There are two types of audio visual industries known as fixed and free-standing. Free-standing is usually associated with the MICE industry’s staging and production folk while fixed are the well-established companies who ensure highly technical equipment of varying sorts are correctly advised and installed within major and minor public/private-sector organisations.
SACIA (South African Communications Industry Association) are primarily the fixed audio visual equipment industry who have recently merged with the TPSA (Technical Production Services Association) being the free-standing staging and production industry.
SACIA held their regular survivor breakfast which is a report back by those who have attended the recently-held mammoth ISE international trade exhibition in Amsterdam.
The word ‘survivor’ is aptly coined as individuals need to successfully conclude an exhibition with over one thousand exhibitors in four days which boasts 50 000 plus visitors traipsing through a vast array of varying halls.
Obviously the breakfast briefings were technical for the uninitiated such as the Academy yet one aspect came through loud and clear. Even huge screen displays were going the LED route in order to reduce extensive power generation.
It is refreshing to note that technical equipment applications so necessary to swiftly and effectively display and transmit a vast range of message-retention requirements are equally concerned with ‘going green’ wherever possible.
The breakfast was well-organised with more than 80 in attendance.
