Women in AV/IT (WAVIT) is kicking off October with a triple threat of opportunities designed to help its community connect, grow and recharge. From professional mentorship and leadership wellness to a community-wide walking challenge, WAVIT is bringing its mission to life through three interactive initiatives: WAVIT Mentorship: make your connection, de-stressed: lower stress. lead better. perform stronger., and the ‘Walk with WAVIT challenge.’ Make your connection: WAVIT mentorship live walk-through: On Thursday, October 1 at 9:00 a.m. PT, WAVIT will host WAVIT Mentorship: Make your connection, an interactive activation introducing members to the reimagined Wave of Influence mentorship program. Rather…
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Clear-Com has announced that First Baptist Nashville has upgraded its production communications with a Clear-Com intercom solution as part of a comprehensive sanctuary technology renovation led by systems integrator Mankin Media. Centred on the Arcadia Central Station, the installation delivers reliable wired and wireless communications to support worship services while preserving the integrity of the church’s historic sanctuary. Serving downtown Nashville for more than 200 years, First Baptist Nashville recently completed an audiovisual renovation designed to modernise the worship experience while maintaining the character of the church’s more than 50-year-old sanctuary. Mankin Media integrated new audio, video, lighting and communications…
In August 2025, SC Telstar took to the pitch at BUKO Stadium for their first Eredivisie football league home match in nearly five decades. The club, known as the Witte Leeuwen (the White Lions), had secured promotion from the Eerste Divisie in June 2025, returning to Dutch professional football’s highest tier for the first time since 1978. Their 6,000-capacity venue in Velsen-Zuid, North Holland, had to meet the operational and acoustic standards of an Eredivisie match from day one. That requirement immediately exposed the limitations of the existing PA system, which was outdated, difficult to control, and no longer capable…
Emaar Properties has built a new digital out-of-home advertising network across Dubai Mall using INFiLED’s MVmk2 Series LED displays, with roughly 1,100 m² of screen distributed across approximately 50 indoor and outdoor positions. Delivered with Dubai-based integrator Blue Rhine Industries and completed in July 2026, the network gives one of the world’s most visited retail destinations a scalable advertising system built on a single display platform. Dubai Mall is the world’s largest shopping, entertainment and leisure destination, covering more than one million square metres, which is about 200 football pitches in size. The mall includes over 1,200 retail stores and…
Super Furry Animals returned to the road in 2026 with Taith Supacabra, the Welsh band’s first UK tour in more than a decade. The band chose a deliberately compact run of dates in intimate rooms, playing at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom and the O2 Apollo in Manchester before closing at O2 Academy Brixton in late May. PRG supplied video for the tour, with an AV Stumpfl Vario 64 frame system as the show’s primary projection surface. The tour had a small number of dates in smaller venues, leaving little truck space and budget for a bespoke projection surface. Still, the show’s…
Pixel Global AV announces the launch of Pixel Global Care a new enterprise managed service designed to help global organisations simplify and standardise AV support across international workplaces. All this while reducing downtime, improving workplace experience and strengthening operational resilience. As organisations continue investing in hybrid working, enterprise collaboration platforms and workplace technology, AV has become increasingly business-critical. Yet many organisations are still relying on fragmented support models involving multiple suppliers, inconsistent service standards and unclear accountability. For increasingly technology-dependent workplaces, this can mean more than frustrating technical issues. Meeting disruption, recurring AV problems and lengthy resolution times can impact…
The power of d&b Soundscape has helped to deliver an unforgettable live sound experience for Chinese music superstar Silence Wang. During August, the performer’s Age of Romance World Tour played a 10 shows consecutive shows at Beijing’s iconic Bird’s Nest stadium, in what is believed to be the largest ever d&b Soundscape deployment in a stadium environment to date. Supplied by OST Productions, one of China’s leading national specialists in sound solutions for large-scale concert touring, the system succeeded in bringing immersive spatial audio to more than 60,000 audience members on each night of the unprecedented run. Silence Wang (‘Wang Sulong’) is…
When the British Museum wanted to mark the forthcoming return of the Bayeux Tapestry to England with a message of thanks to France, the White Cliffs of Dover offered an unusually appropriate canvas. Nearly 1,000 years after the events depicted in the Tapestry, imagery inspired by the historic work appeared across the cliffs alongside a simple message: “Merci”. For Pixel Sharp founder and director Jon Sharpe, however, turning that concept into a successful projection involved much more than pointing high-brightness projectors towards a large white surface. The project had to be delivered at a remote location with no mains electricity,…
Nureva Inc. has announced Room Assistant, the first feature in its broader roadmap to bring AI-powered room intelligence to Nureva audio systems. Room Assistant brings natural language processing to Nureva Console, the device management and monitoring platform for Nureva audio systems, with an interface that helps IT teams interact with Nureva’s knowledge base through text-based chat. Teams managing Nureva devices are offered a faster, easier way to access information and get answers to product-related questions for more efficient room management. This addition is an important step in the evolution of Nureva Console, moving it beyond cloud-based device management and…
D-Tools has released its 2026 Midyear Market Report, a data-driven look at how the systems integration market performed in the first half of the year. The data reveals that integrators grew sales by a median of 14% over the same period in 2025; however, there is a widening performance split in the channel. “The market growth is solid, but it’s not the whole story,” said Jason Knott, data solution architect at D-Tools. “Our data shows the market is splitting in two. A third of integrators grew more than 51%, another third declined by 21% or more, and the businesses in…