Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear presenters speak about how future technologies effect the way we do business today, tomorrow and in the future!!

The ‘Future Technology Area’ is designed to inspire industry integrators, like yourself, to broaden your insight, facilitate the way you install the infrastructure to the home and aims to give you the ability to create better solutions for your clients that reflect both practicality and longevity in technology solutions. 

Come along and listen to the FREE presentations on the ‘Inside News’ of Future Technologies, ‘Wot’s Hot @ the Show’, ‘C2C - Cloud to Consumer’, ‘Age of Entanglement’, ‘Universal Design and Technology in the Home - Creating a Users World’, ‘The Future of Lighting’ and much, much more!

Located on the CEDIA Boulevard and best of all it’s FREE!!

Check out some of the below FTA descriptions;

The Evolution of Smart Device Integration
Chris Hall
Sales and Marketing Manager
PUSH DEVELOPMENTS

"The invisible boundary between AV and IT integration is quickly being erased with the rise in popularity of Smartphone Devices. As consumer expectation changes and acceptance of new technologies grows, the Custom Electronics Industry is faced with both opportunity and threat. Will this emerging trend be the end of specialised integration or prove to be the 'torjan horse', we have all been searching for?"
 

Future HD - 4K Video and the HDMI system
David Meyer
Director - Kordz

Full-HD 1080p video has been with us for years, and to date HDMI system ‘speed’ has simply not been challenged beyond this point.  That’s all about to change.  The future of HD video is 4K, along with faster 1080p3D formats, requiring double the applied HDMI data rate.  Here we’ll discuss the implications and infrastructure requirements of this evolution.
 

"Universal Design & Technology in the Home - Creating a Users World"
Clare Ward
Director - AVARNTI Pty Ltd

"For over half a century the pursuit of Universal or Inclusive Design has been the central tenant of the built environment that recognises and accommodates the differences in the way people use spaces regardless of age, gender or ability.  This free CPD session looks at how the exponential rate of technology adoption in the home creates opportunities for social, economic, sustainable and environmental equity for mainstream activities to be carried out independently for all.  It will briefly cover the 7 principles of Universal Design, technologies that encompass these edicts and examples of implementation."

Why in the future your hospital will be your home:  How new technologies are disrupting healthcare
Dr George Margelis MBBS M.Optom GCEBus

 As the population ages and baby boomers are starting to retire, the health care system as we know it today is under greater pressure. Whilst hospitals have been considered the nirvana of healthcare delivery to date, with the increased incidence of chronic disease and age related illnesses, the home will become the preferred place for people to manage their own healthcare in the future. We look at how technology available today allows people to age in their own homes safely and effectively, and how new technologies will make our homes, not just our castles, but maybe also our hospitals.

C2C – Cloud to Consumer
Rich Green
Director – Rich Green Ink

Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook rule the world.  They also threaten the very existence of CEDIA members by providing direct links between enticing products and your customers.  Rich Green looks at both sides of this world-changing phenomenon and lays out a strategy for how you can fight back by relying less on commoditized products that are easily bought from the Cloud and switching the game to impeccable design, project management, installation and after-care services. 

Simply, the Best

Mark Cichowski
CEO
Clarity AV International, Inc.

This "non-lecture" is an entertaining and thought inspiring session that focuses on Best Practices of business, that are also Simple. Recognizable clips from movies illustrate the various topics in this fast paced presentation that gets you to focus, or re-focus, on fundamentals that make every successful business tick. In addition, Mark summarizes a simple, yet powerful practice called "Creative Destruction", which is featured in an amazing presentation by a business expert named Tom Costello. Tom has presented his seminars around the world, and most recently been the keynote speaker at CEDIA US. It challenges you to ask yourself if you are willing to implement positive change in your company, even though the transition of the change has some short term pain. Many companies did not, and many of those companies unfortunately no longer exist. Creative Destruction is a term and practice, that you will likely not forget...

Technology and Consumer Trends
Peter Aylett
Director
Home|Technology|Associates
Highlighting some future technologies and perceptions that will affect the residential integration sector, this session will examine the trends that are set to mould our industry in the coming years. As well as examining technologies, we will be putting these into context with some of the trends that increased consumer perception and demand for technology is creating.

LED Control - Dimming the Lights of the Future
Steven Detmar
Lutron
A brief overview of the methods of controlling this emerging technology, the challenges involved with each method and how the future of LED standards will solve those challenges.