InfoComm '05 Technology Pavilions Nearing Sell Out

Largest AV Tradeshow Projects Records

23-Mar-04

The International Communications Industries Association, Inc.Æ (ICIAÆ) announces that it expects to exceed several previous records for its annual InfoComm International exposition to be held this June 4-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada. InfoComm, the largest conference and exhibition for the AV communications and systems integration industry, is expected to attract over 25,000 visitors in 2005. With 95% of the Show floor already sold, there are now more than 570 companies exhibiting, towards a projected total of 700+ exhibitors, and over 100 of them are new to the Show. Last year's total number of exhibitors was 647 companies, which represented a 15.3 percent increase over the previous record of 561 in 2003. The Show is expected to occupy a record 293,000 net square feet of paid space and has already exceeded last year's 263,610 of paid space. InfoComm '05's total exhibit space including special events is expected to top 350,000 net square feet.The pavilions on the InfoComm Show floor are dedicated to emerging technology interests, and the first-time appearance of the InfoComm Residential Pavilion has attracted attention in the industry. The pavilion, which is 70% sold, will feature a working home theatre sponsored by Optoma. Other exhibitors include Sharp, Electrograph, Orion PDP, Co, Ltd, Krystalvision, Elite Screens, Perdue Acoustics, SunBriteTV, and Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH. Together with CEDIA, ICIA is also offering a residential conference track aimed at supporting pro-AV businesses as they expand into the residential market. One fifth of ICIA's dealer members currently are in the home market and the majority of dealers, distributors and installers believe the home market offers excellent business opportunities. Custom Retailer magazine, published by Consumer Technology Publishing Group, has just announced its participation as media sponsor of the InfoComm Residential Pavilion.The Streaming Media Pavilion, with only 6 booths remaining to be sold, features Accordent Technologies, Adtec Digital, Anystream, Envivio, Electrosonic Systems, Infinova, Sonic Foundry, Serious Magic, VectorMAX, VBrick, and many others. The pavilion is being sponsored for the third year by Primedia Business through Sound Video Contractor, SRO and Video Systems magazines. The pavilion offers a first-hand look at products, services and technologies aimed at the creation, editing, encoding, hosting, management and distribution of video and audio over the Internet and internal IP networks. It also features educational mini-sessions.The Collaborative Conferencing Pavilion, co- sponsored by the Interactive Multimedia Collaborative Communications Alliance (IMCCA), has only 1 booth remaining and features Polycom, Radvision, Advanced Media Technologies, Aethra, AVerMedia Technologies, Codian, SIGCOM, ReView Video, Plantronics, Turning Technologies, GlowPoint and others. The pavilion, first launched in 2003, offers solutions in video-, audio-, data- and webconferencing. Live conferencing demonstrations and technology application sessions will be conducted within the pavilion during the three days of the Show.The brand new Digital Signage Pavilion, reflecting growing interest in this area of technology, has sold out once and been expanded, and now has only 5 booths remaining to be sold. Featured exhibitors include Avocent, Activelight, Aurora Multimedia, Clarity Visual Systems, Dell, Inc, Dynascan Technology, Scala, Toshiba Techno-Rainbow, Mercury Online, Magic Box and others.The Lighting and Staging Pavilion, sponsored by Lighting America magazine, is over 85% sold. Featured exhibitors include Barco, Brightline, Creative Stage Lighting, Chauvet, Cinema Xenon International, Inc., ESTA, High End Systems, Mitsubishi Diamond Vision, Stage Sync Software, Vantage Point, and Matrox.More than 250 audio companies are participating in this year's InfoComm with many generally concentrated in an Audio Section on the central exhibit floor occupying over 50,000 sq. feet of space, and with capacity booked, audio companies are signing to participate in other areas throughout the Show.The new Presentations Pavilion, sponsored by ICIA's Presentations Council and PowerPoint Live! has only five booths remaining. The pavilion features cutting- edge technologies for PowerPoint Presentations.Who Attends InfoComm?Approximately 70 percent of InfoComm attendees are dealers, consultants and integrators, while 30 percent comprise IT and AV buyers and high-end users. InfoComm 05 is expected to attract many new buyers and end users of AV technology, for a number of reasons. Many organizations, including corporations, museums, universities, educational institutions, associations, hospitals, government agencies, military installations and religious organizations are joining the association and planning to be represented at InfoComm. In addition, InfoComm is holding events with a number of groups that are expecting to increase end-user attendance, primarily in education, worship, government and corporate markets. In 2004, AV service provider attendance increased by 14 percent, while end-user attendance increased by 55 percent over 2003. With more than 88 percent of attendees authorizing or influencing buying decisions, InfoComm is recognized as an annual opportunity to explore communications technology advances and place orders for the coming year.

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