Brendon Stevens - Lead Installation Technician
Brendon Stevens has a combined career of 13 years with IMS Technology Services in roles serving both the Systems Integration and Event Staging departments. Brendon’s role at IMS is one where he leads the installation crews at our customer locations to ensure that their systems are installed correctly, to all codes, and to the quality that IMS strives to deliver in the marketplace.
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Lessons from Pokemon: Should We Do Something Just Because We Can?
The newest app to cause a craze this summer is Pokemon Go, released in July. Pokemon Go is a game that brings Pokemon characters to life on the screen, placing them into your view of the world on your screen. How does it place on-screen characters into the world as you see it? The answer is Augmented Reality.
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Internet Of Things and Web 3.0: How They Will Affect Your Meeting
The Internet Of Things (IoT), simply put, is multiple devices connected to each other, similar to ones you may be currently using like, Tile and TrackR. For meetings and events, what does this mean for you? How about tracking your fellow attendees at a large conference so you can meet up with them at a particular booth or breakout session, or better yet, track your attendees' every move? Wouldn’t you love to know where they are spending most of their time? Imagine the ability to provide your attendees with a totally immersed experience.
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Pay to Play: What Planners Need to Know About Copyright Law
Did you know that playing music under copyright at an event can get you, your company or a venue into big trouble?!
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Future Technologies for Events
Ground-breaking innovations are around the corner: robot bartenders that receive orders via apps, 3-D printing models, self-driving cars that drop off attendees and park themselves, augmented reality for meetings, and combining video projection mapping with audio. All of these technologies are either here right now, will be available to planners soon, or are on the drawing board of meetings industry visionaries.
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Chris Rhoads - Lead Installation Technician
Chris Rhoads has been a dedicated contributor to the IMS Team and process for the last two years, but has been working in the industry since 2005. Chris’s role at IMS is one where he leads the installation crews at our customer locations to ensure that their systems are installed correctly, to all codes, and to the quality that IMS strives to deliver in the marketplace.
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