For those of you in and around London don’t forget that this Friday 27th June 2008 between 9am - 11am The Screen will be holding one of its Breakfast Briefings. As many of you will know we used to help organise these in the early days BUT we must say that the events have [...]

This UK POPAI event Digital Media in Retail Evening being held in London on 10th July, 5:30pm – 8:30pm has a nice line up of speakers…

Graham Thomas, Head of Communications & Media, Dunnhumby: “Retail screens – The good, the bad and the ugly”:

What works, what doesn’t and why
The future of Tesco Screens

Susan Beetlestone, Head of [...]

The Strategy Institute are holding a Digital Signage Technology Summit on 16th and 17th June 2008.
Cleverly this is in Las Vegas the two days before Infocomm 2008 so there will be plenty of people around whom might attend.
see http://www.strategyinstitute.com/061608_dsts/dsp.php

We see that Cayin Technology are sponsoring (supplying) the digital signage system for the COMPUTEX TAIPEI show, 3rd to 7th June 2008.
They also have a booth.

For those of you in the UK and interested in Retail there are two / three people presenting at this Retail Design Dynamics conference 23rd June 2008, Masterclass 24th June 2008, London that will be of particular interest in listening to…

Jeremy Wright, Retail Concept Director, Nokia
Penny Ericson, Director & Jamie Rayner, Director, Shoppercentric

Jeremy Wright will [...]

TNS are running a complimentary Webinar entitled “New Future In Store: How Will Shopping Change Between Now and 2015?” next Wednesday 21st May 2008 at 11:00 am EST
Technology will be pervasive in the retail environment in 2015; it has the potential to drive more change in the way consumers shop in the next 10 years [...]

ET SEMINAR MED FOREDRAGSHOLDERNE:

Arnfinn Lindstad, Norsk Rikstoto
Tor Olav Haugen, CatchTheEye AS
Truls Baklid, Scala Nordic AS

”Skjermer i alle kiosker”
Arnfinn Lindstad, Prosjektleder i Rikstoto
”Hvordan ser forretningsmuligheten ut, og hva er den kommersielle verdien av kjeden?”
Tor Olav Haugen, Adm. Dir i CatchTheEye
”Hva er viktig å tenke på i forbindelse med oppstart av et nettverk?”
Truls Baklid, VP i Scala [...]

We see that Ryarc will be exhibiting with Advantech at CeBit Australia 2008 from the 20th to the 22nd May
We are told…
Ryarc will be demonstrating the latest version of CampaignManager on the DSA-3400, providing an ideal digital signage platform for any business application. Optimized for easy campaign management, a reliable and stable network and hassle [...]

We see that the Strategy Institute is holding its “2nd Annual Brand Activation Summit using Digital Out-of-home Media” in New York City on September 9th and 10th, 2008.
The target audience for this conference seems to be: -

Senior Executives from National Consumer Brands
Media Agency Executives
Digital Advertising Vehicles

The Strategy Institute tell us that the conference has been [...]

Screen Events the folks behind Screen Expo have a shiny new web site up.
Interesting that it lists a (potential) Autumn 2009 date for Screen Expo Middle East in Dubai and a general 2009 date for Screen Media India.
We would have combined both those events into one and held them in Dubai - serious networkers in [...]