IMCCA Announces Strategic Partnership with CEDIA Expo - Introducing Work-from-Home / New Home Office / Resimercial Technology Programming at CEDIA Expo 2021

IMCCA Announces Strategic Partnership with CEDIA Expo - Introducing Work-from-Home / New Home Office / Resimercial Technology Programming at CEDIA Expo 2021

New York, NY) May 13, 2021 – CEDIA Expo, the leading event for the residential systems integration industry welcomes IMCCA (Interactive Multimedia & Collaborative Communications Alliance), the preeminent voice of the unified communications and collaboration industry, as a strategic programming partner for CEDIA Expo, September 1-3, 2021 in Indianapolis, IN. The IMCCA will bring insights and subject matter experts to a variety of CEDIA Expo 2021 activations including on the CEDIA Expo Smart Stage and Innovation Hub. Topics will be centered on the exponentially growing Work from Home (WFH) segment “resimercial” technology needs and opportunities. Additionally, IMCCA will host technology demonstrations of home office communications solutions on the show floor.

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IMCCA February Collaboration Webcast “A Whole New World” - (Now Available On-Demand - Link In This Article) Replaced The Collaboration Week New York In-Person Event in 2021

IMCCA February Collaboration Webcast  “A Whole New World”  - (Now Available On-Demand - Link In This Article) Replaced The Collaboration Week New York In-Person Event in 2021

The IMCCA Collaboration Week: A Whole New World Webcast, in lieu of the originally planned UC Week New York, will include three panel discussions by industry experts offering insights into what this new world will be like. Part one will be how we arrived at where we are, and what the data shows that organizations are doing. Part two will be all about the “new office” – a space where group work and collaboration are the predominant activity, and the majority of desks, offices and workstations will be for people who have dropped-by to participate in that group work. Part three will be a detailed analysis of the new home office for the full time or part time remote worker – now known as hybrid working. It will detail what will go into the technology and set-up to make that experience successful.

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IMCCA Names 2020 UC Industry Impact Award Recipients As Part Of Thankisgiving Webcast

IMCCA Names 2020 UC Industry Impact Award Recipients As Part Of Thankisgiving Webcast

Symposium to Address UCC Industry Changes & Adaptations Resulting from Global Pandemic

Highlights Include Presentation of IMCCA Industry Impact Awards to Recognize Outstanding Contributions

New York, NY (September 21, 2020) -- IMCCA, a non-profit industry association for Unified Communication and Collaboration (UCC), is hosting a webcast on November 17, 2020 to discuss how the Covid19 pandemic has affected the industry, how organizations responded and what can be expected going forward.

The IMCCA Collaboration Thanksgiving Webcast, in lieu of the originally planned UC Week Silicon Valley, will include a panel discussion by industry experts offering insight into what role the industry has played in sustaining businesses during the pandemic and what the future may look like going forward, and an end-user panel that will share plans and experiences to better help attendees grasp the benefits of new working models that were devised to adapt to the unusual situation.

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Watch the replay on Demand - AV/UC Heroes Pandemic Endgame!

Watch the replay on Demand -  AV/UC Heroes Pandemic Endgame!

Join us for the AV/UC Internet Heroes Crossover Event Of The Year! AVNation-TV, Let’s Do Video, AVJam, Poly Weekly News, AVInTheAM and The IMCCA joined-forces to discuss the COVID19 pandemic, how UC has stepped-up to support remote workers, and what the Next Normal has in store for us.

It was recorded live 10am EDT / 3pm UK time on August 18th 2020

Click here to watch the stream on-demand on YouTube.

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A View NOT From The Road

A View NOT From The Road

Normally readers would look to this recurring blog for unique insights from annual industry conferences. However, this year, there was no Enterprise Connect, there will be no InfoComm, and most of the other events where people would gather are also dead and gone.

As I write this we’re in a global, shelter in place situation responding to a pandemic so that we can “flatten the curve” as we’ve all been advised to do.

The news about illnesses and deaths is devastating. Following closely behind it is the reality of the economic situation. Schools and businesses have closed, projects have halted, and as I mentioned, conferences and live events have been cancelled. No one has any idea when any of these things will even be allowed to attempt to get back to normal. It is an unprecedented level of devastation that no one could ever have predicted.

Or could they have?

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