AV Sustainability Summit urges education and collaboration

AV Magazine: Marjolein Koens-Schaddelee presented the keynote Designing AV for a Net Zero Future. The MD of AVEX made an analogy between sustainable practices and owning your first home; they both involve a sense of freedom with responsibility. She made the point that the AV industry needs to adopt a system approach rather than focus on individual behaviours and told summit attendees that it’s OK to fail, and that we can pick ourselves up and try something else.

What Church Production Teams Took Away From CFX 2026

Church Production Magazine: Production teams talked about working better with worship leaders. Church leaders compared approaches to communication and decision-making. Filmmakers explained the thinking behind their work. Technical directors traded ideas with people facing many of the same challenges at other churches. And those conversations regularly spilled out of classrooms and onto the show floor, into hallways and across networking areas.

Showlight releases more speaker presentations

TPi: Following the exciting announcement that Showlight 2029 will take place from 23-26 April in Granada, Spain, Showlight has released two more of its Speaker Presentation videos from 2025, reminding delegates of the variety of topics they can expect at each incarnation of this unique lighting quadrennial.

How PM Studios Balanced Engagement and Exhibit Rules at Gamescom 2026

Event Marketer: After years of sharing exhibit space in the Indie Arena Booth at Gamescom, PM Studios leveled up its presence at the world’s largest IRL gaming event this year with a booth of its own. With a diverse lineup of titles now under its banner, the brand used the scope of the event, hosted Aug. 26-30 at Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany, to build awareness and credibility within the show’s vast and passionate global gaming community.

IBC 2026 Preview: The big picture, from proving flexibility to proving its worth

NCS | NewscastStudio: A framing conversation runs underneath every other topic at IBC 2026, running Sept. 11-14 in Amsterdam: how production, distribution, audience engagement and monetization continue to converge across the media industry, and what that convergence is actually worth to the organizations paying for it.

Rendez-vous 2026 Brings Canada's Live Performance Community Together in Ottawa

Lighting&Sound America Online - News: 2026 Rendez-vous, held August 12 to 14 in Ottawa, Ontario, brought together emerging and established professionals from across Canada's live performance and events industry. The annual conference and trade show, which moves to a different Canadian city each year, welcomed both CITT/ICTS members and non-members in a welcoming, hands-on environment designed to inspire ideas, strengthen connections, and support career growth.

NAB Show 2026 Preview: Trends, AI, Exhibitors & What to See

www.productionhub.com: Every year around this time, I find myself asking the same question: What’s going to happen at NAB this year? So I reach out to friends and industry colleagues and ask a few tough questions: What’s your favorite part of NAB? What keeps you coming back year after year?

NAB Show 2026 Preview: Trends, AI, Exhibitors & What to See

www.productionhub.com: Every year around this time, I find myself asking the same question: What’s going to happen at NAB this year? So I reach out to friends and industry colleagues and ask a few tough questions: What’s your favorite part of NAB? What keeps you coming back year after year?

Anolis enjoys Light + Building Expo

LightSoundJournal.com: LED lighting manufacturer Anolis enjoyed a busy and positive Light + Building 2026 expo in Frankfurt, Germany, where it launched two new products – Calumma Arts in collaboration with French Light and Calumma UN (Ultra Narrow) – and engaged with a host of visitors from across Europe and around the world.

Reflecting on 5 Years of Lightapalooza

Residential Systems: Five years ago, I signed a contract with the Hilton Anatole in Dallas to host a conference that didn’t exist yet. There was no track record, no ticket sales, no guarantee that anyone would show up. What I had was a conviction, built over four decades in the custom integration channel, that lighting was about to become the next major category for progressive integrators, and that someone needed to create the place where that transformation could happen.

Thousands explore creative careers at Production Futures On Tour: London

TPi: Thousands of aspiring young creatives descended on the Roundhouse on 9 March 2026 for Production Futures On Tour: London, a free event connecting the next generation with careers across the live events, music, broadcast, film and creative industries.

Registration Now Open For 2026 InfoComm Show In Las Vegas

ProSoundWeb: Registration is officially open for the 2026 InfoComm Show, produced by the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association (AVIXA), that’s slated for June 13–19 (exhibits June 17–19) at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Nevada.

A Different Lane: Microphone & Mix Considerations For Conference Audio

ProSoundWeb: If you hang out in a church tech booth long enough, you’ll eventually find yourself mixing some type of conference. It might be internal, regional or open to the world. Conferences have very unique challenges, most of which can be solved by careful planning.

Connect, Innovate and Grow at ISA Sign Expo 2026!

Sign Builder Illustrated, The How-To Sign Industry Magazine: The sign industry thrives on innovation, craftsmanship, and adaptability, and ISA International Sign Expo 2026 is poised to showcase all three. For sign shops, fabricators, installers, designers, and project managers, ISA Sign Expo remains the most efficient way to see the full landscape of technologies influencing the craft today.

Integrated Systems Europe Releases Results For 2026 ISE Show In Barcelona

ProSoundWeb: The recently concluded 2026 ISE Show at Fira de Barcelona in Spain has reported 92,170 visitors from around the world, as well as 1,751 exhibitors — including 323 making their debut at the event — contributing to the largest total show floor space in the event’s history at 101,000 square meters.

Sony at ISE 2026: Empowering Creativity, Enhancing Spaces

LightSoundJournal.com: Sony demonstrates in Barcelona how its technology enables creativity to flourish and transforms the way people connect, learn, and collaborate across corporate, retail, education, and production spaces, debuting several exciting new products and solutions, including the Crystal LED S Series and the BRAVIA Professional Displays BZ-P series, along with the new end-to-end immersive Spatial Reality Display (SRD) system in collaboration with Ameria.

ISE 2026 Mid-Show Updates: From Drone Shows to Free Throws

Sixteen:Nine | All Digital Signage, Some Snark: Our editors are still roaming the halls of ISE 2026 in Barcelona – here are some cool and curious things they spotted in the halls. For daily updates, subscribe to our free invidis Global Newsletter which is published daily at 8am Barcelona time.

CODA Audio launches ViFORCE at ISE 2026

TPi: WIDE BAND Cardioid is a paradigm shift in pattern control and sonic integrity brought about through a period of intensive R&D at CODA Audio. This unique, Patent Pending technology comes to market first in ViFORCE and its slimline partner subwoofer, the SUB FORCE 35.

Vari-Lite debuts Neo X console at ISE 2026

TPi: Vari-Lite and Signify have revealed the Neo X5 CRE — an affordable, compact lighting console designed specifically for space-constrained environments such as control rooms, studios, and medium-sized performance spaces.

ISE 2026 - Day 2

LightSoundJournal.com: If the first day of ISE 2026 served to take stock of an increasingly vast and cross-cutting trade fair, the second day definitely gets down to business. This is where design choices, product philosophies and, above all, solutions designed to simplify the lives of designers, technicians, and system integrators emerge.