Avixa Congress 2021: a bridge between the AV industry and the education sector

In the Avixa Congress confirmed the need for constant dialogue between audiovisual industry professionals and educational institutions.

The second edition of the Avixa Congress, which was held from the 27 to the 30 and that he's organized Avixa (the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association), Gathered, remotely, audiovisual industry professionals and innovation and technology managers in Latin America's education sector, Spain and Portugal. Participants were able to learn the most innovative about technological solutions for new teaching and learning models.

Under the slogan "Technologies for education today and tomorrow", the Avixa Congress has presented the way as a bridge that must serve to maintain an uninterrupted dialogue between the actors of both worlds.

Baumgratz advocates a concept bridge

During the inaugural conference, Nelson Baumgratz, CTS-D, Avixa Regional Manager for Mercosur, stressed the importance of a conceptual bridge that allows society to move towards education of the future with the help of AV technology.

In addition, easily raised the basic points of the relationship between technology and education and called on professionals in these sectors to.

"The world of professional AV and the world of education need to learn to talk to each other, understand your needs and possibilities, require knowledge of the potentials and limitations of both sides", Aimed.

According to Baumgratz, education professionals should consider AV technology as a mature discipline that is part of their strategies and processes. While members of the AV industry will need to observe and listen to the education sector to develop solutions that articulate the best of remote learning with the paramount value of face-to-face experience.

The idea of this constant dialogue is clearly exemplified by reviewing the content of the different discussion panels, success stories or the Tech Tour Virtual itself, where renowned teachers and managers from AV and IT departments at different educational institutions shared both their experiences and their vision of current and future education.

Hansen: the data-based market

Peter Hansen, Avixa Market Intelligence analyst, presented an overview of the audiovisual industry in relation to the education sector based on data from the most recent studies.

At his conference, noted that during this year the 69% educational institutions will invest in the integration of conference solutions and the 86% they'll do it in audio equipment. As for trends for the near future, remote education is expected to continue to grow, but it won't replace face-to-face education, since it's last offers benefits and a unique experience that can't be replaced.

The conference gave lectures on best business practices, current technologies and specific solutions such as network audio system design or unified communications, but also focused on trends that can be seen in the future.

Spanish Ricardo Montesa (Brainstorm), explored the idea of using Augmented Reality for education, while the Colombian Juan Montoya (Smart Environments) explained how to use a multi-camera system to bring remote classes to life and, from Brazil, Gabriel Branco (Class TechExperience) showed how touchless technology can help the safe development of personalized experiences within the school environment.

Extended Program

The first stage of the congress 43 sessions in which the conferences and discussion panels on the various topics mentioned were presented.

The sessions were attended by 54 Presenters, coming from 14 Countries, which helped to provide a broad picture of the current relationship between the education market and the audiovisual industry.

At the time of the closing of the 'live' stage, last Friday 30 April, more than 6.250 sessions viewed by the 3.277 people who joined the Avixa Congress since 31 different countries, among those among both AV industry and education professionals.

Thanks to this to the response and interest received, Avixa has decided to expand the knowledge offering with an Extended Program of On-Demand Conferences that will premiere weekly during the month of May.

The Extended Program has more than 20 conferences that will present technological solutions and best practices that will serve to strengthen knowledge on topics such as acoustic design, network management or space management for hybrid or virtual classrooms.

Every Monday, during the month of May, new conferences will be launched that will be available to all people registered with the Avixa Congress.

Contents on demand

Those who previously registered, will be able to access, during this month, recordings of all Avixa Congress and Extended Program conferences.

Registration is still open, so anyone can register for free to enjoy the conferences and expand their knowledge to the 31 May. You don't need to be a member of Avixa. Simply fill out the form in this link.

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