What does it look like to bring an integrator onto your project? How can you ensure the process is seamless and how do you find someone qualified to work with? Find out the answer to these questions and more in this moderated discussion featuring a CEDIA member and their long-standing design partner. Learn how to make these relationships successful and how they ultimately can add to your bottom line.

Ed Wenck, Moderator - CEDIA
Walt Zerbe, CEDIA
Aaron Gutin, National Retail Sales Manager, Savant
Brad Hintze, Senior Director Product Marketing
Jamie Gold, Jamie Gold Wellness Design

Technology in the home is more in demand now than ever before – with new devices entering the market at daunting pace how do you know what technology makes sense for your client and what is a gimmick? Take a look at some of the latest emerging trends in home technology to give yourself a competitive edge when talking to clients. Taking time to look at how the latest technology can be incorporated into your company’s approach can increase referrals and trend-setting impressions.

Moderator: Giles Sutton, Sr. Vice President, Industry Engagement, CEDIA

Kevin Vawter, A Shade Above
Chris Eskra, Principle at Kendall Wilkinson Design
Brittany Mier y Terán - Somfy
Cecilia Ramos, Senior Director- Architectural Market, Lutron

Lighting has the power to transform a space and today’s applications go far beyond the traditional dimmer settings. Learn how the latest technology advancements are creating a new landscape for lighting design. See real world examples of how other companies have implemented new lighting design techniques and how you can get started.

Presented by Amina

This seminar explores the options available to architects and interior designers to include sound sources into their projects, for entertainment, ambience, education or safety with zero visual intrusion into the look and feel of a property. Ideal for modern minimalist or historic properties in both residential and commercial applications, the speakers are rendered invisible through plastering over, or up to, or installing behind other materials such as wood, leather or sheet slate or concrete.  

Topics covered include:

• How invisible loudspeakers work using Distributed Mode Loudspeaker technology (DML) together with the acoustical and aesthetic benefits of the technology.
• Integration of invisible sound solutions into new and historic properties
• Residential and commercial applications, with case studies

Presented by Crestron
Speaker: Phillip Pini, Head of Residential Sales UK

A high level overview from class leading manufacturer Crestron Electronics focusing on Crestron Home. The simple, intuitive and effortless smart home technology.

Presented by Barco
Speaker: Tim Sinnaeve

In this session presented by Barco, learn the design principles and technologies that can make New Media Art part of your design vision. Discover how you can begin to curate your Architectural Digital Canvas and the unique experience it can bring to your clients. 

Presented by Savant
Speaker: Nick Meloni

This course focuses on the science and design criteria essential for the implementation of circadian based design. We'll define circadian lighting and how it impacts the occupant's mood, emotion, and physical health. Identifying the five controllable lighting parameters with a circadian impact is key to executing the lighting design techniques to create a circadian focused solution.  

Presented by Control 4
Speaker: Brad Hintze, Senior Director Product Marketing

Interior designers want to create a home that is truly their client’s castle, but how do they go about achieving such a space with the technology that more and more clients are demanding? This CEU introduces the basics of home automation through four key principles (Personal, Helpful, Secure, and Private) to better create a home that feels like a true castle to clients. This presentation walks designers through technology lingo and concepts that will help them professionally bring smart home tech into their designs.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about 4 technology principles and smart home terms to help you as a professional better navigate the home-technology conversation
• Explore how creating a personal and helpful home is done through technology and learn how to evaluate technology's privacy and security capabilities/benefits for your clients
• Understand the types of technology and resources available to you to successfully bring technology into your designs
• Learn how to grow your business and skill set by adding smart home technology to your professional project portfolio
• Be able to articulate the benefits of prioritizing certain technology principles in wellness and sustainable home design

Presented by CEDIA

Jason Sayen, LK & Associates

Home electronics should integrate seamlessly into a home’s design and décor. This course reviews the three- pronged approach to hiding technology—advance planning, design philosophy, and product selection—which are available for minimizing the visual impact of electronics without compromising performance. Specific challenges and recommendations related to hiding video displays, projectors, speakers, controls, cameras, and equipment racks—among others—will be addressed. This course speaks to innovative and creative ways to lessen the visual impact of electronics by making them low-profile, hidden or camouflaged, or even invisible!

Presented by Lutron
Speaker: Mark Gasper

This course introduces participants to the residential smart home market and opportunities arising from the increasing presence of technology in the home. Relevant industry trends and homeowner preferences are discussed, as is a high-level overview of smart home product categories such as lighting, shading, and temperature control. Additional topics covered include the benefits of voice control, considerations concerning third party integration, and the differences between cloud-based integration and local integration as they relate to products and systems.

Presented by Samsung
Speaker: Kris Hogg – European Business Manager for Luxury Living

Technology is changing quickly and the rise of fully immersive experiences for the home with systems as 360O sound and super large immersive LED screens have changed the game for what is available to the homeowner of today.

Increasingly people are using their home to watch films rather than go out to the cinema etc. which means the demand for dedicated entertainment spaces has risen dramatically. Not many people want a dedicated home cinema, it's hard to experience the joy of a sports game or just watch some TV in a dark room. These new entertainment spaces can be your main living room, a room that has beautiful art on the wall, a room that becomes a fully immersive cinema, a sports stadium or a great concert venue at the push of a button, and best of all you now don't need to close the blinds.

These new technologies however require careful consideration and design at a very early stage to ensure that they can be deployed efficiently and working to their best. Failure to consider this early can lead to to compromises and potential failure to install later. We would always recommend that these systems are discussed with the homeowner as part of the design conception stage and this document will give you a better understanding of what is available and help you to have that conversation from an informed position and allow you to design spaces that deliver incredible visual experiences with a quality of sound to match.

Fail to do this and your client could end up with a room that at best doesn’t perform well at worst will be had to use with echoing sound, screens in the wrong space and a system that is hard to understand and use. Get it right and your client will discover incredible experiences whether watching the screen or just using it as part of their environment.

This session from Samsung will explain the differences between LED Screens and traditional projection based systems. You will learn that an entertainment room can be so much more than a space to watch TV and you will learn the basics of how to design a multi-purpose luxury entertainment room for whatever your client needs.