for excellence with an inspired and spiritually healthy team as a foundation in your house of worship.

Speaker(s):

David Rauch, Principal Consultant, Bridge Communications

Audience:

Pastors, leadership, volunteers

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The types of lighting fixtures have not changed much in the past 20 years, but how you power them certainly has. In this seminar we will discuss fixture types and their function, with a slant towards how developments in new lamp techology are allowing us to light more, using less energy.

Speaker(s):

Stephen Ellison, Lighting Designer, Nimbus Design & Production

Audience:

Pastors, leadership, lighting technicians, volunteers

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A fully-functional worship team can only operate properly with clear communication. The techs need to work in line with the vision of the leadership, and the leadership need to understand the practical limitations of the techs. This seminar will aim to identify some of the challenges worship teams have in communicating, and how to overcome them.

Speaker(s):

David Rauch, Principal Consultant, Bridge Communications

Audience:

Pastors, leadership, volunteers